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Two-Day Strike By Workers Hit Normal Services Across India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two-day workers strike hit normalcy in many parts across India on March 28-29 that were reverberated with shouts of the striking workers demanding scraping of anti-worker policies of the Modi government. Even many government employees participated despite the threat of Essential Services management Act (ESMA)...
Akhilesh Yadav As The Opposition Leader In Assembly Has A Tough Task Ahead
By Sushil Kutty Akhilesh Yadav needs no introduction. But in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha, he is a newcomer, just like Yogi Adityanath was in 2017. Yogi remained a non-member of the assembly the entire five years he was CM the first time, just like Akhilesh Yadav when he...
Mayawati Turns To Her Own Parivar In Bid To Revive Party Organisation
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: After the humiliating performance in UP Assembly polls, Mayawati is giving a facelift to party organisation with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. After a review meeting held on March 27, BSP national President Mayawati appointed her brother Anand as national vice-president and...
Russia Upset Over Bangladeshi Press Coverage Of Ukraine War
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, political circles are still puzzling over an apparent display of Russian prickliness over a minor spat, even as bombs rain down in Ukraine! The Russians recently registered a strong protest against what they saw as a pro-West anti-Moscow narrative in the Bangladeshi media in...
Jaishankar’s Sri Lanka Visit A Timely Reassurance To Crisis-Hit People
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is in Sri Lanka on a three-day visit. Besides meeting the top Sri Lankan leadership, the minister will take part in BIMSTEC foreign ministers’ meeting on March 29, which will culminate in the virtual BIMSTEC Summit on March 30....
Biden’s Impulsive Remarks Give Russia’s Putin A Lifeline
By Anjan Roy US President Joe Biden seems to have fouled up his game plan and unwittingly given some Belgian chocolate to Russian president Vladimir Putin for whom a perfect tornado has been forming up. Perhaps moved by seeing first hand the plight of Ukrainian refugees in the stadium...
Simultaneous Elections Will Be Two Steps Back For Democracy In India
By Akhilendra Pratap Singh The frequency of elections has lately gained centre stage, with voices rising against the prevailing practice of holding continuous elections in one or other part of the country. In that context, the idea of simultaneous elections — holding elections for all three tiers of government...
Congress High Command Has To Allow Its Regional Leaders To Come Up
By Amulya Ganguli Sonia Gandhi’s recent meetings with the G-23 leaders of her party for whom she did not have much time earlier underlines her realization that Rahul Gandhi has failed to live up to her expectations for him to be an unchallenged, front-ranking leader of the Congress. She...
BJP-Shiv Sena Battle In Maharashtra Is Getting Dirty Every Passing Day
By Sushil Kutty There is talk of the “fear” on Uddhav Thackeray’s face. And that if anybody started the ‘sliving’, it was the Sena’s partner Nationalist Congress Party. ‘Sliving’ is slang for somebody “slaying” as well as “living it high.” Using the analogy, the BJP-Shiv Sena ‘sliving’ has reached...
Reaching $400 Billion Export Target Is Welcome But More Potential Is Still There
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal are gung ho about India’s merchandise exports that is goods exports touching $400 billion mark for the first time this year. This certainly calls for rejoice as India’s goods exports growth has been tepid in the...
