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Covid-19 On A Killing Spree And Getting Out Of Hand
By Sushil Kutty So, here’s what one gentleman wrote on Facebook: “Don’t end up importing electric crematoriums. We have a window for 3 weeks to plan. Daily deaths are going to peak to 10K. Active cases are 30 lakh and we are going to add a minimum 30 lakh...
Vaccine Diplomacy: Battle Of Soft Power Between India And China
By Subrata Majumder With COVID 19 spreading globally and the pandemic is seen far from ebbing, vaccine diplomacy has become a new dimension in India-China spat to win diplomatic and economic influences in South Asia. So far, China was using trade and investment mantle, including loaning through Belt and...
Is Modi The Only Target Of Bangladeshi Islamists ?
By Ashis Biswas Political observers have been impressed by the spirited response of the Bangladesh Government towards the militant Hefazat-e-Islami (HI) demonstrators who created much havoc and mayhem during Indian PM Narendra Modi’s ceremonial state visit last March, embarrassing Dhaka no end. The obviously orchestrated demonstrations stretching from Comilla...
Amarinder, Sidhu Up The Ante
By Rahil Nora Chopra The rift between Punjab Chief Minister Capt. Amarinder Singh and MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu widened further, with Amarinder Singh challenging his former minister to contest against him from Patiala and lose his security deposit like Gen JJ Singh. The Chief Minister while referring to Sidhu...
The Scandal That Is The Modi Government
By Prakash Karat The Covid-19 tragedy that is unfolding in India is of truly epic proportions. There is the scandal of people dying because of lack of oxygen in hospitals; there is the scandal of lack of hospital beds and medicines; there is the scandal of deaths due to...
May Day To See Protest Against Pro-Corporate Vaccine Policy
By Gyan Pathak The ferocious rise in the second wave of Covid-19 infections and deaths in India has made the working class suffer the most, and hence the May Day 2021 is going to be different. Trade Unions of the country, while demonstrating solidarity of the working class, will...
Tsunami Of Covid Devours India
By Krishna Jha The crisis is immense, with multiplicity in character, but agenda has been set with only one point, and that is promoting the process of financialisation, and the only way it goes is through destruction. There is no other way to explain the context. Covid 19 is...
How Lockdown Led To Spiking Of Gender Gap
By Nupur Dogra Recently, India fell by 28 positions to 140 out of 156 countries in the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap report. The report identifies the decrease in women’s participation in the labour force, from 24.8 percent to 22. 3 percent, as one of the major...
Lessons From Pandemic: Build Hospitals, Not Bombs
By Dr. Arun Mitra Even though the world is into the deep crisis of Covid pandemic, the situation in low and medium economic group of countries with limited resources is precarious. For the first time there is a realization that we need huge resources and meticulous planning for universal...
Election Commission Caught In Its Own Trap
By Arun Srivastava The officials of the Election Commission supervising and monitoring the assembly elections to five states probably are from some other planet else how could they impose their irrational and whimsical orders mandatory for entering into counting centres on May 2? The EC officials have asked the...
