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High Food And Energy Costs Are Taking A Toll, May Worsen
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Surging food and energy prices have fuelled inflation and hurt growth, says an IMP background note on the macroeconomic impact of food and energy insecurity prepared for G-20 currently chaired by India, and has called for an early and smart action. IMF has also called...
Karnataka Polls Will Help Both Congress And BJP To Assess Their Strength Before 2024
By Tirthankar Mitra While Assembly elections in Karnataka is a little over a month away from now, timeline of 2024 Lok Sabha elections is in April/May. But the election results of this southern state and several other states later this year will help BJP and Congress take stock of...
Bernie Sanders’s Interrogation Of Former Starbucks CEO Is A Good Beginning
By Liza Featherstone On March 29 morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders and his Democratic colleagues grilled Howard Schultz, former CEO of Starbucks, and heard testimony from workers about the company’s extensive, illegal union–busting. It was a glorious spectacle, displaying the power of working-class organizing with allies in elected office to...
There Are Ten Valid Reasons To Appeal Against Rahul Gandhi’s Conviction
By Satyaki Chakraborty There are at least ten valid legal reasons for challenging the conviction of the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by the Surat Court as a consequence of which the Wayanad member of Lok Sabha was disqualified by the Lok Sabha secretariat on March 23 this year. The...
Karnataka Assembly Poll Is A Big Test For Both The Congress And The BJP
By Sushil Kutty The single-phase Karnataka assembly elections takes place on May 10. It is a largely 3-party race, with the BJP, the Congress and H D Kumaraswamy’s Janata Dal (S) fighting it out in the full glare of domestic, national and international media. The Karnataka elections are the...
Tamil Nadu Politics Enters New Phase After Court Verdict Favouring EPS Leadership Of AIADMK
By K R Sudhaman After M G Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa, AIADMK, which was formed by MGR breaking away from DMK over issue of corruption during the leadership of M K Karunanidhi in 1970s, now has an undisputed leader in former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Edappadi Palaniswami, who became the...
Pakistani Christians Applaud CAA Legislation Of Narendra Modi Government
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In an unexpected turn of events, a section of Christians living in Pakistan has issued its strong endorsement of the new citizenship legislation introduced by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government in India. The small yet commonly persecuted Pak-based Christian community is hopeful that it...
National Resources Are Being Sold Cheap To The Industrialists By BJP Govt
By Krishna Jha Under the grim shadows of crisis spreading all over, and the general masses being at the receiving end, brutal offensive of plunder and destruction engulfs all sections of the society except the top few. Apart from the petty, small and middle strata, there are those at...
Narendra Modi Government Should Ramp Up MGNREGS, Not Strangle It
By Subodh Verma Ever since the Modi government came to power in 2014, it has been trying to somehow strangle the rural job guarantee scheme (MGNREGS). Driven by its commitment to the discredited neoliberal dogma that public expenditure should be cut down in order to allow the private sector...
Nitish Kumar’s Call To The Congress For Opposition Unity Against BJP Is Well Timed
By Arun Srivastava Finally Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar broke his silence on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from Lok Sabha on his being convicted by a Surat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case and charged the Modi government with playing an “active role” in ensuring the “hasty”...
Global Banking Crisis To Further Hit India’s Problematic Tech Job Situation
By K Raveendran It is increasingly becoming clear that the crisis in global banking has not played out even a small part. While the immediate fallouts leading to bankruptcies and similar consequences appear to have been contained somewhat, fears are lingering. The prospects of a recession in the global...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Authoritarian Vision For India Has To Be Challenged
By Achin Vanaik In India, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for criminal defamation is capturing headlines. The “world’s largest democracy” does not treat defamation as a civil matter, and the Congress Party leader faced justice in a lower court in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. This...
Hike In Prices Of Essential Drugs From April 1 Is A Big Blow To Poor Patients
By Dr. Gyan Pathak From April 1, 2023, the existential crisis for poor patients is further going to worsen on account of 12.12 per cent rise in prices of essential drugs, which was also increase by 10.76 per cent from April 1, 2022. The price difference in 12 months...
Prime Minister Has Enough Reasons To Be Ecstatic At The Electoral Success Of BJP
By Sushil Kutty For Prime Minister Narendra Modi the Bharatiya Janata Party is the only pan-India party. The rest are all family-administered outfits. He forgot CPM and CPI which are not family-owned. But that is his won’t, strands of selective amnesia. And to think that he hopes the BJP...
Can Rahul Gandhi Gain From BJP Blunder, Ensure Opposition Unity?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It does not pay to be oversmart in politics. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to realize this sooner than later. The party’s desperate attempt to get the better of its biggest tormentor Rahul Gandhi has backfired badly. The BJP is under the impression...
Rahul Gandhi’s Disqualification As MP Is A Potent Campaign Fodder For Congress
By Tirthankar Mitra Rahul Gandhi’s ouster from Parliament following a court order of two years imprisonment can be used by Congress in its campaign in the poll bound states in the coming days. Even as a gloating BJP smirks, it seems to have unwittingly handed over to the Congress...
J&K LG Manoj Sinha Exposed His Lack Of Knowledge By Talking Of Mahatma Gandhi’s Education
By Arun Srivastava The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha mocking father of nation Mahatma Gandhi.” he does not have law degree” has certainly not come as a shocking surprise. Gandhi does not have moral or ethical or cultural importance for the saffron brigade. While Sinha’s comment...
Nikhat Zareen Has Made History By Winning Gold For India In World Boxing Championship
By Harihar Swarup Teary eyes and a roar toward the camera— Nikhat Zareen went through the full wringer of emotions after a closely—fought gold medal match that saw her emerging as World Champion for the second straight year. It was the culmination of an arduous tournament in which she ...
