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Jaishankar Is Proud Of India’s Global Role But What About Within The Country
By Sushil Kutty There are two Indias. One outlined by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, and the other by over 100 ex-bureaucrats and ex-diplomats who wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister. And if S. Jaishankar’s is a fine exposition of everything that is fine about India, and...
Prashant Kishor’s Congress Gambit Still Uncertain
By Harihar Swarup From playing a key role in Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial campaign in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, to taking a political plunge four years later by joining the JD(U) and leaving it in a huff, to negotiate the Congress for any entry now, Prashant Kishor has...
Shiv Sena In A ‘Hindutva’ Muddle As BJP-MNS Taunt It Of Being ‘Secular’
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and his MVA government are getting boxed in by the machinations of the BJP-MNS combine which is busy giving oxygen to the perception that the Shiv Sena is no longer the Hindutva force it used to be during the time of...
Critics’ Boycott Of SilverLine Debate Wrong
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a moral victory of sorts for the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government. The reference is to the sudden decision of experts who oppose the SilverLine project to boycott the panel debate organized by K-Rail on Thursday, April 28. Among those who have decided...
Two Lockdowns In Asia’s Two Biggest Countries Offer Many Lessons
By K Raveendran The ‘freeze’ ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a response to the outbreak of Covid pandemic had gone terribly wrong in terms of its timing. Millions of lives and livelihoods were lost as everything ground to a halt, a mistake for which the nation continues...
Sri Lanka and Pakistan Pin Their Hopes On IMF Bailout Package
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday asked Sri Lanka to tighten its monetary policy, increase taxes, and adopt flexible exchange rates. “The requirement for fund lending will be progress toward debt sustainability,” said Anne-Marie Gulde-Wolf, acting director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department. “Monetary...
Afghan Peasants Rise In Protest Against Taliban Ban On Poppy Farming
By Sankar Ray Ever since the ban on poppy cultivation by the Taliban-led Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan, resentment among poppy farmers who have been staunch supporters of the Taliban during their armed battle with the US-backed regimes in Kabul is on the rise. In the very first week of...
Three Natural Disasters Every Two Days By 2030
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The number of natural disasters is projected to reach 560 a year globally by 2030, i.e., over three in two days. The scale and intensity of the disasters are sharply increasing, and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has blamed it on faulty...
85 Years Ago On April 26, Guernica Town Was Decimated In Spain By Fascists
By Anne Colamosca Twenty-seven-year-old George Lowther Steer was in Toledo, Spain, covering the civil war for London’s Times in fall 1936 when he was abruptly expelled from the city. The Nationalist military staff had discovered Steer’s recently published Caesar in Abyssinia, a book attacking its Italian fascist supporters. Steer...
Sonia Is Firm On Bringing Prashant Kishor To Congress At ‘Right Time’
By Kalyani Shankar Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has taken a conciliatory step by not confronting the rebels in the party ( G 23) by postponing her decision on poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s entry into the party. It, however, does not mean that it will not happen, as she is...
