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Centre’s Apathy On Migrant Workers “Unpardonable”
By Gyan Pathak The Centre’s “apathy and lackadaisical attitude” on extending welfare measures to migrant workers have now been noted even by the Supreme Court of India, which termed it “unpardonable”, and then passed an order that the very instrument – the National Database for Unorganised Workers (NDUW) –...
Govt Failure To Counter Prashant Bhushan Will Hit Vaccinations
By Sushil Kutty Anti-vaxer Prashant Bhushan and the gang arrested in Gujarat while spreading vaccine disaffection in the streets are among those who believe that vaccines are “spike protein bioweapons” and “those dying from Covid are who have been vaccinated”, and that vaccines “don’t really work.” Ergo “natural immunity”...
Opposition Alleges Misuse Of Power For UP Zila Panchayat Polls
By Pradeep kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition parties have accused ruling BJP of misusing the official machinery to capture maximum number of zila panchayats. BJP has already won zila panchayat presidents in 21 districts unopposed while there would be direct fight between BJP and Samajwadi Party in 53 districts on July...
Sajan First Indian To Make An Olympic Cut In Swimming
By Harihar Swarup Last year when the pandemic caused countries to shut their borders, Sajan Prakash was stuck at his training base in Phuket’s Thanyapura Aquatic Centre. The lockdown in Thailand was so strict that, forget about swimming, Prakash could not even venture out of his room for close...
Government Must Take Back The Draft Cinematograph (Amendment) Bill
By Siddharth Chaturvedi On June 18, the Union Government proposed to introduce new changes into the existing Cinematograph Act, 1952. Its draft amendment bill for the same is open for public comments till July 2. However, many of the changes proposed by the bill are being seen as problematic....
U.S. Progressive Groups Gather Support For $6 Trillion-Plus Budget
By Mark Gruenberg Progressive organizations, led by the Poor People’s Campaign, the Institute for Policy Studies, and the Economic Policy Institute, are gathering organizational—and later individual—support for a $6 trillion-plus budget bill that “would meet all of our needs” in domestic spending, in United States “Budgets are moral statements,”...
Anti-BJP Front Has Possibilities Of Success With Participation Of Congress
By Kalyani Shankar The idea of an alternate front has emerged once again after the meeting held at the Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar’s residence recently. Why is the idea gaining ground though there are three more years for the next General elections? Some opposition leaders believe that...
New Economic Package Cannot Mitigate The Devastation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With announcement of some new measures to mitigate the destruction caused by the second wave of COVID-19, the size of the assurance for small businesses including the MSMEs and needy households till date has swelled to Rs 6.3 lakh crore, which is indeed an impressive...
Political Churning Is On In Bihar Over Chirag Paswan’s Coming Yatra
By Arun Srivastava Refusal of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to keep his promises made to Chirag Paswan, son of late Ram Vilas Paswan and insulting him in full public view at the insistence of the Nitish Kumar and a section of Bihar BJP leaders is leading to a massive...
Mahagathbandhan Under Rahul Gandhi Is The Best Option For Opposition
By Sushil Kutty For want of a better description, they’re the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA opposition’. The goal is to transform to the ‘non-BJP, non-NDA ruling alliance’. They have to corner 273 Lok Sabha seats in 2024, what a bright old spark, called a ‘journalist’, says is ‘half of half’ of...
