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India And Pakistan Have Taken Right Decision In Latest Talks On Nuclear Facilities

By Tirthankar Mitra India and Pakistan are nuclear-weapon countries engaged in a troubled relationship That is a cause of concern for the populace and leadership of both the countries. The moot point is whether the duo can live side by side in some safety and not the technological achievement...

Jan 8 · >

Mumbai’s Infra Rush Pushes The City’s Fragile Ecology To Its Limit

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to inaugurate the 22-kilometer Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) on January 12, it’s time to look at the fragile ecology yet expanding infrastructure ecosystem of Mumbai. MTHL, India’s longest sea bridge, snakes gracefully across the Thane Creek, connecting...

Jan 8 · >

Modi-Shah Looking To Use Anti-ED Violence Against Mamata Govt

By Arun Srivastava The Enforcement Directorate’s report alleging police ‘failure’ to rescue its sleuths at Sarberia in North 24-Parganas, from the murderous attack of the angry mob on Friday morning and Governor C V Anand Bose’s threat – “I reserve all my constitutional options for appropriate action at appropriate...

Jan 6 · >

Ram Mandir Ahead Of Consecration: Persisting Issues Of Heart, Mind, Fear And Favour

By K Raveendran Every court judgment is supposed to be delivered without ‘fear or favour’ and ‘affection or ill-will’, but insights provided by Chief Justice of India Justice D Y Chandrachud on the Ayodhya Ram Mandir land judgment reveal how some of the disapproved tendencies did creep into the...

Jan 6 · >

India Needs To Impart Dynamism To Its Bilateral Ties With Bangladesh

By Harihar Swarup As Bangladesh prepares for its 12th parliamentary polls on January 7, speculation abounds on the impact of the election outcome on Dhaka’s relationship with Delhi. From historic landmarks such as the 2015 land boundary agreement to lows during 2001-2006, when a coalition led by the current...

Jan 6 · >

Trinamool Workers Attacking The ED People Reveals The State Of Law And Order In Bengal

By Sushil Kutty Something always is happening with West Bengal Governors. There was Jagdeep Dhankar who is now Vice President and whose mimicry by a Trinamool Congress leader has immortalized Dhankar whether he likes it or not. Now, there’s Governor CV Ananda Bose. And, by gosh, Ananda Bose can...

Jan 6 · >

Global Warming Linked To A Spate Of Rare Disease Outbreaks In 2023

By Zoya Teirstein A 16-month-old boy was playing in a splash pad at a country club in Little Rock, Arkansas, this summer when water containing a very rare and deadly brain-eating amoeba went up his nose. He died a few days later in the hospital. The toddler wasn’t the...

Jan 6 · >

Unprecedented Solar Proximity Is Being Made Possible In December This Year

By Girish Linganna On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is set for a historic journey, edging closer to the Sun than any other man-made object before. Achieving record-breaking speeds of 195 km/s (435,000 mph), it will be the fastest artificial object in history. The probe aims to...

Jan 6 · >

History Repeats Itself With The Killing Of Senior Hamas Official Saleh Al-Arouri

By James M Dorsey History repeats itself. Palestinian airplane hijackings and attacks on Israeli civilians in Israel as well as on Israeli and Jewish targets abroad pockmarked the 1970s and 1980s. The violence put the Palestinian issue on the world agenda. The violence erupted, and at times, was driven...

Jan 6 · >

RSS Is Working On State Specific Electoral Strategy In The Eastern States

By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership is happy that its electoral strategy has paid rich dividend in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in just concluded assembly elections Now the RSS chief is concentrating on Bihar, Bengal and Odisha taking in view the coming Lok Sabha polls....

Jan 5 · >

Can Sharmila’s Entry Into Congress Revive The Fortunes Of The Party Before Lok Sabha Polls?

By Sushil Kutty Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy’s sister Y S Sharmila is not what her name suggests—shy, placid… She has been a rebel after a cause, and so has done what she had set out to do, become a part of the Congress—which was...

Jan 5 · >

Nitish Driving INDIA Bloc Decisions, To Hit The Road For 2024 Campaign

By Rahil Nora Chopra Since Chief Minister Nitish Kumar took over the reins of the party, the Mahagathbandhan alliance partners are wondering whether the decision was deliberately engineered to create a conducive atmosphere for Kumar to switch over, once again to the NDA, or put pressure on the INDIA...

Jan 5 · >

Dollarisation Programme Of Argentina Will Impose Additional Burden On Its Workers

By Prabhat Patnaik Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use US dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. What is involved in this proposal is not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition...

Jan 5 · >

Tamil Nadu Floods Once Again Signal The Unpreparedness For Diasters

By K R Sudhaman It is unfortunate that the climate change and global warming are  not getting the attention it deserves. Global conferences set long term goals, which are too little too late. UN convention on climate change comes out with targets year after year and latest global conference,...

Jan 5 · >

Russia Offering Technology Knowhow To India To Build Small Modular Reactors

By Girish Linganna The expansion of civilian nuclear cooperation between India and Russia was decided upon during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to Moscow in December 2023. Moscow is prepared to offer India its technological knowhow to develop a compact modular reactor that can generate power in capacities...

Jan 5 · >

Bangladesh Election On January 7 Amidst BNP Boycott Draws Global Attention

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On January 7, 2024, Bangladesh will hold general elections. These elections are of great importance for Bangladesh, both domestically and internationally. In the run-up to the election, Nobel Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus, a critic of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was sentenced to six months in...

Jan 5 · >

John Pilger Was A Fearless Journalist Who Exposed Us Atrocities In His Coverage Of Vietnam War

By Paul Donovan Australian by birth, John Pilger died on December 30 2023, at the age of 84.He initially rose to fame for his international reporting on the Vietnam war, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Burma, East Timor, Australia and the Middle East. Together with filmmaker David Munro, he broke the news...

Jan 5 · >

BJP’s Crossing 400 Seats Slogan Is A Hype, Far Away From Ground Reality

By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has just coined this attractive slogan to its gullible constituency – Teesri Baar Modi Sarkar, ab ki baar 400 paar. Some national and international political analysts are declaring “almost an inevitability” of PM Narendra Modi’s win for the third time, supporting the first part...

Jan 4 · >
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