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Keir Starmer’s First Year As Labour Leader Has Been A Big Flop
By Grace Blakeley A year into his leadership, British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has managed to defy the expectations of even his most ardent critics. When he was elected, polls found that he had broad levels of support across many demographics. In a relatively short period of time...
Minimum Basic Income Can Only Protect Poor And Jobless In Second Wave Of Virus
By Nitya Chakraborty The second wave of corona virus is sweeping India virtually paralysing people’s lives in many states, especially Maharashtra leading to night curfew and lockdown in large parts of the virus affected districts. The threat of prolonged lock down is looming large if the wave goes on...
Modi Government Has Little Concern For Poor At This Period Of Virus
By Prabhat Patnaik When Elizabeth Warren a contender for American presidentship had proposed a progressive wealth tax during her campaign for Democratic Party nomination, 18 American billionaires had come out in support of her proposal; one cannot recall or even imagine any comparable behaviour in the Indian context. This...
Acute Labour Crisis Looming Large, May Reverse Economic Recovery
By Gyan Pathak The fear of the lockdown has returned almost after a year to haunt the migrant labour again. The chaos like the last year is yet not surfaced this year, but it does not mean people are less fear stricken. It is because the relocking of the...
Remembering Legendary Singer Actor Paul Robeson On His Birthday
By Papri Sri Raman In 1947, Paul Robeson, the black icon of America said he would give up his career for two years to ‘talk up and down the nation against prejudice’. Does ‘prejudice’ sound a familiar word in today’s India? April 9 is the birthday of this great...
With Lt. Governor At The Helm, Policy Paralysis May Affect Delhi Govt
By Brahm Sareen and Shivesh Saini The emerging global image of the Indian democracy is of an “electoral autocracy”. The central government is making this charge appear more realistic with some of its decisions. For example, on 28 March, the President gave his assent to the Government of National...
Mining Act: Centre Is Usurping Powers Of Mineral-Rich States
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...
Polling Is Over In Three States And One Union Territory-Only Bengal Is Left
By Rahil Nora Chopra Voting took place in assembly constituencies across the states of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union territory of Puducherry on Tuesday. West Bengal, where voting was over for first three phases, will have five more rounds of polling. A visibly enthusiastic...
RBI Report Shows Pragmatic Optimism To Combat The Challenges In Economy
By Anjan Roy In the grim context of a second wave of covid infections spreading throughout the country and nervous sense of foreboding, Reserve Bank’s latest monetary policy is admirably anchored in pragmatic optimism. This is good for a struggling economy and hopefully should be borne out by events....
Protection Of People’s Health And Livelihoods Is Top Most Priority Now
By Prakash Karat With the second wave of the Covid-19 infection unfolding, India is facing a calamitous situation. April 4 saw the breeching of the 100,000 mark (one lakh) in daily cases with 103,709 cases recorded. Three days later, on April 7, the count reached the highest so far...
Second Wave Of Covid Is Too Serious To Allow Any Petty Politics
By Gyan Pathak As the second wave of COVID-19 in India is becoming grimmer, politics in the country is becoming uglier. The most objectionable was the attitude of the centre to treat the spread of the pandemic as godsend opportunity to implement whatever they want to, violating the very...
Farmers On Dharna Are Carrying The Tradition Of Mahatma Gandhi’s Dandi March
By Krishna Jha Demanding repeal of three farm laws, guarantee for the purchase of the crops, and also minimum support price, the farmers are sitting on dharna on the borders of Delhi for last almost 140 days, and have initiated the ‘Mitti Satyagraha’ commemorating the famous Dandi March that...
‘AI Judges’ The Only Hope For Our Overburdened Judiciary
By K Raveendran Three years ago, this column had talked about the possibility of non-human judges, powered by artificial intelligence and latest advances in machine learning. The immediate provocation was two Supreme Court benches considering the same case and applying the same law and legal principles and yet coming...
Violence By Authorities Has Become A Common Feature In Countries
By Dr Arun Mitra Global community is rightly outraged at the killings of over 500 peacefully protesting people by the Military Junta in Myanmar. Not long ago the Rohingyas were forced to flee by the violent mobs. People are again running away from their homeland and are trying to...
Election Commission Has To Act As A Model In Next Five Phases In Bengal Poll
By Arun Srivastava Within forty hours of charging her with committing misdemeanour, the Election Commission on April 7 threatened Mamata Banerjee of taking action for violating Representation of the People’s Act by appealing Muslims to vote en bloc for Trinamool Congress. While the EC construes this as an appeal...
Pakistan Civil Society Defends Eminent Writer Amir Jalil Against Attacks By Bigots
By Sankar Ray More than 300 writers, poets, intellectuals, human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, teachers, students and other people from different walks of life are up on their feet in defence of 84-year old Sindh writer and human rights campaigner Amir Jalil for the hate speech against the letter...
Brazil’s Covid Crisis Exposes Worst Features Of Neo-Liberalism
By Ben Chacko Brazil’s coronavirus death toll has hit a record high, with 4,000 deaths each day. This is a desperate crisis for Brazil but it has implications for the rest of the Americas — and for the world. Covid-19 infections have taken off over recent weeks with the...
Relocking The Indian Economy Without Preparedness
By Gyan Pathak Let us not quarrel on the words, the vague terms that the Modi government officials are using. Vague terms give them and their supporters great freedom in explaining whatever they want to unlike the ‘clear terms’ in which they fear they may be caught. That is...
