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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...

Oct 21 · >

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...

Oct 21 · >

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...

Oct 21 · >

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...

Oct 21 · >

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...

Oct 21 · >

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...

Oct 21 · >

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...

Oct 21 · >

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...

Oct 20 · >

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...

Oct 20 · >

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...

Oct 20 · >

Post Caste Census, JD(U)-RJD Further Consolidate Support Base

By Rahil Nora Chopra For Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, the prime supporters of the caste survey in the state, the result has been a strengthening of the ruling Mahagathbandhan’s social support base among Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Economically Backward Classes (EBCs) and...

Oct 20 · >

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Officially Takes Over Poll Campaign In Madhya Pradesh

By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Late night political scene in Madhya Pradesh has undone some surprise change for both BJP and Congress For BJP it was never expected that the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will directly appeal to M.P. voters “to support me by reposing confidence yet again in...

Oct 20 · >

BJP Ecosystem Spreading Fake News About Hamas-Israel War Targeting Palestinians

By Prachi Arya The news of the alleged beheading of Jewish babies and children by the fighters of Gaza administrator Hamas in the latest flare-up between Israel and Palestine spread like wildfire and has had a worldwide impact. However, more recent expositions have sought to establish the falsity of...

Oct 20 · >

Samajwadi Party Is Jittery At The Failure Of Alliance With The Congress In MP Assembly Polls

By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Failure of seat sharing in Madhya Pradesh assembly elections has led to sharp bitterness in INDIA partners Samajwadi Party and Congress. As of now both the parties are adamant to confront each other in assembly polls on November 17 accusing the other party playing in...

Oct 20 · >

Assam Chief Minister’s Nod For Pro-Bengali Demand Creates Confusion In State Politics

By Ashis Biswas In an unexpected turn of events, the outlawed separatist United Liberation Front of Assam (pro Independence) faction, has threatened residing Bengalis in the three Barak valley districts with violence if they supported the call for an autonomous homeland. In a recent statement, the ULFA(I) declared that...

Oct 20 · >

Om Puri – The Actors Actor Made Indian Cinema Poorer By His Early Death

By Tirthankar Mitra A newcomer with a handsome face needs no recommendation for entry into filmdom. Feted by Hollywood and nearer home at Bollywood to be one of the finest actors to perform before the camera, Om Puri who stood out in a crowd with a pockmarked face was...

Oct 20 · >

Bolivian Government Facing Crisis Due To Infighting In Ruling MAS

By Olivia Arigho-Stiles Bolivia’s governing party and a shining light of the Latin American left, the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), is mired in a deep internal crisis. Recently, during the MAS congress in the coca-growing town of Lauca Ñ, President Luis Arce and his vice president, David Choquehuanca, were...

Oct 20 · >

United States Is In Full Complicity With Israel In Its War Crimes Against Palestinians

By P Sudhir If President Biden’s visit to Tel Aviv for a day demonstrated anything, it is the unremitting and blind support for the Israeli settler-colonial State.  The visit underlined what has been the unchanging reality since 1948 – the United States has nurtured and cultivated Israel as its...

Oct 19 · >
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