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By Satyaki Chakraborty In a major development in Latin American politics, defying all opinion poll projections, the candidate of the ruling centre left Peronist coalition Sergio Massa trounced the far right challenger Javier Milei in the first round of Presidential elections held on Sunday, October 22. Since no candidate...
Congress Stand On Hamas-Israel War Reflecting Conflicting Views On Hamas
By Harihar Swarup As the conflict between Israel and Hamas intensifies and the horrifying scale of the October 7 attack on civilians emerges, there is a growing disquiet in a section of the Congress about the working committee resolution that did not mention Hamas or condemn the terror attack...
Discontent In BJP Acquires Dangerous Dimension In Assembly Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Discontent among the BJP leaders denied party tickets to contest Vidhan Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh and their supporters in the party’s rank and file is slowly acquiring dangerous dimension, a situation which is potentially frustrating for the BJP’s state and Central leaderships, particularly the...
Mizoram Assembly Poll Set To Test Prime Minister Narendra Modi On The Manipur Scale
By Sushil Kutty The Congress was booted out in 2018 assembly polls.. And now it is harbouring hopes to make a return. The ruling Mizo National Front and the opposition Zoram People’s Movement haven’t given up hope, though. The BJP in Mizoram has to contend with the sordid happenings...
Israel’s Ground Invasion Of Gaza Will Have Catastrophic Consequences
By Girish Linganna Israel confronts significant dangers while gearing up for an extensive ground incursion into Gaza. A far-reaching mission by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) within the coastal territory is very likely to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis and lead to more civilian casualties. It also jeopardizes the lives...
Cryptocurrency Winter Could Transition To Spring As Early As 2024
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The cryptocurrency market is going through a prolonged winter, and very few things seem to be going in its favor, especially from the point of view of dramatic rise in prices and sky-high valuations of crypto coins. However, the cryptocurrency space is witnessing developments of...
Threat Of A Wider Conflict Keeps Oil Market Analysts In A Discomforting Guessing Game
By K Raveendran With signs of a wider conflict in the Middle East becoming stronger by the day, oil market analysts are keeping their fingers crossed over how the evolving scenario is going to shape the future of oil as well as the global economy. As Israel pushes ahead...
Hamas-Israel War, If Not Contained, Has Potential To Damage Global Economy
By Nilanjan Banik Joseph Campbell, author of “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” and scholar on comparative religions, once recounted a Japanese story. A samurai hunted down his master’s killer and was about to decapitate him when the assassin spat in the samurai’s face. The enraged samurai immediately returned...
Unorganised Workers In Need Of Urgent Protection
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The decision of increasing minimum wages of unskilled, semi-skilled, and skilled workers in the National Capital Territory of Delhi followed by strong criticism by Workers Unions have brought the issue of unprecedented suffering of unorganized workers again in focus. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Delhi...
Bengali Youth’s Innovative Skills Come Out In Its Best During Durga Puja Festival
By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when Calcutta as it was known then glorified itself in the title of ,”City of Palaces” owing to majestic buildings be it offices or grandees’ mansions dotting it. Lamenting those glorious gone by days when merchant princes from the city ran the economy of...
India’s Foreign Trade Has Hit A Bump In The Face Of Global Uncertainties
By K R Sudhaman All is not well with India’s exports this financial year and the global uncertainties has made matters worse when one reads between the lines the data of exports of goods and services in the first half of this financial year 2023-24. This meant that India’s...
Fact-Checker Zubair Being Awarded Freedom Of Expression Award Is Good News
By Arif Ayaz Parrey and Gursimran Kaur Bakshi Today is Day 14 of the latest flare-up in the Israel–Palestine conflict. During this fortnight, the internet has been flooded with images and videos of flattened buildings and neighbourhoods, rockets being intercepted mid-flight, gunfights, people fleeing bombings, and injured and dead...
Israel May Win Gaza War, But It Has Already Lost The Battle For Public Opinion
By James M Dorsey Israel will likely win the Gaza war on the battlefield. Even so, it has already been defeated in the court of public opinion. It no longer really matters who attacked Gaza’s Al Ahli Arab Hospital in which hundreds of innocent civilians were killed or the...
Biden’s Israel-Ukraine Money Appeal Envisions War-Based Economy
By C.J. Atkins WASHINGTON—Playing the part of classic Cold Warrior in his Thursday night Oval Office speech, President Joe Biden made a sales pitch for a permanent war economy, using democracy as a prop to convince the American people that he needed $105 billion to spend on weapons for...
New Polling Shows The Palestinian Cause Is Becoming Popular In The US
By Yaseen Al-Sheikh On Thursday night, President Joe Biden delivered a nationally televised address making the case for an unprecedented military aid package for Israel, as well as Ukraine. Biden is requesting a whopping $74 billion to send to Israel and Ukraine, even amid scenes of mass death, humanitarian...
Time To Launch United Battle Of Secular Parties To Save The Ethos Of India
By D. Raja With the country inching closer to polls in five states followed by the parliamentary elections, the situation remains quite dire and critical. The sinister design of the powers to be to transform the country socially and politically in the mode of theocratic order of the Hindu...
Madhya Pradesh Assembly Poll Widens Opposition Faultline
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is resurgent in Madhya Pradesh, but it is the only state among the five going to poll in November, is ruled by the BJP, where it has better political prospects than in any other state. Logically, the opposition INDIA alliance should have gone for...
Ashok Gehlot Signals Sachin Pilot Will Not Be Flight Captain After November Polls
By Sushil Kutty That Sachin Pilot does not like Ashok Gehlot must not be a difficult answer in Rajasthan. The late Rajesh Pilot’s son is a long time sufferer at the hands of the magician-turned-politician who says “the CM post won’t leave me”. If only Sachin Pilot knew this...
