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By Dr. Soma Marla Union Cabinet in its first meeting of NDA 3.0 has announced new support (MSP) for 14 crops. The hike is very minimal and ranged between five to seven per cent (except for Niger and Ragi) and does not reflect the increased cost of cultivation. Severe...
Bihar Sees Clashes Between Upper Castes And Dalits After LS Polls
By Arun Srivastava After a long gap of more than 50 years Bihar is once again witnessing emergence of class war though of not that magnitude and dimension that the state witnessed in early seventies. The basic character of upper caste oppression continues to be same as was evident...
Opposition Wants The Second Term Speaker Om Birla To Be Impartial
By Rahil Nora Chopra Om Birla was congratulated by the opposition leaders for being elected Speaker of the Lok Sabha for a second term. They urged him to stay impartial. Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, on behalf of the INDIA alliance, emphasised Birla’s role as the “final arbiter of...
The Form Of Poverty Under Capitalism Has Many Dimensions
By Prabhat Patnaik Poverty is taken to be a homogeneous phenomenon irrespective of the mode of production that is under consideration. Even reputed economists believe in this homogeneous conception of poverty. In fact, however, poverty under capitalism is entirely different from poverty in pre-capitalist times. Even if for statistical...
India’s Notorious Heatwave Isn’t An Agenda In The Modi 3.0 Government
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The summer heat has been so acute this year in India that more than 40,000 people have had heat strokes, and several hundred of them have died. In Delhi, water and electricity consumption has broken all previous records. Some reports suggest that the temperatures crossed...
Narendra Modi 3.0 Govt Remains The Same In Its Pursuit Of Hindutva-Corporate Agenda
By P. Sudhir The formation of a Modi-led NDA coalition government has led to expectations in some circles that this will be a government which will face serious constraints in going ahead with the BJP/RSS’s authoritarian-communal-corporate agenda. Some of these expectations are exaggerated. The fact that the BJP has...
Rahul Gandhi Should Not Have Accepted Om Birla As Speaker Without A Fight
By Arun Srivastava Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by accepting Narendra Modi’s nominee Om Birla as the Speaker of Lok Sabha without a division in the house on June 26 has not set a good example as the leader of the opposition in Lok Sabha in his first confrontation with...
President Droupadi Murmu Braves The Pitfalls In Modi-Govt’s Narrative
By Sushil Kutty President Droupadi Murmu must have known the moment she woke up that she would be mentioning “my government” again and again when she addresses the joint session of Parliament. It is another presidential chore — addressing joint sessions of the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha,...
Modi 3.0 Regime To Undergo The First Litmus Test From July 1
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi will have to undergo his first litmus test from July 1, the date scheduled for implementation of the three new criminal laws –The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and The Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BSA) – on...
Women In Rural Areas Of India Are Suffering From High Malnutrition
By Krishna Jha Most states and union territories in India are gripped by hunger deprived of food, the only source of any strength that can keep them alive. In fact most of the regions fall in the worrisome category and very few fall in the moderate. There is hardly...
Abolish Gross Inequality To Prevent Child Malnutrition In India
By Dr Arun Mitra UNICEF Child Food poverty report 2024 has brought forward startling figures on child malnutrition in India. As per the report 40% of the country’s children suffer from severe food poverty and 36% with moderate to severe food poverty. Our rank is much below even from...
India Has Won A Significant Victory In Its Battle With China In Bangladesh
By Girish Linganna India and Bangladesh have signed several agreements during the recent visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India. These agreements cover various areas including connectivity, health, trade, energy, defense, maritime cooperation, and aid. One of the key agreements is Bangladesh agreeing to take part in...
Leftwing President Of Bolivia Arce Foils Coup Attempt By Army Generals
By Satyaki Chakraborty The left wing President of Bolivia foiled an attempt by the army generals of his government on Wednesday but the dissenting voices in the pro-government army ranks and the vertical split in the ruling party have made the political situation difficult for the incumbent President. On...
Rightwing Argentinian President Javier Milei Introducing Anti-People Measures
By Bert Schouwenburg Following the 1973 US-backed military coup in Chile, the country became a testing ground for neoliberal economics that was forcefully administered at the point of a bayonet. Fifty years later, on the other side of the Andes, Argentinian President Javier Milei is seeking to introduce sweeping...
Assange Flies To Freedom, But His Plea Deal Exposes Us Empire’s Ugly Malfeasance
By Annie Domini Julian Assange, easily the world’s most persecuted and famous journalist, is free at last. At the moment of writing this column, Assange is onboard a private plane that is costing him half a million dollars (which his family plans to pay off via crowd-funding donations appeal),...
Nuanced Messages Of Modi’s First Official Visit To Russia As Third Time Prime Minister
By K Raveendran The choice of Russia as the destination of the first official visit in his third term heading a coalition government is laden with symbolism and strategic implications, encompassing political messaging to coalition partners and a reinforcement of economic ties between India and Russia. Historically, India and...
18th Lok Sabha Has Begun In A New Climate Of Vibrant Democracy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A new era has begun after a decade in the 18th Lok Sabha with election of Om Birla as Lok Sabha Speaker for the second term, who was welcomed jointly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi after shaking hands...
The Julian Assange Story Has Few Takers In India Under Modi 3.0
By Sushil Kutty ‘Who hasn’t heard of Julian Assange?’ Legions of Indians haven’t. Those few who had heard of Julian Assange soon forgot the taste of his name swirling on their tongues. In fact, who was Julian Assange — journalist, publisher, WikiLeaks founder; Internet sensation, despicable foreign agent, what...
