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'BJP wants to make an example out of Rahul Gandhi'

'They also think that if all opposition parties rally behind him, then 2024 will be Rahul versus Modi and that will be advantage BJP' IMAGE: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi arrives at Parliament......

'Amritpal should not have run away'

'All this while he has been maintaining that he is innocent and, if that is the case, why will he run away?' IMAGE: Rapid Action Force personnel conduct a flag march in Amritsar, March 19, 2023,......

'Vedas do not refer to anything called Hinduism'

'They were certainly not practising Hinduism in the Harappan culture (which includes Mohenjo Daro and other sites).''There was no notion of Hinduism then.' If you want to understand Indian history......

'If you take Hindutva out of BJP they are better in governance'

'Earlier, a lot of fear was in the minds of people that the BJP is anti-Christian and anti-minority, but over the years people have learnt to accept that the BJP is just another national party.'......

'Collegium Is Better System To Appoint Election Commissioners'

'The collegium system will remove any such doubts from the minds of people and the political parties.' IMAGE: Election Commission of India officials led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar......

'Do 81 crore Indians deserve highly subsidised food grains?'

'The decision to supply free food grains is not an economically sound decision because the government will find it very difficult in future to charge anything for food grains.' Kindly note the......

'Govt has taken the right step of banning export of atta'

'We cannot afford to be complacent about our food security needs.' IMAGE: Kindly note that this image has been posted only for representational purposes. Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters After......

'If you lose $5 billion to $7 billion every week...'

'... as has been happening in the last three weeks, then the foreign exchange reserves will not be comfortable to ensure that the rupee does not fall drastically.' Illustration: Uttam......

What The RBI Can Do About The Rupee

'To simply let the rupee depreciate to any level according to market forces will not be in the country's interests.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com "Rather than letting the rupee......

'We had surplus wheat stocks till last year, where has it gone?'

'All imaginary figures are pushed by government bureaucrats.''They never showed that the production of wheat was less this time.' IMAGE: A worker sifts wheat at the market yard of the Agriculture......

Taj: Divided By Blood: History In A Mess

This Web series is more about wine, opium, sex, more sex, gay love and incest, rues Syed Firdaus Ashraf. The Janissaries were members of an elite corps of the Ottoman army, the first to lay down......

The Man Who Gave Pathaan Its Heartbeat

'Every story has a heartbeat of its own.''Sometimes you want to go thak thak thak and finish the screenplay fast.''In other stories, you go thak (pause), thak (pause), thak (pause). That also......

Is Pathaan Copied From Skyfall?

'This trope must have been taken in 30 films.''The rogue agent is a common trope and not something unique.' IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone in Pathaan. The man who gave Pathaan its......

Pooja Blows A Kiss!

It may boast of being an Angoor remake but Rohit Shetty's Cirkus is anything but! The film is not getting good reviews -- you can read Sukanya Verma's review here and Syed Firdaus......

Cirkus Review: Boring!

Rohit Shetty gets so busy giving us a social message that he forgets to add 'tadka' -- also called 'entertainment' -- to Cirkus, sighs Syed Firdaus Ashraf. Among all the movies he made in his......

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