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Judiciary Still Not Able To Rein In Unhinged Enforcement Directorate
By Arun Srivastava A famous Urdu poet (shayar) recently wrote, “What can a statute book do when the sections of the law books are sleeping in the pages!” It was not merely a satire on the existing judicial system. He was commenting on the state of affairs: how not...
Doctors Warn The Developed Nations Of Twin Threats Of Climate Change And Nuclear War
By Dr. Arun Mitra Threat to the existence of mankind has never been so acute as today. We are faced with twin existential crisis due to climate change and nuclear war. Extreme changes in the weather are a cause of grave concern. Untimely rains, storms and hitherto lesser known...
Hollywood Screenwriters Guild Had A Left Leaning Tradition All Through
By Larry Ceplair Screenwriters have always been the sharpest thorn in the side of movie executives, the motion picture labour union with the greatest propensity to strike. The current walkout is their eighth, not including a threatened strike in 1941 that secured their first collective bargaining agreement with the...
Congress High Command Must Act Firm In Dealing With In Fighting In States Before Coming Polls
By Sushil Kutty The “nagging Congress infighting in Karnataka” is glaringly out in the open. And the headlines are making the Congress look like a bunch of children at a candy store. The party is ridden with the suicidal impulses. One view is that the Congress high command should...
By Seeking Change In Indus Waters Treaty, India Puts Pakistan Under Strain
By Girish Linganna On January 25, India issued notice to Pakistan, demanding changes to the Indus Waters Treaty which was signed by India, Pakistan, and the World Bank in 1960. The treaty determines the allocation of rights to the waters of several rivers in the Indus Basin between the...
PM Narendra Modi’s Ever Changing Narratives Lose Their Shine
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always been shifting the goalposts before, during, and after elections. He has been aggressively inventing, creating and using his narratives to his own political benefit while keeping Hindutva as a constant factor to benefit from the entire RSS family’s activities...
Quad Is A US Led Security Alliance Aimed To Counter China In Asia-Pacific
By P. Sudhir The Quad, consisting of four countries, the United States, Japan, Australia and India is gradually taking the shape of a security alliance which was the intent of the original name of the grouping – the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue. The security angle was highlighted by the recent...
National BJP Leaders Ask Bengal Unit To Take Care Of Party Without Looking To Delhi
By Tirthankar Mitra Self help is the best help. Irked by the West Bengal unit seeking its help on issues big and small, national BJP leaders have asked the state unit to follow this time tested adage, sources in state unit said. But the real reason of the state...
India Is Still Having The Largest Number Of Poor In Any Country Of The World
By Krishna Jha There is a chink opening up in the claim that India has been ushered in the group of five most developed nations in the world. With consistent fall in the GDP, even an indication towards upward move gets clapping, a myth that is carried forward since...
US Banking System Faultlines And High Debts Give Lifeline To Bitcoin
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Hedge fund manager and macroeconomic expert Hugh Hendry has raised concerns about the US banking system and the American economy as a whole. In a recent interview with Bloomberg Markets, Hendry warned that mass panic and capital flight from the US banking sector are justified...
Alarmed At The Impact, Creators Of AI Are Now Talking Of Strict Regulation
By Anjan Roy Some of the most successful practitioners and developers of “artificial Intelligence” are now calling for its regulation by the government. These creators of the strikingly advanced AI systems are underlining immediate need for global regulation. That the fears of AI generated materials could go berserk are...
BJP and RSS Have Got Hold Of A Guru To Act As Hindutva Icon In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava As if the ruthless drubbing which RSS and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of Hindutva met at the hands of the Hindus in Karnataka assembly elections, Modi and RSS are moving to implement the Hindutva campaign in Bihar for getting better results in the coming Lok...
Karnataka Poll Results Show That PM’s Outreach To Muslims Did Not Give Dividends
By Sushil Kutty Less than 12 months are left for general elections 2024 and those of us asking what’s gonna propel voters to the election booths are being too smart by half. We all know one camp’s strategy has come a cropper, while the other camp has won the...
Job-Taking Is Only A Small Part Of Threat Posed By Generative Artificial Intelligence
By K Raveendran The call by ChatGPT founder Sam Altman a US Senate committee meeting for heavy regulation of the use of artificial intelligence by governments across the world to mitigate the risks from the new technology takes the current debate about generative AI to a new dimension. While...
The Grand Old Editor Of Hindi Journalism, Sheetla Singh Is No More
By Satyaki Chakraborty Sheetla Singh who founded the Hindi language daily Jan Morcha based in Faizabad in 1958 and nurtured it for the last 65 years turning it into a real people’s paper passed away on Tuesday. He was 91 and active in his editorial responsibilities till the end....
WHO Warning On Precipitous Adoption Of AI Is A Wake-Up Call
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The WHO’s warning on precipitous adoption of AI must serve as a wake-up call for the world. These new AI-based tools require vigilance, especially in light of such rapidly expanding platforms such as ChatGPT, Bard, BERT, and many others that imitate understanding, processing, and producing...
Sudan Tests The Limits Of Middle Eastern De-Escalation, Dollar Diplomacy
By James M Dorsey With Saudi-hosted talks to end Sudan fighting producing minimal results and Arab states supporting rival forces, de-escalation in the Middle East faces a major test. So does Gulf states’ ability to employ dollar diplomacy to persuade poorer Arab brethren to align with the policies of...
More And More Democrat Law Makers Protest US Sanctions Against Cuba, Venezuela
By Branko Marcetic One of the defining features of our era has been the loss of a domestic political appetite for more US wars. But a similar pushback to Washington’s use of sanctions has been slow to follow, despite the fact that US sanctions are demonstrably cruel, indiscriminate, ineffective,...
