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New Delhi’s Crucial Task: Taking Dhaka Into Confidence
By Sagarneel Sinha It’s an open secret that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is known for her pro-India image — both in her native place and in India. Nobody can deny the strong actions taken by Hasina since her coming to power in 2009, against the anti-India elements who...
Modi Succumbs To Trump’s Threat On Potential Covid-19 Drug
By Arun Srivastava The populist right building their electoral strength on boisterousness and arrogant self-confidence has been a known matter. It has been an open secret and there is no new element involved in it. The rightist rulers of the capitalist countries Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jair Bolsonaro and...
Uttar Pradesh May Extend Corona Lockdown
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government has hinted on extending the lockdown in view of the rise in coronavirus-positive cases in the state. The official spokesperson of the government commented that the state government would like to continue the lockdown even if there was a single case of...
Pandemic Recovery: Helping Workers Cope Is Essential
By Mark Gruenberg BRUSSELS, Belgium: A Europe-wide coalition of left and progressive members of the European Parliament has outlined a wide-ranging plan to help the continent’s workers cope with the coronavirus pandemic and particularly its economic impact. Among the measures unveiled are “maintaining work and income,” guaranteed housing for...
Industry Donates Billions To Fight Covid 19
By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding poor demand and production cutback across industry, contributions worth millions of dollars from business establishments are pouring in to government and non government charities ever since the nation went on a three-week lockdown to maintain social distance to prevent coronavirus from spreading. The House of...
The Gloves Are Off Once Again Between BJP And Congress
By Amulya Ganguli It was too good to last. Few will be surprised that the truce between the BJP and the Congress lasted for only about a week. It was a temporary moratorium imposed by an unprecedented crisis, the like of which India hadn’t seen before. But the animus...
Having Faith In The Time Of Coronavirus Pandemic
By Kalyani Shankar What is the impact of coronavirus on religion? As the well-known German philosopher and economist Karl Marx said, religion is the “opium of the people.” For believers, world over it provides psychological and emotional as well as moral support. But the novel Coronavirus is a pandemic,...
Same Old Party Politics At The Time Of Pandemic
By Sushil Kutty Has politics, as we know it, come to a halt at a pit-stop? The feeling is not lost on people. Political parties and politicians appear to have courted ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’. It’s like they have been cured of the virus ‘politics’ and a lockdown is in...
With Several Bureaucrats Indisposed, Madhya Pradesh Lands In Corona Soup
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Despite all possible medical and clinical measures, coronavirus continues to expand its footprint in Madhya Pradesh. In the last 24 hours, as many as 22 new positive patients were identified in Bhopal. They include 16 officials of the health department. With this, the total number...
Under Its New Leader, Labour Party Is About To Abandon Leftism
By Arun Srivastava An admirer of Harold Wilson, the newly elected Labour leader Keir Starmer is nevertheless determined to carve out his own niche in UK and Labour politics. But one thing is certain that Starmer who is known to follow the middle path, cannot leave his impact without...
