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Should Twitter Have The Power To Lock An Account?
By Prajjwal Kushwaha and Kanishk Garg The recent action taken by Twitter against Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account has rekindled debate on the company’s power to lock or suspend a user’s account. In response to a copyright complaint sent on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment by the...
SAIL’s Raw Materials Division Must Remain In Kolkata
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little business or commercial reason behind the government’s move to dismantle the age-old Kolkata-based raw materials division (RMD) of public sector Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The move appears to be totally political and engineered by the national government. The division has done...
BJP’s “Walk Back” In Kashmir Marks A Change In Its Hard Hindutva Stance
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP’s “walk back” on Kashmir – to use a polite term for “retreat – must have made it appreciate the difficulty of implementing a religion-based agenda in a democracy. At the root of the Narendra Modi government’s decision to scrap Articles 370 and 35A of...
Farmers Unions Are Engaged In Crucial Struggle For Gaining Power
By Arun Srivastava On June 26, the dayafter Indira Gandhi had imposed emergency 46 years ago, the farmers’ movement entered into its 8th month of survival. Though yesterday Narendra Modi took to twits to recollect the tyrannies “he had to face” during the Emergency days, he did not mention...
Dying MSMEs And Consequent Jobs Loss Is Frightening
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India have been dying for a long time even before the outbreak of COVID-19 resulting in large number of job losses. The lockdown announced on March 24, 2020 and the containment measures aggravated the situation further. Announcement of...
India’s Supreme Court Must Stop Wanton Abuse Of UAPA
By Fawaz Shaheen and Madhur Bharatiya It rarely happens in ordinary bail matters that within 72 hours of a court order, numerous aspects related to it get extensively argued at every level of the judiciary. In the recent instance of three students arrested in connection with the violence that...
Stonewall Anniversary: Rainbow Capitalism Or LGBTQ Liberation?
By C.J. Atkins The rainbow-emblazoned corporate swag has been ordered, the gay and lesbian employees dispatched to New York. The floats are all designed and constructed, ready to roll down Fifth Avenue—colorful billboards advertising just how LGBT friendly T-Mobile, MasterCard, TD Bank, Delta Air Lines, and other sponsors are...
Large Volume Of Foreign Aid To India To Fight Pandemic Is Welcome
By Harihar Swarup: As India reeled under the second wave of Covid-19, one fact became evident — it would not be left to struggle alone. Aid poured into India from over 40 nations. Countries sent oxygen, medical equipment, ventilators, and antiviral drugs. Offers of help came not just from...
Twitter Errs In Interpretation Of Fan Following Of Songs
By K Raveendran On the face of it, Twitter blocking the accounts of Ravi Shankar Prasad, who as IT minister apparently considers himself to be the be-all and end-all of social media and the freedom of expression, and Shashi Tharoor, chairman of parliament’s standing committee on IT, would appear...
The Importance Of Being Sharad Pawar In Present Day National Politics
By Sushil Kutty As Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks less and less invincible, there is a political churning happening in the country and the Opposition parties are electric with possibilities, with several of them hoping to come together to mount a collective challenge to the Modi-Shah juggernaut. And it’s...
Farmers Knocking At Rajbhavans Has Wider Significance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers’ sit-in protest against the three farm laws at Delhi borders completes seven months today. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella organization of as many as 40 farmers’ unions leading the agitation, is knocking at Rajbhavans across the country in form of demonstration to...
Narendra Modi’s Kashmir Initiative Is Meant To Placate International Opinion
By Arun Srivastava Kashmiri leaders who till recently were identified as the Gupkar gang need not be euphoric at their June 24 meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An insight into the deliberations the Kashmiri leaders had with Modi makes it explicit that his design wrapped in the...
President Biden Following Same Trump Policy On Cuba Sanctions
By W. T. Whitney Jr. The United Nations General Assembly on June 23 overwhelmingly approved a Cuban resolution condemning the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba, in place for 60 years. The Assembly has done precisely that every year since 1992, except for 2020, when the vote...
Shiv Sena Has A Clear Gameplan For Maharashtra And Centre Also
By Sushil Kutty The other day somebody wrote that the only party that stood between Narendra Modi and a third term as Prime Minister was the Indian National Congress; of course with the cautionary note that Wayanad MP and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi should understand the enormity of...
Even The Industry Heads Are Recommending Cash Transfers To The Poor
By Prabhat Patnaik In terms of economic policy, the Modi government must be perhaps the most conservative in the world. During the entire period of the pandemic when millions of people lost their incomes and livelihood support, most governments around the world provided universal cash transfers to the people,...
Urgent Joint Action Is Needed To Prevent The Next Wave Of Pandemic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Vaccination against COVID-19 suffers from inequality and sluggishness. Inequality in such an extent that 80 per cent of the vaccines have been administered in the high and upper-middle-income countries, as against 19.7 per cent in rest of the middle income group, and only 0.3 per...
Present BJP Leaders Benefitted Most From Emergency Of Indira Gandhi
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Every year on 25 June, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders recall the crime against democracy and humanity that former prime minister late Indira Gandhi and the Congress committed by imposing the Emergency and sending hundreds—they would say thousands—of Opposition leaders, especially those who belonged...
Sharad Pawar Key To Stitching A Viable Opposition Front
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formation of a third front is back. While talk of a third front has been recurrent, the key difference this time is that NCP supremo, Sharad Pawar, one of the sharpest and most experienced leaders in Indian politics, is being...
