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Mumbai:�Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Friday indicated that efforts to reunite the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have been called off. The MLA said his party decided to support Sharad Pawar’s candidature for the Rajya Sabha after Supriya Sule and Jayant Patil met Uddhav Thackeray at his residence, ‘Matoshree’, and clarified their s...


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In the 1970s the revolutionary art critic, artist and writer John Berger wrote a novel called “G”. It was nominated for the Booker Prize and he announced to the press that if he won, he would give half the prize money to the British Black Panther Movement, of which I was a member.

Berger did win and I was nominated to collect his generous donation. I had read his book...


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“Oh! What a Lovely War” -- remember the movie? It was a “war musical” described as an epic black comedy and directed by the legendary Richard Attenborough, featuring a stellar cast, which included Maggie Smith, Dirk Bogard, John Gielgud and several other greats. It was based on a successful stage musical, and provided a strong, satirical critique on the conduct of war in whi...


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In a spate of transfers of governors announced late evening Thursday, the most interesting one is that of R.N. Ravi to West Bengal. The whole hurried exercise of transfers and postings may have been owed to the resignation of C.V. Ananda Bose as governor in Kolkata, ostensibly to pressure from the home ministry, but it is the nearness of elections in both Bengal and Tamil Na...


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United States President Donald Trump’s nonchalant reaction to the prospect of rising global crude oil prices hints at the prospects of turmoil in the global energy market if the US-Iran war does not end quickly.

West Asian oil is crucial for the global energy market, for it meets nearly 25 per cent of the global oil demand. According to an estimate, if the Strait of H...


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