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Simultaneous Central Raids Against PFI, Waqf Board, Madrasas Raise Questions
By Sushil Kutty The Thursday morning nationwide crackdown on the Popular Front of India (PFI) begs the question “Why now, why today, why this morning?” It can’t be that the PFI was found engaging in “terror-funding”, and “terror activities”, just the night before? Terrorists and their handlers take time...
Indian Communists Led Glorious Battle Against Nizam In Hyderabad
By Krishna Jha Telangana Armed struggle was a Communist led rebellion of peasants against princely state of Hyderabad in the region of Telangana. Basically the struggle was to liberate the peasants from unjustified exploitation and merge Hyderabad in the Indian Union when it attains freedom. The book of Com...
Mamata’s View Of Distancing Prime Minister From Amit Shah Is A Calculated Step
By Tirthankar Mitra A long term political dividend was in her sights when Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said that Prime .Minister, Narendra Modi did not goad the central investigation agencies like CBI and ED to swoop in on the homes of her party leaders. While...
Cuba And China Exceed United States In Life Expectancy, Latest Report Says
By W. T. Whitney Jr. To extend a population’s life expectancy at birth (LEB) requires capabilities that are scarce in the United States. The U.S. LEB has fallen in the recent period, quite abruptly. Meanwhile, life expectancy in China and Cuba continues its long-term rise. To understand why we...
Kejriwal Follows Modi-Style Vote Catching And Succeeds
By K Raveendran Arvind Kejriwal seems to have come of age as a politician. The Delhi chief minister is apparently taking a page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi book to speak the same language, same content and wear the same demeanor. He needs to be given credit for...
Rightwing Populism Dominating National Elections In Europe
By Sankar Ray Europe’s centre-right political parties were until a decade ago seen as ‘both dependably dull and dependably stable’. But that is now a thing of the past. Now the continent’s Christian democratic, conservative and market liberal parties together constitute the mainstream right. They are now undergoing significant...
Many Questions Remain Over The Demand For Use Of Hijabs By Muslim Girls
By Sushil Kutty Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when...
Fresh Land Survey Initiated By Soren In Jharkhand Is Leading To Battle With BJP
By Arun Srivastava The new face of Adivasi identity, Hemant Soren, son of the legendry tribal Guruji, Shibu Soren , has blown the war trumpet against the BJP’s design to impair the sensibility of Adivasi individuality and turn Jharkhand into the colony of the capitalists advocating the Hindutva political...
Risks Of Kessler Syndrome Is High As Space Debris Accumulate
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With Earth’s Orbits getting crowded, the risks of Kessler syndrome – a catastrophic and irreversible chain reaction of on-orbit collisions between debris and operational satellites –is becoming high, even though according to the most recent projection by Merrill Lynch/Bank of America the space economy would...
Biden Seen Likely To Grant Immunity To Saudi Crown Prince
By James M Dorsey The Biden administration is mulling whether to grant Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sovereign immunity in a case related to the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist’s fiancé and a non-profit organization he helped found filed the lawsuit in a Washington district court....
