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By Ed Rampell SANTA MONICA: Backstage at Carnegie Hall during the mid-1980s I found myself standing next to a tall, older gentleman. Looking up, I gasped, realizing I was in the presence of arguably the world’s greatest living playwright. I blurted out: “God bless you, Mr. Miller!” Arthur Miller,...
Indian Nation Facing Major Challenges In Its Journey Towards 2047
By Kalyani Shankar India just marked its 77th year of independence on August 15. It is an excellent time to reflect on successes and failures and plan what’s ahead. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shared his vision for the country until 2047. His “Azadi ka Amrit Kaal” plan aims...
Expansion And Trade Are High On BRICS Summit 2023 Agenda
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Expansion of the BRICS and mutually accelerated trade top the agenda of the 15thBRICS Summit 2023 (August 22-24) in the backdrop of the internal and external challenges its members – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa are faced The summit , has created unprecedented...
Biggest Scholarship Scam Haunting The Final Year Of Narendra Modi Govt
By Sushil Kutty It is the “biggest minority scholarship scam” unearthed, which puts it directly in the lap of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeasement policy, what the Prime Minister called ‘tushtikaran” in his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort, one of three ills plaguing...
Supreme Court Must Ensure That The Opposition Leaders Are Not Harassed By Official Agencies
By Kartik Goel On August 21, while hearing a case relating to the summoning of two government officials by the Allahabad High Court for contempt of court, the Supreme Court said that it will “lay down some broad yardsticks for summoning government officers to courts”. A Bench of Chief...
Assam Delimitation Move Upsets Major Communities And Ethnic Groups
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: As with the controversial and eventually inconclusive NRC operations in Assam, the Election Commission-sponsored (ECI) delimitation of Assembly and Lok Sabha seats too, has deepened existing ethnic divides, generating fresh political tensions. Now that the ECI delimitation proposals have received Presidential assent, only the ruling...
Putin’s Russia Is A Poor Edition Of Once Powerful Soviet Power In Science & Technology
By Anjan Roy What a dump Russia is in. It is a pity to see the country in this shape. Once, only the other super power in the league of the United States, today Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is unable to attend the BRICS leaders’ summit in South Africa....
National Medical Commission’s Directive To Prescribe Generic Drugs Is Flawed
By Dr Arun Mitra The latest notification of the Board of Ethics of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has asked the doctors to prescribe medicines with pharmacological names. Earlier too The Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette & Ethics) Regulations, 2002, clause 1.5 mentioned use of Generic names of...
India Is Poised To Become The Fourth Country To Soft Land On Moon’s South Pole
By Girish Linganna Russia’s first moon landing attempt since the 1970s failed on Sunday (August 20, 2023) as the Luna-25 lander crashed into the lunar surface after losing contact with Earth controls, said Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos. Launched on August 11, Luna-25 was in a race with India to...
Big Left Wing Victories In Presidential Elections Of Guatemala And Ecuador
By Satyaki Chakraborty Latin America created a history on Sunday, August 20 when the left wing candidates swept the Presidential elections in two countries Guatemala and Ecuador by defeating the right wing and the establishment candidates. Guatemalan anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo was voted as president by getting 58 percent...
Land Acquisition Is Posing Problem For India’s Infrastructure Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee Last week’s Supreme Court order to temporarily stay the demolition drive of the Railways to clear “encroachment” near Krishna Janmasthan in Mathura could be a matter of concern for both the railways and 135-family dwellings on the government land. Neither the Railways nor the dwellers on...
Newly Constituted CWC Presents Delicate Political Balancing Within
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The newly constituted Congress Working Committee (CWC) under the Indian National Congress (INC) president Mallikarjun Kharge presents indeed a delicate political balancing within the party that was necessitated due to the forthcoming Vidhan Sabha Elections in five states by the end of 2023 and the...
How Are The Indian TV Channels Setting Agenda On The Eve Of Lok Sabha Polls?
By Sushil Kutty The other day, a top prime-time television anchor asked Minority Affairs Minister Smriti Irani if the rising price of tomatoes was the subject of discussion around her family’s dinner table when tomato prices shot up to over Rs 250 per kg? Ms. Irani, caught napping on...
Srinivasa Sethuraman, An Outstanding Journalist Of Post-Independence India, Is No More
By Nitya Chakraborty Srinivasa Sethuraman, better known as ‘Sethu’ to the old timers of media fraternity in Delhi, passed away in Chennai on August 20 after a brief illness. He was 99. Sethuraman is perhaps the only journalist in India who spent about 78 years in active journalism spanning...
Himalayan Region Needs More Infra Development And Industrial Growth
By K R Sudhaman A balanced socio-economic and women development of Himalayan states is critical for India to become a developed economy in the next decade or two. The Indian Himalayan region is spread across 13 Indian States/Union Territories (namely Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh,...
CBI Seeking Cancellation Of Lalu Yadav’s Bail Is Politically Motivated
By Arun Srivastava In their quest to dissipate the INDIA alliance and ensure that no dissent surfaces even inside their own party BJP, the Narendra Modi and Amit Shah combination has decided to take on the sturdiest opposition face Lalu Yadav, the RJD supremo. The design got manifest in...
Former PM Imran Khan Finds Himself Out Of Depth In Pakistani Politics
By Tirthankar Mitra Chalking out a far reaching political game plan and working step by step to implement it is not former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s forte. His words and actions whether he remains a free man or is behind the bars in Toshakhana case as of now...
Jihadi Outfits Continue To Pose Grave Danger To U.S., Western Nations
By Manish Rai There is a growing perception that these are the last days of the Islamic State and the United States and its allies war on terror has almost ended in Syria. But still, in one corner of Syria, Jihadists enjoy a safe haven and are even thriving....
