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By Tirthankar Mitra It is a morning knock but is no less sinister than a midnight one as Dublin microbiologist Eilish Stack comes face to face with state’s totalitarianism as powers that seek to interrogate her trade unionist husband Larry. It is in this way Paul Lynch, an Irish...
US Company Prospera Is In A Bitter Fight With Left Wing Honduras Govt Over Its SEZ Facilities
By Grace Blakeley One may not have heard of the area of international law known as Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), through which private corporations are able to sue governments that implement legislation that constrains their profits. But this private parallel legal infrastructure is one of the greatest threats to...
Big Loss In Last Month’s Regional Elections Weakens The Left Wing President Petro In Columbia
By Pablo Castaño “If the people are mobilized, this government will not be overthrown. The reforms will go ahead. The strategy is to mobilize, we want people to organize themselves.” This was Gustavo Petro’s explicit vow to the crowd gathered in Bogotá’s Plaza Bolívar last month.. The promise, made...
Laxity In Occupational Safety Measures Can Have Serious Consequences
By Dr Arun Mitra The accident at the Silkyara tunnel where 41 workers got trapped, has exposed not only vulnerability of such happenings but also poor state of emergency preparedness to deal with such accidents. It is generally the poor workers who are affected in such situations. Only in...
Kerala Rejects Union Finance Minister’s Claims Of Financial Assistance
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has forcefully rejected the false claims being made by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the Centre’s financial assistance to the State Government. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in a strongly-worded statement at the Nava Kerala Sadas, currently in Kozhikode district, said that the Minister...
A Viable Palestinian State Under Present Conditions Looks Difficult
By Nantoo Banerjee The announcement of a prisoner swap deal between warring Hamas and Israel mediated by Qatar and Egypt and agreed by Israel, Hamas and the United States may have led to a temporary armistice in the region and selective exchange of captives from both the sides ,...
In Telangana Assembly Polls, Congress Has Moved Fast In The Last Leg Of Campaigning
By Kalyani Shankar As the Telangana elections approach their final week, the youngest state in India is ready for a Triangular electoral contest. The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (B.R.S.), Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.) compete for victory. Since its inception in 2014, B.R.S. chief K. Chandrashekhar Rao...
BJP Chanakya Amit Shah Has Offered A Redesigned Package Of Hindutva To Telangana Voters
By Sushil Kutty Telangana votes on November 30. Two days later votes cast will be counted and by afternoon of the same day, which party will be ruling Telangana would be known. If it is the Bharatiya Janata Party, the party has promised an Other Backward Caste Chief Minister....
Assembly Polls Are Electoral Test Of Rahul Gandhi’s Political Acumen
By Arun Srivastava It would be presumptuous to say that the elections to the five-state assemblies are a semi-final clatter for Prime Minister Narendra Modi; but one thing is certain that the peoples’ verdict for these elections will outline the political future of Rahul Gandhi. A negative mandate will...
Binance Developments Including $4billion Fine Have Led To A Relook At Crypto World
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Crypto exchange Binance’s co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao resigned on November 22 after the federal judges found his company guilty of violating U.S. anti-money laundering and sanction laws. The world’s largest crypto exchange was charged with not reporting over 100,000 suspicious transactions involving terror organizations,...
Decoding Bengal’s Unusual Film Actor Rabi Ghosh On His Birth Anniversary
By Tirthankar Mitra Usually every actor aspires to be a hero. But even when told by a maestro like Satyajit Ray on his face that a hero never looks like him the plain speak could not dampen Rabi Ghosh’s spirit; he was comfortable with facts. For it was not...
Three Million Workers Die Every Year Due To Work Related Accidents And Diseases
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nearly three million workers die every year due to work-related accidents and diseases, an increase of more than 5 per cent compared to 2015, according to new ILO estimates. The toll underscores the persistent challenges in safeguarding the health and safety of workers, globally. Most of...
Is Yahya Sinwar, The Hamas Leader Behind October 7 Attack Is Dead?
By Girish Linganna Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas’s political wing in Gaza, has gone into hiding due to the intense efforts by Israeli forces to locate his whereabouts. Sinwar, who is recognizable by his distinctive white hair and black eyebrows, is considered one of the most wanted men...
India’s Earlier Clout In Global Diplomacy Is Waning In Recent Years
By Rejimon Kuttappan In 2015, the late Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj placed two telephone calls to the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia on March 27 and 29 seeking a safe passage for Indians stuck in war-torn Yemen. Following the Arab Spring in 2011, Yemen was grappling with...
Left Coalition In Spain Getting Big Backlash From Far Right And Judiciary
By Steven Forti Early this summer, no one would have bet a single euro that Pedro Sánchez would still today be Spain’s prime minister. After May’s local elections, in which the opposition right-wing parties won handsomely, many thought that the Socialist Party (PSOE) leader Sánchez belonged to the politically...
Far Right Victory In Netherlands Elections Signals Bad Omen For European Liberals And Left
By Satyaki Chakraborty The results of the general elections in Netherlands held on November 22 indicating the emergence of the far right Party for Freedom (PVV) headed by Geert Wilders sent a shock wave across Europe. PVV became the biggest party in the Netherlands winning 37 of the 150...
For Ashok Gehlot, The Outcome Of Assembly Polls In Rajasthan Will Determine His Future
By Sushil Kutty Results of 199 Rajasthan Assembly seats where polling took place on Saturday will decide which party rules the state for the next five years. Since 1998 no party has been repeated twice in succession in Rajasthan. By that token, the Congress would be taking a break...
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Has A Formidable Team For Assembly Poll
By Harihar Swarup As Telangana goes to polls, on November 30, the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi took inspiration from Team India’s performance at the just concluded the ODI World Cup. Hoping to emulate the cricket team, the party launched a campaign asserting that, just as India will lift its...
