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‘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...
Leftwing Arauz Tipped To Win Presidetial Poll In Ecuador On April 11
By Nitya Chakraborty With only three days left for the Presidential elections run off in the Latin American nation Ecuador on April 11, all indications suggest that the leftist candidate leading economist Andres Arauz is set to win the poll defeating his contender the conservative banker Guillermo Lasso. The...
Covid Vaccination At This Stage Should Cover Below 45 Years Also
By Sushil Kutty The alarming spike in Covid-19 cases has spooked the Modi Government. It has asked its employees aged 45+ to get themselves vaccinated to “effectively contain the spread of Covid-19.” A year after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked people to bang thalis to ward off the coronavirus,...
Central Security Forces Have To Act As Per Rules In Bengal Polling
By Arun Srivastava Deploying a huge contingent of the central security forces, the Home Minister Amit Shah has assured the people of Bengal that it would ensure peaceful, fair and free election. But his high sounding promises have turned out to be delusion. While the claim of impartiality of...
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Facing Twin Challenges Right Now
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is waging a war on several fronts. The fronts include controlling the spread of Covid-19, contesting a prestigious bye-election in the state and also visiting various states to support the BJP candidates. Damoh will soon go to...
Maulana Kable Sadiq Was Known Globally For Spreading Education For Women
By Harihar Swarup Maulana Kable Sadiq, who was awarded posthumously third highest civilian award- Padma Bhushan—was conservative yet liberal Muslim. He was recognized world-wide for his liberal image. He and his followers fought a life-long battle to eliminate orthodox tradition from Muslim society. He not only opposed the conservatism,...
Many Factors Are Responsible For Erosion Of Democracy In India
By Ajit Singh History has never been easy for the French. 232 years after the fall of Bastille, the French Revolution still stirs passions of both agony & jubilation. This great revolution of 1789 led to the origin of the principle of liberty and the concept of Constitutional law....
Biden Administration Targets Big Business To Mobilise Resources
By Karl Engels Tax-dodging corporations that pit countries against one another in a race to the bottom may soon have fewer places to hide. That’s because, in a sharp reversal from Trump administration policy, President Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stepped up Monday to back international negotiations for...
Left Voters In Bengal Have To Take Decisive Step To Defeat BJP
By Satyaki Chakraborty Following three phases of polling in Bengal for the state assembly, I got a number of messages from my friends in Kolkata and others of Bengal expressing their dilemma as a supporter of the Left in choosing candidates in the ensuing poll. The problem is the...
Ongoing State Assembly Elections Are Turning Out Tough For All Parties
By Kalyani Shankar Is there an x-factor that could play in the on-going five states assembly polls? X factors are always unexpected and might play sometimes positive and other times a negative role in polls. In a few weeks’ time, we will know which way it has played in...
LDF Has An Edge, Pinarayi Vijayan The Trump Card
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Who will win the Final – the mother of all battles for the Kerala Assembly? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Keralites as the State went to the polls on Tuesday amid a big surge in covid cases. The fear is real...
Uddhav Has A Tough Task To Keep MVA In Power After Deshmukh’s Resignation
By Sushil Kutty The Bombay High Court is right. There cannot be an independent probe if the Maharashtra Police or the Mumbai Police were to investigate the charge against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. Hidden in that observation was the hint to Deshmukh to resign. Now, the CBI will...
Civil Resistance Growing Against Army Rule In Myanmar
By Barun Das Gupta The army in Myanmar took over power two months ago, ousting the elected government and throwing its leader behind bars. There has been mass resistance to army rule which shows no signs of abating. The army continues to shoot down civil resisters demanding restoration of...
