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Bigotry Poses A Serious Threat To Peace, Harmony And Health In India
By Dr. Arun Mitra News as reported in the Nav Bharat Times dated 12 April 2023, referring to a post in which the mother of a child had mentioned that her daughter came home today crying asked me ‘are we Muslims so dirty’? This is after her class fellow...
Booming Black Market Of Fertilizers In India To Continue
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The booming black marketing of fertilizers in India has been a persistent problem that has worsened in recent years, on account of rising global prices of fertilizers, the supply disruptions during the pandemic, increased demand from the farmers, shortage for fertilizer, and the gap between...
Kurdish Left Could Turn The Tide Against Erdoğan’s Authoritarian Rule
By Cengiz Gunes The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) established itself as a key player in Turkish politics after it secured 13 percent of the popular vote and eighty seats in Turkey’s Grand National Assembly in June 2015. This was possible because it managed to build a coalition with...
Sharad Pawar Has Now Emerged As A Stronger Leader To Lead Battle Against BJP
By Kalyani Shankar Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar surprised friends and foes alike with his sudden decision to give up the presidency of his Party recently, only to withdraw it after three days. It ultimately became a storm in a teacup. Had Pawar stuck to his decision, it...
Decoding Rabindranath Tagore’s World View On His 162nd Birth Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty May 9 this year is the occasion for the observance of the 162nd birth anniversary of the globally admired poet and visionary Rabindranath Tagore. Born in Calcutta in 1861, Tagore lived an active life of 80 years till he died in 1941 on August 7 in...
BJP’s Inner Rivalry And RSS Bid For Expansion Have Contributed To Manipur Violence
By Arun Srivastava Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh shirking of his moral accountability to resolve the differences between the two communities Meities and Kukis, and instead blaming the “prevailing misunderstandings between two sections of society” on the issue of inclusion of the majority Meitei community in the Scheduled...
Abhishek Banerjee’s Claim On Trinamool Getting 40 Seats In Lok Sabha Is Not A Tall Talk
By Tirthankar Mitra Pep talk and tall talk are separated by a wide gulf. Unofficial number two in Trinamool Congress hierarchy Abhishek Banerjee’s recent claim of his party bagging 40 out of 42 seats from West Bengal in next year’s Lok Sabha elections will be taken as pep talk...
Opposition Parties Have To Do Lot Of Homework After Karnataka Results
By Sushil Kutty NCP Chief Sharad Pawar was the last political stalwart to jump into the Karnataka electoral showdown and predict the Congress will get the Karnataka electorate’s thumbs up in the May 10 assembly elections results of which will be out by May 13 afternoon. Pawar based his...
Mothers And Babies Are Most Unsafe In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Decreasing investment in maternal and newborn health has stagnated the progress in preventing premature deaths of pregnant women, mothers and babies globally, due to which death befalls on one every 7 seconds. Indian mothers and babies remain most unsafe both in number and its share...
Kong Yiji Story Of China Can Be Replicated In India Also As Problems Are Same
By Anjan Roy A hundred year old story has become a hot topic in China, which is finding sympathies among young people. It has been trending on the Chinese internet. A short video based on the story was viewed over three million times. It has become a huge favourite...
