By Manish Rai Recently the Taliban ordered an indefinite ban on university education for women, the ministry of higher education said in a letter issued to all government and private universities. Before this drastic decision last year, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs was dissolved and the sinister Ministry...
By Kurt Hackbarth The Mexican people have just celebrated with big enthusiasm four years in power of the leftwing president Luis Obrador better known as AMLO. His strong leadership, pro-people programmes and policies to protect the interests of the common American masses have been widely appreciated. He is considered...
By Kalyani Shankar Congress would like to rebrand Rahul Gandhi as a young, caring, and ideological leader before the 2024 polls. Has Rahul shown a new image after the Bharat Jodo yatra, completed over 100 days as intended? For the first time after many years, the grand old party...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The central government released draft regulations for the online gaming and gambling sector on January 2. Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the government has begun consultations to frame detailed guidelines and regulations for India’s nascent gaming sector, which has...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Pledges made by countries in all climate crises summits are really angelic, but what is done is clear dichotomy and hypocrisy, which the world will see in full play in 2023 with rise in production and consumption of coal, the dirtiest of the three fossil...
By Arun Srivastava With the RSS hastening up the process of fattening its Hindu rank by inducting the tribals, the alarm bell for complete dissipation of their identity has started ringing for the adivasis and they are ready to assert their independent distinctiveness by confronting the RSS pracharaks. Discontent...
By James M Dorsey One-upmanship in Middle Eastern sports just wretched up a notch as superstar Cristiano Ronaldo joins state-owned Saudi football club Al Nassr FC for reportedly a whopping US$241 million over 2.5 years. Ronaldo’s transfer, involving the biggest football salary in history, beats Qatar-owned Paris St. Germain’s...
By Mark Gruenberg There for all to see was the determination of an independent grass-roots union, the Amazon Labour Union, to confront one of the nation’s three richest men, Jeff Bezos, and his monster goliath, Amazon, over wages and working conditions. They bested Bezos and won the union...
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has by a 4-1 majority ruled that the demonetisation decision by the Modi government was technically valid, but apart from the concerns raised in the dissenting voice recorded by Justice Nagarathna, the verdict has failed to acknowledge the huge human cost of...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a pity that the government could not think of a better “new year gift for the country’s poor” than continuing to feed 81.35 crore Indians with free food grains for another year till December 31, 2023, under a 10-year-old National Food Security Act (NFSA),...