Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
At a moment of crisis, no harm in the Congress viewing itself as a regional party but, unlike the others, having strengths in a number of states. It has a good chance of returning to power in R / M / C later this year, with a little help from the BSP. It could return to Maharashtra in alliance with the NCP. Haryana could be reclaimed from Khattarji. It has clung on to Karnataka with the JDS. Kerala brings it back every alternate election. So a Congress mukt Bharat is not a realistic proposition. It also does not accord with the spirit of democracy.
At a moment of crisis, no harm in the Congress viewing itself as a regional party but, unlike the others, having strengths in a number of states. It has a good chance of returning to power in R / M / C later this year, with a little help from the BSP. It could return to Maharashtra in alliance with the NCP. Haryana could be reclaimed from Khattarji. It has clung on to Karnataka with the JDS. Kerala brings it back every alternate election. So a Congress mukt Bharat is not a realistic proposition. It also does not accord with the spirit of democracy.