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Anglican Schism Over Gay Rights Is Not Just About Theology, But Geopolitics
By James M Dorsey A schism that could tear the Anglican church apart is about more than LGBTQ rights. It’s about fundamental cultural and religious differences with potentially profound consequences for the geopolitical battle to shape a 21st-century world order. The rift also raises questions about the Church of...
New Measures In Rail Connectivity Reduce Travel Time Between Eastern India And Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas By end 2023, rail journey time for passengers between Kolkata and the three Barak valley districts of Assam via Dhaka, Bangladesh may be reduced to 15/16 hours only, if things run according to plan. A Kolkata-Agartala journey would take only around 10 hours, according to Railway...
Observing May Day In India This Year With Vigour Is Of Paramount Importance
By Amarjeet Kaur May Day this year would be observed with more vigour by the working class for several pressing reasons. Taking into cognizance of the political developments which are moving at very fast pace on every front in the year before general elections in2024, it is of utmost...
Next Level Of Opposition Unity To Form After Karnataka Poll Results
By Rahil Nora Chopra It’s now evident that after the results of the Karnataka Assembly elections are declared that the results, the opposition unity will take itself to the next level. The Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, is working hard and visiting places around the country to meet...
Wrestlers Demand In Dharna For WFI President’s Removal Is Justified
By Prakash Karat Many of the top wrestlers of the country, including international medal winners, are out protesting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. They have returned to the spot where they first conducted dharna in January since the government and the sports ministry have not acted on the complaints...
Prime Minister’s Selective Response To Major Issues Of Nation Is Perplexing
By Sushil Kutty It is dozens of hours since the wrestlers protesting at Jantar Mantar appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to listen to their ‘Mann Ki Baat’, perhaps aware that India’s Prime Minister often slips into his default position of hard of hearing. And PM Modi, for all...
Attempts Towards De-Dollarisation Is Expressive Of Current Crisis Of Capitalism
By Prabhat Patnaik Janet Yellen, the US treasury secretary, has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to most people for quite some time, namely that the imposition of sanctions against countries that the US is hostile to, runs the risk of jeopardising the hegemony of the dollar as the...
Inclusivity And Diversity Must Be The Core Of New Education Policy
By Dr Taniya Malik The recent suicide of Darshan Solanki, an 18-year-old chemical engineering student at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, belonging to a Scheduled Caste (SC), has once again sparked a debate on caste-based discrimination in particular and inclusion in general at prestigious higher education...
BJP In Crisis Situation As Karnataka Goes For Assembly Polls On May 10
By Harish Bala Karnataka is one of the important states in Indian politics as it sends 28 members to the Lok Sabha. The election commission has announced elections to the Karnataka assembly on May 10 and counting of votes will be completed by May 13. Karnataka is a state...
Kaliagunj Violence Is A Culmination Of BJP-Trinamool Turf War Over Rajbanshis
By Tirthankar Mitra Rajbanshis are in the news for the wrong reasons. Ahead of the rural polls in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress and BJP have stepped up their outreach in Kaliagunj after two lives both from Rajbanshi community were snuffed out, a teenage girl was allegedly gangraped and then...
Will Congress Repeat In Karnataka Assembly Poll What Mamata Did In 2021?
By Arun Srivastava Is the Congress Party in Karnataka in a position to repeat in the May 10 assembly polls what the West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee did in 2021 polls in her state ?. The question is being asked by the seasoned political...
Will Prime Minister’s Social Engineering To Rope In Muslims And Christians Succeed?
By Sushil Kutty Nobody can stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi from doing electoral social engineering using Pasmanda Muslims and Kerala Christians for fodder. If the secular parties can, so can the so-called communal. But giving crumbs with one hand, and taking away crumbs (given by secular parties) is BJP-plated....
Realisation Of India’s Growth Potential Needs Better Support System
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has always been said to have great growth potential. In recent years, even the ‘fastest growing economy’ tag has been tied on its neck for several times. Now it is expected to retain this tag in 2023.Under the deception of such comforting propaganda lies...
For Indian Communists, The Teachings Of Lenin Are Very Relevant In Present Time
By Krishna Jha At a time when we celebrate birth anniversary of our guide and philosopher Comrade V I Lenin on April 22, we are passing through a phase called as rule of finance capital. It is defined by Lenin as the higher stage of capitalism that takes away...
Push For Virtual Money Gets Major Boost Globally With EU And South Korea
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The world of banking and finance is making a significant move towards the digital economy. The landscape is changing rapidly, from the European Central Bank’s announcement about the digital Euro to the Chinese city of Suzhou paying salaries in digital Yuan. India is also moving...
Low Quality Of Education In India Making Large Number Of Youth Unemployable
By Girish Linganna A large section of youngsters in India, looking desperately at career advancement prospects, is paying for 2-3 degrees in the hope they will one day find their dream job. They are drawn irresistibly to colleges that are mushrooming inside tiny apartment complexes or inside stores in...
Harry Belafonte Was Mainly An Activist Who Became A Great Artist
By Ed Rampell The multi-talented, widely admired performer Harry Belafonte died Tuesday, April 25, at age 96. He was born on March 1, 1927, in New York City as Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr. His ancestry is Jamaican and Martiniquan, and his paternal grandfather had Dutch Jewish origins. Belafonte’s career...
Anand Mohan’s Release Is Linked To BJP-JD(U) Battle Over Loyalty Of Rajputs
By Arun Srivastava Perseverance of the real politick finally prevailed over the political morality and forced the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar to release the gangster, Anand Mohan. Unlike the Gujarat’s BJP government and Union home ministry which had released rapists and killers, without caring for the set legal...
