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southwest monsoon in Kerala has unleashed floods and landslides in the state of Kerala, the magnitude of which has rarely been observed in recent memory. The situation, described as unprecedented by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, is considered similar to the violent floods of 1924. The Centre and state administration along with the armed forces are working hand-in-hand across all 14 districts, to rescue thousands stranded in their homes. Anusha Bhattacharya gives more insights

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee continues to be on life support system since Wednesday and as per hospital sources at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences his condition “is very critical”. A press release from the AIIMS on Thursday morning said: “Former Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s condition continues to be the same. He is critical and is on life support systems.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the AIIMS on Wednesday evening to enquire about the condition of Vajpayee. Apart from PM Modi the former prime minister manmohan singh and other political leaders too had visited. As his health deteriorated, he slowly withdrew himself from public life and was confined to his residence for years. We all pray for his quick recovery. Anusha Bhattacharya gives insights

The value of rupee against the US dollar had depreciated below 70 rupees per dollar mark on Tuesday, (data of rupee) touching a historic all-time low. The analysts suggest that the rupee might further depreciate below the 71 mark. With this, the fear of an increase in prices of consumer goods would spread large over the country. Government data on Monday showed that the retail inflation quickened to 4.17 percent in July from a year earlier, slower than the 4.5 percent. And the same day rupee had witnessed a record low of 69.9 against the dollar, keeping its position as Asia’s worst-performing currency this year. And if we compare the performance of rupee since 2014 to the current financial year, we see a massive fall in its value.It was in the years of 2013 and 2014 that the now prime Minister Narendra Modi made falling price of rupee as the center piece of his campaign. where he used it to accuse the then prime minister Manmohan Singh implicating that he was weak PM of our country.From falling value rupees t

Former Lok Sabha speaker and veteran CPI(M) leader Somnath Chatterjee on 13 August passed away in Kolkatta at the age of 89. Somnath Chatterjee was the speaker of Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009 during the UPA1 government. Somnath Chatterjee was associated with the Communist Party of India(Marxist) and was served as the Member of Lok Sabha for 10 terms. Somnath Chatterjee also won the outstanding Parliamentarian award in the year 1996. Somnath Chatterjee was expelled from CPI(M) after he refused to resign from the post of speaker in 2008 when his party withdrew its support from the UPA-1 government during the Indo-American Nuclear deal. Anil Rajpurohit gives more insights

The National Register of Citizen is a list prepared by the government of India to separate illegal immigrants from legitimate citizens of Assam. According to officials, approximately 40 lakh people did not make it to the final list. The demand for updating the NRC in Assam is long-standing. Since the NDA brought citizenship amendment bill in 2016, the demand for the updated NRC started gaining ground once again and this time it is going more aggressively. One can check their names online nrcassam. nic.in, www.assam.mygov.in, www.assam.gov.in, www.homeandpolitical.assam.gov.in, www.draftnrcassam.com, www.nrcdrafts.com, www.draftnrc.com, www.assamnrcdraft.com, www.nrcassamhearing.in. or you can call 24*7 toll free number from Assam and 18003453762 to know more details in the NRC draft. Unfortunately there are still very little clarity from the state or central government about what will happen to the illegal immigrants. Will the government deport them or not? and also what will happen to those who have voter ID

BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha who called himself as a ""rebel"" reiterated that he wont quit the party on his own and he belong to the people of India first. let us hear what he has to say..

Former Union Minister Arun Shourie had said that the investigative agencies of our country like CBI report to the BJP chief Amit Shah while Modi is busy clicking pictures. While addressing the media he had also given an earful to the failure of the opposition's unity ahead of the 2018 election Anusha Bhattacharya gives more insights in this..

Former DMK patriarch and five time chief minister of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi took his last breathe on tuesday evening after fighting a prolonged battle with illness. The 'Kalaignar' holds a record for the longest serving president of a political party, where he served for almost 50 years. He will be buried at Chennai's Marina Beach, where three other former chief ministers including J Jayalalithaa have memorials. During the last stretch of his illness, President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President Venkiah Naidu and a number of political leaders across party visited him. And today we have seen Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying tribute to late DMK chief at the Rajaji Hall and briefly met members of his family. He was a colossus in tamil nadu politics. He will be remembered more than a political leader in our country. Truely, it is a great loss for all of us. Correspondent Anusha Bhattacharya gives more insight.

"The Supreme Court today adjourned its hearing on Article 35A to 27 August, in the wake of protests in Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra added that “it’s an issue to be decided by the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court”. The Supreme Court was hearing a public interest litigation challenging the validity of the Article 35A. Some call Article 35A ""discriminatory"" against J&K women, because it disqualifies them from their state subject rights if they married non-permanent residents. However, in a landmark judgment in October 2002, the J&K High Court held that women married to non-permanent residents will not lose their rights. The children of such women however don't have succession rights. mean while the top court has adjourned the next hearing on 27 of august, to make a decision on the fate of special privileges of 1.25 crore people of jammu & kashmir. Our correspondent Anusha Bhattacharya gives more insight about this report.

"The whole issue that was emerging around for last two days on who put the Aadhaar helpline number in your contact list, came to a relief late Friday night when Google, the Android operating system provider accepted that ""they"" have done it. The company in a statement said that an internal review has revealed that in 2014, the then UIDAI helpline number and the 112 distress helpline number such as police, ambulance, fire etc were coded into the SetUp wizard of the Android phones. That was later used in India and has remained there since. And before jumping on to a false conclusion about whom to blame and whom to not, ask yourself: Why did Google save the UIDAI number in your contact list in the first place? They didnt wake up one day and said ''Lets add UIDAI phone number to the Indian phones for fun''. It is a matter of concern over the safety of Aadhar database, safety about You and Me, the 1.35 billion people who's privacy is now in grave danger. And the government is doing nothing about it. Our Correspo

"On the massive controversy over a new Assam citizen's list that excludes 40 lakh people from the state, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said that the draft released on Monday is not a final one yet. The list has the names of Assam people and their family who have been living in the state before 1972. Non- Assamese but Indian citizens living in the state have also been added to the list, provided they have proof. Like the identity proof or aadhar or any other ID proof. (rajnath byte) All genuine Indian citizens will be added to the list. And there will be no bias in preparing the list. said the Government. To counter that Ripon Bora a congress leader representing from Assam, said that many women's names have been dropped because as they couldn't produce linkage certificate. As there are many children in the list that were left out. Many children dont have birth certificate due to illiteracy, Bora claims. So it is clear that apart from failing to detect the illegal bangladeshi immigrats, administrative failu

A UK court said that it will rule out Vijay mallya's extradition trail only after Indian authorities submit a video of the cell at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai where the authorities plan to keep Vijay Mallya. This happened the day the embattled liquor tycoon complained that there is no 'natural light' and 'fresh air' inside the Indian prison. The UK court has given 3 weeks of time to submit the videos to see the windows of the cell and find out whether the cell receives appropriate natural lights. A tagged "criminal" demanding a list of privileges from the Indian Government. so is it the failure of the Indian agencies to allow such demands and even entertaining them. more importantly, i am surprised that UK courts are checking the living condition of Indian prison when there are innumerable cases of rapes, violence, racial attacks and even murder happening in their own jails. I think UK has forgotten that it doesn't rule our country anymore we have thrown them out almost 80 years back, I think its high we r

The Muzaffarpur shelter home case where more than 34 girls were allegedly sexually abused has recently come to light. The medical reports had earlier indicated that 29 out of 44 girls living at the shelter homes had been raped and molested for several weeks. Soon after the reports were out the case was handed over to the CBI. in the recent revelation, the state funded NGO, allegedly resulted in abortions and death of at least one girl. The CBI inquiry had further informed how these shelter homes were able to function for so long with no accountability, either in their finances or the welfare of the inmates. These girls in this destitute home used to cut themselves i order to avoid sexual abused.The most worrying part is that the state has a child welfare committee of which the chairperson is now among the accused. Shelter homes are meant to provide safe security for children and women who have been abandoned or have no family support. But when those who are entrusted with the protection turn into predator, it

Around 40 lakh people in assam have been left out of a draft list of citizens which got released today. This was the second and final draft of the NRC was published today was published with 2.9 crore names out of the total 3.29 crore applicants in Assam. The state's national register of citizen has been updated for the first time since 1951 to keep an account for illegal migration from neighbouring country of Bangladesh. Responding to the draft Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh added that Some people are unnecessarily trying to create an atmosphere of fear. Meanwhile, west bengal chief minister and trinamool congress chief Mamata Banerjee had openly lashed out at the centre over the Assam's NRC calling it an attempt to isolate the Bengalis, Bihari and Muslims out of the state. The Officials have asserted that this is only a draft, and no one would be deported or punished based on it. Though there are too many questions raised after Mamata Banerjee's criticism on the Centre's vote bank politics. so is BJP tryi

Pakistan a federal parliamentary democratic republic which got independence in 1947, goes to general election July 25. The people of Pakistan will cast two votes one for the 272 out of 342 seated national assembly, another for the provincial assembly. Members are elected through first-past-the-post system under universal adult suffrage. opinion polls indicate a tight race with Imran Khan's party ahead of Nawaz Sharif's party and in the third place is Bilawal Bhuttos's Pakistan People's Party. The PPP could also emerge as a coalition kingmaker if no party wins a majority. The upcoming election of Pakistan posses a great importance to Neighbours, especially India. The bilateral talks have come to stand still between both the country after the attack on the URI Army base in 2016. India will look forward towards the new Pakistan Prime Minister in an expectation to bring in new economic policies, which may affect the country’s international trade and import-exports; both of which will affect India indirectly. indi

"Daood Sayed Gilani, one of the plotters of the 26/11 attack was an american with an pakistani origin.. Daood also famously known as David Coleman Headley lived with his parents in Philadelphia. David, since 2002, started his introductory course with the LeT and within a span of time Saeed became Headley's new handler which ended up with his role in 26/11 attack. He was later sentenced to 35 years in prison by the US court in which more than 160 people were killed. And now the killer of multiple innocent people is battling for his own life in the ICU at Chicago. As he was being attacked by his prison inmates. So what could be the possible reasons why he could be attacked? The Indian government was seeking extradition of David Headley to stand trial for his involvement in 26/11 Mumbai attack. Looking at his current critical state this extradition looks unlikely that he would recover.

The police from Alwar took more than 3 hours to reach the nearest hospital, while taking a critically injured victim of lynching, Akbar Khan, in Ramgarh, Rajasthan on saturday. As the police first preferred to relocate the cows recovered and were taken to its shelter which was 10 kmns away from the incident. Where as the Community health centre was just 6kmns away. The Rajasthan police is now under severe criticism in the manner in which the department handled the Alwar Mob Lynching case. The seriousness of the gov towards the increasing mob lynching cases was assessed the by the statement of the Union Minister from Rajasthan Arjun Ram Meghwal, who says, "this isnt a single incident. You have to trace this back in history. what happened with Sikhs in 1984 was the biggest mob lynching of this nations's history." Seriously? is this even the time to play the "blame game" when the highest judicial body has directed the government to take strict action against this increasing cases of lynching in the name of just

After the 12 hour long debate on friday, the narendra modi led government defeated the no confidence motion in the lok sabha by 199 votes. The day long session in the lower House saw the government and the opposition charges and also moments of drama when Rahul gandhi walked over to prime minister and embrace him with a hug. One of the major players from the opposition bloc, Mamata Banerjee-led-Trinamool Congress, to tackle the growing influence of Narendra Modi led bhartiya JAnta Party in the state of West Bengal and the rest of the nation, has now come up with one of their biggest step. The party today in its announcement had said that she will start 'bjp hatao, desh bachao andolan' campaign on Aug 15. This big announcement was made at the party's annual Martyrs' Day rally in kolkata. CM Banerjee used this occasion to send many more messages such as, former BJP leader Chandan Mitra and four Congress MLAs in the West Bengal assembly joined the ruling TMC.The saffron party who aims to conquer west bengal afte

"Congress president Rahul Gandhi never fail to amaze us. While responding to the controversy, related to remarks made on his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in a web series called 'Sacred Games', amazed the entire nation with his tweet. Rahul Gandhi, the party president, has currently reconstituted the Congress Working Committee, its top policy-making body with a blend of old and new faces. He has opted a blend of young and old names in the new list. But there are only 7 women leaders that have been given place out of the 51 member and only 15% quota to women in the new CWC list. The party which constantly raise the issue of 33% women representation in the legislature, speaks openly about the failure on the policies of women security in our country, has clearly disappointed this time. And this is the same grand old party which had female chief like Indira Gandhi for 6 years and Sonia Gandhi for almost 20 years. ""There are no favourites in politics. When it comes to women, they treat them with t

Since Bhartiya Janta Party came to power, crimes against women in uttar pradesh have increased in every segment. This fact was revealed in the month of April by the UP legislative assembly. According to the recent report, 26% more rapes have been reported in the state UP between April 2017 to January 2018 as compared April 2016 to January 2017. The state government which promised to maintain law and order in the state failed miserably. The overall crimes against women have now gone up by 33%. Not only crime against women but mob lynching, communal riots, police encounters too have increased in this state. However, at the end the only question for us to ask is, that is yogi Adityanath capable of bringing the Ram-Rajya which he promised to the people of uttar pradesh. the answer is NO. His inexperience in government affairs has left a huge void in administration. And there is a total mess all around in Uttar Pradesh. Also do let us know what you think..