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CPI Has To Take Key Role In Building Broader Unity Against Ruling BJP
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) is holding its 24th Party Congress at Vijayawada on October 14 ro 18 this year at a crucial time of the country in terms of both politics and economy. There has been a decisive shift in the political direction of...
India’s Politicised Police Is Mostly Busy Protecting Ruling Party Concerns
By Nantoo Banerjee Last month, the alleged murder of a 19-year-old girl receptionist, Ankita Bhandari, in the Vanantara resort in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Uttarakhand’s Pauri district sparked massive outrage across the country. The girl went missing on September 18 following which a missing complaint was lodged by her parents...
Election Commission Is Functioning In A Bizarre Manner In Shiv Sena Symbol Issue
By Sushil Kutty At the heart of politics is cowardice. Okay, foolhardiness. Take demonetization, for instance. It was a reckless display of authoritarianism, unbridled power, when the BJP-led NDA Government tipped its hat to its Prime Minister and forgot that in a democracy, collective decisions are the norm and...
Freebies Debate In India Highlights The Limits Of Judicial Overreach
By Mayuri Gupta Over the last few months, what the remit of political campaign promises should be has remained constant in public discourse. This increased attention for election promises is partly the result of a public interest litigation (‘PIL’) filed at the Supreme Court in January by politician and...
President Putin Is Losing His Options In Ukraine After Latest Reverses
By Anjan Roy The Ukraine war is taking a turn after seven and a half months which is worrying strategic experts and militaries in Europe in new ways. If initially the worry was about an outright defeat of Ukraine and presence of Russia in eastern parts in a more...
India Needs A Major Revolution In Healthcare System In Next 25 Years
By Harihar Swarup A writer woke up in panic but felt relieved when felt it was only nightmare. He had gone back in time to being a young doctor, feeling helpless with high rate and mortality rates, a paediatric ward filled with children suffering from tuberculosis meningitis, polio, severe...
Sigh Of Relief As OPEC-Plus Cut Unlikely To Reach Declared Levels
By K Raveendran As the global oil markets digest the news about OPEC+ announcement of a 2 million barrels per day of crude output cut, more details emerging from market analysts should calm Indian nerves a bit as the impact may not be as severe as feared. The Brent...
Citizens Committee Blames Centre For Not Doing Enough To Quell NE Delhi Riots
By Satyaki Chakraborty A Citizens Committee comprising former Supreme Court and High Court judges and a former Home Secretary of the Union Government have authored a report raising serious questions about the role of the news media, social media, Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’) and Hindu nationalist leaders, the Delhi...
Digital Credentials Needed For 80 Per Cent Of Jobs In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Explosive growth and spread of digital technologies have brought transformations changes to the working world. Labour market is being reshaped, demand for digital skills and competencies increasing, and the demand for people who perform routine manual jobs is reducing. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated digitalization and...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Emerging As A Principled Leader In His Battle Against Shinde
By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray grew up jostling with a rival for his father Balasaheb Thackeray’s pats and “well-dones”. Cousin Raj Thackeray was finally gone and the years thereafter erased the memory of living with a ‘resentment’. But, irony of all ironies, whoever would have thought that a grown-up...
