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Remembering Julian Assange On World Press Freedom Day
By Prabir Purkayastha MAY 3rd is World Press Freedom Day, a reminder that the role of news organisations is to speak truth to power. Not to manufacture consent – to use Chomsky’s famous words – for the government and the ruling classes. While doing that, I want to remember...
Sharad Pawar Is Emerging As NCP Supremo With Stronger Domination
By Rahil Nora Chopra The most unexpected development in the political scenario was Sharad Pawar’s resignation as NCP chief and this has not only surprised his party but also his Maharashtra allies Uddhav Thackeray and Congress. After the dramatic show of distress from partymen, Sharad Pawar agreed to once...
Centre’s Tackling Of The Dharna By Leading Women Wrestlers Is Pathetic
By Arun Srivastava Cruel joke is being played with the women wrestlers who enhanced the prestige of India in global fraternity by winning medals in international championships. In the evening of May 3 while addressing the election rally in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that he was a...
‘Chevalier’: A Film On A Black French Composer’s Story Is Topical
By Eric A. Gordon In director Stephen Williams’s big-budget new film Chevalier, now playing in US theatres Joseph Bologne (Kelvin Harrison), the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner on the lucrative French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, rises to improbable heights in Parisian society as...
Defeat Of BJP In Karnataka Assembly Polls Is Crucial For Indian Democracy
By Prakash Karat The Karnataka assembly election has a special importance in the present conjuncture. For the BJP, in its quest for overall political dominance, retaining this southern state is vital for its ambition to spread its influence in other southern states. With the election campaign at its peak,...
Film ‘Kerala Story’ Is Full Of Lies And Fiction Based On The Vision Of RSS
By Binoy Viswam Day in and day out, the RSS-led parivar excels themselves in the fascist skills of propaganda. Learning lessons from Mussolini and Hitler, updating those lessons for the changing time and place, they sometimes outsmart even their masters. In 1937, inaugurating a movie production unit, Benito Mussolini...
Love, Deaths And Stormy Sessions At 28 Dean Street
By Nitya Chakraborty Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5, 1818 and died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days after his demise on March 17, Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the...
By Not Holding Bilateral Talks With Bilawal Bhutto, India Has Lost An Opportunity
By Sushil Kutty India in its capacity of rotating head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) invited Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to the Goa SCO on May 4-5, but India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hadn’t decided on a bilateral with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. So much for...
Extension Of ED Chief’s Tenure Is Still Puzzling
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hounding the leaders of opposition, allegedly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Centre through Enforcement Directorate (ED), has reached an unprecedented level under directorship of Sanjay K Mishra, and hence his extension of service has been naturally opposed by the forces against abuse of power....
Sharad Pawar’s Planned Resignation Is Aimed At Dissenters In NCP
By Tirthankar Mitra All his life, Sharad Govindrao Pawar has been his own man. Be it walking out of Congress when defying Gandhi family was considered to be political suicide or coming out in support of top notch industrialist Gautam Adani recently thereby running the risk of fracturing anti-BJP...
Yogi Adityanath Taking Civic Bodies Poll In Up As A Referendum On His Rule
By Arun Srivastava Has it been some other time, the elections to the civic bodies in Uttar Pradesh might not have aroused so much of interest in the outcome of the electoral battle. But the two phase election being held on May 4 and 11 this time has virtually...
Many Hurdles Remain In Introducing Digital Currency In India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched a pilot program to test its digital currency, the digital rupee, in India’s four largest cities. The program is intended to assess the feasibility of a digital currency in India and to better understand its potential use...
Bench ‘Hunting’ Continues To Hound Delivery Of Justice And Fairness
By K Raveendran Even five years after the historical ‘national duty’ press conference by four judges alleging undesirable practices including ‘bench hunting’, the problem continues to be the bane of Indian judiciary. All the four judges have retired for long, but many of the problems they raised persist, undermining...
NCP Needs A Strong United Leadership In The Event Of Sharad Pawar’s Exit
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With sudden announcement by Sharad Pawar to step down from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) presidency may have surprised all, but it seems that his announcement was premeditated. He will be quitting as NCP chief, but will remain in politics at least for the next three...
Ukraine War And US, EU Sanctions Leading To Loss Of US Dollar’s Global Dominance
By Subrata Majumder A new landscape in currency dominance in global market is taking shape, with US dollar losing pre-eminence and Chinese yuan gaining steam. According to a IMF survey, dollar share in central bank foreign exchange reserves declined from 71 percent in 1999 to 59 percent in 2021....
A Year Before Lok Sabha Polls, BJP Walking On Thin Ice In Manipur
By Tirthankar Mitra An open air gymnasium being set on fire at Churachandpur merely 60 kilometres away from Manipur capital, Imphal followed by chief minister, N Biren Singh being advised not to come to the trouble spot are some of the ominous signs indicating that things are not at...
Poll Manifestos Of BJP And The Congress Have Little Appeal To Karnataka Voters
By Sushil Kutty Election manifestos gather dust. The statement of intent perhaps lost in translation, so to speak. The mostly disbelieving voters are asked to believe. The BJP released its Karnataka elections manifesto first. The Congress returned the favour on May 2. How do the two stack up against...
Big Spurt In GST Collections Indicates Growth In Domestic Economy
By Anjan Roy India has landed with a bumper GST collection in April this year, indicating thereby that however much some economists had seen serious weakness in performance, domestic economy is showing a robust trend. This year’s GST collections are roughly 20% higher than the corresponding period last year....
