Tag: Narendra Modi

Bhubaneswar: With 2019 general elections round the corner, Odisha is all set to witness clash of political heavyweights as both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AICC president Rahul Gandhi are likely to visit the State this December. Addressing mediapersons during a public awareness rally in Buhal gram panchayat of Nischintakoili, BJP Odisha in-charge Arun Singh […]

Bhubaneswar: The ABP News-C Voter ‘Desh ka Mood’ survey has predicted that Narendra Modi-led BJP is likely to win big in Odisha during the upcoming 2019 general elections even though it will not be a smooth ride for its ruling alliance NDA, which is projected to emerge victorious in 276 of the 543 Lok Sabha […]

Under the mission, a mineral study will be conducted 6,000 metres deep in the ocean. The mission will also study the changes, if any, noticed due to climate change.

The Narendra Modi government may like to believe that the resignation of Alok Verma brings ‘closure’ to the unsavoury saga in the CBI stretching over several months. But is it really a closure? I am afraid the answer to this question has to be a resounding ‘No’. Already fraying at the edges, the bitter and […]

By all accounts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi went farther in his criticism of the Naveen Patnaik government at the two back to back public meetings in Talcher and Jharsuguda on Saturday than he has done since coming to power in May, 2014. The rally in Jharsuguda, in particular, was significant because it marked the first […]

Trust the Modi government to come up with one crazy idea after another. As if the ambitious – but foolish – decision to go for a bullet train, costing upwards of Rs. One lakh crore, wasn’t bad enough, it has now given ‘in-principle’ consent to the proposal for setting up a ‘sea aerodrome’ at Chilika […]

The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has been frequently pilloried and ridiculed for being a ‘jumla sarkar’ – and justifiably so. But surprisingly, the fact that the Naveen Patnaik dispensation in Odisha has been no less a ‘jumla’ government appears to have escaped the attention of commentators in our state. Forget the charges made […]

If the first one in 2016 was announced on TV by no less than Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the current round appears to be an ‘undeclared’ demonetisation. Mamata Banerjee’s claim about a ‘financial emergency’ in the country may be dismissed as political hyperbole. But there is little doubt that the cash crunch that has hit […]

Gujarat had hinted at it. Recent by-elections in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh had corroborated it. And now, the outcome of the latest round of by-elections in UP and Bihar has confirmed it. The BJP is losing its support and Prime Minister Narendra Modi his brand equity. The loss of all three Lok Sabha by-elections – […]

There are two ways to look at the Gujarat election results. You can either say it was a tremendous achievement on the part of the BJP to have beaten the anti-incumbency of five consecutive terms in office to retain power. You can also see it as the first sign of the shrinking support for the […]

The mask has fallen off. The Narendra Modi government at the Centre has proved that for all its talk of ‘cooperative federalism’, partisan party considerations outweigh its commitment to federalism, the bedrock of Centre-state relations in India. Instead of acting as the ‘neutral umpire’, it has acted in a manner that is designed to protect […]

For the first time since the BJP swept to power at the Centre three and a half years ago, the Deadly Duo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party President Amit Shah looks truly vulnerable. Gone is the nonchalance that marked the public utterances of Modi and Shah before and after the UP elections. Notwithstanding […]

Since the BJP rode to power and Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of the country, there has been constant breast-beating over the supposedly shrinking space for independent journalism in the country. The familiar refrain has been freedom of expression is facing a grave threat under an autocratic Modi who, through a mixture of inducement and […]

Of late – since his much publicized US visit in September, to be more precise – there has been a spate of reports and commentaries in the national media about the ‘metamorphosis’ of Rahul Gandhi. The commentators would have us believe that the Congress scion has undergone a complete makeover after returning from his nearly […]

The fight has now begun in right earnest. Ahead of the BJP national executive meet in Bhubaneswar on April 15 & 16, the battle of attrition between the saffron party and the ruling BJD has sent the political temperature soaring in the state. With both sides determined not to give an inch, things can be […]