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TopicImran Pratapgarhi

Topic: Imran Pratapgarhi

What SC said on free speech, satire & duty as it quashed FIR lodged against MP Pratapgarhi over a poem

Key order comes at a time when standup comedian Kunal Kamra is facing heat for taking a dig at Eknath Shinde without naming the Maharashtra deputy CM directly.

A Dhaka-Beijing-Islamabad axis is taking shape. It’s worrying for India

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Who is Imran Pratapgarhi? Congress star campaigner in BJP crosshairs is an MP, recited shayari for Atiq Ahmed

In 2000s, Congress MP became famous in Allahabad as a student poet writing about his mother, ‘ghar wapsi’ & Muslim unity. He is now among Congress star campaigners for Karnataka.

‘Panic & unrest’ in Maharashtra Congress as outsider Pratapgarhi who lost 2019 polls gets RS nod

Imran Pratapgarhi, 34 and from UP, was chosen over veterans like Milind Deora and Sanjay Nirupam. Some leaders call move ‘undemocratic’ but others accept high command’s call.

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India must allow citizens to invest beyond its borders. It’s risk management, not luxury

The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.