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BJP AIMS AT CHANGING GAMES IN TAMIL NADU

AT STAKE, FUTURE OF DRAVIDIAN DOMINANCE
S. Sethuraman - 2020-10-21 08:58
The road to Tamil Nadu Assembly poll, still six months ahead, for May 2021, is full of uncertainties though the ruling AIADMK has decided its Chief Minister Mr E Palaniswami will lead the party seeking a third successive term in a post-Jayalalithaa era. In this, it fondly hopes alliance with BJP and the Modi charisma could work out in its favour.

INDIA-U.S. RELATIONS UNDER A BIDEN PRESIDENCY

REASONS FOR DISCOMFORT OF MODI AND BJP
Nitya Chakraborty - 2020-10-21 08:55
With less than two weeks to go for the Presidential elections in USA scheduled on November 3, talks have started about what is going to be the impact of the coming to the White House of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice-President on the India-U.S relations. All indications suggest that unless, there is a major change in the opinion of the voters in the crucial swing states in the last minute before November 3, the Democratic candidate will have a clean sweep of the electoral college by getting much more than the required majority of 270 votes.

LETTERS TO UMAR KHALID AND MODES OF REMEMBERING

ONLY OUR RADICAL MEMORY WILL DEFEAT OFFICIAL MALIGNANCY
Annie Domini - 2020-10-20 17:26
In a deleted tweet posted a few days ago, jailed scholar Dr Umar Khalid’s father, Dr S Q R Ilyas, said his son is spending his prison time reading, writing and collecting his thoughts. Some of us who retweeted it in momentary relief, or saved it in our bookmarks to return to, to soothe somewhat our extreme shame, guilt and helplessness at seeing a scintillating mind such as Khalid ‘languishing’ in jail, soon found the tweet removed, and a dead link lurking in its place.

COME RAIN OR SUNSHINE, BOLLYWOOD SHOULD STAY ROOTED TO ITS SECULAR ETHOS

NATIONAL INTERESTS DEMAND THAT RIGHTWING ATTACKS AGAINST FILM INDUSTRY BE REBUFFED
Sushil Kutty - 2020-10-20 17:22
Bollywood is an amalgamation of filmmakers and talented people in the arts, and in the techniques, coming together to script and play out stories on celluloid that catch the fancy of people pining to escape the tediousness of life, for a price. So, it is that Bollywood is often referred to as ‘Mayanagari’, and it’s a coincidence that this ‘Mayanagari’ settled in Bombay, now known far and wide as Mumbai.

WORLD BANK FEARS A MAJOR FINANCIAL CRISIS WITH CONTINUING PANDEMIC

WORLD BANK FEARS A MAJOR FINANCIAL CRISIS WITH CONTINUING PANDEMIC
Anjan Roy - 2020-10-20 17:18
The current pandemic has the potential of turning into a major financial crisis, fears Carmen Reinhart, Chief Economist of the World Bank. Ms Reinhart’s comments cannot be taken lightly as she has deep insights into the working of the financial system.

SOCIALIST VICTORY IN BOLIVIA ELECTIONS IS A BIG REBUFF TO RIGHTISTS PROPPED BY U.S.

MASSIVE WIN IS A BOOSTER TO LEFT MOVEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA
Nitya Chakraborty - 2020-10-20 17:14
The massive win by the Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) in the general elections including President and Vice-President in Bolivia held on October 18, has given a big boost to the leftwing forces in Latin America which were on the defensive in the region since the ouster of the former President Evo Morales in November 2019 by the right wing forces supported by the military and the Trump administration.

NEW POLITICAL ALLIANCE IN KASHMIR CAN HELP IN STARTING OF DEMOCRATIC PROCESS

CENTRE HAS TO BE SERIOUS IN HAVING DIALOGUE WITH MAINSTREAM PARTIES
Kalyani Shankar - 2020-10-20 17:11
It was unusual for the arch- rivals former chief ministers Abdullahs (Dr. Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah) of the National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti of the PDP posing for a photo last week in Srinagar. It was Mehbhooba’s father and former chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed who said it was the coming together of the North Pole and the South Pole when his party the PDP had an alliance with the BJP to form the government in 2017. Now the Abdullahs and Muftis, the two influential families have come together on account of their political compulsion.

MOTORSPORT HAS GOOD FUTURE IN INDIA: RALLY DRIVER GARIMA AVTAR

Harpal Singh Bedi - 2020-10-20 16:31
New Delhi: Leading woman rally driver Garima Avtar feels that motorsport in the country has good future as more youngsters are taking up this sport and big corporate houses are also coming forward to support it.
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PLAYING TO WIN EVERY MATCH: DELHI CAPITALS’ ASSISTANT COACH MOHAMMAD KAIF

PRAVIN DUBEY TO REPLACE AMIT MISHRA
Harpal Singh Bedi - 2020-10-19 18:19
New Delhi: Delhi Capitals’ Assistant Coach Mohammad Kaif has made it clear that his team has not lowered its guards and despite winning seven of the nine matches in IPL so far Shreyas Iyer's led side will go all out to win each of the remaining fixtures.