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Rahul demands PM statement on China map
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today demanded a statement from Prime Minister Narendra Modi in response to China’s release of a map that claims ownership of Aksai Chin and Arunachal Pradesh, which has been categorically rejected by India. On Monday, China released a new “standard” map that shows Aksai Chin,...
Economy – Mainly Acute Joblessness Must Get The Prime Focus In India Campaign
By Nitya Chakraborty As the leaders of the INDIA alliance prepare for their third meeting in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1 to take forward the decisions taken at the last conclave in Bengaluru on July 17 and 18, one issue that should figure most prominently in their...
BJP Manifests Spine-Chilling Symptoms Before 2024 Elections
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Spine-chilling causes and effects have emerged in the evolving tale of the two alliances in India. INDIA opposition alliance was born on June 23 at Patna Conclave with 16 anti-BJP political parties on board. The birth of INDIA alliance shook the BJP out of its...
Prime Minister Is Having A Paranoia Over Preparations For G20 Summit
By Sushil Kutty The paranoia is what you see. The reason why New Delhi has been shut tight and out of bounds for ordinary Indians. The Modi regime is convinced Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s adversaries will go to any extent to derail the G20 Summit to tarnish Modi’s reputation...
Bangladesh And Nepal Look To India For Emergency Foodgrains Supply
By Ashis Biswas As both India and Bangladesh prepare to hold general elections early next year, concerned authorities are finding it extremely hard to maintain effective foodgrains supply chains and contain inflation. In addition, Nepal has been urging India to sell significant quantities of rice, wheat and paddy to...
Jayanta Mahapatra Has Left A Lasting Legacy Of His Poems On Pain And Longing
By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when Cuttack was a city in Odisha whose resident’s footprints in the Indian literary scene were nothing home to write about. One of its residents, Jayanta Mahapatra, an Indian poet writing in English changed the notion and more. To say that Mahapatra’s passing at...
Obama’s Support To Nobel Laureate Mohammed Yunus Complicates Bangladesh Politics
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On July 23, the Supreme Court of Bangladesh upheld a lower court decision that said Mohammed Yunus must pay taxes on $7 million of donations he made between 2011 and 2014 to three trusts — Professor Muhammad Yunus Trust, the Yunus Family Trust and the...
Bernie Sanders Proposes Military Spending Cut By U.S. And China
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing the United States and the People’s Republic of China mutually agree to cut military spending, shifting the money to combatting global warming. Sanders made his proposal in an Op-ed in The Guardian on August 21. But when he proposed a...
Political Intrusion Puts Indian Higher Education In Crisis
By Nantoo Banerjee The growing power tussle between the Centre and opposition-ruled states over the management control of the University Grants Commission-funded universities in states threatens to ruin the sanctity of the country’s higher education system. Chief ministers of a number of opposition states and centrally-appointed governors there are...
Chandrayaan 3 Success Has Given A Big Boost To India’s Image As A Powerful Nation
By Kalyani Shankar India successfully landed the Chandrayaan 3 spacecraft on the Moon last week. It is the fourth country to do so. Congratulations to ISRO for this achievement, which fills every Indian with pride. Scientists worldwide are especially interested in the Moon’s South Pole region. The Chandrayaan 3...
RSS Desperate To Take Control Of Key Public Universities
By Arun Srivastava After making inroads into school education, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is striving to take control of higher education, particularly functioning of the universities. RSS has already set up Shiksha Bharti, an educational wing to control and define the school level education. However, it has also started...
BJP Beating About The Bush, India Alliance Set To Expand
By Dr. Gyan Pathak INDIA alliance is all set to expand with more political parties on board. A concrete roadmap for general election 2024 is being prepared for the Mumbai meet to be held on August 31 – September 1, in which it would be formalized. Several other issues...
For Ensuring ‘Security’ At G20 Meetings, Delhi Is Being Converted Into A Police State
By Sushil Kutty Police state like conditions exist. In violence-hit Nuh, where there will be a G20 Sherpa meet, the communal environment has gone from bad to worse and the Manoharlal Khattar government appears to be in cahoots with the VHP. Never has India with her myriad of diversities...
ISRO’s Inaugural Solar Study Mission Aditya-L1 Set For Launch On September 2
By Girish Linganna Aditya L1, India’s inaugural solar study mission, is set for launch by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on September 2, 2023. Previously known as Aditya 1, the mission’s name, ‘Aditya’, has been derived from Sanskrit, meaning the Sun. Its ‘L-1’ designation refers to the Lagrange...
Kerala Chief Minster’s Detractors Suffer A Serious Legal Setback
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The detractors of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan suffered an embarrassing legal setback when the Muvattupuzha Vigilance Court dismissed the petition seeking a probe into the alleged bribe paid by the Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd (CMRL) to Veena Vijayan, daughter of the Chief Minister....
Prime Minister Could Give A Big Push To India’s Supply Chain At BRICS Meeting
By Subrata Majumder There has been growing debate on Prime Minister Narendra Modi assertion on resilient and inclusive supply chain in 15th BRICS summit, held at Johannesburg, leaving aside the major global issues. He led the global issues less focused in the summit which crippled world geo-politics and economic...
Non-Inclusion In Expanded BRICS Group Is A Big Setback For Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas For Bangladesh, its failure to secure a membership within the BRICS grouping constitutes a major setback. While Bangladeshi opposition parties are gleefully targeting the ruling Awami League (AL) about this in the pre-election year, there is no denying that the diplomatic snub would count as a...
Far Right Political Violence Is On Rise In Germany As Left Influence Declines
By Katharina Hunfeld In Germany, a high-profile trial has drawn the attention of the media and reignited debates around the political nature of the country’s judiciary. On May 31, the Higher Regional Court of Dresden sentenced Lina E., a left-wing activist, to five years and three months in prison...
