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Talibans Continue Capturing New Areas In Afghanistan Defying Pact
By Sankar Ray The more the deadline (11 September 2021) for complete withdrawal of the US troops from the Afghan soil draws , the more dreadful is the spectre of Taliban haunting rural areas in eastern, southern, northern, and western Afghanistan. A stark increase in deadly suicide bombings striking...
Chinese Scammers Sneak Into India In Hordes
By Nantoo Banerjee Imagine illegal migrants from India running hotels, call centres, fake financial services firms, hawala rackets and spy outfits in Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Guangdong or in any other popular business hubs in China, which is known to mercilessly control the entry and exit of foreigners! Leave alone...
BJP Still Considers Rahul Gandhi As Biggest Threat To Sangh Parivar
By Amulya Ganguli It is obvious that the secular camp is hoping against hope to revive the moribund Congress so that it can take on the BJP. Some in the group are also banking on Rahul Gandhi to shed his part-timer tag and take to the field in real...
BJP Government In Tripura Is Facing Continuing Tensions In Leadership
By Sagarneel Sinha For the time being, the BJP leadership may be content with the fact that it has somehow managed to douse the fire of rebellion in the state by preventing its disgruntled MLAs from leaving the party. The internal rift, however, hasn’t died. It has just slowed...
Maharashtra Congress Reconciles To Uddhav Thackeray As CM For Five Years
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s “beat with shoes” remark did the trick. Thackeray’s hint that shoes are also to hammer sense into politicians and political parties gone astray worked. The Congress took the hint, and stepped down from its high horse. Thackeray said people would “beat...
SAIL’s Decision To Dissolve Raw Materials Division Highly Questionable
By Sankar Ray The decision of top management of the Steel Authority of India to close down its Raw Materials Division Head Office in Kolkata is a bolt from the blue for 400 and odd direct and indirect staffers in Kolkata at a time when everyone is panicked about...
SC Order To Evict Illegal Houses Will Render One Lakh Homeless
By Ujjaini Chatterji A Supreme Court order to evict over 10,000 households from Khori Gaon near the Surajkund area of Faridabad, Haryana will affect over one lakh people who have been living in the area for over 40 years. The population in these households primarily consist of workers who...
After Seven Years Of Uninterrupted Reign, Narendra Modi Facing Challenges
By Harihar Swarup The beginning of the third year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term would be an apt occasion to look at the early days of this innings. He began as a run-hungry batsman, eager to notch up a big score, belting out sixes and fours to...
Political Intervention To Arrest High Fuel Prices On The Way
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government is back with its diabolical game on fuel prices. With crucial assembly elections on the way, including the all-important UP poll, alibis are being found to warrant a political intervention and arrest the continuous spike in petrol and diesel prices, conveniently blamed...
Faster Recovery Of Economy From Pandemic Should Be Priority Now
By Anjan Roy As the petrol and diesel prices are creeping up almost day by day, the general public is wondering what is happening. Politicians are shouting hoarse and demanding a government hand in checking the rise. Everyone is saying the petroleum products price hike will at the next...
Doctors Need Full Support And Protection To Treat Patients In Pandemic
By Dr Arun Mitra A doctor was called to the police station for inquiry into a complaint lodged by him against someone who had misbehaved with him. The police officer asked the doctor that why he did not retaliate when the said person was misbehaving. The doctor politely replied...
Supreme Court Must Give A Relook At The Abuse Of UAPA By Ruling Regime
By Arun Srivastava The euphoria over the release of the three student activists after one year of their stay in Tihar jail is being re assessed just within 24 hours of granting their bail, after the Supreme Court stating on June 18 that the manner in which the HC...
Bangladesh Is Seen Favourably By Foreign Tourists For Travel Purpose
By Ashis Biswas A curious paradox prevails in Bangladesh: There is more anger at home about the growing spiral of non-political crimes and violence, than among Western diplomats, companies and investors. In broad sections of the Bangladeshi media there is much anguish expressed over the recent spate of murders,...
How Benjamin Netanyahu Won America But Lost Israel
By Ramzy Baroud Recently deposed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is as much American as he is Israeli. While other Israeli leaders have made their strong relationship with Washington a cornerstone in their politics, Netanyahu’s political style was essentially American from the start. Netanyahu spent many of his formative...
Removal Of Sedition Related 124A Of IPC From Indian Statute Is Imperative
By Binoy Viswam Ever since RSS led BJP has come to power, the democratic spirit of the Constitution has been constantly under attack. In fact democracy itself and its impeccable values are grossly threatened by the managers of state power. In the name of patriotism, attempts have been made...
G-7 Decision On Vaccine Donation Is Insufficient For Developing Countries
By Prabhat Patnaik The G-7 meeting that has just concluded has promised to donate one billion doses of anti-Covid vaccine to the rest of the world, consisting primarily of the so-called “developing” countries. The US has promised 500 million doses, Britain 100 million doses; the otherG-7 countries, Italy, Japan,...
Narendra Modi’s Present Vaccine Policy Encourages Health-Inequity
By Dr Arun Mitra As per the reports the Sputnik vaccine on its arrival will be first given to Apollo Hospital. Whether it will be inoculated free of cost or will be paid has not been made clear by the government. It is understandable that the production of vaccine...
Domestic Workers In India Are Among The Worst Hit By Covid-19
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Domestic workers are the worst hit segment in the labour market during the one and half years of the COVID-19 crisis. Even after ten years of adoption of the Domestic Workers’ Convention they have been fighting for legal recognition, equality, decent remuneration and working conditions,...
