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By Dr Arun Mitra The news that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, has been invited to address joint session of US Congress has come at a time when the International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking warrants against Netanyahu and other Israeli and Hamas leaders for “war crimes.”...
Afghan Economy And Social Life Are In Tatters As Talibans Refuse To Democratise
By Girish Linganna Last month, Afghanistan faced another major natural disaster with severe flooding in the northern provinces of Badakhshan, Baghlan, and Takhar. It is estimated that hundreds of people lost their lives and thousands were forced to leave their homes. This recent disaster follows a series of earthquakes...
In France, Resurgent Far Right Beats Divided Leftwing Parties
By Julian-Nicolas Calfuquir PARIS: It seems almost a lifetime ago. France’s elections in spring 2022 saw the rise of a united-left slate, the New Ecological and Social Popular Union (NUPES), which not only repeatedly topped polls but denied Emmanuel Macron a majority in the National Assembly. Last year, his...
It May Be Time For An Anna Hazare-Type Agitation To Reclaim Election Panel’s Integrity
By K Raveendran It may be time for an Anna Hazare-type agitation to reclaim the integrity and independence of the Election Commission, completely compromised by the incumbent commission like never before. Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar is no T N Seshan, who proved that the Election Commission had enough...
Apprehensions And Expectations Of Central Trade Unions At Their Climax
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Apprehensions and expectations of India’s Central Trade Unions (CTUs) have reached their climax at the completion of the Lok Sabha elections on June 1, 2024. Since the fate of trade unionism and the workers’ rights amidst the rising working poverty in the country much depends...
2023-24 GDP Figures At 8.2 Percent Build A Stable Base For Future Growth
By Anjan Roy India’s latest GDP figures could not have come at a better time for the ruling party BJP.. As the final phase of parliamentary voting draws to an end, the GDP figures for 2023-24 at 8.2 per cent show a hefty growth rate of the Indian economy....
Deprecating Gandhi: RSS’s New Propaganda War Against Congress
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi attempting to sully the dignity of Mahatma Gandhi by saying that nobody knew Gandhi in post-colonial India until British film maker Richard Attenborough’s Academy Award-winning 1982 ‘Gandhi’ was released, is undoubtedly the worst nature of conduct to demean him. It’s a matter of shame...
INDIA Bloc Leaders Exuding Confidence About June 4 Results Ignoring Exit Polls
By Sushil Kutty So the Congress goes ahead and boycotts the exit polls in the TV studios post the last vote cast in seven states and Chandigarh in the 7th phase of the 2024 elections and the main opposition party is missed. The fact of the matter was, the...
The Big Transformation Of Campaigning In Indian General Elections
By Harihar Swarup This correspondent has covered Lok Sabha elections right from 1962. Polls in 1962 were not delinked. The big news then was Dr K N Katju, who was chief minister of newly formed state—Madhya Pradesh— was defeated by an unknown Vadiya from Jaora constituency. Though Dr. Katju...
Pak Generals Forcing Balochis To Take Up Arms Under Bigger Conspiracy
By Manish Rai Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a low-level insurgency and a brutal military crackdown for decades. However, the vast and resource-rich province has witnessed a surge in deadly attacks in recent times. Pakistan’s largest province recently witnessed a drastic increase in attacks...
Lok Sabha Election Campaign 2024 Brought India’s Faultlines In Sharp Focus
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Campaign for the Lok Sabha election 2024 has brought India’s faultlines in sharp focus – which included the falling credibility of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in ensuring free and fair election, the apparent threat to democracy and the Constitution, widening chasm between the...
Narendra Modi Using Health Issue Of Naveen In Poll Campaign Is A Sign Of Desperation
By Sushil Kutty Two Assamese defend Prime Minister Narendra Modi as often as they invent a chance. One of them is Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. The other, a journalist-turned-media baron who never tires of praising the Prime Minister. Both these gentlemen are ever ready to do a...
BJP’s Disinformation Campaign On ‘Inheritance Tax’ Was Mischievous
By Prabhat Patnaik An object lesson in how fascistic outfits operate is provided by the BJP’s attitude towards an inheritance tax. The fact that there has been an immense increase in income and wealth inequality in the country during the neoliberal era is well-known. Indeed this is not a...
Attempt To Discredit Kerala LDF Govt Falls Flat
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Opposition parties’ latest attempt to discredit the Left Democratic Front (LDF) has come to grief, causing acute embarrassment to them as usual. An issue-starved Opposition had, with unconcealed glee, pounced on an audio clip allegedly sent by bar owner from Idukki district Animon to...
Kharge To Oversee INDIA Bloc’s June 1 Assessment Meet In Delhi
By Rahil Nora Chopra Who will form the government at the Centre, the NDA or the INDIA bloc? Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has called a meeting of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) in Delhi on June 1 to evaluate their performance in the ongoing elections and chalk...
Renowned Writer Jhumpa Lahiri Is Opposed To Narendra Modi’s Notion Of India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As the world is on a boil with wars raging between Russia and Ukraine and the Israeli onslaught on Palestinians, world leaders and intellectuals are hard-pressed to comprehend and rationalize the gruesome developments. In an interview with The Guardian, Pulitzer prize-winning writer author Jhumpa Lahiri...
UK’s Labour Leader Keir Starmer Goes To Polls Marginalising Left Group
By Daniel Finn LONDON: With an election campaign underway for July 4 polling,, Keir Starmer rammed through the selection of Praful Nargund, a private health care entrepreneur, as the Labour candidate to run against Starmer’s predecessor Jeremy Corbyn in the London constituency of Islington North. Starmer had already made...
Election Campaign Ends, Political Dust Raised Will Take Time To Settle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha Election 2024 campaign ended on Thursday May 30, but after raising unprecedented level of political dust which will take much longer time beyond its result on June 4 to settle. Irrespective of who or which political party or alliance wins, people will continue...
