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Narendra Modi’s Visit To Ukraine Was Primarily Meant To Mollify US
By P. Sudhir Narendra Modi’s brief visit to Ukraine has been hailed by the pro-American circles and the corporate media as a big success. According to this version, here is an Indian leader whose international stature has been heightened by the holding of the G20 summit in Delhi and...
Enriching Corporates In The Name Of Employment Generation Is Wrong
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What emerged from the meeting held by the Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya with Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on August 28 is quite disconcerting, since the government is bent upon implementing the newly announced Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) in the Budget 2024-25...
Mamata’s ‘I’ll Topple Modi’ Is Open Dare To Prime Minister And NDA Govt
By Sushil Kutty West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in all sorts of moods. She is “deeply sad”. She is boiling mad. And she’s not in a forgiving mood. But in a generous mood, she was dedicating a Trinamool event to the memory of the Kolkata rape-cum-murder victim,...
India Losing Its Demographic Dividend Due To Absence Of Proper Job Strategy For Youth
By Krishna Jha Growing Unemployment rate is not only a challenge to the economic fabric of the country, it occupies the basic tenet on which a county is assessed. Our country is one of the most populous nations and hence its needs are also different, in both size and...
Census Operations Are Starting In September But The Data Collection Process Must Improve
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: India’s population census was initially due for completion in 2024 but was delayed by COVID-19 pandemic. It’s resumption scheduled to begin in September this year will be a pivotal moment. The history of Indian census can be traced back to 1800 during the British colonial...
Nuclear Power Plants Are Emerging As A Big Threat To The Humanity
By Dr Arun Mitra First the Zaporizhzhia and now the nuclear power plant in Kursk under threat are issues of extreme concern. UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on August27 warned during a visit to Russia’s Kursk nuclear plant that situation is very grave...
Tragic Nepal Bus Accident Highlights The Dangers Of Monsoon Travel In The Himalayas
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Nepal bus accident on August 23, in which a tourist bus with 40-odd Indian tourists fell into the Marsyangdi river, killing 26 people on the spot and one at the hospital, comes across as a grim reminder of how dangerous Himalayan mountain roads can...
Fred Halliday’s 2024 Edition Of 1979 Book On Iran Is A Marxist Classic
By Afshin Matin-Asgari Appearing at the triumphant moment of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Fred Halliday’s book Iran: Dictatorship and Development immediately became an iconic text to Middle East readers and the international left. The book’s appeal to a generation of leftists, particularly Iranians, was phenomenal. In December 1978,...
Governors As Constitutional Head Must Not Degenerate To Ruling Party’s Agents
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Democratic compact between chief minister and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi has broken in the last ten years, LG VK Saxena has admitted in his opinion piece published in Indian Express on August 28, which is just an expression of the fact existing in all states...
Quotas In Beauty Is No Longer A Skin-Deep Affair, And Could Turn Into Decisive Strategy
By K Raveendran The squabble between Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Kiren Rijiju over the lack of representation of backward classes and tribals in beauty pageants has accorded a bit of glamour to the debate surrounding castes. Rahul’s remark, might seem trivial at first glance, but on closer scrutiny,...
BJP’s Attempts In Bengal To Unseat Mamata From Power Backfire
By Arun Srivastava The BJP’s plan to hijack the mass upsurge of the common people in Kolkata, especially women seeking justice for the rape and murder of the young doctor of R G Kar Medical College, has finally failed. The 12 hour bandh in Bengal called by the BJP...
Narendra Modi Is Steadily Losing His Prime Stature As Hindutva Icon To Yogi
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut is facing greater heat in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly after the BJP pushed her under the bus for talking out of turn on the farmers’ agitation which rankles as one of the most abject U-turns of Prime Minister...
Decoding The Historical Democratic National Convention In Chicago
By Debabrata Biswas from Boston A little over a month ago Democratic Party leadership was gripped with the idea that president Joe Biden might not be the best candidate to represent their party in the Presidential race against Donald Trump, with many dreading what they thought could be a...
Massive Protests Sweep Indonesian Cities As The President Prepares For Transition
By Tirthankar Mitra Dynastic politics have been the bane of many countries in South East Asia. Indonesia is in the throes of political unrest as thousands of protestors have taken to the streets as President Joko Widodo prepares to hand over his reins to his successor, Prabowo Subianto in...
French Left Has A Historic Responsibility To Retain Unity And Expand
By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir France’s parliamentary elections went better than expected for the Left. While polls predicted victory for Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, her defeat in the July 7 runoff votes was a relief for the left-wingers who rallied against her. Their Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) alliance took 193...
Clashes Erupt as Kolkata Protests Over Hospital Case
Violence erupted in Kolkata and Howrah on Tuesday as clashes broke out between demonstrators and law enforcement, resulting in numerous injuries. The turmoil was sparked by a planned student-led march towards Nabanna, the Bengal secretariat, protesting the alleged rape and murder case at RG Kar hospital. Protesters, fueled by...
Poor Return From Large Banks Is Driving Away Depositors
By Nantoo Banerjee Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s advice to government-controlled banks to launch special drives to step up deposit mobilization to catch up with the demand for loans may give a wrong impression that the public sector bank (PSB) management does not know the basic principles of banking....
Modi-Shah Duo Sidelined By RSS In Choosing Strategy On Bypolls In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava The war of supremacy that has been raging inside the saffron ecosystem, for quite time between the RSS leadership and the Gujarat Lobby led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, came out for the first time in public domain with Modi-Shah duo withdrawing the list of...
