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General Election In January-End Brings No Cheers To Pakistani Citizens
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Pakistan’s next general election to elect new members to its National Assembly will be conducted in the last week of January 2024, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said Thursday. The preliminary list of constituencies will be out on September 27 while the final list...
Four Weeks Ahead Of Durga Puja Festival In Bengal, Potters Are Busy Giving Shape To The Idol
By Devasis Chattopadhyay At this time of year, all roads in Kolkata lead to Kumartuli in the northern part of the city’s old quarters. It’s where Bengal’s most beloved goddess, Durga, is taking on her earthly avatar as potters work round the clock to bring her to life. In...
Food Price Inflation Remains A Serious Problem To The Indian Policy Makers
By Prabhat Patnaik The current upsurge in prices in India is led by food prices. In July 2023 while retail inflation was 7.44 per cent (over July of the previous year), food price inflation, which covers all food items including foodgrains, vegetables, milk products and such like, was 11.5...
Hindus Settled In Canada Are Feeling The Heat In The Wake Of Nijjar’s Killing
By Girish Linganna Canada’s position in the midst of tensions linked to the Khalistan movement, which advocates an ‘independent Sikh state in Punjab’, became highly prominent during the current week. This came to light after allegations that India might have played a role in the assassination of a prominent...
Biden-Lula Joint Partnership On Workers’ Rights Assumes Big Significance
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik NEW YORK: When Brazil’s President LuízInacio “Lula” da Silva, replaced Jair Bolsinaro, the “Donald Trump of the Global South,” as president of his country, the Biden administration had high hopes of being able to work with the newly-elected president. It has turned out...
Havana Declaration Of G77+China Summit Is A Charter Of Global South In This Decade
By Satyaki Chakraborty Just four days after the holding of the G 20 summit in New Delhi on September 9 and 10 this year, the G77+ China held its historic summit in Havana on September 15 and 16 and came out with its Havana Declaration which was an unequivocal...
It Was CPI Lok Sabha Member Geeta Mukherjee Who Pioneered Women’s Bill
By Binoy Viswam After a very long wait, the Women’s Reservation Bill has been passed by the Parliament. Everyone who knows about the history of the struggle for the enactment of the Women’s Reservation Bill would think about Comrade Geeta Mukherjee at this moment of victory. She was the...
India-Canada Battle Over Nijjar Killing Threatens To Hit New Delhi’s Diplomacy
By Sushil Kutty The international gunning for Narendra Modi is back in fashion. Western media has found in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the man to repaint Modi into a corner after 10 years of being in the global spotlight. Many in the West media are convinced this time...
Push For Global Approach To Crypto Fizzles Out, Legislation Is A Must Now
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Recently, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) put out a job opportunity on LinkedIn and invited applications from senior blockchain executives with a proven track record of implementing blockchain projects. NPCI offers various instant payment solutions in collaboration with nearly 250 banking institutions in...
Women’s Reservation Bill Adopted But Deliberately Delayed Indefinitely
By Subhashini Ali The long-awaited passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill after a long wait of 27 years has not been an occasion for rejoicing as it should have been. For all these years, successive governments have done all they could to kill it and consign it to oblivion...
