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Copy code The Election Commission of India should either enforce virtual rallies or not conduct elections if the pandemic persists. India is witnessing a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, with record numbers of new cases and deaths every day. At the same time, States holding Assembly elections have seen mass rallies by political parties. In most such rallies, especially in West Bengal, which still has two phases to go and where campaigning is still on, COVID-19 protocols such as masking an...

Northlines Vir Sanghvi   So, how is your Vaccine Utsav going? I can only base my opinion on limited evidence, but I get the distinct feeling that there is much less utsah for this Utsav than there was for the thaali-banging at the start of the pandemic.     It would be nice for each one of us to help vaccinate one other person. But at a time when it is hard enough for us to even vaccinate ourselves, this remains a forlorn hope.   Like Sanjay Gandhi’s Emergency-era proclamation...

How women voters are changing the political script across states, one at a time How women voters are changing the political script across states, one at a time Women outnumbered men by a wide margin of 3.6 lakh votes in 2016 Tamil Nadu Assemby polls. During Chhattisgarh elections, there was a 23 per cent surge in female turnout in 2013 compared to what was seen 2008. advertisement UPDATED: April 9, 2021 08:27 IST Women outnumbered men by a wide margin of 3.6 lakh votes in 2016 Tamil Nadu assemb...

EVMs in a strong room. Representational image. NEW DELHI: Voting in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry have concluded on Tuesday. West Bengal yesterday completed its third and by far the most violence-hit round of polling out of eight phases with a voter turnout of 77.6% across 31 seats. Now, All eyes will be on the exit polls which will be out on April 29 once the election concludes in Bengal. The Election Commission has banned exit polls till 7:30 pm on April 29. Counting of votes will ...

Share of Muslim votes may be a deciding factor in West Bengal polls Perhaps no one has done so much as chief minister Mamata Banerjee to consolidate minority votes in West Bengal but before elections for 75 seats   |  6 April 2021 1:45 AM GMT KOLKATA: Perhaps no one has done so much as chief minister Mamata Banerjee to consolidate minority votes in West Bengal but before elections for 75 seats in the crucial third and fourth phase of the election, in which minority votes might be a deciding ...

COMMENT | Confronting evil and the fool in society Modified2:55 am - COMMENT | Many people have asked me why my father, the late Syed Hussein Alatas, joined politics. Times were very different in the 1950s and early 1960s, both globally and in Malaysia. Syed Hussein Alatas studied the decolonising movements then erupting around the world. He was attracted to the ideas of the Indian, Indonesian, Latin American and African intellectual awakenings. These home-grown developments were ignited by ant...

Key seats, rural-urban trends & other highlights: All you need to know about Tamil Nadu polls Key seats, rural-urban trends & other highlights: All you need to know about Tamil Nadu polls The Tamil Nadu Assembly polls will witness a direct fight between the ruling BJP and the AIADMK alliance, and the opposition coalition of the DMK and Congress. advertisement UPDATED: April 5, 2021 00:27 IST Tamil Nadu is set to go to polls on April 6 in a single phase (Photo | India Today) This will be the fir...

New Delhi, India – On the night of December 26, 2001, Mohammad Abdul Hai boarded a train from Jodhpur in northwestern India’s Rajasthan state to Surat city in neighbouring Gujarat to attend a three-day seminar on Muslim education. The seminar was organised by the All India Minority Education Board, of which Hai – then an associate professor at Jodhpur’s Jai Narain Vyas University – was a member. The three-day event was expected to be attended by nearly 400 Muslim scholars, activists a...

Lecture on ‘India – secularism, democracy and socialism’ Eminent historian Romila Thapar has said that education should not conform to religious concerns in determining its content and structure. State-run institutions should be free of religious interventions and the contest of education is better left to the professionals in each discipline, she said. She was participating an online lecture series on ‘India – secularism, democracy and socialism’ organised jointly by Kerala State ...

Precarious Transitions: Mobility and Citizenship in a Rising Power Over the summer of 2020, millions of migrants streamed out of Indian cities in the wake of the ill-planned lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 24 March 2020. The most conservative estimates suggest 30 million internal migrants in India (Ministry of Finance, Government of India 2018: 267). More realistic estimates peg the numbers at 140 million (Rajan et al 2020). If even half the most conservative figures are...