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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Congress leaders in Kerala are back at their bickering game again. That is the unmistakable message emanating from the sordid goings on witnessed during the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. Adding insult to injury is the ‘decision’ of Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president K. Sudhakaran and his supporters to resist the moves to oust him from his position.

The Supreme Court decision to declare the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha, founder of news website NewsClick as illegal has reignited the debate on the delicate balance between national security concerns and individual liberty. While Purkayastha's release is a positive development, the court's reasoning raises questions about the potential for continued arbitrary arrests under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

In the context of the US presidential election, economists and political scientists are all wondering why the ground performance of the American economy is not boosting incumbent Joe Biden’s popularity.

By announcing outside support to INDIA bloc, Trinamool Congress Supremo Mamata Banerjee has just expressed the opposition’s belief at the pick of election campaign for the fifth phase that India is heading for a hung parliament. Election campaign for the fifth phase will end on May 18, and election will be held on May 20. What made Mamata to announce outside support is TMC’s overwhelming performance in the first four phases in West Bengal.

Narendra Modi cannot speak nowadays anything which even approximates the truth. His latest false utterance is in an interview after having filed his nomination in Varanasi. Modi said that when he talked of “those who have more children”, he had not meant Muslims. He further went on make the astounding claim that “The day I do ‘Hindu-Muslim’, I will not be eligible to stay in public life”.

Within twenty hours of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s much-hyped public assertion, saying “if I do Hindu-Muslim, would not be fit for public life”, he made a classic somersault and declared: “Congress wanted to allocate 15 per cent budget to Muslims”. On Tuesday, while filing his nomination in Varanasi, Modi asserted doing Hindu-Muslim “would not make him fit for public life”, but the very day through his words he proved that he was really not fit for public life, alleging that “the previous Congress government wanted to allocate 15 per cent of the budget for Muslims”.

If the Bharatiya Janata Party wins June 4, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will become Prime Minister and Yogi Adityanath will be removed from his post of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in three months and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will join LK Advani in the ‘Marg-darshak Mandal’. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, however, made it plain that the INDI-Alliance will win in a landslide on June 4.

India is set to triple its civilian nuclear power capacity by 2030 in collaboration with Russia. Rosatom is poised to significantly contribute to India's objective of tripling its nuclear power production. Rosatom is a Russian state corporation specializing in nuclear energy and nuclear power plant construction and management globally. Rosatom has built four units of 1,000 MW each at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. In December, the governments of both countries decided to add two additional reactors to the plant.

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.