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Priyanka Gandhi Boosts Morale Of Congress Workers
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The ongoing tussle between the Congress party and the Yogi Adityanath-led UP government over the issue of arranging buses for migrant labourers stranded in Uttar Pradesh has boosted the sagging morale of the Congress leaders and workers in the state. Priyanka Gandhi has succeeded in...
Power Of Conspiracy Theories And The China Syndrome
By Sushil Kutty Narendra Modi wants to win in India. And Donald Trump in the United States. But Xi Jinping wants to conquer the world! With a coronavirus vaccine which, he says, will be for the “global good.” That has set gremlins in several heads in a heightened state...
Corona Conversations: Rahul Speaks To Economists, Migrant Workers
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the online conversations of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi with the economists Raghuram Rajan and Abhijit Banerjee on the national response to COVID-19 pandemic, Gandhi had said that the central government should not behave like a moneylender and argued in favour of cash assistance...
Denis Goldberg, The Great South African Communist Is No More
By Ronnie Kasrils Integrity and defence of the truth, whatever the personal cost, was a choice Denis Goldberg made from a tender age and stuck to throughout his life. It is said that a life lived with integrity, served in a struggle for freedom and equality of all, is...
Modi Regime Has Messed Up Public Health System In The Country
By Prakash Karat The Covid-19 pandemic has brought out the stark inadequacy and abysmal neglect of the public health system in India. Even after 50 days of the lockdown, the Modi government seems to have not learnt from the experience of tackling the deadly virus. In state after state,...
Modi Package Stands For Sell-Out, Not Self-Reliance
By Binoy Viswam When the prime minister came out with the much-awaited package to fight the pandemic, certain enthusiasts of the Sangh ideology were fascinated. For them the most attractive element was his proclamation of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’. They even went to the extent of believing that now India would...
FM’s Financial Package For MSMEs
By Aashna Jain In light of COVID-19, the Finance Minister of India (“FM”) on May 13, 2020, announced a slew of incentives for the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (“MSMEs”). The directions for the MSMEs formed the first tranche of the much-awaited financial package of Rs 20 lakh crores,...
Media Shutdown, Lay-Offs Are Now New Normal In Kerala
By N P Chekkutty The reports about the imminent closure of various editions of Times of India and the shutdown of most bureau offices of the The New Indian Express in Kerala did not come as a surprise, though they are signs of a long winter of deep and...
Violation Of Lockdown Norms By Madhya Prdesh Officials
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Enforcement of lockdown has been marked by several controversies in Madhya Pradesh. They include violation of lockdown by the government officials and public representatives. Controversy over the farm loan waiver by previous Congress government and notices to former Congress ministers to vacate official bungalows...
Vietnam Observes Ho Chi Minh’s 130th Birth Anniversary
By Steve Sweeney Vietnam celebrated the 130th anniversary of the birth of Ho Chi Minh on May 19 by announcing the imminent end of its COVID-19 outbreak, with no locally transmitted cases reported for 33 consecutive days. Despite bordering China, where the outbreak began, Vietnam has recorded no deaths...
