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By Subrata Majumder Concerns loom large on China’s backdoor entry through the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which is feared to be propitious of a Chinese trade trap after Trump entered into a shocking trade war against China. Currently, India is susceptible to Chinese dumping of goods, which...
By Victor Grossman The events in the Saxon city of Chemnitz recently were truly frightening. The sight of Nazi-tattooed thugs growling threats as they stormed through the city center, chasing and beating up presumed “foreigners,” journalists or any other perceived foes, invoked memories of Charlottesville a year...
By W. T. Whitney Jr. September 11 was also a day of terror—in Chile in 1973. “I’ve been through this before,” Chilean author Ariel Dorfman wrote of the 2001 U. S. terror day. “The world will never be the same,” he recalls Chileans saying after their September 11....
By Aditya Aamir Jocko Street returned from the front door all smiles and lollipop lore written all over his ruddy face. Alex Smart on holiday asked why all the glamour at 11 in the morning and Jocko did his li’l-bow routine, waving a folded something in his hand....
Aadhaar card data should be kept secured and safe. It should not be provided easily and to everyone. This is the reason the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has come up with the concept of a Virtual Aadhaar ID (VID). Getting VID is simple. It is a masked...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Opposition to the SC and ST Act has created insurmountable difficulties to the ruling party BJP in Madhya Pradesh to the extent that it is hampering its poll eve campaign. How much nervous BJP is can be gauged by the fact that the party...
North Korea has written a new letter to Donald Trump asking for a second meeting and it is learned the White House is looking for a date. Since June 12 summit both the leaders are in talks about nuclear programme of North Korea. However, the discussions have been criticized...
By Amritananda Chakravorty “Finally!” “Relieved!” “Long Overdue!” these were the reactions from the members of the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and inter-sex), after the historic judgment of the Supreme Court of India in Navtej Johar & Ors. vs. Union of India [Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 76 of...
By Barun Das Gupta Last week Nepal signed a Transit and Transport Agreement with China which will give the land-locked country access to four Chinese seaports. These are: Tianjin (3276 kms from Nepal), Liyanyugang (3379 kms), Shengzen (3064 kms) and Shenjiang (2755 kms). As against these, the Kolkata...
By Paras Nath Singh After months of speculations that were not entirely unjustified, Justice Ranjan Gogoi is at last set to adorn judicial firmament as the 46th Chief Justice of India (CJI). The incumbent CJI, Dipak Misra has officially recommended the name of Justice Ranjan Gogoi, the senior-most...