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Congress Mulling To Propose Sharad Pawar As Presidential Candidate
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the states set for assembly elections such as Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, elections will be held also for 75 Rajya Sabha seats which are expected to fall vacant through the year and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s equations with its allies and...
Latest Co-Lending Pattern For Peasants Is Harmful For National Interests
By Prabhat Patnaik In colonial times, the peasantry had to borrow from private moneylenders. According to Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee reports, these moneylenders in turn borrowed from commercial banks. But while disbursing credit to the peasants and charging exorbitant interest rates, the money lenders at least bore the whole...
Dealing With New Omicron Threat Requires Fresh Look At Strategy
By Dr. Soma Marla In May, 2021, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar had announced that Vaccination would be completed by December, 2021. But the fact is that by December 31, 2021 only 63 per cent of adult population could be fully vaccinated. While the monthly average vaccination for September was...
Bulli Bai Denotes New Type Of Cyber Violence In Our Digital Society
By Gauri Anand and Hinduja Verma On January 1, the Mumbai Police registered a case against the developers of an app, “Bulli Bai”, hosted on GitHub, which used photos of approximately 100 Muslim women, obtained and doctored without their permission, to mock-auction them to other users on the...
Haridwar Dharma Sansad Call Was An Open Incitement To Violence
By Prakash Karat Even two weeks after the hate-mongering dharma sansad in Haridwar on December 17 to 19, where calls were given to attack Muslims and eliminate them by mass murder, there has not been a single arrest. The first FIR lodged had only one name, that too of...
2022 Promises Continuation Of Pink Tide In Elections In Latin America
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Latin American politics has entered a decisive phase in 2022 as the various shades of Left have jointly mounted renewed attacks against the pro-right neo liberal policies of the two ruling governments in Colombia and Brazil which are going for Presidential polls in the year....
BJP Govt’s Economic Agenda Has Dried Up New Job Opportunities In Economy
By Krishna Jha It is not wanderlust that drives people to places, these days it is replaced by hunger, a force that cannot be staved off. Some time back, the number of migratory labour, retrenched, pushed out, had shocked us with their growing number as thousands of men and...
Lives And Livelihoods Are Still At Big Risk From Third Covid Wave
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By the morning of January 6, it was clear that lives and livelihoods in India are at greater risks from the third wave of COVID-19 than many among us believed. Total daily reported cases were about 91 thousand with sharp spike of over 56 per...
Prime Minister’s Return To Delhi From Flyover Is A Victory For Farmers
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been rudely reminded that the farmers’ protests are far from over, Modi’s unilateral surrender notwithstanding—it did not make a dent on the farmers’ spirits. Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi alluded to as much when asserting that but for Covid-19 quarantine...
Narendra Modi’s Accusation Against Punjab CM On Security Lapse Makes No Sense
By Arun Srivastava Never before in the history of our country, a Prime Minister had cast aspersion on the state’s chief minister as was done by Narendra Modi on Wednesday in Punjab. Modi on his return to Bhatinda airport after his aborted visit to Ferozepur had told a senior...
Housing For All Is A Pipe Dream For The Majority In Rural India
By Vikram Singh At least 50 anxious people gathered near the village pond in Chotahi village, Samastipur district of Bihar. They had gathered to save their houses which were declared illegal as the area was developed as a green belt by the state government of Bihar under the project...
2022 Assembly Elections Outcome To Determine Congress Role In Opposition Front
By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2021 ended with a significant outcome of civic polls in Chandigarh where the Aam Admi Party (AAP) emerged as the single largest party pushing the ruling BJP to the second and the Congress to the third position. This was followed by a survey of...
Omicron Adds New Uncertainty To Global Oil Outlook
By K Raveendran With the omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading at unprecedented rates, creating new records for the intensity of infection, the oil market is seeing greater uncertainty as assessment of the market outlook is being constantly overridden by the fast pace of developments. Many countries, even those...
As State Poll Approaches, PM Modi Gets Active To Develop Uttar Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election is Uttar Pradesh is round the corner and our Prime Minister Narendra Modi is trying his best to develop the state by inaugurating development projects worth thousands of crore. He seems to have risen from the slumber he was in only couple of months...
Big Jolt To Shivraj Singh Chauhan Ministry Over Repealing Of Ordinance
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Year 2021 said good bye to Madhya Pradesh government on a bitter note. The bitter note gave a major setback when the BJP government was forced to repeal an ordinance promulgated by it to facilitate three-tier Panchayat elections. That decision was taken because the government...
A Clear Case Of Gubernatorial Misconduct
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The confrontationist ambience between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government worsened with the Governor refusing to budge from his position. A dispute has been simmering between the Government and the Governor over what the latter called the former’s alleged...
Namita Gokhale Wins Sahitya Academy Award For Her Book On Kumaon Region
By Harihar Swarup Tamil feminist writer Ambai, Kannada biographer DS Nagabhushan, Telugu poet Coreti Venkanna and English author Namita Gokhale, among others, are this year’s winners of Sahitya Akademi Award. The Award was announced for literary works in 20 languages. This year seven books of poetry, two novels, five...
Remembering South African Icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu
By Ed Rampell There are two top things about my profession. For me personally, a great benefit is being able to cover in person and even have access to great newsmakers whom I’d probably never have the opportunity to meet and even talk to if I weren’t a journalist....
