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Congress To Hold Grand Show For Priyanka In Lucknow By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee is all set to organise show of strength through road show as and when Priyanka Gandhi Vadra arrives Lucknow on February 10-11. Congress is preparing to organise grand reception of Priyanka Gandhi...
By C.J. Atkins A specter is haunting Donald Trump—the specter of socialism. A century and a half ago, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels opened their Communist Manifesto with a similar line. In their time, it was the rising workers’ movement and communist groups of Europe that were putting the...
By Arun Srivastava Why has the Commissioner of Kolkata police Rajeev Kumar suddenly acquired the importance in the political establishment of Delhi as well as Calcutta is really intriguing. Rajeev is supposed to be an intelligent and no-nonsense person. But this is certainly not the reason that everybody should...
By B. Sivaraman In his Interim Budget presented on 1 February 2019, the stopgap Finance Minister Mr. Piyush Goyal announced a scheme for a monthly pension of Rs. 3000 for unorganised workers whose numbers he put at 42 crore. The workers in the age-group of 18 to 55 years...
By Steve Sweeney Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro ruled out new presidential elections as he called on the international community to prevent a US-instigated civil war from erupting in the country. In a televised address, the president spoke of the strength of revolutionary heroes Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Hugo...
By Sankar Ray None other than Gen. Austin Miller, the head of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission, stated ingenuously that in Afghanistan “this is not going to be won militarily… This is going to a political solution”. He put it bluntly that the USA and its armed collaborators had failed...
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By Anjan Roy Finance minister Piyush Goyal’s exuberance over finally getting a grip on the banks’ bad debts might be a little too early. While the latest financial stability report of the Reserve Bank of India showing marginal decline in the non-performing assets (NPA) is a welcome sign, this...
By Conn Hallinan Keeping track of the Trump administration’s foreign policy is like trying to track a cat on a hot tin roof: We’re pulling out of Syria (not right away). We’re leaving Afghanistan (sometime in the future). Mexico is going to pay for a wall (no, it isn’t)....
By Sagarneel Sinha Currently, West Bengal is witnessing a political chaos with state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee staging dharna against CBI at Metro Channel in Kolkata accusing the centre for using the institutions to get political mileage ahead of the general polls. However, in the midst of all the...