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Italy’s Far-Right Government Is Already At War With Migrants

By Richard Braude Threats, lies, and the breaking of international conventions. Another Italian government, another round of attempts to turn the ports of Italy into a circus of violations and dehumanizing logistical wranglings. Another round of bolstering Europe’s racist border regime — as if the sea were barbed wire...

Nov 15 · >

Bolivia’s Socialist Government Confronts Separatist, Racist Uprising

By W. T. Whitney Jr. With the exception of a coup-government interregnum in 2019-2021, the Movement Toward Socialism political party (MAS) has headed Bolivia’s government since the beginning of Evo Morales’s presidency in 2006. The MAS government now led by President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca announced...

Nov 15 · >

India Needs Large FDI Inflow To Become Factory To World

By Nantoo Banerjee Global investment banker Morgan Stanley may have predicted the current decade as India’s following economic slowdown in China. But, the Indian economy is not growing as fast as it should. Large foreign direct investments (FDI) seem to be fighting shy of India’s highly price sensitive economy....

Nov 14 · >

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The Victim Card On The Eve Of Assembly Polls

By Arun Srivastava Like an incompetent carpenter who blames the tools for his bad work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi too has started playing the victim card having failed to keep his promises made to the people and provide a people oriented governance. Modi has come to realise that his...

Nov 14 · >

Congress Has Every Right To Object To Release Of Rajiv Assassins By Supreme Court

By Sushil Kutty Let us agree not to disagree with the Congress that the Supreme Court should not have released the six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case; that this was “totally unacceptable and completely erroneous.” The ruling has made the top court a laughing stock to some,...

Nov 14 · >

Bank Employees Are Again Up In Arms Against Managements

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Bank employees of the country are again up in arms against their management against their alleged highhandedness. To oppose these, which allegedly include unlawful and unfair actions of the bank managements against the employees, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) has already served a notice...

Nov 14 · >

TMC Corruption And BJP Infighting Give Some Hope To Left Front In Bengal

By Tirthankar Mitra Led by CPI(M) Left Front seems to have a  leg up in next year’s panchayat polls in the state. The change of political fortune is thanks to the windfall it received from the recent series of intra-party squabbles with state saffron from camp and Trinamool Congress...

Nov 14 · >

Why The New CJI D Y Chandrachud Means Hope For Indian Judiciary

By N. Kavitha Rameshwar “It is well for a judge to remind himself or herself of the fact that flattery is the graveyard of the gullible”, said then Supreme Court Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, in one of his judgments. While being alive to this thought of his and how...

Nov 14 · >

New Sense Of Realism Emerging In Approach To Quota As Welfare Tool

By K Raveendran The first major indication of the Supreme Court thinking on the reservation issue was available in the apex court’s judgment in the Maratha reservation case of 2021, although the substantive issue raised in that plea was different from the court’s latest stand in the 10 percent...

Nov 12 · >

CJI Chandrachud And Uneasy Lies The Head That Wears The Crown

By Sushil Kutty Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Justice of India Chandrachud have two years facing each across the aisle. The rightwing Prime Minister, and the left-liberal CJI described as progressive and ’woke’. Head to head, the two are as different as chalk and cheese, and the...

Nov 12 · >
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