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Implementation Process Of Labour Codes Is In Advanced Stage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Implementation process of the Modi government’s four labour codes has reached an advanced stage with 23 states have already notified the rules, and the centre is preparing to notify its rules soon, after which these will be implemented across the country. Despite stiff opposition and...
RBI’s Digital Coin Proposal Is Not A Better Substitute To Cryptocurrency
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav India is going to debate a new bill on cryptocurrencies in the ongoing winter session of parliament. One of the two most important components of the bill relates to providing the legal framework for the launch of a digital coin by RBI. Many countries around...
Shiv Sena Bats For Rahul 2024 After Mamata’s ‘No UPA’ Jibe
By Rahil Nora Chopra After West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that “there is no UPA anymore”, Shiv Sena batted for Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi to lead the opposition in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut’s back-to-back meetings with the Congress leaders have triggered...
President Joe Biden’s ‘Democracy Summit’ Is Nothing But A Big Hoax
By Ian Goodrum The two day gala’ Democracy Summit’ convened virtually by United States President Joe Biden on December 8 and 9 is nothing but an exercise in hypocrisy by the leader of the capitalist nations extending assistance to the worst authoritarian regimes in the world. The club has...
Sharad Pawar And M K Stalin Must Intervene To Repair Cracks In Opposition
By Nitya Chakraborty In India, political scenarios change very fast. In 1984 Lok Sabha elections, the ruling Congress secured more than 400 seats while the BJP’s tally fell into its lowest two. But the dream rule of the Congress Party did not last for more than two years. From...
Narendra Modi Govt Must Repeal Atrocious AFSPA Law In Totality
By Prakash Karat The killing of 14 civilians in Mon, Nagaland by a special force of the Assam Rifles has brought into sharp relief the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), a lawless law that enables the security forces to act with impunity, which has led to atrocity after...
The Curious Case Of Param Bir Singh And Anil Deshmukh In Mumbai Saga
By Sushil Kutty The lousiest trick the Devil can pull on God’s children is convince them the Devil does not exist. Sacked Police Inspector Sachin Vaze convinced Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and the Maha Vikas Aghadi Government to reinstate him in the Mumbai Police. It took a murder...
Rights Of Children Threatened Like Never Before
By Dr. Gyan Pathak While the number of children hungry, out of school, abused, living in poverty or forced into marriage is going up, the number of children with access to healthcare, vaccines, sufficient food and essential services is going down globally. The widespread impact of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Armed Forces Killing In Nagaland Was A Murder In Cold Blood
By Krishna Jha There was no last minute reprieve. The men were in the pickup truck that kept winding the narrow road climbing up slowly. Unarmed, each of them saw the guns flickering, and in one single moment the horror swept them away for ever. Soon, all of them,...
Time Is Appropriate Now For WTO Waiver On Existing Patent Laws
By Sachin Sathyarajan The Omicron variant, declared as a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization (WHO) has alarmed the global community, who thought the worst was over. The emergence of the variant had led to the postponement of the twelfth Ministerial conference (MC12) of the World Trade...
Farmers call off agitation amidst victory celebration
The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, spearheading the farmers strike for over a year, has announced calling off of the agitation. The protest on Delhi borders started last November against the now-repealed agri laws ended on December 9. The move comes after the farmers’ union received a formal communication from Centre...
Jnanpith for Assam’s Phookan and Konkani writer Mauzo
By IPA Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: The Jnanpith Selection Board has announced the recipients of the 56th & 57th Jnanpith Awards for the year 2021 and 2022 on Tuesday in a meeting. The 56th Jnanpith Award for the year 2021 went to NILMANI PHOOKAN, eminent Indian poet writing in...
Narendra Modi’s Dig At Absentee BJP MP’s Has Got Ominous Signal For Party
By Sushil Kutty What is happening with the Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament, why are many of them absent from Parliament? None other than Prime Minister Narendra Modi noticed this trend and was compelled to speak about it at a BJP Parliamentary Board meeting. It wasn’t just cursory...
Mamata’s Latest Stand Is Sure To Help Congress-Left To Revive ‘Bijemul’ Slogan
By Ashis Biswas Post Bengal Assembly polls 2021, the CPI(M) conceded that its branding of the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) as a tricky, undeclared ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)on some major issues, had backfired. Left parties saw the TMC as the Trojan horse within the opposition camp. They pointed...
Indomitable Indian Spirit Takes Corporate Captaincy By The Horn
By K Raveendran Not a day passes these days without the news of one global Indian or the other having done something remarkable. The latest is the story of Indian origin American physician Anil Menon, who has been included in a group of ten to become astronauts for future...
Narendra Modi’s Policies Since 2014 Have Widened Inequality In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Modi government’s policies for the development of the country are highly defective, since it works for the rich and against the poor, driving inequality to make India among the most unequal countries of the World. Top 10 per cent of the affluent elite are earning...
Smriti Irani, Modi’s Favourite Cabinet Minister Is Now An Author Of A Thriller
By Harihar Swarup Smriti Irani kept you hooked to the TV screen, as an actor, and later in Parliament, as an orator. Now she has engaged her admirers with her debut novel, a thriller. At home, Irani has plotted a thriller. Readers keep a wary eye on the office...
Decoding The Three Novels Of Leading Irish Author Sally Rooney
By Jenny Farrell For the past weeks, successful 30-year-old Irish author Sally Rooney has been in the headlines. Following her refusal to grant the translation rights of her new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) to the Israeli Modan publishing house, 70 prominent authors have now backed her...
