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BJP Bihar Leaders Start Vilification Campaign Against Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava The cat is out of the bag. It is no more a secret that the week old indiscriminate firing by four criminals in Begusarai of Bihar was planned by close aides of a local BJP leader. Only a couple of days back, a Congress leader came...
Bizarre Reactions To The Leaked Videos From A Girls Hostel Of Chandigarh
By Sushil Kutty ‘Iconoclastic filmmaker dead’ read the headline, and people reckoned rightly that it must be about the death of French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard, whose reputation as an “image destroyer” was an established fact long before he called it a day. Veneration of anybody and anything was...
Mamata Government In Bengal Lacking In Administrative Coordination
By Ashis Biswas Recent revelations of massive corruption in West Bengal Government’s Education department, along with shocking accounts of major criminal activity in Birbhum and neighbouring districts, have shattered the state’s administrative morale. The situation has deteriorated to a point where the Government stands publicly accused of spreading ‘fake...
Right Wing Alliance Set To Win September 25 National Elections In Italy
By Guido Liguori Italy’s general election promises victory for the right-wing alliance — thanks in part to an electoral system that everyone criticizes but no one has sought to change. The current law gives a huge advantage to parties who run in coalitions, who can win a large majority...
Our Prime Minister Gets Strength Through Disruption And Controversies
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on September 17 and the country celebrated how fast an African Cheetah can run in the Indian wild? Not faster than its destiny, right? Talking of which, Modi is not ‘Destiny’s Child’, he is just another man-sized Gujarati with the...
Digitisation Could Make India A Global Health And Wellness Hub
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to making India a global manufacturing hub and his stress on the need to work on easy transit to promote trade in central Asia and Europe at the recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is well justified. Stepping up...
Nitish Kumar Imparts Fresh Dynamism To Opposition Unity Before 2024 Polls
By Harihar Swarup Take a look at three significant events in recent weeks. These political initiative will be a crucial in the general election scheduled for 2024. Earlier, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met all opposition leaders for several hours in New Delhi. He met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi...
Price Parity With Fuel Vehicles Next Year To Remove Major EV Hurdle
By K Raveendran A major hurdle in the shift to electric vehicles has been the price disadvantage of EV units. But this is expected to change soon, as electric vehicles are expected to hit price parity with petrol and diesel engines by next year. The shift is being made...
Reasons Behind Narendra Modi’s Praising Subhash Bose And Hating Nehru
By L S Herdenia What would have happened if Germany and Japan would have succeeded in defeating allied powers in the Second World War? In this context a remark by U Nu, the then Prime Minister of Burma was very significant. Our Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was on a...
Peasants Suicides Continuing In Trinamool Congress Ruled Bengal
By Ashis Biswas In West Bengal, the controversy over how many farmers have committed suicide in recent times is a settled issue. Despite strenuous efforts made by the state Government of late that no distressed farmer ever killed himself during the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) tenure, it is common knowledge...
Labour Force In Pakistan Is Persistent Victim Of Unemployment, Poverty
By Sankar Ray Labour force in Pakistan confronts a crisis of existence. Working people have been on the brink of aggravated unemployment following the Coronavirus pandemic. In mid-2021, the awkward rise of job losses, aside from joblessness, in the country as a sequel to COVID-19 spread, reflected in a...
Karl Marx’s Translation Of “Capital” In French Turns 150 Years Today
By Marcello Musto Karl Marx’s French translation of “Capital” was first published on September 17, 1872. In February 1867, after more than two decades of herculean work, Karl Marx told his friend Friedrich Engels that the first part of his long-awaited critique of political economy was finally complete. Marx...
By Attacking Opposition During Yatra, Congress Has Harmed The Cause Of Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty In the renowned writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s novel “Kapalkundala”, there is a famous dialogue “Pathik, tumi ki path haraiacho” (Traveller have you lost your way)., Scanning the observations of the Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh in the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on its ninth day...
Privatising Public Sector Banks By Modi Government Is A Dangerous Move
By Prabhat Patnaik There are fundamental objections to the plan of the government to privatise at least some of the public sector banks. They centre around the fact that such a move will change the pattern of deployment of credit, away from productive activities towards speculation, away from peasant...
Congress Gears Up To Pick New Chief, Leaders Bat For Consensus
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the process for electing the new Congress president round the corner, senior party leaders have started batting for consensus in selecting the new AICC chief and seek to uphold the presence and prominence of the Gandhi family in the organisational matters in any sort...
Gujarat Is A Favourite Of Centre When Mega Projects Are Involved
By Sushil Kutty Some of the headlines make it sound like there was a fair bidding between Maharashtra and Gujarat for the Foxconn-Vedanta semiconductor project and Gujarat won the project, as well as the fair-play trophy, fair and square! Far from the truth! The fact is, Maharashtra never stood...
Bengal BJP Still Groping To Find Right Ways To Fight Trinamool Congress
By Tirthankar Mitra Given Bharatiya Janata Party’s goal of becoming the ruling dispensation in West Bengal, the saffron camp has put its best foot forward in the state even when it is in a twilight zone. The areas of darkness are formed by successive electoral defeats and desertions while...
In The New Normal, Kolkata’s Durga Puja Is Very Special As UNESCO Said
By Devasis Chattopadhyay With only a fortnight to go, this edition of Durga Puja in Kolkata has a special significance. Hailed as a public art exhibition on par with Venice Biennale and Rio Carnival, Durga Puja, this year, begins on October 1 in Kolkata and all over India. During...
