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The Narendra Modi government’s dramatic moves to convene an out of turn parliament session later this month and set up a panel headed by former President Ramnath Kovind to study the possibility of introducing one nation policy may be part of a ‘shock and awe’ policy rather than any real intent to go ahead with the controversial proposal.

Though, at the conclusion of the third INDIA alliance meet in Mumbai on September 1, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has promised ‘a clear set of ideas’ to involve ‘the farmers, and the workers’ in the progress of this country, what actually needed is to devise an appropriate campaign programme keeping workers and farmers at its core.

BHOPAL: There is near exodus from BJP to join the Congress. Among them who are leaving BJP include sitting MLAs and important party leaders. Significantly those who are leaving are listing two factors – rampant corruption and being ignored because of the preference being given to Scindia followers. In a blow to the ruling BJP ahead of assembly elections, MLA from Kolaras seat Virendra Raghuvanshi resigned from the party – an indication of the strife in the saffron camp due to influx of team Scindia

LUCKNOW: The entire country is watching the first electoral battle between NDA and the just formed INDIA being fought in Ghosi assembly by-election in Uttar Pradesh. This is direct fight between BJP candidate Dara Singh Chauhan who belongs to OBC and supported by NDA factions and Sudhkar Singh of Samajwadi Party enjoying the support of Congress, left parties and other members of INDIA.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi loves to keep people guessing. In fact, he thoroughly enjoys the experience whether all the people like it or not; for, there is always a comfortable majority which votes for him and the quirks of electoral democracy ensure he remains in power. Three decades of never gracing the opposition benches somehow separates him from other politicians. The Opposition has come to learn that this man is special without being special in a comfortable manner.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to accept Nitish Kumar as the convener of the opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc, while also expressing aggressive hostility to a caste census, has not gone down well among the backward caste people as well as Dalit and OBC leaders of Bihar and Jharkhand. Notwithstanding their political allegiance, even a section of the backward caste leaders belonging to the BJP feel that this stand of Mamata was aimed at undermining the stature of Nitish within I.N.D.I.A. and effectively humiliate him.

Alphabet Inc.’s digital giant Google has established itself as the largest digital advertising platform in India and accumulated around ₹25,000 crores in ad revenue in 2022. However, the underlying phenomena behind such success lies within the monopolisation of advertisement technology (adtech) by Google.

Another African country witnessed military coup this week accelerating the process of coups in a large number of countries in a short period. Security forces in Gabon said Wednesday they had seized power and “put an end” to the rule of the family that has held power for 55 years in the francophone country. The military also announced that they had arrested the president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose re-election, after a campaign marred by violence, was announced just hours before.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be on a whirlwind tour that will finally bring to India after his historic 2018 visit. He will attend the G20 Leaders Summit on September 9 and 10. But before coming to India, he will be in Indonesia to attend a meeting of ASEAN and in Singapore to promote Canadian exports and investment in Canada. Besides the G20 meeting, Trudeau will also hold negotiations for trade agreements with India. At the G20, Trudeau is expected to advocate for Russia's withdrawal from Ukraine.

West Bengal Congress leaders are in a tizzy before September 5 Dhupguri by-election owing to the no longer secret meeting between former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool Congress de facto number two Abhishek Banerjee. The state Congress unit appears to be a divided house on this issue.