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Nagaland’s Opposition-Free Government Must Remain One-Off
By Kalyani Shankar After the recent Assembly results, all parties in the tiny State of Nagaland formed an Opposition- free government to get a share in the power pie. All the parties unconditionally supported the ruling alliance, and all parties were in the Government with no Opposition. It isn’t...
National Capital Heading Towards A Severe Water Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Capital Territory of Delhi is in the first leg of a colossal water crisis, almost a month earlier than the time it had hit last year, thanks to the unprecedented rise in temperatures in the country in February that broke all records kept...
RJD Demands Restricting ‘Vindictive’ ED Operation In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Already made has been the strong demand on the floor of the Bihar assembly that the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation should be asked to seek permission from the respective state government before proceeding against anyone in the state, similar to...
Decade-old US-Bangladesh Spat Over Dr. Yunus Warms Up Again
By Ashis Biswas After a tense truce, the war of words between American liberal lobbyists and the Bangladeshi ruling establishment over the Nobel laureate economist Mohammad Yunus has returned in full fury. 50 Dhaka-based thinkers have strongly countered a recent statement issued in a leading American daily in favour...
Modi Wants A Third Term To Match Nehru’s Record And Status
By Sushil Kutty A third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s goal. All its efforts and resources are concentrated on achieving this goal, i.e., Modi as Prime Minister for as long as possible, or for as long as Modi wants to remain...
Where’s The Justice For Victims Of Army Atrocities In Kashmir?
By Ravi Nair One would have liked to join the hoi polloi in welcoming the decision of the General Court Martial to recommend imprisonment for life to Captain Bhoopendra Singh, alias Major Bashir Khan for staging the encounter killings of three men in Shopian, Kashmir in 2020. The sentence...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Shows Little Has Changed Since 2008
By Branko Marcetic Every now and then, a development perfectly embodies everything that’s wrong with an era. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is one such development, the culmination of many years of financial recklessness, corporate entitlement, and corrupted political decision-making. The sixteenth-largest US bank by assets up...
Palestinian Children’s Art Exposes Israel’s Cultural Genocide
By Ramzy Baroud The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” That was...
Political Opposition Faces Witch-Hunt From Parties In Power
By Nantoo Banerjee The arrest of Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia last month by a federal agency, CBI, for alleged financial corruption connected with the change in the state’s liquor policy, has understandably upset a large section of opposition parties across the country. Last year, Delhi’s health minister...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Sends Chills Down Indian Tech Sector
By Anjan Roy A prominent private bank in the United States — the country’s sixteenth largest— has failed and this can have significant impact on the Indian technology industry. Silicon Valley Bank —better known by its acronym SVB— has gone into liquidation. This was one of the 20 largest...
