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Left-Wing Luiz Lula Is The Front-Runner In Brazilian Presidential Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Only 72 hours before the holding of the Presidential elections in Brazil on October 2, Left coalition candidate and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, popularly known as Lula has emerged as a front runner against the far right incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro. Latest opinion...
Cuba’s Gay Rights Vote Through Referendum Is A Victory For Socialist Values
By Ben Burgis Two-thirds of Cuban voters approved the country’s new Family Code on Sunday, itself a result of an extensive revisions process in which millions of Cuban citizens participated. The new code ends discrimination against gay couples in marriage and adoption. It also strengthens women’s rights by promoting...
Oil Prices Below Level Before Ukraine War, But No Solace For Consumers
By K Raveendran Crude oil prices have now dipped below the level when Russia’s Ukraine war broke out, which means the market has not only absorbed the shock of disruption in supplies, but the end game is approaching for the oil cartel. The war, however, forced a tectonic change...
Murder Of Rupali In Mumbai Poses Serious Questions About Fundamentalists
By Sushil Kutty India and Iran have different political systems, but when it comes to the hijab the two aren’t different. This is seen in the context of certain laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s sharia-based Constitution which appear to be knocking on the doors of the so-called...
RSS And VHP Have Globalised The Politics Of Hate And Bigotry
By Arun Srivastava The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Narendra Modi government have globalised the hate politics and divisiveness. The two evils which have been, after Narendra Modi becoming the prime minister, dictating the political discourse in India have made their way to the international arena. This is clearly...
China’s Slow Economic Growth Hitting The Trade Flows Of RCEP Nations
By Subrata Majumder Business tycoon Gautam Adani jeered at China’s global powerhouse, lamenting China was increasingly isolated, owing to protectionism and shift in supply chain. Given these, RCEP (Regional Cooperation of Economic Partnership), which is driven by China, is in tailspin. Nearly one third of China’s global trade is...
Kanam Rajendran Likely To Get A Third Term As CPI State Secretary
By P. Sreekumaran Will Kanam Rajendran get a third term as the state secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)? That is the question doing the rounds in political corridors of Kerala. The four-day CPI State conference is being held in Thiruvananthapuram from September 30. CPI general secretary...
Demand For Separate State In Tribal Belt Of Bengal Revives Again
By Ashis Biswas Ever since underground leader Jiban Singha of the banned Kamtapur Liberation Organisation (KLO) reiterated the call for a separate state, there have been signs of a resumption of activity on part of its activists in Assam and North Bengal. Northeast India media reported the arrest of...
Trinamool Congress May Be Back To Opposition Camp Along With Congress
By Tirthankar Mitra A thaw in the relation between Congress and Trinamool Congress seems to be in the offing after it had hit a new low post 2021 state Assembly elections. Strangely enough, indications that the two outfits who had turned from political allies to bitter opponents are not...
Survey Results Challenge Image That Gulf Rulers Like For Themselves
By James M Dorsey Several recent public opinion surveys send a mixed message to autocratic reformers in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, which hosts this year’s World Cup in less than two months. These reveal contradictory attitudes among Arab youth towards religion as well as widespread...
