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In the early hours of August 20, 2013, Narendra Dabholkar was on his morning walk, part of his daily routine, when two bikers drove up to him and shot him dead.

The Supreme Court’s orders of May 15, 2024 in the midst of the ongoing General Elections to the Lok Sabha (House of the People), declaring arrest of the founder Editor-in-Chief of the NewsClick channel, Prabir Purkayastha invalid and illegal under the most draconian anti-terror law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967, as amended to date, and freeing him immediately from incarceration is a slap in the face of the fascist Union government.

Fact-checker Muhammed Zubair checked and declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not speak the truth. Modi did indeed do ‘Hindu-Muslim’ as he went about drumming support from Hindus. But Zubair stopped short of asking Modi to "quit public life" as Modi said he would if he ever did ‘Hindu-Muslim’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the TV anchor “I have never done Hindu-Muslim and will quit public life if I ever will.”

Narendra Modi has an uncanny knack for converting insults hurled at him into campaign rallying points, with verbal slips by Congress leaders ending up overturning Modi and his party’s s electoral fortunes.

The United States state department’s comment mentioning that the U.S. sanctions are enforceable on any country dealing with Iran including India, has been received by Indian foreign policy office in New Delhi as a warning but not having the potential to disrupt ties. External affairs minister S Jaishankar explained on Wednesday that the US was aware of the development of Chabahar port in Iran and it is of regional interests.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the first prime minister of India alleged to have violated the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) on Hindu-Muslim communal lines during his campaigns for the Lok Sabha General Election, and a petition was filed in the Supreme Court of India to ban him from election for six years The Supreme Court refused to entertain the petition on the ground that the petitioner went directly without going to the Election Commission of India (ECI). The opposition had complained to the ECI but no action has been taken so far against PM Narendra Modi for violation of MCC. Having felt the damage his rash election campaigns have brought him and his party in the first four phases of election, he turned defensive in Varanasi on Tuesday the day he filed his nomination papers.

KOLKATA: A turncoat bahubali the present member of Lok Sabha Arjun Singh of BJP will take on an actor turned state minister Partha Bhoumik when Barrackpore constituency o West Bengal goes to the polls on May 20. Even as sitting MP Arjun switched loyalty from Trinamool Congress to BJP for the second time, state PWD minister and his political opponent Partha , is well prepared to get back the seat for TMC with their organizational might.

Rahul Gandhi faces a tough battle in Rae Bareli where he locks horn with local strongman Dinesh Pratap Singh of the BJP. For every boundary that is breached in politics; there is a homecoming; for every leap into the unknown, a fallback into the comfort of the old. It is the memory of that solace that seeps through the faded yellow brick walls latched onto brown doors that run around a large courtyard at Gurujikaghar.

BHOPAL: Concern is being expressed, both in political and official circles over the drop in voting percentage while final picture yet to emerge. It is estimated that polling was better in rural areas while there was marked apathy in urban areas. The apathy was so acute that 40 percent of Indore did not ever turn up at polling booth. Indore always used to record heavy polling in last elections. It was however noted that constituencies where clash between candidates was sharp recorded better polling. Another factor was that the constituencies where voting was on caste basis percentage was impressive.

Diaspora Jews, Palestinian Israelis, and Turkish Kurds have more in common than meets the eye. The similarities in how the three minority communities define themselves offer insights into what will make either a one- or two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict viable. To be sure, it’s hard to see, amid the Gaza carnage and Israel’s blinded and traumatised view of future relations with the Palestinians, how the two communities could live with each other or side by side.