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Why Mamata Banerjee's Nandigram Move is a Strong Message for Her Detractors

Experts see a pragmatic political design behind Mamata Banerjee's decision to contest from Nandigram. ...
Rajiv Kumar-January 18, 2021, 16:40 IST Politics
With Covid Vaccination Drive Set to Kick Off, India’s Past Experience in Mass Inoculation Can Be Handy

The current Covid-19 vaccination drive leans heavily on processes, manpower, database and experience of the Universal Immunisation Programme that vaccinated over 27 million pregnant women and 25 million infants every year....
Rajiv Kumar-January 15, 2021, 20:30 IST India
As India Begins 'Largest' Covid-19 Vaccination Drive, Here's Where Other Countries Stand

Britain, under a national lockdown currently, was first western country to launch mass inoculation drive on December 8, 2020. A 90-year-old grandmother, Margaret Keenan became country’s first person to receive non-trial recipients of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine....
Rajiv Kumar-January 16, 2021, 08:07 IST India
Siraj-Bumrah Racial Abuse: What Cricket Can Learn From Other Sports to Tackle It

Sports has no colour, says legend, but data shows otherwise. Research finds 131 documented acts of racism in sports in 2019....
Rajiv Kumar-January 12, 2021, 11:06 IST Opinion
That Awkward Age: Election Affidavits of Bihar Netas Throw up Some Startling Discrepancies

As many as a dozen candidates—of the assembly elections won by the NDA this month— with inconsistencies in their declared ages have come to light during research....
Rajiv Kumar-November 24, 2020, 16:37 IST Politics
Pollution, Fatigue, Population Density, Unplanned Development: Why Delhi is Struggling With Covid-19

Experts say there has been a cyclical trend of a surge followed by a decline and the same should also be expected now, while they warn against blaming any one reason for the latest spurt in Covid-19 cases in the capital. ...
Rajiv Kumar-November 19, 2020, 21:14 IST India
With No 'JD(U) Man in the BJP', the Saffron Party's New Gamble in Bihar Politics

Both Modi and Kumar have known each other since 1973, when both of them fought the then Congress government together as student leaders and were eventually jailed during the Emergency....
Rajiv Kumar-November 16, 2020, 20:26 IST Politics
From 33 in 1967 Bihar Polls to Lone MLA in 2020, the Story of Diminishing Independents in Electoral Battle

For the first time since Independence, just one candidate won the Assembly polls without any party affiliation. Bihar, like many other states, has been witnessing a steady decline in number of Independents making it to the legislature....
Rajiv Kumar-November 13, 2020, 13:34 IST Politics
Victory Margins Ranging from 12 to 50,000 Votes: Roller Coaster Ride for Parties & Candidates in Bihar

The victory margin of as many as seven candidates was below 500 votes, while four seats had nominees who won by less than 1,000 votes. Of the 243 seat, barely four constituencies had winners with a victory margin of over 50,000 votes...
Rajiv Kumar-November 11, 2020, 22:50 IST Politics
How Chirag Paswan's Rebel Act Hit Nitish Kumar Hard While Helping Mahagathbandhan in Bihar

The young LJP leader not just preserved his captive five per cent Dusadh vote bank but also established his credentials to hurt if wounded. ...
Rajiv Kumar-November 11, 2020, 19:41 IST Politics
Stung by Anti-incumbency & Changed Voter Ambition, Why Nitish Kumar Still Reigns as 'Sushasan Babu'

Government statistics bear out the gargantuan challenges on the economic and law-and-order fronts that stood before Nitish when he took the reins of the state after the "jungle raj" years of Lalu and Rabri, and the turnaround he brought with a series of drastic measures and crucial reforms. ...
Rajiv Kumar-November 10, 2020, 21:03 IST Politics
BJP Turncoats Contesting from LJP Could Makes Things Worse for NDA in Bihar on at Least 8 Seats

Chirag Paswan’s selection of candidates could end up hurting the NDA, especially CM Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United in Bihar as the party is giving seats to rebels from the BJP....
Rajiv Kumar-October 24, 2020, 11:52 IST Politics
Is Eastern Ladakh the New Siachen, World’s Highest, Deadliest and Costliest Battlefield?

Like Siachen, in eastern Ladakh, too, the cost of sustaining 30,000 troops along 300 km of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) is a costly affair. One estimate puts it at around Rs 100 crore per day or Rs 36,500 crore annually....
Rajiv Kumar-October 21, 2020, 15:59 IST India
Why States Are Eagerly Giving Job Quota to Women? It's the Game of Votes

Political analysts have argued that the reason behind a male-dominated system reserving seats for women is primarily 'votes'. For example, in the last three assembly polls in Punjab, the gender difference in the voter-turnout has changed dramatically in the state. ...
Rajiv Kumar-October 17, 2020, 13:03 IST Opinion
NCRB Data Shows Bengal Recorded Highest Political Murders in 2019, Revised Figures to Show Higher Deaths

The 2018 data for West Bengal, the NCRB says, has been repeated in its latest 2019 report because of “non-receipt of data from West Bengal in time for 2019”. The report released on September 30 stated, “data furnished for the year 2018 has been used to arrive at national and city-wise figures.” ...
Rajiv Kumar-October 5, 2020, 20:57 IST Politics

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Rajiv Kumar

Why Mamata Banerjee's Nandigram Move is a Strong Message for Her Detractors

With Covid Vaccination Drive Set to Kick Off, India’s Past Experience in Mass Inoculation Can Be Handy

As India Begins 'Largest' Covid-19 Vaccination Drive, Here's Where Other Countries Stand

Siraj-Bumrah Racial Abuse: What Cricket Can Learn From Other Sports to Tackle It

That Awkward Age: Election Affidavits of Bihar Netas Throw up Some Startling Discrepancies

Pollution, Fatigue, Population Density, Unplanned Development: Why Delhi is Struggling With Covid-19

With No 'JD(U) Man in the BJP', the Saffron Party's New Gamble in Bihar Politics

From 33 in 1967 Bihar Polls to Lone MLA in 2020, the Story of Diminishing Independents in Electoral Battle

Victory Margins Ranging from 12 to 50,000 Votes: Roller Coaster Ride for Parties & Candidates in Bihar

How Chirag Paswan's Rebel Act Hit Nitish Kumar Hard While Helping Mahagathbandhan in Bihar

Stung by Anti-incumbency & Changed Voter Ambition, Why Nitish Kumar Still Reigns as 'Sushasan Babu'

BJP Turncoats Contesting from LJP Could Makes Things Worse for NDA in Bihar on at Least 8 Seats

Is Eastern Ladakh the New Siachen, World’s Highest, Deadliest and Costliest Battlefield?

Why States Are Eagerly Giving Job Quota to Women? It's the Game of Votes

NCRB Data Shows Bengal Recorded Highest Political Murders in 2019, Revised Figures to Show Higher Deaths

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