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A new Modi challenger in the making

15 Aug 2022

Changes of government in the states as a result of defection of groups of legislators or even entire parties have not been unusual in India since Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

India@75: some ‘if’ and ‘but’ thoughts

08 Aug 2022

India completes 75 years as a free nation next Monday. It was at midnight of August 14-15, 1947 that war-weary Britain pulled out of the Indian subcontinent after negotiating an...

PM must find a way forward in Kashmir

01 Aug 2022

It was on August 5, 2019, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, flush with its return to power with an increased majority in the Lok Sabha, abolished Jammu and Kashmir’s...

Challenge of media regulation in democracy

25 Jul 2022

India’s Chief Justice, NV Ramana, came down heavily on the media last week, accusing it of weakening democracy by propagating biased news, running kangaroo courts and holding agenda-driven debates. ...

List of unparliamentary words raises a storm

18 Jul 2022

Are presiding officers of the two houses of India’s Parliament trying to shield the Narendra Modi government by raising a firewall against criticism? Sections of the opposition raised this...

India set to have tribal woman as President

11 Jul 2022

Unless something unforeseen happens, Draupadi Murmu, an Adivasi (tribal) woman from the eastern state of Odisha will become the President of India this month. Under the Constitution, the President...

Indian premier to address hate speech issue

04 Jul 2022

Investigators have attributed two gruesome murders reported from two different states in the last few days to the thoughtless remarks made by Nupur Sharma, spokeswoman of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s...

Modi cleared of charges after long legal process

27 Jun 2022

An allegation that had pursued Prime Minister Narendra Modi, since his days as Gujarat’s Chief Minister two decades ago, was set at rest at rest by India’s Supreme Court last...

Army sticks to recruitment plan despite rallies

20 Jun 2022

Undeterred by nationwide protests, accompanied by arson and vandalism in some states, India’s armed forces have decided to go ahead with the Narendra Modi regime’s new recruitment policy. Defence...

Modi regime bid to check hate speech fallout

13 Jun 2022

A week after two spokespersons of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party caused a storm at home and abroad with derogatory remarks about Islam and the Prophet, India’s political and diplomatic...

BRP Bhaskar

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

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