By Dr Arun Mitra The G20 Presidency to India has given ample opportunities to highlight the health problems facing the developing world in general and India in particular. This is also time to set the direction for global equity in health care. The Third Health Working Group (HWG) meeting...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Greee’s conservative New Democracy Party led by the incumbent Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis achieved single party majority by capturing around 158 out of a total of 300 seats in Parliament in the repeat national elections held on June 25. Earlier, regular elections were held on May...
By Arun Srivastava Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was politically correct in describing the opposition meet in Patna as a (Rajnaitik Navjagran) political renaissance. What was unprecedented was that all the fifteen participating political parties were unanimous in resolving to forge unity to defeat the BJP in the Lok...
By Sushil Kutty The assumption is general elections 2024 will see people voting with their feet and it will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swansong whether he likes it or not. The plethora of opposition parties are sure Modi was on his last legs when he addressed the US...
By Harihar Swarup Theatre has always been an integral part of politics as it now allows political leaders their private motivations and their public motivations. Sharad Pawar has employed all the skills, gathered over five decades of political experience, seamlessly to pull of three-act power play. Act one was...
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi may be presumed to have done well in Washington despite a tinge of doubt in his response to pointed questions about Indian democracy and minority rights, but the embarrassing questions were not the only source of sour taste in the otherwise impressive...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India and the United States will witness national elections to choose the top executives next year. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will seek a third term in the government. President Joe Biden is seeking reelection in the USA, while reports...
By James M Dorsey Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s four-day red carpet visit to the United States constitutes a microcosm of what a 21st-world order century will likely look like. The visit spotlights the adjustments the United States faces in transitioning from a US-dominated unipolar world to a multipolar world...
By Liza Featherstone Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was on a state visit to the White House this week, is one of the most significant far-right leaders in the world. His persecution of religious minorities has troubled even the US State Department, which has taken note of the...
By Ben Chacko The relentless right-wing attack on the left within the Britain’s Labour Party continues unabated. Recent weeks have seen the elected mayor of the North of Tyne region barred from being considered as the party’s candidate for the next election and two further members of the Socialist...
By Girish Linganna US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached an accord that is hailed by experts as “historic” and which will provide India with American drones and engines for combat aircraft, in an effort to confront China. Modi is attempting to expand the international standing...
By Prabhat Patnaik How exactly is the dollar’s status as reserve currency related to imperialism? This question has two parts: how this status of the dollar is related to US imperialism, and how it is related to the overall imperialist arrangement. The dollar’s being a reserve currency makes it...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Labour and Employment Bhupender Yadav’s claim of a massive job creation, 1.25 crore in the last nine years under PM Narendra Modi since 2014, is in fact pittance. About 2 crore people join the workforce every year in India, and in the...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Opposition parties in the State upping the ante and the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government launching a counter-offensive, the state is set for a protracted political slug-fest. Political mercury soared when the Government announced a crime branch probe against Kerala Pradesh Congress...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national President Mayawati is busy building party organisation while giving prominence to dalits, backward and Muslims to face crucial Lok Sabha polls in 2024.Former chief minister Mayawati has already made it clear her party would not be part of any alliance of opposition parties....
By Rahil Nora Chopra West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated and greeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on his birthday. “Heartiest birthday wishes to Shri @RahulGandhiji. Wishing you good health and a wonderful year ahead!” she tweeted. Though it is evident in the political circles that Mamata does not...
By Ashis Biswas It is not only the Election Commission office in West Bengal that is in the news — mostly for the wrong reasons: in Assam too, the State Election Commission has been targeted by the opposition parties over the delimitation proposals affecting Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies! As...
By Tirthankar Mitra The nomination of candidates and their withdrawal for 2023 West Bengal panchayat elections are over. Though the polling date and announcement of results are weeks away, nomination figures of Left read CPI(M) nominees far outnumber the same of BJP candidates in several districts seems to be...