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Yet another aspect of the ugly face of BJP’s nationalism has come to the fore after BJP’s West Bengal government took oath under the CM Suvendu Adhikari. The government has decided to replace Lakshmir Bhandar by another scheme by the name Annapurna Bhandar for women from June 1. Under the new scheme the voters whose names were deleted from the electoral roll, and those whose cases are pending before the Tribunals hearing their petitions under SIR, will be excluded, effectively making lakhs of household to suffer.

KOLKATA: Days after its first crushing electoral reverse in 15 years in the West Bengal Assembly polls, rumblings of discontent within Trinamool Congress have started. The dissenting voices are not muted.

Once the hub for engineering industry, West Bengal has been facing a lean phase in its industrial development since the 1970s. covering both the 34 years of the Left rule and 15 years of TMC reign. At the time of Independence in 1947, it accounted for 30 percent of country’s industrial output. Now, it has fallen to 11th rank in the industrial map of the country.

LUCKNOW: With the much awaited expansion of Yogi Adityanath ministry in Uttar Pradesh, BJP has attempted to social engineering in order to counter powerful PDA of main rival Samajwadi Party in 2027 assembly polls.

Upper-caste conflict, rift between Brahmins and Rajputs has been intensifying within the Uttar Pradesh BJP and in recent months it has acquired a vicious character threatening the 2027 assembly electoral prospect of the party. Significantly, the BJP is also losing its support in the OBCs, EBCs and Dalits. But the state BJP leadership is unperturbed. They hold that with an authoritarian dispensation, having complete grip on the administration and bureaucracy, it would a difficult proposition for the opposition to even to put a faced of serious challenge.

INDIA bloc has suddenly fallen into a deeper crisis, a new phase of disintegration has set in, which cheers the BJP the most. The opposition camp has perhaps forgotten the proverb – united we stand, divided we fall.

In the recently concluded 2026 Assembly elections, three prominent chief ministers faced unexpected defeats, a situation that many in the political arena recognise as a challenging part of the process. The chief ministers of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala lost their elections.

In Economics, we teach the concept of exogenous and endogenous variables. In simple terms, exogenous variables are those outside the control of policymakers, whereas endogenous variables are those that policymakers can influence or adjust to improve economic outcomes. Take, for instance, the recent Iran-Israel-US conflict which is an example of exogenous shock. Indian government has nothing to do with it. Prior to the outbreak of this war, India's economy was in a Goldilocks situation - an estimated GDP growth rate of 7.6% in FY25 paired with a benign inflation rate of around 2%. This was a moment policymakers were eager to take credit for, pointing to sound economic policies and the government's steady progress on the path of fiscal consolidation (read, endogenous factors).

CHENNAI: The rise of Vijay from matinee idol to Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is not merely a political victory. It is a civilisational rupture in the political history of southern India.

KOLKATA: With Subhendu Adhikari sworn in as the first BJP chief minister of Bengal on Sunday May 10, an altogether new chapter is begun in the state. With that the recalcitrant, screaming Mamata Banerjee goes into the penumbra of political oblivion.