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In The Expanded BRICS Grouping, There Are Three Distinct Kinds Of Countries
By Prabhat Patnaik At the Johannesburg summit of the BRICS countries, it was decided to expand the group beyond its original five, namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to include six more countries. These are: Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. These...
INDIA Alliance Constituents Have To Implement One On One Formula In 400 Seats
By Sushil Kutty In January 2019 — ahead of the May 2019 general elections — a ‘Mood of the Nation’ survey suggested that the BJP could be electorally wiped out in Uttar Pradesh if the Congress joined the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party in an alliance. It said the BJP...
We Have Many Prime Ministerial Candidates, NDA Has Just One: I.N.D.I.A.
By Rahil Nora Chopra The race has finally begun on who would be the I.N.D.I.A. alliance prime ministerial candidate. The current political buzz says that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former Congress...
Sudden Rahul-Abhishek Meeting Upsets Congress Leaders In West Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra West Bengal Congress leaders are in a tizzy before September 5 Dhupguri by election owing to the no longer secret meeting between former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Trinamool Congress de facto number two Abhishek Banerjee. The state Congress unit appears to be a divided house...
Will India Be Able To Deal With Google’s Advertisement Tech Monopoly?
By Praneel Panchagavi Alphabet Inc.’s digital giant Google has established itself as the largest digital advertising platform in India and accumulated around ₹25,000 crores in ad revenue in 2022. However, the underlying phenomena behind such success lies within the monopolisation of advertisement technology (adtech) by Google. The tech giant...
Gabon’s Military Overthrows Corrupt Bongo Family’s 55-Year Rule
By Satyaki Chakraborty Another African country witnessed military coup this week accelerating the process of coups in a large number of countries in a short period. Security forces in Gabon said Wednesday they had seized power and “put an end” to the rule of the family that has held...
Indians Would Miss Trudeau’s Wife And Kids During His Visit For G20 Summit
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be on a whirlwind tour that will finally bring to India after his historic 2018 visit. He will attend the G20 Leaders Summit on September 9 and 10. But before coming to India, he will be in Indonesia to...
Mexico Under AMLO Has Done Major Transformation Favouring Underprivileged
By Kurt Hackbarth On August 10, Mexico’s National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), an independent federal agency, released its much-awaited poverty measurements for 2022. Its findings outstripped the most optimistic forecasts: the multidimensional poverty rate in Mexico — a measurement of income plus a series...
State Of Global Oil Market Eminently Suited For An Early Indian Election
By K Raveendran West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee may not have missed the mark when she predicted the other day that the Modi government might advance the next Lok Sabha elections. She even hinted at December this year. But for the China map issue, which...
INDIA Alliance Can Now Be Reckoned As A Major Political Force
By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA alliance is only 70 days old as on August 31, 2023, the first day of its third Conclave to be held in Mumbai. Detractors derive pleasure in calling it the third hurdle, while forgetting the story of the rise and fall of their beloved...
INDIA Alliance Should Not Pin Any Hopes On BSP Joining Anti-BJP Combine
By Sushil Kutty A whole lot of important people are in two minds; perhaps, even indifferent. This is what comes to mind when thinking of Mayawati and her Bahujan Samaj Party, which used to be a Dalit powerhouse till a decade ago but has since lost its political mojo....
Systematic Targetting Of Muslims In Educational System
By P. Sudhir The shocking incident of a seven-year-old Muslim boy being slapped by his classmates on the order of the teacher taking the class must not be seen as an isolated event. That the school is a small private one in a remote village in Muzaffarnagar district in...
Breakdown Of Law And Order In The Name Of Hindutva
By Krishna Jha In the name of Hindutva, deterioration of law and order situation is taken to unprecedented limits, which has been witnessed by the country only rarely. Fascism has entered in a new garb. With hands covered in gloves, politics is made to overshadow the Constitutional restrain, and...
From Non-Alignment To G-20 Summit In Delhi Next Week
By Dr. Arun Mitra Much euphoria is being created about the upcoming G-20 meet in Delhi next week. The high pitch is particularly to project that it is because of Prime Minster Narendra Modi that India has got the chairmanship of the group. Truth of the matter is that...
Investors Shun East, Northeast Despite Contrary Claims By Govts
By Ashis Biswas Two East and Northeast Indian states — Assam and West Bengal — have largely failed to secure significant investments from domestic or foreign private sector in recent years. Assam is ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) while in neighbouring Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) was...
Kerala Rejects Centre’s Smart Meter Scheme
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in the State has said an emphatic ‘No’ to the total expenditure (TOTEX) model for the rollout of pre-paid smart electricity meters in the State. The State Government has also vehemently opposed the amendments to the Multi-State Cooperative Societies...
Jyotindra Nath ‘Mani’ Dixit Was A Diplomat Par Excellence
By Harihar Swarup I have seen an array of foreign secretaries (FS) during my career as a diplomat, some talented, some mediocre, and some undeserving, says Pawan an ICS-turned politician But as a personality, there was perhaps none as colourful and competent as Jyotindra Nath ‘Mani’ Dikshit. What set...
Niraj Chopra – A Sporting Icon Doing The Nation Proud
By Tirthankar Mitra By no stretch of imagination, India is replete with much good news. Of course, the landing on the moon of a Indian spaceship did the nation proud, but there is a huge distance between the scene of this triumph of Indian science and the masses. The...
