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French Judicial Probe Into Rafale Deal Justifies A Similar Inquiry In India
By Prakash Karat The opening of a judicial probe in France on June 14, 2021, into suspected ‘corruption’, ‘influence-peddling’, ‘money laundering’, ‘favouritism and undue tax waivers’ surrounding the €7.87 billion Rafale-India deal has given new life to a major scandal that the Narendra Modi government has done its best...
Demise Of Fr. Stan Swamy Is A Wake Up Call To All Democrats
By D. Raja Father Stan Swamy, 84 years old Jesuit priest, left us all, felled by institutional murder. His death is the direct outcome of the corporate-fascist nexus running amok in the country. Falsely labelled as an anti-national, incarcerated for eight months awaiting trial, Father Stan had dedicated his...
Pandemic Has Shown The Deepening And Wider Divisions In Indian Society
By Krishna Jha In the deep shadows of Pandemic, the society faces a divide, etched in blood. The vast sections of the masses, fighting the acute scarcity and steep rise in prices of essentials, also realise that the challenges are inherent in the system itself. To surmount them needs...
Cabinet Reshuffle An Exercise Aimed At Winning Assembly Elections
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi loyalists and sycophants have been raining accolades on him for Wednesday’s union cabinet rejig and describing him as the most visionary leaders for his move to show the door to his ministerial colleagues, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Prakash Javadekar and Ramesh Pokhriyal....
Cabinet Reshuffle Is Meant To Repair The BJP’s Image Before Coming Polls
By Amulya Ganguli More than the inclusion of Sarbananda Sonowal and Jyotiraditya Scindia in Narendra Modi’s new cabinet, which was expected, it is the unexpected exclusion of old hands like Harsh Vardhan, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prakash Javadekar which is surprising. Yet, their exits can not only be explained,...
Political Realignment Begins In Bihar With Union Cabinet Reshuffle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the reshuffle of the Union Cabinet, realignment in Bihar politics has just begun. The already dominant OBC politics in Bihar is sure to undergo a change because the BJP has focused on the OBC politics in the country which is also indicated in the...
Peru Stages General Strike For Pedro Castillo As Coup Fears Intensify
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Latin American countries are in the midst of a major political turmoil as in Peru, the rightists led by the defeated candidate Ms. Fujimori have launched a vigorous campaign to nullify the results of the presidential elections held last month in which the leftwing candidate...
Crude Market In Wild Swings Should Cause Worry
By K Raveendran Fuel prices have already tested consumers’ capacity to pay, not necessarily due unduly high crude prices. But the oil market in the past few days have been witnessing wild swings, which also implied the potential for a further spike, which will be disastrous for the Indian...
Secret Meetings Generate Big Confusion In Maharashtra Ruling Alliance
By Sushil Kutty ‘Fluid’ is the word that best describes the Maharashtra political situation with two old flames suddenly discovering that they cannot live apart, that the once live-in relationship ought to be rejuvenated just so that everybody and not just themselves could live happily ever after. And ex-chief...
Criminal Justice System In India Needs Complete Overhaul To Give Human Touch
By Arun Srivastava Fr Stan Swamy will no more be present to move a bail petition and bother the judges to spare their precious time to listen to his sufferings. He is a liberated soul. It is for the Director of the NIA to undertake some extra amount of...
Next 18 Months Are Crucial For Reversing Setbacks In Development Goals
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The picture of the unprecedented setback to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) during the last one and half years of COVID-19 pandemic is indeed worrying, yet brighter future is still possible, for which the next 18 months are crucial, and during this time SDG...
Divyanath Panwar Is Now Top Rifle Shooter Preparing For Tokyo Olympic
By Harihar Swarup Seven years ago, a 11-year old boy in Jaipur excitedly watched Apurvi Chandela in her shooting gear train at the Jagatpura range. As India’s top woman rifle shooter, Chandela was the new sporting star in the city and inspiring for budding shooters, Divyanath Panwar was among...
New Generation Of Communists Leading Chile To A Better Future
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zuniga Silva The recent victories of the left in a number of municipalities and in elections for the Constitutional Convention have set the stage for a categorical rejection of the legacy of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship and the building of a new Chile. Javiera...
Mamata fined Rs 5 lakh for doubting court’s impartiality
The Calcutta high court on Wednesday imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for seeking recusal of Justice Kaushik Chanda from her Nandigram election petition over the judge’s alleged links with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The application of the Trinamool Congress...
Ailing 84 Year Old Stan Swamy Died Waiting For Bail On Medical Ground
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Stan Swami died in judicial custody. He was 84 years of age and ailing with several diseases including Parkinson’s. National Investigation Agency (NIA) had arrested him nine months ago in October 2020 on terror charges, yet unfounded, under (Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). In February,...
French Investigations Into Rafale Deal Bode Bad Omen For Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty Rafale, the fighter jet France made and India bought. The Modi Government could have chosen the UK’s Eurofighter, but it plumbed for Rafale. Why? There’s a whiff of a kickback, says former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who can’t let go of the thought; more like he...
Prime Minister Said Untruths To Medical Professionals In His July 1 Address
By Dr. Arun Mitra Medicine is a passion not a profession. Preventing disease and treating the patients gives immense pleasure to a doctor. A person dedicated to the cause is beyond the need for praises. However recognition of medical professional’s work from the mouth of the head of the...
Mohan Bhagwat Gives A New Twist To RSS Perception Of Indian Society
By Arun Srivastava Who is the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat trying to fool? His decrying the culture of lynching of the Muslims by the Hindutva vigilantes or his observation that all Indians share the same DNA, cannot be differentiated on basis of worship must not be construed as his...
