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G20 Meet In Bengaluru Must Focus On A Common Approach To Cryptocurrency
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The first meeting of the G20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governors under India’s presidency will take place from February 23 to 25 in Bengaluru. Among the range of important financial issues that will be discussed during the 3-day deliberations include a common approach to...
UAE Mastery Of Playing Two Sides Against The Centre Has Its Limits
By James M Dorsey The United Arab Emirates has mastered playing both sides against the middle. In the game’s latest iteration, the Gulf state earned significant brownie points in Washington this week by withdrawing a draft United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity. The replacement of the...
US Based Sarod Player Alam Khan Mesmerised Music Lovers In Delhi
By Harihar Swarup In his centenary year, celebrating, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, reticent sarod legend, who took refuge in Hindustani classical music—a system that challenged him but rewarded him with stillness and equanimity. At the capital’s Shri Shankar Lal Concert Hall inside Modern School, Barakhamba Road, California-based sarod player...
Congress Needs A Composite Strategy To Take On BJP In 2024 Lok Sabha Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The Congress is holding its three-day plenary session at Raipur beginning February 24. This conclave is going to be crucial for the party in framing its strategy for the coming Lok Sabha elections in April-May 2024 that are barely 13 months away. In the current round...
Uddhav Thackeray Has To Reinvent His Party To Take On Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena
By Sushil Kutty The party name ‘Shiv Sena’. The party election symbol bow & arrow. Both have gone to the Eknath Shinde Group in this fight to the finish. Now, the ‘Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Shiv Sena’ wants the Election Commission dissolved. And, why not? After all, it was the...
SP President Akhilesh Yadav Trying To Corner BJP Over Caste Census Issue
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has directed his party workers to corner BJP on the issue of caste census and launch state-wide agitation. Samajwadi Party national President himself raised the issue of caste census during current session of Uttar Pradesh Assembly and said it...
CPI(ML) Liberation Party Congress Ends With Clarion Call For Unity Against BJP
By Arun Srivastava At a time when the Indian left has been in a state of stupor and the sympathisers and supporters were looking for some impetus, the 11th Congress of the CPI(ML) Liberation gave a big boost to the left and democratic forces of the country to take ...
Bengal BJP’s Doublegame On Separate State Was Apparent In Assembly Session
By Tirthankar Mitra Integrity of the state is one of the most sensitive issues in West Bengal politics. Yet after the issue of a separate state out of West Bengal has been raised by some BJP legislators earlier, when a resolution was passed in the state Assembly recently against...
Formal Job Creation Declines Further In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest Employment Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) data reveals the great distress in which Indian labour market is presently undergoing. It shows that the formal job creation has been declining sharply, a ground reality, which is in sharp contrast to the PM Narendra Modi’s claim...
Veteran Journalist And Marx Scholar Sankar Ray Passes Away In Kolkata
By Bibek Sen Veteran journalist Sankar Ray who was closely associated with India Press Agency (IPA) for the last twenty years, passed away on Tuesday morning in a Kolkata nursing home. He was 82. He was recuperating from an injury. Despite his age and injury he was active till...
