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Split In Tribal Votes Gives Relief To BJP, CPI(M) And Congress Before Polls In Tripura
By Ashis Biswas In Tripura, with only days left for the Assembly polls, the tribal vote remained set for a split between new entrant Tipra Motha(TM) party and the IPFT(Indigenous Peoples’ Front of Tripura).This followed the failure of a major effort made by TM leader Mr Pradyot Debbarma during...
God Can’t Save Pakistan From Its Present Predicament, Only IMF Can
By K Raveendran ‘Insha Allah’ is a term used extensively by Arabs and Muslims across the world to mean ‘god willing’. But according to Arabic linguists, Insha Allah means ‘only if god willing’. There is a subtle difference between the two usages, the former denoting a lot more optimism...
‘Development’-Driven India Has Abandoned Its Adivasi Brethren
By Harihar Swarup No stock-taking of India is complete without an assessment of social, economic and political condition of the Adivasis, India’s ancient citizens. No section of the Indian community has been more affected by independence and democracy than the Adivasi. Democracy is neither new to them, nor a...
Serious Distortion In Indian Job Market Needs Urgent Redressal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak PM Narendra Modi’s assertion during his very first “Rozgar Mela” of 2023, that opportunities for employment and self-employment are continuously improving, was made in contradiction to the facts. There’s a serious distortion in the Indian job market which needs urgent redressal, instead of hollows claims...
Humiliating Amartya Sen Aimed At Silencing The Global Intellectual
By Arun Srivastava The delirious, deranged joy of taking a dig at Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen is so addictive for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government that his protégé, the Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati University, Professor Bidyut Chakraborty, has gone to the extreme of slandering Sen,...
Pakistan’s Economic Collapse Is A Culmination Of Long Neglect
By Sushil Kutty Flood ravaged, economically bankrupt and politically panned. Pakistan’s Finance Minister Ishaq Dar has found a scapegoat. God Almighty! Dar cut to the chase, saying that because Allah created Pakistan, Allah will have to get Pakistan out of the hole, make it prosper and help it develop....
Kerala Is Now Attracting Large Number Of Investors
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no mistaking it. Kerala has erased its image of being an investment-hostile State despite the campaign of misinformation being peddled day in and day out by the Opposition parties. Two recent developments have knocked the stuffing out of the argument of the Cassandras...
Vietnam Remembers Historic Victory Over American Imperialism
By Amiad Horowitz January 27th marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the agreement which ended the American War in Vietnam, or as it is known in the United States, the Vietnam War. From 1955 to 1973, the United States waged one of...
2023-24 Budget Proposals Must Be Aimed To Tilt Distribution In Favour Of Masses
By Prakash Karat The union budget for 2023-24 is to be presented before parliament on February 1, 2023 at a time when both the Indian as well as world economies face a grim situation. Notwithstanding the tall claims of the Modi government, India’s economy is yet to recover from...
‘Emergency’ Behind Banning The Exhibition Of BBC Documentary By Govt
By Arun Srivastava The alacrity with which the Modi government used the law that cites ‘emergency’ provisions to stop Indians from watching the BBC Documentary “India: The Modi Question” — a narrative of the Gujarat pogrom that was carried out in 2002 by Hindutva bigots and the role of...
