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Rahul Gandhi’s Alternative Vision Can Be A Good Basis For June 12 Discussion
By Sushil Kutty The June 12 Patna conclave of opposition parties is keenly awaited. Finally, opposition unity looks a possibility. Rahul Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge are giving it a miss, but somebody from the Congress will be deputed. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is in the United...
Labour Market Recovery Still Under Hostage Of Multiple Crises
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The global jobs gap in 2023 would be 453 million, which amounts to 11.7 per cent, more than double the level of current gap. It would be much higher among women at 14.5 per cent than men at 9.8 per cent. This level of global...
Erdogan’s Presidential Win Is A Clear Loss For People Of Turkiye
By Manish Rai After facing the toughest challenge of his political career to date, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan got re-elected to a third term. Defeating Kemal Kilicdaroglu, presidential candidate of the six-party strong opposition alliance. Erdogan prevailed over Kilicdaroglu in a run-off election held on May 28 after...
July 23 General Election In Spain Is The Test Of Left For Its Political Survival
By Eoghan Gilmartin It’s been described by Spanish media as both political suicide and a stroke of tactical brilliance. Just hours after suffering heavy losses in Sunday’s local and regional polls, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called a surprise general election for July 23. This may seem counterintuitive. Sánchez’s ruling...
Opposition Can Follow A Five-Point Approach To Defeat BJP In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty Finally, the opposition parties are meeting in Patna on June 12 to discuss the joint strategy to fight the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, with the objective of removing Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power. Less than ten months are left for the...
Bigger Muslim Support To The Congress In Karnataka Poll Is A Positive Signal For 2024
By Sushil Kutty Nine Muslims grace the treasury benches in the 224-member Karnataka assembly, all of them Congress MLAs. En bloc Muslim voting in the just-concluded 2023 Karnataka assembly elections was one of the reasons why the Congress returned to power. Muslims comprise nearly 13% of the Karnataka electorate...
Kejriwal Gathering Opposition’s Support Against Centre’s Ordinance
By Rahil Nora Chopra Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been in touch with various leaders of non-BJP parties to gain support in the fight against the Centre’s latest ordinance to clip the wings of Delhi’s elected government, despite a Supreme Court order...
Modi Govt Is Planning To Make Sedition Law Stricter Before 2024 Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak To stifle the opposing voices, PM Narendra Modi led government has planned to bring a more stringent law of sedition before the General Election 2024, in which he and his party BJP would be seeking election for his third term, if the report of the...
‘Deglobalisation’ Talk By Experts Means Tendency Of Western Powers To Discriminate Against China
By Prabhat Patnaik Many economists these days talk of a process of “deglobalisation” taking place; some others talk of the neoliberal regime of yesteryears no longer existing. Of course, nothing remains the same forever: as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus had said “You cannot step into the same river twice”;...
Bengal BJP Revamps Its Campaign Strategy Focusing On Both Left And TMC
By Tirthankar Mitra Having earlier asked its West Bengal unit to mend its affairs, the national leadership of BJP have instructed its state unit to step up its campaign against a traditional political opponent -Left. Going by it, the state saffron camp will be henceforth focussing on the “misdeeds”...
Installation Of Sengol At New Parliament Building Is A Part Of RSS Plan On Hindu Rashtra
By Prakash Karat Twenty opposition parties had boycotted the inauguration of the new parliament building on May 28 on the grounds that the Modi government had bypassed the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, who is the head of the state as well as and head of parliament and decided...
Coming Caste Census Has To Focus On Many New Dynamics Of Indian Society
By Krishna Jha We are a multi-religious country. For each community, there is a spiritual path to arrive at the basics, the most sacred that we hold to ourselves. Our culture is composite, multi- dimensional, and each according to its own context. There are those that are based on...
High Growth Rate Of GDP In 2022-23 Hides Many Concerns Over Its Nature
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s growth rate for 2022-23 exceeded expectations. It has now been estimated upward to 7.2 per cent from 7 per cent as per second advance estimate released in February. The magic was the result of a stronger-than-expected fourth quarter growth when GDP rose to 6.1...
BJP Leadership At State, Centre Have Been Stoking Manipur Fire
By Arun Srivastava It needs fairly high amount of moral strength and conviction to look straight into the eyes of the rulers of the country and expose their lies and falsehood in the public domain. Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday last had said that nearly 40...
Centre and The Ruling Party Have Lost All Propriety By Defending The Accused BJP MP
By Sushil Kutty A farmer – ‘Bharat ka kisan’ – prevented the hard won gold, silver and bronze medals of the protesting wrestlers from immersion in the polluted waters of the Holy Ganga at Haridwar. This, after the wrestlers refused to take lying down any further the Centre’s intransigence....
Brazil President Lula Pushes For Integration At South American Summit
By Satyaki Chakraborty The move for the integration of the economies of South American nations has got a big boost after the conclave of twelve countries of the region at Brasilia on May 30. Brazil’s president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inaugurated the conference which signalled the arrival of...
The Bloody History Behind The British Possession Of The Koh-i-Noor
By Girish Linganna The Koh-i-Noor and Cullinan diamonds went on display at an exhibition at the Tower of London on Friday (May 26, 2023) as representations of victory and a ‘symbol of conquest’. The Koh-i-Noor has been displayed as a tourist attraction and is backed by a video which...
US Govt Putting Pressure On India To Join NATO+ As A Part Of Asia-Pacific Strategy
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s yearning to be acknowledged as the world leader (Vishwa Guru) has landed India in a unpleasant quagmire endangering its identity and credibility built over the years amongst the global fraternity. The longing was so acute that he even ignored the conventional wisdom to realise...
