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In A Positive Sign For World Peace, Biden To Meet Putin For Summit
By John Wojcik President Joe Biden will hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 16 in Geneva, a face-to-face meeting between the leaders of the two countries with the largest nuclear arsenals. Many who prefer a confrontational approach to U.S. relations with Russia have already been...
Satyajit Ray’s Centennial Year: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 100th year on May 2, 2021. The maestro died in 1992, at the age of only 71. He left us without finishing many of the proposed film and writing projects which he had undertaken in his last...
Debate Can Wait, But Not Oxygen For A Gasping Lung
By K Raveendran It is certainly not a happy situation as the courts are seen increasingly overstepping the boundaries between the Executive and Judiciary to the extent that there is probably need to redefine the relationship. The debate on whether the courts are right or wrong in what they...
May 26 As A Black Day For Farmers
By Gyan Pathak Farmers’ agitation against three farm laws completes six months on May 26, the day on which Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India seven years ago. It may be just a coincidence, but is politically significant as Black Day for all except Modi and his fan...
Centre And State Governments To Blame For Second Covid Wave
By Sagarneel Sinha The second wave of the Covid-19 virus in the country has been very painful. The disturbing pictures of people grappling for oxygen and the darkness of the nights being lit by hundreds of funeral pyres in the over-crowded crematories — also resulting in dumping of bodies...
Man Who Symbolised India’s Conservation Movement
By Harihar Swarup In early 1994, the U.P. government announced the auctioning of 2,500 trees overlooking the Alakhnanda river in the upper reaches of what is now Uttarakhand. Lumberjacks arrived in Raini village to cut trees. A local girl saw them and informed the villagers. Women in large group...
The Single-Most Hated Figure In Lakshadweep
By Sushil Kutty Lakshadweep hates two men, and both happen to be Gujarati. Make that three men – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and third, the most hated of them all, Lakshadweep administrator Praful Khoda Patel, whose one single thought every morning he wakes up, they...
Supreme Court Directive To CBI In Bengal Arrests Case Significant
By Indira Jaising The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the order of the Calcutta High Court placing four All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders Madan Mitra, Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and Sovan Chatterjee, accused in the Narada sting case, under house arrest with liberty to continue...
A Legislative Council For Mamata’s West Bengal
By Kalyani Shankar Even as the post-poll violence and vendetta politics continue in West Bengal, one more flashpoint has emerged between the Centre and the state with chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet deciding to revive the Legislative Council last week. Revival of the second chamber is one of Mamata’s...
A Cry That Was Not
By Dr. Arun Mitra The catastrophic damage caused by the COVID pandemic has put every person on physical and mental strain. Several families have lost their members. Losing kith and kin leads to the biggest stress on one’s mind. No person unless totally emotionless can avoid crying with sorrow...
The Wages Of The Doldrums Of The Day
By Sushil Kutty Did you know that most Covid-19 deaths take place in the hours between midnight and dawn, extending up to when a new workday begins with a change of doctors and nurses and other hospital staff? Late in the night hospitals and patients are left to the...
UP Civic Poll Loss Jolts BJP To Start Damage Control
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is busy with damage control following the drubbing it received in the recently held panchayat polls. There have several meetings of the party’s central leadership with the state leaders to chalk out a strategy to improve the image of the party and the government...
Bangladesh Left Bloc Demands Withdrawal Of Case Against Journalist
By Sankar Ray Bam Ganatantrik Jote (Left Democratic) front comprising Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal, Communist Party of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Samajtontri Dal Marxvadi, United Communist League of Bangladesh, Samajtontri Andolan and Ganatantric Biplabi Dal in a joint statement demanded that the criminal case against the leading Bengali morninger Prothom Alo senior...
Many Diamond Workers Die Of Covid-19 In Surat
By Damayantee Dhar Mitesh Prajapati, a 30-year-old diamond polishing worker in Surat, Gujarat, was the sole earner of his family of four. Post lockdown last year, like many workers in the diamond industry, he could not manage to get a job. For seven months, Prajapati had no job, which...
Arabs And Jews In Israel Unite Against Netanyahu And Occupation
By Karl Engels After an 11-day war that killed more than 240 Palestinians and 12 Israelis, a fragile ceasefire between the right-wing government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Islamist Hamas militants that rule Gaza took hold early Friday morning. Activists inside Israel—Jewish and Arab alike—hailed the...
Government Is Fast Losing Grip On Economy, Public Health
By Nantoo Banerjee The Union government may disagree but it is not in control of either the economy or the nation’s health. The government is increasingly facing the wrath of the public, opposition parties, NGOs and a large section of the media over its failure to manage the situation....
Opposition Parties Have To Work On Most Viable Strategy To Defeat Modi In 2024 Poll
By Nitya Chakraborty In a vibrant parliamentary democracy like India, the political mood changes very fast and that is what the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is experiencing now after his seven years of undisputed stewardship. The latest survey done by the opinion agency C-Voter shows that the acceptability of...
For Narendra Modi, It’s Back To 2002
By Amulya Ganguli The wheel has turned full circle for Narendra Modi. Just as he was persona non grata in several Western countries, including the US, in the aftermath of the 2002 Gujarat riots, he is again facing censure in Europe and America, mainly from the media if not...
