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Doctors Day On July 1 Is A Reminder Of Dedication And Sacrifice
By Dr Arun Mitra On the Doctors Day the 1st July it would be appropriate to pay homage to those who sacrificed their lives to save the mankind from the catastrophic damage of the COVID-19. In addition to taking care of the sick in the hospitals, risking their lives,...
Far-Right Le Pen Fails Miserably In French Regional Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty The French far-right party National Rally led by Le Pen, who is a front-runner in the opinion polls for the presidential elections next year, suffered a major jolt in the regional elections held on Sunday when NR failed to win even a single region out of...
Should Twitter Have The Power To Lock An Account?
By Prajjwal Kushwaha and Kanishk Garg The recent action taken by Twitter against Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s account has rekindled debate on the company’s power to lock or suspend a user’s account. In response to a copyright complaint sent on behalf of Sony Music Entertainment by the...
SAIL’s Raw Materials Division Must Remain In Kolkata
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little business or commercial reason behind the government’s move to dismantle the age-old Kolkata-based raw materials division (RMD) of public sector Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL). The move appears to be totally political and engineered by the national government. The division has done...
BJP’s “Walk Back” In Kashmir Marks A Change In Its Hard Hindutva Stance
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP’s “walk back” on Kashmir – to use a polite term for “retreat – must have made it appreciate the difficulty of implementing a religion-based agenda in a democracy. At the root of the Narendra Modi government’s decision to scrap Articles 370 and 35A of...
Farmers Unions Are Engaged In Crucial Struggle For Gaining Power
By Arun Srivastava On June 26, the dayafter Indira Gandhi had imposed emergency 46 years ago, the farmers’ movement entered into its 8th month of survival. Though yesterday Narendra Modi took to twits to recollect the tyrannies “he had to face” during the Emergency days, he did not mention...
Dying MSMEs And Consequent Jobs Loss Is Frightening
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in India have been dying for a long time even before the outbreak of COVID-19 resulting in large number of job losses. The lockdown announced on March 24, 2020 and the containment measures aggravated the situation further. Announcement of...
India’s Supreme Court Must Stop Wanton Abuse Of UAPA
By Fawaz Shaheen and Madhur Bharatiya It rarely happens in ordinary bail matters that within 72 hours of a court order, numerous aspects related to it get extensively argued at every level of the judiciary. In the recent instance of three students arrested in connection with the violence that...
Stonewall Anniversary: Rainbow Capitalism Or LGBTQ Liberation?
By C.J. Atkins The rainbow-emblazoned corporate swag has been ordered, the gay and lesbian employees dispatched to New York. The floats are all designed and constructed, ready to roll down Fifth Avenue—colorful billboards advertising just how LGBT friendly T-Mobile, MasterCard, TD Bank, Delta Air Lines, and other sponsors are...
Large Volume Of Foreign Aid To India To Fight Pandemic Is Welcome
By Harihar Swarup: As India reeled under the second wave of Covid-19, one fact became evident — it would not be left to struggle alone. Aid poured into India from over 40 nations. Countries sent oxygen, medical equipment, ventilators, and antiviral drugs. Offers of help came not just from...
