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G-7 Decision On Vaccine Donation Is Insufficient For Developing Countries
By Prabhat Patnaik The G-7 meeting that has just concluded has promised to donate one billion doses of anti-Covid vaccine to the rest of the world, consisting primarily of the so-called “developing” countries. The US has promised 500 million doses, Britain 100 million doses; the otherG-7 countries, Italy, Japan,...
Narendra Modi’s Present Vaccine Policy Encourages Health-Inequity
By Dr Arun Mitra As per the reports the Sputnik vaccine on its arrival will be first given to Apollo Hospital. Whether it will be inoculated free of cost or will be paid has not been made clear by the government. It is understandable that the production of vaccine...
Domestic Workers In India Are Among The Worst Hit By Covid-19
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Domestic workers are the worst hit segment in the labour market during the one and half years of the COVID-19 crisis. Even after ten years of adoption of the Domestic Workers’ Convention they have been fighting for legal recognition, equality, decent remuneration and working conditions,...
Explosive Links Between Two Encounter Specialists In Mumbai
By Sushil Kutty Who’s afraid of the Antilia explosives scare case? So far five “policemen” are in the NIA net. Two of them encounter specialists of the ‘Ab Tak Chappan’ variety, the extremely scary Sachin Vaze, and the dreaded Pradeep Sharma who is said to have shot dead 113...
Lakhs Of Preventable Covid-19 Deaths Happened Due To Lack Of Planning
By Ujjaini Chatterji “Had the government followed the rule of law and followed expert advice the 2nd wave would have been anticipated. Without being advised by experts or ignoring their advice on matters of public health, which is impairment of the Rule of law, no preparations were made for...
G-23 Candidate Against Rahul In Congress Presidential Polls Likely
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress party is going to announce the party president election dates soon. According to sources, the process of election will start in the first week of July and Rahul Gandhi will be contesting. While the G-23 group of leaders, led by the Congress veteran...
Russia Rejoins The Global High Table Of Diplomacy Once Again
By Anjan Roy What we have witnessed this week is the most profound reset of global diplomatic relations in recent times. A meeting between two leaders of the two most militarily powerful countries in a way sets the clock back into the past which significantly could be a...
Narendra Modi Has Exposed His Doublespeak And Hypocrisy At G-7 Meet
By Prakash Karat Prime Minister Narendra Modi has an inordinate capacity for doublespeak and hypocritical posturing. Even then, his performance at the outreach meeting of the G7 Summit at Cornwall reached new heights. At the session on “open societies” to which four guest countries were invited – South Africa,...
Congress Is Facing Big Churning In Kerala As New President Takes Over
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The K. Sudhakaran era in the Congress in Kerala has begun with the Kannur strongman formally taking charge as the president of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) on June 16 amid much hype and blatant violation of the Covid-19 protocol. The Police have filed...
Political Stalmate In Nepal May Continue Even After November Poll
By Barun Das Gupta Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli lost parliamentary majority on May 10 but did not resign. He continues to be the PM, courtesy president Bidya Devi Bhandari. The next election to the House of Representatives will be held on November 12 and 19 this...
Delhi Police Is Acting As Super Judiciary In Defying High Court Bail Order
By Arun Srivastava Once again the Delhi police has been caught distorting the judicial provision and penal policy by not releasing the three student activists Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Iqbal Tanha granted bail on June 16 by the Delhi High Court on the plea that it needed...
Japanese Investors Have Been Slow In Adapting To Digital Economy
By Subrata Majumder Surprises loom large over Japanese investment in India, which plummeted in 2020 against the spurring growth in investment by global riches like USA, Singapore and UK. Analysts were agog with Japanese volte- face to India’s FDI potential, despite the fact that total FDI flow in India...
Calcutta High Court’s Delayed Disposal Of Bail Pleas Violates Rights
By Purbayan Chakraborty THE Calcutta High Court has a celebrated history when it comes to the protection of constitutional rights. It has very recently championed the cause of liberty by granting interim bail very expeditiously to the four accused All India Trinamool Congress leaders through its order on May...
Court Strictures Are A Clear Indictment Of Modi Govt
By K Raveendran It is a sign of the times that we live in that a court has to say protesting and terrorist acts are two different things and not interchangeable to suit the whims and fancies of the government of the day. The observation, by the Delhi High...
Chirag Paswan May Be Getting Ready To Start A New Political Innings
By Arun Srivastava Revolt has much wider connotation and it has got an ideological implication. Actually the five Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) members of parliament severing their relationship with the party and later replacing Chirag Paswan as the party president by Pashupati Paras the younger brother of Ram Vilas...
Opposition Split Gives Advantage To President Ortega In Nicaragua Poll On November 7
By Nitya Chakraborty Nicaragua is holding its general elections on November 7 this year but the tempo of the poll campaign has already hotted up in the wake of the recent victory of the left candidates in parliamentary elections in Mexico and presidential elections in Peru. This small Latin...
Prof. D N Jha Was A Great Fighter Against Distortions In History
By Harihar Swarup Former professor and chair at the Department of History at Delhi University specialising in ancient and medieval history, D N Jha consistently called out what he saw as distortions of Indian history. A historian whose work on India’s ancient past often found its way into...
Indian Democracy Is Only As Strong As Country’s Own Institutions
By B K Chaturvedi This week, at a G-7 conference, India reaffirmed its commitment to democracy in a joint statement. The statement, which India has signed, says, “We are at a critical juncture, facing threats to freedom and democracy from rising authoritarianism, electoral interference, corruption, economic coercion, manipulation...
