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Bangladesh Cheers Trinamool Congress Win
By Ashis Biswas While the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) major election victory in Bengal has been welcomed in Bangladesh, there is also an undercurrent of dismay. Judging by social media messaging, Bangladeshis fear that the Teesta River Water sharing project may not be implemented. And criticism on this score about...
Time For U.S. Foreign Policy To Abandon Cold War Strategies
By David Cavendish Passing the 100-day mark of President Joe Biden’s administration, one word we hear often is “bold.” From the passage of the American Rescue Plan (to fight the coronavirus), to important changes proposed in the American Jobs Plan (on infrastructure), and his American Families Plan (expand paid...
Kerala: A Significant Victory For The Left
By Prakash Karat The Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala has been re-elected to office with a big mandate. This is a significant election in many respects. The first significant aspect of the election is that this is the first time after 1977 that an incumbent government has...
Poll Panel’s Outlandish Stand Against Media Fails To Impress
By K Raveendran The Madras High Court’s ‘warning’ to the Election Commission that it should be booked for murder for failing to prevent the spread of Covid infection, no doubt, came like a bolt from the blue. But the demand by the poll panel that media must be debarred...
Covid-19 Stretching Healthcare Systems To Breaking Point
By Gyan Pathak The deadly new surge in COVID-19 in South Asia, especially India, has strained the healthcare systems to a breaking point in the whole region. India has become the worst affected country, not only in the region but also in the world with 4.13 lakh new daily...
Home Ministry Escalates Blame Game With Mamata
By Arun Srivastava Goebbelian thesis has come alive in Bengal. The RSS and the BJP have succeeded in their design to push a divisive narrative that the state has been in the midst of a communal war like situation. Coinciding with the occasion of swearing in of Mamata Banerjee...
Narendra Modi In The Crosshairs For The First Time In Seven Years
By Sushil Kutty “Law and order are everywhere the law and order which protect the established hierarchy,” wrote the mid 19th French literary figure Honore de Balzac. Replace with “Covid-care is everywhere the Covid-care which protects the established hierarchy” and we’ve hit the nail on the head. Common folk,...
BJP Gets Rude Shock In U.P. Panchayat Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP got a rude shock when it lost in Ayodhya, Varanasi (Kashi) and Mathura in zila panchyat elections. What could be more shocking for the ruling party that it lost in these three Hindu bastions.BJP won so many elections riding on the Hindutva wave in...
How Modi Govt Policies Made Air Travel More Costly
By Nihar Gokhale In the year 2017, the Government of India changed the way airport tariffs are calculated in India. Airport tariffs are fees that passengers and airlines pay the airport for using its services, which include user development fees (that are a part of air tickets) and aircraft...
SC Verdict In Maratha Quota Case Is A Timely Wake-Up Call
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court verdict in the keenly-awaited Maratha reservation case is a setback to the unscrupulous plans of political parties to use reservation as a tool for vote bank politics rather than as an instrument to help disadvantaged sections of the society catch up with social...
India Must Widen Food Support Programme
By Gyan Pathak The second wave of Covid-19 has been pushing millions more in India into destitution and extreme poverty. Many families are losing their earning members to the pandemic, many survived alone and have nothing left with them even to feed themselves, and many lost their jobs. We,...
The Politics Behind Portraying Mamata As Guilty
By Arun Srivastava In the evening of May 2, the moment the Election Commission refused to accede to Mamata Banerjee’s request to recount the votes, it became clear that the BJP was ready with its strategy to humiliate Mamata, destabilise her government once she is sworn in as the...
Chronicler Of Dalit Struggle Wins Saraswati Samman
By Harihar Swarup Marathi novelist, poet, critic and short story writer Sharankumar Limbale was selected for the 2020 Saraswati Samman, a prestigious literary recognition conferred annually by the KK Birla Foundation. The 30th edition of the prize, the highest recognition in the field of Indian literature in the country,...
Modi’s Faith In Youth Power Turns Out To Be An Empty Slogan
By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi is at his eloquent best when he talks about the ‘youth power’ of India and how the future is safe and secure in their hands. “The more emphasis we put on India’s youth power and the more opportunities we will give them,...
Asia Runs The Risk Of Financial Turmoil
By Gyan Pathak Asia is now running the risk of a financial turmoil. The hopes of its recovery have been dashed by the second wave of Covid-19 in India. It has even endangered the global economic recovery. The drop in employment for the region has been projected nearly 70...
Mamata’s Determined Venture Into National Politics
By Arun Srivastava Just 48 hours ahead of her being formally sworn in as the chief minister, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee moved one step forward to stake her say in the national politics. For the experts and the political establishment, who till May 1 were sure of Mamata losing...
What’s Troubling Adar Poonawala, Will The Modi Govt Come Clean?
By Sushil Kutty Adar Poonawala is the ‘King of Vaccines’. And in today’s Covid-19 world, he’s bigger than Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani. Poonawala runs the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest producer of vaccines with a production facility in Pune. Now, on the turn of a coin,...
Asol Poriborton Can Wait In West Bengal
By Nantoo Banerjee The most important lesson from the results of the latest West Bengal Assembly election is that the state is not prepared to accept religion-led politics. The state would rather suffer inadequate economic development, lack of industry, large unemployment and extortion than surrender to a political rule...
