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Message From Bengaluru Meet Of Opposition Must Be Carried To Every Corner Of The Country
By Dipankar Bhattacharya The successful second conclave of Opposition parties in Bengaluru and the emergence of a new coalition with the acronym INDIA have clearly rattled the Modi regime. The desperation to put up a parallel ‘alliance’ show in Delhi on the same day by discovering and manufacturing...
Fascists Trying To Capture Power In Spain After National Elections On July 23
By Satyaki Chakraboty Spain, an important member of the European Union is witnessing a tumultuous national elections next Sunday July 23 the outcome of which will decide whether this country which suffered fascism under President Franco, will once again be governed by a coalition consisting of the...
The Real Story Of Rising Tomato Price And Plight Of Small Farmers
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik In 2009, the Swedish car company Volkswagen ran a unique ad campaign to promote its newly launched fuel-efficient car. They hired the ad agency DDB Stockholm and transformed the standard staircase of the Stockholm metro station into a ‘piano staircase’ which produced musical sounds...
Robust Growth Forecast For Indian Economy In 2023-24 Is Risk Ridden
By Dr.Gyan Pathak Asian Development Outlook of July 2023 maintains India’s economic growth forecast at 6.4 per cent for the FY 2023, the same level of its earlier forecast made three months ago in April. However, it is risk ridden, since it assumes normal weather conditions and no...
Oommen Chandy’s Death: A Void Hard To Fill In Kerala Politics
By P. Sreekumaran A crisis is also an opportunity. Likewise, every adversity can be turned to account if the will is there. Can the party turn the sad demise of Congress stalwart Oommen Chandy to account? Can the Congress measure up to the challenge? These are the questions...
Storming Of Bastille Symbolised The Attack On Feudalism And Monarchy In France
By Krishna Jha Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Paris on official visit on the Bastille Day this year .It was July 14, 1789. Thirty four years after the discovery of steam power that the storm on Bastille happened. Feudalism was in tatters and the age of...
NATO Summit Has Led To More Militarisation Of Europe Aided By U.S.
By P Sudhir The NATO summit meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, registered a new level of aggressiveness of the western military alliance led by the United States. Though the central issue of the summit was the war in Ukraine, the declaration of the summit goes much beyond and expresses...
Left Shouldn’t get too excited about Joe Biden’s “Supply-Side Liberalism”
By By Andrej Mark and Nick French Even prior to his inauguration, there was talk that Joe Biden’s administration would mark a break with the neoliberal orthodoxy that has dominated both parties since the Ronald Reagan era. During the height of the pandemic, the president claimed that the...
‘Oppenheimer’ Film Is A Masterful Exploration Of History, Politics In An Atomic Age
By Chauncey K. Robinson The existence of a film like Oppenheimer shows just how necessary it is to teach history in all of its complexities and nuance. When tackled in a way that is not sanitized, it can open up a true exploration of our past and...
India vs. Modi is set to be a popular revolt against one-man show
By Arun Srivastava Belying the indictment of the BJP leaders that opposition unity was a mirage and a convergence of the corrupt leaders, the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties has delivered a new ideologically sound and adorable body, the INDIA, or the Indian National Developmental Inclusive...
The Once Poweful Janata Dal(S) Is Now A Lonely Traveller In Indian Politics
By Sushil Kutty There are 64 squares on the chessboard and 26 INDIA parties will square up against 38 NDA parties in the 2024 general elections. But how many realized that 38+26 added up to ‘64’? Everybody was talking of how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA paled in...
Trinamool Congress’s New Rajya Sabha Nominees Are Useful For 2024 Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Be it Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha elections, political parties participate in them to add to their number and traction within the two Houses and beyond it. The choices of nominees of BJP and Trinamool Congress in the recent Rajya Sabha elections indicate that both...
China-US Battle On Supremacy In High Tech In Defence Equipment Gets New Dimension
By Girish Linganna With effect from August 1, the Chinese capital has imposed restrictions on the export of gallium, a component that has long been an integral part of the U.S. military’s advanced defense systems and supply chain. An expert has claimed that although there may be...
Gold Improves Outlook As End Of Central Bank Tightening Is In Sight
By K Raveendran With the end of central bank tightening cycle in sight, gold prices are edging higher and the mid-year outlook for the yellow metal has turned more. Domestic prices in India have already been showing an upward trend. The latest gains are attributed to dollar weakness,...
India Among Low Women’s Empowerment And Gender Gapcountries
By Gyan Pathak India is among the low Women’s Empowerment and Gender Gap group of countries with their respective values 0.520 and 0.560 respectively in 2022. It is also in the medium value group countries in Human Development in 2021. It has been revealed in anew report on...
ISIS Still The Most Imminent Threat In Region: Peshmerga
By Manish Rai Major General Usman Mohammad Mustafa is the Director General of Media and Awareness in the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs effectively serving as the official spokesperson of Peshmerga forces. The Peshmerga are the military forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and one of the most...
AI Is Being Increasinglyused To Attack The Working Poor In Australia
By Chris Dite Australian business and government have joined the global chorus warning about the risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity. But despite their fretful tone, the introduction of algorithms into Australian political life has been less apocalyptic and more business-as-usual. Changes to the Australian welfare system...
India, Bangladesh To Use National Currencies For Bilateral Trade
By Ashis Biswas In South Asia, the recent agreement between India and Bangladesh, to use their respective national currencies (rupee and taka) for bilateral trade will help boost Bangladeshi forex savings by at least $2 billion US annually. While this is one of several factors behind the decision,...
