[ad_1] Binoy Viswam | Photo Credit: H VIBHU Communist Party of India (CPI) State secretary Binoy Viswam accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of using its political heft at the Centre to subvert the Election Commission of India (EC) into deleting secular votes in several districts where the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) perceives a winning […]
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[ad_1] The mob lynching of Ram Narayan, a Dalit migrant labourer from Chhattisgarh, at Valayar in Palakkad on suspicion of being a “felonious alien from Bangladesh”, has raised the spectre of xenophobic hate politics rearing its head in Kerala. The mobile phone captures of the“mob murder”, starkly reminiscent of the lynchings of marginalised sections of […]
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[ad_1] The year 2018 was when Sabarimala temple acquired a political dimension, with street protests erupting over the Supreme Court’s ruling that allowed women of all age groups to worship at the hill shrine. The verdict put the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) government on the defensive as both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata […]
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[ad_1] Shyamala S. Prabhu, six-time councillor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the Cheralayi division of the Kochi Corporation between 1988 and 2020, resigned from the party’s primary membership on Tuesday (November 25). Her decision came close on the heels of her move to contest from her division as an Independent candidate after rebelling […]
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[ad_1] The National Cooperative Policy, 2025, unveiled by Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah in July, has provoked a sharp response from Kerala, which has a rich tradition of incubating and sustaining cooperatives. Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government created the Ministry of Cooperation under Mr. Shah in 2021, Kerala has been […]
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[ad_1] Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] and Congress have accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to score brownie points with the sizeable Christian community in Kerala and the influential Church leadership in allegedly trying to rack up political credit for the release of two Kerala nuns on bail from a prison in BJP-ruled […]
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[ad_1] Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge at his residence after winning Karnataka assembly elections, in New Delhi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI New Congress Legislature Party asks Mallikarjun Kharge to pick next Karnataka Chief Minister Lobbying for the top post is set to shift to Delhi with both Siddaramaiah and D.K. Shivakumar expected to […]
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[ad_1] AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, with Congress leaders Siddaramaiah, D K Shivakumar, Randeep Singh Surjewala, and K. C. Venugopal, during a press conference after the Karnataka assembly elections 2023 results, in Bengaluru on May 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Karnataka Congress Legislature Party meeting set for Sunday Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and […]
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[ad_1] Online platforms must take down PIB-flagged ‘fake news’ Social media platforms and other intermediaries on the Internet are now required to make sure that “fake news” articles about the Union government, deemed and declared as such by its Press Information Bureau (PIB), are taken down from their platforms when they are alerted to such […]
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[ad_1] EPFO earmarks up to 85% of its equity investments into ETFs tracking the Nifty 50, which had added Adani Enterprises in September 2022. File EPFO subscribers are captive investors of two Adani stocks The aftermath of the Hindenburg Research report may have made several large investors rethink their exposures to the Adani group. But […]
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