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U.S. Sanctions Have Intensified Economic Crisis In Pandemic Hit Cuba
By Nitya Chakraborty Cuba is in turmoil. The continuing blockade of the Caribbean nation by the United states has hit the country’s economy badly and after a long time, there were big demonstrations on Sunday in Havana and other big cities in Cuba demanding the supply of the essential...
Pakistan May Face Big Refugee Crisis As Taliban Forces Advance
By Sant Kumar Sharma Perhaps no clear answer is right now available to what may look like a straightforward question. Is the pace of US moving out from Afghanistan more, or is it the pace of Taliban moving in? Well, it is not a question that will hang in...
Insurance Based System Has Failed To Meet India’s Health Needs
By Dr Arun Mitra The COVID-19 Pandemic has exposed the weaknesses in our healthcare system. Complications of the disease apart, unprecedented number of people lost their lives due to lack of basic needs like Oxygen, ventilators, medicines and hospital beds. Over and above exorbitant cost of treatment has become...
Akhilesh Yadav Has To Be Aggressive Enough To Take On BJP In State Polls
By Arun Srivastava In a state where demagoguery is the key component of the politics and mercenaries dictate the character and rule of the governance, the politics of identity and idiom of democracy are the worst victims Actually this has been happening in Uttar Pradesh from some years and...
Congress Ups The Ante Against BJP In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress in Kerala has decided to harden its stance against the Modi Government to erase the impression that the party is soft on the BJP in the State. That is the unmistakable message from the statewide satyagraha the party organized to protest against the...
Dilip Kumar Was A Left Liberal Who Had Always India’s Interests In Mind
By Harihar Swarup The evergreen film hero Dilip Kumar has passed away but he will ever remain alive in people’s memory. “Saheed” was his early film which portrayed him in the lead role of a martyr. Son of a DIG, the hero turned a revolutionary during the British Raj...
Opposition Parties Have To Focus All Energy To Defeat BJP In Uttar Pradesh Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty Yogi Adityanath Government in Uttar Pradesh has launched massive assaults on democracy and the constitutional values in the state to retain power in the next assembly elections scheduled in February/March 2022. In its bizzare actions, Yogi and the Sangh Parivar are getting full encouragement from the...
Uniform Civil Code Can Be Implemented On The Basis Of Thorough Discussions
By Kalyani Shankar Should India do away with the concept of personal laws and bring in a Uniform Civil Code for all citizens? Is this the right time for bringing such a law? Supporters say it is already too late, while the opponents feel that this is not the...
Yogi Adityanath’s Population Policy To Cover-Up Modi’s Handicaps
By Sushil Kutty If West Bengal is repeated in Uttar Pradesh polls in 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi might have to book a 2024 ticket to Vadnagar, Gujarat. The pressure is on Yogi Adityanath. The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister must have grown up on ‘Papa Kehte Hain Bada Naam...
Global Hunger Level Skyrocketing Since Covid-19 Outbreak
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global hunger level has been skyrocketing since outbreak of COVID-19. In 2020, it rose by more than in the previous five years combined. Between 720 and 811 million people faced hunger during the first year of the pandemic, and the world is off the track...
Civil War Is Imminent In Afghanistan As Taliban Terror Intensifies
By Sankar Ray The 20-year US war in Afghanistan, hand in hand with the Afghan National Security force against the Taliban is over. General Austin “Scott” Miller – the highest-ranked officer on the ground – handed down command to US-based four-star General Kenneth McKenzie, bringing the longest US war...
Complex Interfaces In India Society — Re-Examination Of Pew Findings
By Anjan Roy “I don’t have a single Muslim friend”, said S.Y. Qureshi, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, while recalling his memories of having large Eid parties in his spacious bungalow in Lutyens Delhi in his official days. Mr Qureshi was speaking as a panel member on discussions...
Cannes Film Festival- 2021 Glitters Amidst Pandemic Restrictions
By Dennis Broe CANNES, France — It may be a bit cruel starting with Yeats’s summary of his era in his epic poem The Second Coming, but unfortunately, it is a somewhat accurate distillation of both the organization and the films of this edition of the world’s leading film...
Narendra Modi Is Using Ordinance To Ban Strike In Defence Industry
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi is probably making the same mistake as Mrs. Indira Gandhi did as the country’s prime minister almost four decades ago. The promulgation of ordinance to ban the proposed strike by all major trade unions at the Ordnance Factories Board (OFB) and its...
Buildings Are Not Just Bricks And Mortars, They Embody A Vision
By Amulya Ganguli A hundred years later, will another new parliament be built? The arguments which are now being advanced to justify the construction of a triangular building to house the MPs whose number may go up from the present 545 to more than 700 can be made again....
Electoral Mayhem In Uttar Pradesh That Exposed Yogi Democracy
By Arun Srivastava The people of this country, the land of RSS’s Hindutva, must hang their heads in shame for the chir-harana (disrobing) of the modern Draupadi in Uttar Pradesh, the state ruled by the fanatic Hindutva protagonist, Yogi Adityanath, by the cadres of RSS and Narendra Modi’s vigilantes...
India’s Tight Rope Walking On Myanmar Situation Poses Problems
By Ashis Biswas Some recent policy decisions made by Government of India (GOI) in the context of the civil strife in Myanmar have come at a price. Negative perceptions of the ruling NDA II as a regime with a paranoid obsession about national security and an expansion of commercial...
Supreme Court ‘Missed’ Its Chance To Help Migrant Workers During Pandemic
By Jahnavi Sindhu In June, the Supreme Court gave its final judgment on a fresh plea in a pending suo motu case of May 2020 in which the top court had taken cognizance of the difficulties migrant workers faced during the COVID-19 lockdown. The court directed the Centre and...
