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Sanders Emerges As Unifier Of Anti-Trump Forces At Demo Convention
By Nitya Chakraborty Leftwing leader of the Democratic Party Bernie Sanders acted as the unifier of anti-Trump forces in the country through his highly emotive address on the opening day of the Democratic Party’s convention, thereby facilitating the path of victory of Joe Biden at the coming Presidential...
Ailing Indian Hospitals Need Urgent Treatment
By Gyan Pathak The Lady with the Lamp, the founder of the nursing profession Florence Nightingale, had said that a hospital should do no harm to the sick. However, it is a commonplace thing in India for a patient to suffer in the hands of doctors, nurses, and...
Continuing Job Losses In Salaried Class Sending Ominous Signal
By Satyaki Chakraborty The latest report of the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) that nearly five million salaried employees lost their jobs in July this year due to covid pandemic and the lockdown that followed, is sending an ominous signal about the trend in the country’s economy....
India Needs To Re-Work Its Strategy To Meet Covid Challenge
By Sunita Narain Deaths in the United States because of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic are not so high, asserted President Donald Trump. This, he said, the day his country crossed 160,000 deaths because of the virus. But, however preposterous, Trump was right. If you take, as...
Prashant Bhushan Getting Big Support From Bar And Academics
By Paras Nath Singh Senior advocate of the Supreme Court and activist Prashant Bhushan is getting wide support from the leading figures of the civil society including lawyers and academics for his stand on the Indian judiciary. Senior lawyers of the country have expressed the view that the...
A Facebook Logo In Saffron May Be In Order
By K Raveendran Facebook will do well to consider a change of its theme from blue to saffron, which might help the leading social media company to protect its biggest market, a key consideration that influences the media giant’s policies with regard to independence and commitment to...
Nomination Of Kamala Harris Is A Milestone In American Politics
By Kalyani Shankar The Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden tweeted on Tuesday: “I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate.” It was indeed a...
BJP’s Silence On The Rise Of Half-Desi Kamala Harris Is Conspicuous
By Amulya Ganguli While liberals in India and all around the world are celebrating the nomination of a “person of colour”, Kamala Harris, as the Democratic party’s vice-presidential candidate for the US polls, the BJP has been conspicuously silent. Its quietness is all the more surprising...
Indian Startups Are Bouncing Back Overcoming Covid Constraints
By Rameesh Kailasam Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across sectors have seen a slump, and startups too are facing a decline in revenues. A Nasscom survey conducted last month showed that 70 percent of Indian startups surveyed have less than three months of cash runway. The survey...
Bhushan’s Conviction Is A Symptom Of Political Judiciary
By Ajay Kumar I usually do not find myself to be in agreement with Prashant Bhushan’s views. I always disliked the idea of public interest lawyering. As a conservative, I have always found the idea of an activist court quite worrisome. I did not like the...
