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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Trump is playing his anti-establishment cards: We mustn’t follow suit

If there is one thing other than personal loyalty common to US President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet choices, it is that they are all anti-establishment. It is indeed ironic that this wave comes in the year that the Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to a trio of professors whose life’s work has been on the importance of institutions. While their …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Whooo-weee!' Morning Joe left gobsmacked by GOP lawmaker's Trump pledge

Raw Story

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski laughed at Rep. Troy Nehls on Thursday after he professed his loyalty to Donald Trump — no matter what he asks or what he does. Speaking with reporters about the former president's cabinet picks that include controversial Rep. Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and Fox News personality Pete Hegseth — all of which are …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Hazratbal imam seeks LG Manoj Sinha’s intervention for reinstatement

Hindustan Times

The imam of Kashmir’s most revered shrine — Dargah Hazratbal— who was removed over a conversion row in April this year, has sought the Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha’s intervention for his reinstatement. Kamal-ud-din Farooqui, 72, was disengaged by the waqf board from leading the prayers after his video presiding over a public conversion of a Hindu man from Haryana to …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Remembrance Day for Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Horrors

News 18

On Friday, 12 July, the Government of India issued a Gazette notification declaring 25 June as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Divas’, a loose translation of which would be ‘Murder of Constitution Day’. A year short of the 50th anniversary of the imposition of ‘Emergency’ shortly before midnight on 25 June 1975, by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the theft of constitutionalism under …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

‘The Boys’ Season 4 premiere review: Superhero abuse and election blues

The Hindu

The year has been fairly devoid of comic book cinema now that superhero fatigue seems to have chronically set in. While the genre is still beleaguered by formulaic plots and diminishing returns, Prime Video’s fourth season of The Boys continues to disgust and disturb with unabashed gusto, serving up a razor-sharp antidote to prosaic supe storytelling. The Boys Creator: Eric …

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8 months, 1 week ago

The Prajwal Revanna sex tape controversy holds dire implications for JD(S)

Hindustan Times

This is not the first time Prajwal Revanna, the Janata Dal member of Parliament from the Hassan Lok Sabha constituency in Karnataka, presently in the eye of a storm regarding his alleged involvement in the “sex tape” case, has put the former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda’s clan in a tight spot. On April 24, a pen drive containing 2,976 …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The claim of India’s GDP reaching the $4 trillion mark is bogus and fake, says Congress

The Hindu

The Congress on November 20 said senior Union Ministers from poll-bound States like Rajasthan and Telangana shared “bogus and fake news” that India’s Gross Domestic Product has crossed the four-trillion dollar mark only to generate euphoria and headline management. “Between 2:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. yesterday, when the nation was glued to watching the cricket match, various drumbeaters of the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

James O’Brien interview: LBC’s mid-morning mouthpiece on the problem with Farage, right wing media and being a ‘heterosexual bruiser’

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “A central thrust of my book is the tragedy …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Vivek Agnihotri opens up on lukewarm response to The Vaccine War: ‘Jitne log Playboy khareedte utne log…’

Hindustan Times

Vivek Agnihotri is addressing the lukewarm box office response to his film The Vaccine War, which released in theatres on September 28. Vivek on lukewarm response to The Vaccine War In his interview with Siddharth Kannan, Vivek Agnihotri was asked to comment on the several reports that have tagged the box office reports of the film to be 'lukewarm.' In …

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1 year, 5 months ago

BJP rejig: Anil Antony, AMU ex-vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor appointed vice presidents

Hindustan Times

Anil Antony, the son of senior Congress leader AK Antony, and former AMU vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor have been appointed vice presidents of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday. Former president of the Telangana state unit Bandi Sanjay has been appointed national general secretary along with lawmaker from Uttar Pradesh Radha Mohan Agarwal. Senior Congress leader AK Antony’s son Anil Antony …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju writes to CJI Chandrachud over appointment of judges seeking representatives in evaluation panel

Op India

On Monday, the Centre wrote a letter to Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, proposing the inclusion of government representatives in the 25-year-old Supreme Court-created two-tiered system for the selection of judges for infusing openness and public accountability into the recruitment process of constitutional court justices. In the letter issued on January 16, the minister has proposed including representatives …

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2 years ago

Harry: The Interview review – Stage-managed and unchallenging from start to finish

The Independent

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$BJP alleges Gandhi family \'most corrupt family\' in Indian politics$

2 years ago

BJP alleges Gandhi family \'most corrupt family\' in Indian politics

Deccan Chronicle

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday dubbed the Gandhi family as "kattar paapi parivaar" and the "most corrupt family in Indian politics" as it cited the Rajasthan High Court's rejection of Robert Vadra's plea to quash a money laundering probe against him. BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi should break their "silence" on corruption and money-laundering …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Udit Raj regrets remarks on Droupadi Murmu but says 'I have a right'

Hindustan Times

Congress leader Udit Raj regretted his ‘sycophancy’ remarks on President Droupadi Murmu but said he will continue to raise questions and that the President must think before giving statements. I am a representative of the SC/ST and I get agonised when I see people representing them are doing nothing from their high position," Udit Raj tweeted on Thursday night. "Instead …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Ghulam Nabi Azad | A loyalist-turned-rebel

The Hindu

A Union Minister at the age of 33, a former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, a two-term Lok Sabha and five-term Rajya Sabha member, a former Leader of the Opposition and a member of the Congress Working Committee — Ghulam Nabi Azad’s decades-long political career has been distinctively eventful. “Today, he is talking about sycophancy, but during Sanjay Gandhi’s …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Jaiveer Shergill resigns from Cong, writes about sycophancy, lost sync to Sonia

Hindustan Times

Jaiveer Shergill resigned from the Congress on Wednesday, hours after he said that he had put in his papers from the post of the party's national spokesperson. In a letter that Shergill wrote to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, Shergill said decision-making in the party is no longer for interests of public, but is influenced by self-serving individuals indulging in …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Congress cannot progress with 'sycophancy culture': Ramachandran

India TV News

Highlights Ramachandran came out strongly against the "sycophancy culture" in Congress Ramachandran was a seven-term MP and Congress' Kerala unit President Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister, Mullappally Ramachandran, on Sunday came out strongly against the "sycophancy culture" in the party. Ramachandran, who was a seven-term MP and Congress' Kerala unit President, also said that there have to be …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Abject sycophant Jim Jordan can’t lie his way out of Jan. 6 role

Raw Story

Jim Jordan is a bad liar. When the seditious strategies of fellow plotters failed to seize unearned power for the imperious leader, Jordan spun into character and voted to reject the certified outcome of a free and fair election — because, as he ranted pointlessly, it didn’t make sense. As evidence mounts of Jordan’s direct involvement in the attempted coup …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Congress has become irrelevant. It should die for the birth of a new liberal narrative

Firstpost

What my fellow liberals are attempting to do in effect is trying to save the Congress from itself whereas all evidence suggests that it has no interest in being saved The endless debate on the future of the Congress Party reminds me of the breathless arguments over the prospects of the Indian Left in the 1990s which ultimately ended in …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Former Chandigarh Congress chief attacks party leadership

Hindustan Times

A day after the Congress high command appointed new office-bearers to different posts in Chandigarh, the internal party fissures burst out in the open. The local leaders here will ruin the Chandigarh Congress.” In another tweet, he alleged, “The writ of an arrogant leader, money, sycophants and gossip mongers ran strongly in the formation of the list released yesterday.” The …

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3 years, 5 months ago

UP CM Yogi Adityanath may contest 2022 election from Ayodhya, sitting MLA ready to give up seat

India Today

In the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 2022, political circles are abuzz with speculation that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may contest the election from Ayodhya constituency. Ayodhya is one of the chief minister’s priorities,” BJP MLA Ved Prakash Gupta said. Ved Prakash Gupta continued, “If Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wants to contest from Ayodhya, we will all …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Lindsey Graham’s New Spin On Trump’s COVID-19 Failings Is Too Much For Folks Online

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Sen. Lindsey Graham’s latest sycophancy of ex-President Donald Trump was beyond the pale for many people on Twitter on Tuesday. Watch the video here: Lindsey Graham: If Trump was right about the lab leak, it would change the image the public had of President Trump regarding the Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/tyq8eXWPEy — Acyn June 9, 2021 Critics vehemently disagreed …

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3 years, 8 months ago

Prince Philip funeral: Simon Armitage pays moving tribute to late royal in new poem

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Armitage said the obituaries for Prince Philip had taught him the royal “hated sycophancy”, and …

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4 years ago

Netanyahu reelection hopes hinge on vaccination campaign

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — For media-obsessed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the coronavirus vaccine has arrived just in time. Netanyahu, like his good friend Donald Trump and other world leaders, frequently tries to use social media and tightly controlled press conferences to bypass the traditional media — and the scrutiny that has come along with it. Since he became the first Israeli to …

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Trump is playing his anti-establishment cards: We mustn’t follow suit

'Whooo-weee!' Morning Joe left gobsmacked by GOP lawmaker's Trump pledge

Hazratbal imam seeks LG Manoj Sinha’s intervention for reinstatement

Remembrance Day for Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Horrors

‘The Boys’ Season 4 premiere review: Superhero abuse and election blues

The Prajwal Revanna sex tape controversy holds dire implications for JD(S)

The claim of India’s GDP reaching the $4 trillion mark is bogus and fake, says Congress

James O’Brien interview: LBC’s mid-morning mouthpiece on the problem with Farage, right wing media and being a ‘heterosexual bruiser’

Vivek Agnihotri opens up on lukewarm response to The Vaccine War: ‘Jitne log Playboy khareedte utne log…’

BJP rejig: Anil Antony, AMU ex-vice-chancellor Tariq Mansoor appointed vice presidents

Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju writes to CJI Chandrachud over appointment of judges seeking representatives in evaluation panel

Harry: The Interview review – Stage-managed and unchallenging from start to finish

BJP alleges Gandhi family \'most corrupt family\' in Indian politics

Udit Raj regrets remarks on Droupadi Murmu but says 'I have a right'

Ghulam Nabi Azad | A loyalist-turned-rebel

Jaiveer Shergill resigns from Cong, writes about sycophancy, lost sync to Sonia

Congress cannot progress with 'sycophancy culture': Ramachandran

Abject sycophant Jim Jordan can’t lie his way out of Jan. 6 role

Congress has become irrelevant. It should die for the birth of a new liberal narrative

Former Chandigarh Congress chief attacks party leadership

UP CM Yogi Adityanath may contest 2022 election from Ayodhya, sitting MLA ready to give up seat

Lindsey Graham’s New Spin On Trump’s COVID-19 Failings Is Too Much For Folks Online

Prince Philip funeral: Simon Armitage pays moving tribute to late royal in new poem

Netanyahu reelection hopes hinge on vaccination campaign