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Post Poll Defeats, Congress State Units To Hold Internal Reshuffles
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress, which suffered a crushing defeat in the assembly elections in Kerala, Assam and West Bengal, is having a tough time with many leaders demanding a generational change in leadership, both within the organisation and also in parliamentary politics. The Congress’s five-member panel, headed by...
Indian Masses Are Paying The Price For Faulty Policies Of Modi Govt
By Prakash Karat As the peak of the second wave of the Covid pandemic begins to slowly recede, the havoc wreaked on lakhs of families has been occupying the attention of the whole country. There is widespread dismay and anger at the way the health emergency caught the Modi...
Lakshadweep People Are Fighting To Protect Secular Character Of Nation
By Binoy Viswam Lakshadweep, the group of small islands, located in the Arabian sea towards the South West coast of Kerala shores is the smallest Union Territory in India. Among the 36 Islands in the UT, only 11 are inhabited and the total population is roughly estimated around 75,000....
BJP Faces Uncertain Future In Bengal As Dissensions Grow Among Cadres
By Arun Srivastava While celebration of the seven years of Narendra Modi regime is being observed as a major national event by the RSS and BJP workers in different parts of the country, the BJP rank and file in Bengal have developed a cold feet to the latest central...
Narendra Modi, Yogi And Catch-22 Situation In Uttar Pradesh
By Sushil Kutty Perhaps Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath wakes up to a headache these days. Post-Covid complications? More likely it’ll have to do with speculation rife that the Yogi is no longer in the good books of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and that the Uttar Pradesh BJP...
Pakistan Starts Manufacturing Covid Vaccines With Chinese Assistance
By Sankar Ray Pakistan has started indigenous production of Covid-19 vaccine PakVac, a replica of China’s single-dose, CanSino at the National Institute of Health plant, set up in April. Like Russia’s Sputnik, it is a single-shot vaccine. This was disclosed by Dr Faisal Sultan, special assistant to the Prime...
Mythily Sivaraman Was A Model Human Rights Activist And Trade Union Worker
By R. Vaigai “Freedom is indivisible. There is no question of freedom for one and none for the other. We have to stand united for complete freedom,” said Mythily Sivaraman, a Marxist, trade unionist, and women’s rights activist, who left us on May 30, 2021. Comrade Mythily, a friend,...
If Modi’s Wishes Had Wings, Things Would Have Been Different
By K Raveendran The Allahabad High Court had said that the state of affairs regarding treatment and management of Covid cases in Uttar Pradesh could only be considered ‘Ram Bharose’. The government quickly moved the Supreme Court against the observation. The apex court obliged, asking high courts to desist...
My Days With Alapan Bandyopadhyay, New Chief Adviser To Mamata
By Nitya Chakraborty Alapan Bandyopadhyay is in the eye of the storm raging between the Centre and the State of West Bengal. The gentleman bureaucrat has been hogging national headlines after the Modi-led Union government ordered his transfer on the night of May 28 following the PMO charge that...
Bengal BJP In Swoop As Centre Takes On Alapan Bandyopadhyay
By Arun Srivastava Unable to take Mamata Banerjee head on, Narendra Modi is resorting to tactics of attacking her from behind. This is certainly not the characteristic of a warrior, as fighter as Modi is being projected by his supporters and party colleagues. The show cause notice to Alapan...
Minority Scholarship Order: Kerala Govt Caught In A Cleft Stick
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court’s verdict which quashed the 80:20 ratio in granting scholarship to minorities has put the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in a tight spot. The Government had granted 80 per cent scholarships to the Muslim community and 20 per cent to Latin...
No Takers For Post Of 4,900 Doctors In Covid-Hit Madhya Pradesh
By Kashif Kakvi The devastating second wave of COVID-19 and warnings about a third wave on the horizon may made the Madhya Pradesh government keep oxygen, ventilators and beds ready, but is any attention being paid to the biggest gaping hole that the state’s health system may be left...
Christopher Thorpe Explored The Anthropology Of Western Ghats Region
By Harihar Swarup Christopher Thorpe, 65, first toured the entire length of the Western Ghats as a 20-year-old backpacker, travelling by bus and train right down to Rameswaram, completely enchanted by the beauty of landscape. However, it was only in 2008 that he started looking at the ancient land...
Biden Needs To Change His Approach To President Maduro Of Venezuela
By Tim Young Donald Trump’s approach to Venezuela proved to be singularly unsuccessful. As president he ratcheted up sanctions against Venezuela’s elected government in an attempt to bring about “regime change.” Over Trump’s time in office, sanctions against Venezuela were widened and intensified into a blockade of its commercial...
Centre-Bengal Tussle Is Hurting The Very Concept Of Cooperative Federalism
By Kalyani Shankar If West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee does not leave any opportunity to settle political scores with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, nor does the Centre (BJP) with Banerjee. Last week, to show her annoyance, she opted out of the meeting to review the cyclone havoc in...
Narendra Modi Is Determined To Teach Mamata Banerjee “A Lesson”
By Nitya Chakraborty The confrontation between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the West Bengal Chief Minister has now reached a critical level posing questions about the very future of our federal system guaranteed by the Indian constitution. The letter by the centre sent on Monday evening to Alapan...
Bengal’s Proposal For A Legislative Council Evades Crucial Questions
By Sagarneel Sinha After coming back to power for the third consecutive time, chief minister Mamata Banerjee has once again reignited an old debate in the state. The debate is about the efficiency of a bicameral house in a state. Back in 2011, when Mamata first came to power,...
Only Full Vaccination Of The Entire Population Can Beat The Virus
By Sushil Kutty The United States, says the tribe of anti-vaxers, is past the “incentives phase” of the “vaccination escalation hierarchy’. The incentives phase follows the “voluntary phase” and precedes the “punishment phase”. India remains stuck in the “voluntary phase”, where vaccination is pushed by legacy media, Social Media...
