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Modi Wants A Third Term To Match Nehru’s Record And Status
By Sushil Kutty A third term for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s goal. All its efforts and resources are concentrated on achieving this goal, i.e., Modi as Prime Minister for as long as possible, or for as long as Modi wants to remain...
Where’s The Justice For Victims Of Army Atrocities In Kashmir?
By Ravi Nair One would have liked to join the hoi polloi in welcoming the decision of the General Court Martial to recommend imprisonment for life to Captain Bhoopendra Singh, alias Major Bashir Khan for staging the encounter killings of three men in Shopian, Kashmir in 2020. The sentence...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Shows Little Has Changed Since 2008
By Branko Marcetic Every now and then, a development perfectly embodies everything that’s wrong with an era. The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is one such development, the culmination of many years of financial recklessness, corporate entitlement, and corrupted political decision-making. The sixteenth-largest US bank by assets up...
Palestinian Children’s Art Exposes Israel’s Cultural Genocide
By Ramzy Baroud The following text tells the whole story of what pro-Palestinian communities around the world are fighting for, and what pro-Israelis are fighting against: “We are delighted to report that Chelsea and Westminster Hospital has removed a display of artwork designed by children from Gaza.” That was...
Political Opposition Faces Witch-Hunt From Parties In Power
By Nantoo Banerjee The arrest of Delhi’s deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia last month by a federal agency, CBI, for alleged financial corruption connected with the change in the state’s liquor policy, has understandably upset a large section of opposition parties across the country. Last year, Delhi’s health minister...
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Sends Chills Down Indian Tech Sector
By Anjan Roy A prominent private bank in the United States — the country’s sixteenth largest— has failed and this can have significant impact on the Indian technology industry. Silicon Valley Bank —better known by its acronym SVB— has gone into liquidation. This was one of the 20 largest...
Anti-North Indian Worker Bias Raises Its Ugly Head Again In Tamil Nadu
By K R Sudhaman Whenever joblessness arises, parochial issues like migrant labour raise their ugly head in different parts of the country. Be it the attack on South Indians in Mumbai in the 1960s by the late Bal Thackeray-led Shiv Sainiks, or on UP bhaias and Biharis in 2000s....
Criticizing Union Government In Foreign Soil Won’t Really Hurt Modi
By Sushil Kutty So, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is ‘ek akela sab par bhari’! Does that make him ‘God’? The Creator’? Perhaps, the ‘One’ who makes the Sun rise? The Congress says any such thoughts in the Prime Minister’s head should be squelched, cleansed right away, because Modi is...
Can Kishida Upgrade Abe’s Legacy For A New Era Of Japan-India Ties?
By Subrata Majumder Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s upcoming visit to India, starting March 20, 2023, has been engulfed by controversy, after Japan refused to send its Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi to the G-20 summit held in New Delhi on March 3, 2023 under India’s presidency. His paradoxical googly,...
DA Agitation Puts TMC Government Between A Rock And A Hard Place
By Tirthankar Mitra The Trinamool Congress-run West Bengal government seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place over the ongoing agitation by state government employees demanding dearness allowance at par with their central government counterparts. The month-long hunger strike by agitating state government employees at the...
Rahul Gandhi’s UK Outreach Was An Extension Of Bharat Jodo Yatra
By Arun Srivastava The BJP leadership going bonkers and hurling all kind of insinuation against Rahul Gandhi, even to the extent of implicitly accusing him of working against the interest of India, makes it explicit that the Congress leader has hit the bull’s eye. His mission to use his...
IMF Favours India Increasing Subsidies On Renewable Energy For Net Zero Success
By K Raveendran The International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is in principle opposed to all forms of subsidies, has favoured a gradual increase in subsidies by India on the use of renewable energy, while collecting higher taxes on emissions. IMF considers energy subsidies as wasteful expenditure and estimates that...
AI Integration Poses Serious Challenge To Women In Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into both workplace and domestic settings poses serious challenges to women’s opportunities for work, their position, status and treatment in the workplace. A joint team comprising the Inter-American Development (IDB), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),and United...
Understanding Corporal Safety Of Women In Live-In Relationships
By Mahalakshmi Pavani The activism of the Indian judiciary in terms of formal recognition of live-in relationships has opened a vista of allied freedoms for live-in partners. However, the reality of women in such relations remains grim. The right to love stems from the hackneyed fundamental rights to life...
India’s Growth Story Must Include People With Disabilities
By Harihar Swarup On August 15, 2047, India will turn 100. A hundred years of giant strides to becoming the world’s largest democracy and an economic superpower. Morgan Stanley, one of the most influential companies in the world, said last year that three mega global trends, global off shoring,...
Saudis Walk US, Israeli, Iran Tightrope On Resumption Of Diplomatic Ties
By James M Dorsey In a surprise development, Saudi Arabia and Iran, together with China, announced that the two Middle Eastern nations were re-establishing diplomatic relations. The agreement was reached in a meeting in China of the two countries’ national security advisors. The agreement was a rare example of...
Socialism Is All About Expanding Our Degrees Of Freedom
By Ben Burgis The republican theory of freedom is the idea that the most important kind of freedom is freedom from domination. It’s important for the Left talk about freedom in the first place. We see “freedom” invoked to defend everything from the right of corner gun shops to...
Safety Board To Probe Norfolk Southern, Not Just Individual Crashes
By Mark Gruenberg In an unprecedented decision, the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the entire “safety culture” at Norfolk Southern Railroad, not just the individual NS crashes that landed it in hot water, notably the Feb. 3 massive and dangerous freight car derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. It...
