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Farmers Knocking At Rajbhavans Has Wider Significance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers’ sit-in protest against the three farm laws at Delhi borders completes seven months today. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), the umbrella organization of as many as 40 farmers’ unions leading the agitation, is knocking at Rajbhavans across the country in form of demonstration to...
Narendra Modi’s Kashmir Initiative Is Meant To Placate International Opinion
By Arun Srivastava Kashmiri leaders who till recently were identified as the Gupkar gang need not be euphoric at their June 24 meeting with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi. An insight into the deliberations the Kashmiri leaders had with Modi makes it explicit that his design wrapped in the...
President Biden Following Same Trump Policy On Cuba Sanctions
By W. T. Whitney Jr. The United Nations General Assembly on June 23 overwhelmingly approved a Cuban resolution condemning the U.S. economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba, in place for 60 years. The Assembly has done precisely that every year since 1992, except for 2020, when the vote...
Shiv Sena Has A Clear Gameplan For Maharashtra And Centre Also
By Sushil Kutty The other day somebody wrote that the only party that stood between Narendra Modi and a third term as Prime Minister was the Indian National Congress; of course with the cautionary note that Wayanad MP and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi should understand the enormity of...
Even The Industry Heads Are Recommending Cash Transfers To The Poor
By Prabhat Patnaik In terms of economic policy, the Modi government must be perhaps the most conservative in the world. During the entire period of the pandemic when millions of people lost their incomes and livelihood support, most governments around the world provided universal cash transfers to the people,...
Urgent Joint Action Is Needed To Prevent The Next Wave Of Pandemic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Vaccination against COVID-19 suffers from inequality and sluggishness. Inequality in such an extent that 80 per cent of the vaccines have been administered in the high and upper-middle-income countries, as against 19.7 per cent in rest of the middle income group, and only 0.3 per...
Present BJP Leaders Benefitted Most From Emergency Of Indira Gandhi
By Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Every year on 25 June, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders recall the crime against democracy and humanity that former prime minister late Indira Gandhi and the Congress committed by imposing the Emergency and sending hundreds—they would say thousands—of Opposition leaders, especially those who belonged...
Sharad Pawar Key To Stitching A Viable Opposition Front
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formation of a third front is back. While talk of a third front has been recurrent, the key difference this time is that NCP supremo, Sharad Pawar, one of the sharpest and most experienced leaders in Indian politics, is being...
Progressives In USA Unleash State-Level Legislation Tsunami
By John Bachtell In the face of a vicious Republican-orchestrated assault on democratic rights and working-class economic gains, states dominated by Democratic governors and legislatures representing broad multi-racial governing coalitions are pulling in the opposite direction—going all out to expand rights. And in some GOP-dominated states, voters are taking...
Only A Two Track Approach Can Help Opposition Achieve Its Goal Of Unity
By Nitya Chakraborty The meeting of the eight opposition parties held on June 22 at the NCP president Sharad Pawar’s residence has led to more confusion rather than facilitating the process of consolidation of the unity of the parties that are opposed to the continuation of the BJP in...
Steep Hikes In Prices Of Essential Commodities Are Hitting People Hard
By Prakash Karat The blight of the pandemic which has caused mass suffering and deaths during the second wave is now compounded by the manifold miseries inflicted on the people by the Modi government. The people are experiencing unemployment, falling incomes and hunger. On top of this comes the...
Corporates Are Getting Pampered By Modi Government All The Way
By Krishna Jha When the rivers in the country began swelling with corpses, they got buried in the shallow sand graves. Soon in the strong wind, sand moved and then came the thieves who took away the last sheet. In the glaring sun they all lay exposed. We all...
Big Exodus Of People From Myanmar Hits India’s Three Border States
By Ashis Biswas With no prospects of an early end to the ongoing civil strife in Myanmar, the exodus of Burmese refugees to India’s Northeastern states has swelled from a trickle to a torrent. As of now, various media reports suggest that the number of people crossing over to...
With No Relief In Sight, Centre Adds To Misery Of Construction Workers
By SandipChakraborty Pawan Mondal (28), a resident of Dakshin Barasat in South 24 Parganas district, is a bricklaying mason by profession. In the lockdown period of the Covid-19 second wave, Mondal along with his two sons and his wife are running from pillar to post to get some benefit...
Opposition Parties Have To Be Prepared For Removing Saffrons From Power
By K Raveendran There is little doubt in anybody’s mind that it is Congress that stands between Modi government and yet another term for it in 2024. But this role is best performed by the party in terms of omission rather than commission. If it has to be successful...
Bengal Governor Dhankar Is Trying To Destabilise Mamata Government
By Arun Srivastava Aggression against Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is the only design to salvage the image and prestige of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah after the BJP met with its waterloo in the Bengal assembly election. Though both the leaders were caught in their nasty domestic fight...
Voice Of Opposition Gagged In Myanmar By Coup Leaders
By Barun Das Gupta The army which overthrew the elected government in Myanmar and took over power on February 1 has not only gagged the voice of the opposition but effectively blanked out any news emanating from that country except those vetted by the junta. Since April, hardly any...
Kerala State BJP Is In Deep Political Crisis
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The signs are ominous for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala. The lotus is in deep waters. There is no escaping that conclusion. The party, which is trying to emerge as a third force in the secular state, is now struggling to survive in...
