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Congress Has To Mobilise Its Legal Brains To Organise Stay On Rahul’s Conviction
By Sushil Kutty The day after, and the day before’s anger hadn’t ebbed. Everybody had something to comment about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification. And none of them had full knowledge of the law that resulted in Rahul Gandhi‘s disqualification. American politicians, like Ro Khanna, who tweeted his anger,...
Centre’s Claim Of Improvement In Job Market Is Misleading
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Union Ministry of Finance in its Monthly Economic Review of February 2023 has not only defended again the highly debatable criterion of ‘one hour per week’ engagement of a workers in an economic activity being classified as employed by the Periodic Labour Force Survey...
Indian Economy Is Still In A Position To Insulate Itself From Global Turmoil
By Anjan Roy Now that the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England have all raised their policy interest rates to fight inflation, there might be further flutters in the financial sector and several other banks might be nervous about the future. However, the central bankers have...
Arab Plan For Syria Puts Europe And America In A Bind
By James M Dorsey A push by Arab allies of the United States to bring Syria in from the cold highlights the limits of a Chinese-mediated rapprochement between the Middle East’s archrivals, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The effort spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates, and supported by Saudi Arabia,...
Opposition Petition To Supreme Court Forms The Core Of Political Campaigning Against BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The petition moved jointly by 14 leading opposition parties to the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the ‘misuse’ of central investigation agencies by the Narendra Modi government against the leaders of the non-BJP parties, has big political significance in the present phase of political turmoil...
Rahul Gandhi’s Politico-Legal Battle Against Lok Sabha Disqualification Begins
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is no longer a Member of Parliament. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla took the decision to disqualify the Gandhi Family scion following his conviction in a case of criminal defamation, with two-year jail sentence. Less than two years of jail and he...
Fight For A Prosperous Secular India Is The Best Tribute To Shaheed Bhagat Singh
By D. Raja “The proletariat will win. Capitalism will be defeated. Death to Imperialism!” Read Shaheed Bhagat Singh, wearing a red scarf, from a telegram message that was to be sent to the Third International on the occasion of Lenin’s death anniversary in 1930.This gesture made by Bhagat Singh...
A Gross Misunderstanding Of Language Led To Rahul’s Conviction
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What is ‘understanding’ an utterance and what is ‘misunderstanding’? The answer is obvious – if someone understands exactly the same as to what was uttered is ‘understanding’ and if someone derives any other meaning is ‘misunderstanding’. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for two years of...
BJP Intensifies Its Efforts To Maintain Dominance In Bihar And Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava Barely thirteen months before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, which together contribute 120 seats out of the total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, the political campaigning and organizational activities are most manifest in the BJP camp while the Bihar Mahagathbandhan ...
Collapse Of US Banks Is Reflective Of Systemic Contradiction Of Capitalism
By Prabhat Patnaik There is nothing mysterious about the reasons for the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and the Signature Bank in the United States. There is also nothing mysterious about why the entire banking system of the capitalist world has come under a cloud: once some part...
Mamata, Akhilesh Push For A Third Front; Court Patnaik, Kejriwal
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formation of a regional front has been gaining ground, especially after the much anticipated meeting of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, in which both of them discussed about exploring the possibility...
15th National Conference Of IPTA Calls For Protecting Composite Culture
By C. Adhikesavan The grand old organization of Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) concluded its three- day 15th national conference successfully in Daltonganj in Jharkhand deciding to preserve communal harmony, unity in diversity and peace throughout the country. The conference also highlighted that it is the need of the...
Financial Institutions Like Silicon Valley Bank Fund The US Weapons Industry
By Corey Payne The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week sparked a number of debates. Was SVB “too big to fail?” Was the Biden administration response a “bailout?” Are the libertarian-leaning tech CEOs hypocrites? Is this a sign that the Fed’s interest rate hikes should come to an...
Why The Delhi Policemen Are Swooping On Posters Against Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty They hate his guts, and that was reason enough to plaster the walls in Delhi with posters demanding ‘Modi Hatao/Desh Bachao’. Tens of thousands of these posters carrying the message appeared overnight in the city where Prime Minister Narendra Modi lives, and rules from. The BJP...
Annual Income Of Poorest 20 Per Cent Of India Continuing With Its Decline
By Krishna Jha India has entered one of its darkest phases of deprivation when the annual income of the poorest 20 percent has fallen by 53 percent and still continues to fall from the level of 2015-16. Since last three decades, economy was evolving at the rate of seven...
Rising New Covid Cases Again Puts India On High Alert
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rising new COVID-19 cases again chiefly due to a new variant XBB.1.16 have put India on alert. The seriousness of the threat has been noted even at the Prime Minister level who chaired a review meeting on March 23, the day on which a single-day...
Modi Government’s Dealing Of Adani Issue Is A Denigration Of Parliament
By P Sudhir After seven days of disruption of parliamentary proceedings, the government is now planning to cut short the second half of the budget session by guillotining the demands for grants and passing the finance bill without any discussion. The peculiarity of this decision stems from the fact...
Mamata Banerjee Starts Corrective Action To Deal With Dissatisfaction Of Minorities
By Tirthankar Mitra After what promised to be a cakewalk turned into a shock defeat for a Trinamool Congress nominee at Sagardighi by-election, party supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee had reshuffled the Muslim leadership of her party. Pulling up the socks at what appeared to be the first...
