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Prospects of a Federal Front in India

06 Jun 2022

Talk of a Federal Front to take on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2024 national elections has been in the air for some time. The prime movers behind the idea are the leaders of regional parties who have established a firm control over certain states and demonstrated their

Congress misses chance to rebuild party

30 May 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is reputedly poll-ready at all times. It is the richest political party in India and has at its disposal the services of the dedicated cadres of its ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), to take care of booth-level activities. BJP President J.P. Nadda last week instructed

India needs to check rising inflation

23 May 2022

The Narendra Modi administration on Sunday brought down retail fuel prices slightly in a bid to check inflation, which now stands at an eight-year high of 7.9 per cent. Fuel prices are at present fixed by oil companies on a day-to-day basis.

Time for Indian government to review sedition law

16 May 2022

Soon after introducing the Indian Penal Code (IPC) in the 19th century, the British colonial administration put in it a provision to punish those who worked against its interests on charges of sedition. The provision, incorporated in Section 124-A of the

India, WHO squabble over Covid casualty figures

09 May 2022

How many Indians died in the Covid pandemic that raged for more than two years? This has become a matter of dispute between the India’s federal and state governments on the one hand and the World Health Organisation on the other.

Need to restore normalcy in Jammu and Kashmir

02 May 2022

Nearly three years after his government abolished Jammu and Kashmir’s special status under the Constitution, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday visited the state. During the visit Modi launched a slew of development projects.

India needs a national government

25 Apr 2022

When the Bharariya Janata Party did well in the Assembly elections in five states, political analysts saw it as indicating Prime Minister Narendra Modi is well set to lead his Bharatiya Janata Party to a hat-trick win in the 2024 national elections.

Changes must to reduce backlog in courts

18 Apr 2022

Mounting arrears of cases in the courts have been a matter of concern in India for as long as one can remember. This writer has recollection of a news report of the 1950s about the settlement of a land dispute which had dragged on in a

Conflicting interests hit Opposition unity

11 Apr 2022

Can the disparate opposition parties combine to mount an effective challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha election? This question had gained new relevance after the BJP’s impressive

Army immunity in some tribal areas withdrawn

04 Apr 2022

After taking several steps on the path of freedom in the last eight years, the Narendra Modi administration has taken a big step forward. On April 1, it restricted the operation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in the northeastern states

BRP Bhaskar

Indian journalist with over 50 years of newspaper, news agency and television experience.