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ILL Planned Vaccination Programme Stumbles Amidst Shortages
By Dr. Somu The second wave of COVID-19 pandemic situation across the country is becoming alarming. With nearly 1.52 lakh new cases being reported daily (as on April 10) and the death toll mounting, health situation takes a turn for the worse. Amidst the deadly chaos, various states report...
Modi Government Is Trying To Grab All Natural Resources Of The Country
By Neeraj Mishra Amidst the din over farm bills, the BJP government (it should no longer be called NDA since there are no ministers from any coalition parties) has deftly manoeuvred the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill 2021 through both Houses of Parliament. It’s the BJP’s...
Akhilesh Yadav Is Playing Aggressive Dalit Card To Expand Support Base
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav played aggressive dalit card to win over Dalits by celebrating 130th Ambedkar Jayanti all over the state as “Dalit Deepawali.” Following directives from the national president, the Samajwadi Party leaders and workers celebrated Ambedkar Jayanti all over the state...
For Congress, Rahul Gandhi Is The Only Candidate For President’s Post
By Rahil Nora Chopra For quite some time now, there has been continued confusion on whether Rahul Gandhi was ready to take over the Congress president again, given that so far no other candidate has emerged for the post of Congress president. As of now, there is no clarity...
Election Commission Has Been Following Diktat Of Modi Government
By Prakash Karat The subversion of constitutional bodies under the Narendra Modi regime is proceeding apace. Nothing exemplifies this more than what has happened to the Election Commission of India (EC). The EC’s stand on the elections for three vacant seats from Kerala in the Rajya Sabha has brought...
Narendra Modi’s Rafale Deal Never Goes Into Oblivion
By Krishna Jha It is again Rafale at our door steps as the controversy lands in Supreme Court for the third time. Apart from other issues, question involves also the fact that the deal was made at 41.47 percent higher a rate than the one made earlier. Dassault claimed...
Kerala Minister Jaleel Gets The ‘Jab’ Of Resignation
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In politics, as in life, if you repeat mistakes ad nauseam, you end up paying a heavy price. It is once again a case of timing gone terribly wrong in the case of the CPI(M) and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government. The latest lapse...
Bhima Koregaon Accused, Prof Shoma Sen Challenges Prosecution
By Satyaki Chakraborty An accused in the Bhima Koregaon case, Professor Dr. Shoma Sen, has petitioned the Bombay High Court challenging her prosecution under the stringent anti-terrorism Unlawful Activities (Prevention) (UAPA) Act. Sen, a former Head of Department of English at Nagpur University, alleged that that the case against...
Solar Costs Reverse A Falling Trend, To Hit New Projects
By K Raveendran Solar energy costs, which have been consistently coming down over the past several years, are suddenly reversing the trend, with the result that the cost of setting up solar farms is again going up. This is attributed to an increase in the cost of modules, shipping...
Labour Party On Decline Under The Leadership Of Keir Starmer
By Arun Srivastava A recent poll suggesting Labour could lose Hartlepool byelection has sent tremors through the party. A major section of the labour leaders, who played key role in installing Keir Starmer as the leader of the party feel that he has not been able to lead it...
Ending The United States’ 20-Year War In Afghanistan By September 11
By Karl Engels A war that never should have happened is finally coming to an end. By Sept. 11, 2021—twenty years to the day since the 9/11 terrorist attacks—the final U.S. troops will supposedly be leaving Afghanistan, according to an announcement coming from the Biden administration. It is the...
2021 Bengal Poll Has Some Similarities With 1987 Assembly Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty The current assembly elections in West Bengal are showing some similarities in tenor of campaigning and the participation of the Prime Minister as was evident in the 1987 assembly elections. But the actors are different. In 1987, Rajiv Gandhi as the Congress Prime Minister took it...
Taming The Second Covid-19 Wave Has Just Got Tougher
By Gyan Pathak Vaccine net expansion in India’s arsenal in fighting the COVID-19 battle is certainly a wise decision of the Modi government, though taken only after a great loss of lives and livelihoods, and tremendous pressure from the people, experts, and the opposition. However, it may not prove...
Modi-Shah’s Aggressive Polarising Campaign In Bengal Has Hurt Voters
By Arun Srivastava It was a protest with a difference on Tuesday by Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee. If opposition leaders appeared at the dharna place to express their solidarity with Mamata Banerjee, Hindu religious leaders and Muslim clerics were also present. The woman general secretary of the Hindu Maha...
Britain’s Local Elections See Largest Number Of Communist Candidates
By Ben Chacko LONDON—On May 6, voters in Britain will go to the polls in local elections that will see the largest number of candidates representing the Communist Party since the early 1980s. Candidates will be campaigning in the Welsh Senedd, Scottish Parliament, and London, Assembly as well as...
Keshubhai Patel Was One Of The Tallest BJP Leaders In Gujarat
By Harihar Swarup Keshubhai Patel, awarded Padma Bhushan posthumously, was one of the tallest leaders of Gujarat. Towards the fag end of his career, he gave a fight to Narendra Modi before he (Modi) became the Chief Minister for the first time. Modi, having ruled Gujarat for 13 years,...
Ambedkar Was One Of The First In India To Discuss History Shaping Identity
By Urvi Desai The writing of history is a sea of thought that encompasses labour and mobility, gender and sexuality, the local and global. It borrows from the prior academic work and historical imagination of the writer. In many cases, the writing of history dialogues with political and social...
Centre And State Governments Have To Jointly Combat The Second Covid Wave
By Kalyani Shankar Should political parties in India play politics over Covid 19? That is what is happening on vaccines’ delivery in the past few days when a dangerous second wave is endangering to attack the country. It has resulted in a fight for more doses of vaccines between...
