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Bangladesh Adjusting Its Policies To Needs Of Growing Economy
By Ashis Biswas Having achieved middle income country status, Bangladesh currently faces complex issues of economic adjustments relating to its export sector. Ironically, the progress made by Bangladesh has been taken note by its allies as also by international organisations. The UN recently confirmed that Bangladesh has in concrete...
Rahul Gandhi Is Right In Alleging Lack Of Level Playing Field In Current Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The polling to the third phase of the state assembly elections in Assam and Bengal will be taking place on April 6.On the same day, the polling to the t two other states Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry will be completed-...
Assembly Elections Turning Most Unfair In West Bengal
By Nantoo Banerjee It may easily be the worst election battle of its kind ever fought in this country. Murder, rape, stabbing, physical attacks, bombing, gun-shooting, brick-batting, arson and looting have become a commonplace across poll bound West Bengal. With several national leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including...
“Legal Void” On New Labour Codes May Continue For Some Months
By Gyan Pathak Fearing a “legal void” in case of implementation of the four central new labour codes from April 1, 2021, Modi government has deferred it for “some time”, until at least some of the major industrial states frame rules. Since labour is a concurrent subject, both the...
Why The Opposition Is Forever Playing Catch Up With The BJP
By Amulya Ganguli Rahul Gandhi is only partially right when he says that the BJP’s control of the autonomous institutions is hampering the opposition parties at the national level to make any headway. Although there is a grain of truth in the Congress leader’s charge, there are more basic...
Covid Positive Patients Have To Remain Strong During Quarantine
By Dr Arun Mitra With a linear fall of Corona infection cases earlier, not only in our country but around the globe, a complacency had developed about the preventive measures. Life cannot come to a standstill but when the situation is not conducive some changes in the lifestyle need...
EC Response To Mamata’s Complaint On Nandigram Booth Is Too Harsh
By Arun Srivastava The Election Commission accusing the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee of misdemeanour and contemplating to take severe action against her, has been unprecedented in the electoral history of the country and smacks of a well-defined script written by the top government functionaries. EC threat of taking legal...
More Evidence Of UDF-BJP Deal In Kerala Poll Tumbling Out
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clear evidence of the tacit deal between the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP in Kerala has surfaced to the acute embarrassment of both the parties. What is even more surprising is that a few top BJP leaders themselves have spilled the beans....
Economic Self Reliance Has Been Jettisoned To Please The Corporates
By Chada Venkata Reddy Our country is sovereign democratic republic. People alone are rulers. People elect governments. Based on the norms of Constitution, government should be restrained by the basic constitutional principles and thus implement laws. But it has become common for ruling government to take unilateral decisions. With...
Acquittal In Ishrat Jahan Encounter Has Caused Deep Concern
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Special CBI court judge VR Rawal, while acquitting three Gujarat police officers—Inspector General of Police GL Singhal, retired Deputy Superintendent of Police Tarun Bharot, and assistant Sub-Inspector Anaju Chaudhari—has offered a line of reasoning that seems to make partial, but not total, legal sense,...
BJP Led By Narendra Modi Battles Hard In State Polls
By S Sethuraman There is a pattern the way the Centre has forced itself thick into State poll battles in 2021 (South and East) with the Modi Government’ and BJP’s determined objectives of not merely wresting West Bengal from Mamata Banerjee’s TMC and retaining Assam, but also becoming a...
India’s ‘World’s Pharmacy’ Tag Is Facing A Threat
By K Raveendran India’s much-touted role as the ‘pharmacy of the world’ is under threat, thanks to a build-up of negative publicity, partly deliberate and partly spontaneous, on the perceived stoppage of the export of covid vaccines to other countries. The build-up started with the reported decision by the...
A Slew Of Setbacks For The Congress Leader Chennithala On Poll-Eve
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: This week witnessed a slew of setbacks for the Leader Of the Opposition, Ramesh Chennithala (LOP) in particular and the Congress-led United Democratic Front(UDF) in general in Kearala on the eve of the assembly polling on April 6. The first jolt came when the Kerala...
India Must Avoid Any Panic Reaction Amidst The Second Covid-19 Wave
By Gyan Pathak The surge in C0VID-19 infections and the resulting deaths in India is frightening enough to make the people apprehensive about fresh lockdowns. Stringent measures and local lockdowns are already being used in many infected areas in several states, and the centre has already given directions for...
Connectivity Has Emerged As A Focus Area Of India And Bangladesh
By Harihar Swarup At the invitation of Prime Seikh Hasina, Minister Narendra Modi visited Bangladesh from 26 to 27 to participate in the 50th –anniversary celebrations of Independence of Bangladesh to attend the beginning of the year-long celebration in March 2020 which had to be deferred due to the...
BJP Led NDA Facing Toughest Test In Third Phase Of Assam Polls On April 6
By Sagarneel Sinha With the completion of two phases of elections covering 86 assembly seats in Assam, the attention is on the 40 seats, mostly in lower Assam, which will go for polls on the last phase on April 6. Although much before the polls, BJP led NDA was...
Modi-Shah’s Double Standards On CAA May Affect BJP In Assam
By Arun Srivastava The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, might have thought his Bangladesh visit at the time of elections in Bengal would instil Matua community in the state. But he is mistaken. Not only the Muslims but even Hindus have come to distrust his observation as well as the...
Bhupesh Baghel Emerges As Prominent Organiser Within Congress
By Rahil Nora Chopra The run up to the three-phase assembly polls in Assam has been dominated by high-pitched campaigns by almost all senior BJP leaders led by Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda. The Congress, on the other hand, is relying on Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra...
