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Congress leader Shashi Tharoor started the whole shebang. And he couldn’t have been more specious. “Shouldn’t India have a Muslim Prime Minister now that Britain has a Hindu Prime Minister?” Problem is Tharoor gets away with the contentious just because he throws worthless words like “floccinaucinihilipilification” to score brownie points.

Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal accused the BJP on Wednesday of building three garbage mountains in 15 years and filling the national capital with waste, and then visited the largest site at Ghazipur today, that became a scene with BJP workers protesting with black flags and sloganeering against him and just some feet away in retaliation AAP workers sloganeered against the BJP. It’s a clear indication that Garbage mountains in Delhi have become a political issue just before MCD election due early in 2023.

With the Assam Government sealing the newly opened museum devoted to ‘Miya culture’ within hours of its opening in Goalpara district, clearly the targeted marginalisation of Bengali speaking Muslim settlers is set to intensify further. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma personally spearheads the offensive, describing the community as not indigenous.

Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro.

Kerala is witnessing the spectacle of a governor who is out of control. One day he is demanding the resignation of all the vice chancellors of Kerala universities and on another day he “withdraws pleasure” from a minister in the government and asks the chief minister to remove him from the cabinet.

The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India will be marked as the Congress of confidence and rejuvenated spirit. The Party Congress held in the historic city of Vijayawada gave new impetus to the Party to march forward. Each moment of the Congress from October 14 to 18 was full of content as 872 delegates along with alternate delegates, observers and invitees devoted their experience and energy to strengthen the Party and chart a new path for the future.

Though the National Crime Record Bureau’s (NCRB’s) latest data shows farmers’ suicides in India much lower than the other data collected from the field by other sources including an extensive study by Punjab Agriculture University, sponsored by the State of Punjab, it also reveals biggest spike in farmers’ suicides in the last five years. Total suicides in farm sector have acquired a disturbing trend with 30 suicides every day, the newly released data reveals. It also exposed the false propaganda of the RSS-BJP that “no farmer has died by suicide” in the last eight years under PM Modi’s regime.

It was a tweet that shouldn’t have surprised anyone who has followed the feud between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan and the CPI(M)-led Left Democrat Front (LDF) Government.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Supreme Court verdict quashing the appointment of the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University VC over violation of UGC norms should be reviewed, opined former Lok Sabha Secretary-General and constitutional expert PDT Achary.

Democracy is a means to decide how we want to be governed. To woo the voters political parties therefore decide their agenda which they feel will fetch them votes to reach the seat of power. They give populist slogans, whether they can fulfill them or not is another question. In poverty stricken society of our country even little amount of relief has lot of meaning. Education and health are assets for any society and form basis for inclusive growth and over all development. But they have not been given due attention by successive governments.