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By Arun Srivastava Belying the indictment of the BJP leaders that opposition unity was a mirage and a convergence of the corrupt leaders, the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties has delivered a new ideologically sound and adorable body, the INDIA, or the Indian National Developmental Inclusive...
The Once Poweful Janata Dal(S) Is Now A Lonely Traveller In Indian Politics
By Sushil Kutty There are 64 squares on the chessboard and 26 INDIA parties will square up against 38 NDA parties in the 2024 general elections. But how many realized that 38+26 added up to ‘64’? Everybody was talking of how Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA paled in...
Trinamool Congress’s New Rajya Sabha Nominees Are Useful For 2024 Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra Be it Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha elections, political parties participate in them to add to their number and traction within the two Houses and beyond it. The choices of nominees of BJP and Trinamool Congress in the recent Rajya Sabha elections indicate that both...
China-US Battle On Supremacy In High Tech In Defence Equipment Gets New Dimension
By Girish Linganna With effect from August 1, the Chinese capital has imposed restrictions on the export of gallium, a component that has long been an integral part of the U.S. military’s advanced defense systems and supply chain. An expert has claimed that although there may be...
Gold Improves Outlook As End Of Central Bank Tightening Is In Sight
By K Raveendran With the end of central bank tightening cycle in sight, gold prices are edging higher and the mid-year outlook for the yellow metal has turned more. Domestic prices in India have already been showing an upward trend. The latest gains are attributed to dollar weakness,...
India Among Low Women’s Empowerment And Gender Gapcountries
By Gyan Pathak India is among the low Women’s Empowerment and Gender Gap group of countries with their respective values 0.520 and 0.560 respectively in 2022. It is also in the medium value group countries in Human Development in 2021. It has been revealed in anew report on...
ISIS Still The Most Imminent Threat In Region: Peshmerga
By Manish Rai Major General Usman Mohammad Mustafa is the Director General of Media and Awareness in the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs effectively serving as the official spokesperson of Peshmerga forces. The Peshmerga are the military forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and one of the most...
AI Is Being Increasinglyused To Attack The Working Poor In Australia
By Chris Dite Australian business and government have joined the global chorus warning about the risks artificial intelligence (AI) poses to humanity. But despite their fretful tone, the introduction of algorithms into Australian political life has been less apocalyptic and more business-as-usual. Changes to the Australian welfare system...
India, Bangladesh To Use National Currencies For Bilateral Trade
By Ashis Biswas In South Asia, the recent agreement between India and Bangladesh, to use their respective national currencies (rupee and taka) for bilateral trade will help boost Bangladeshi forex savings by at least $2 billion US annually. While this is one of several factors behind the decision,...
Amitav Ghosh Is A Globally Recognised Writer Fighting For Right Causes
By Harihar Swarup Amitav Ghosh became the first writer in English to win Jnanpith IS A CRUSADER Award, one of India’s most prestigious literary prizes. It’s a sign of just how effectively he has decolonized the language. Borders mean little to the 67-year-old who was born in Calcutta...
A Broad Front Of Samajwadi Party And Congress Can Only Challenge BJP In Uttar Pradesh
By Dr.Gyan Pathak Uttar Pradesh, the state that sends 80 MPs in Lok Sabha, the largest number across the states, has lately been witnessing much increased political activities. Double anti-incumbency seems to be working against the double-engine government under PM Narendra Modi at the Centre and CM Yogi...
Maharashtra Politics Turns Bizarre Before Lok Sabha Elections In 2024
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra politics is strange and is getting weirder by the day. Ask anybody in the streets of Mumbai. Pune or Nagpur. Opinion will not change even in Sambhaji Nagar. Ask political analysts and they’ll say Maharashtra’s politicians are to blame. Take, for instance, the powerful...
India Is Working On Global Currency Trade Deals Widening Its Coverage
By Anjan Roy India is working out local currency trade deals with an increasingly larger group of countries, thereby avoiding invoicing in US dollars for every trade. This is a move towards internationalisation of the Indian currency when the country is opening up its external sector. India has agreed...
Big Jump In Cases Of Unruly Mid-Air Behaviour By Passengers After Covid Pandemic
By K Raveendran ‘Pee-gate’, standing for the incident of a top executive of a multinational urinating on a co-passenger in an inumbrated state, was a new year sensation. The man, Shankar Mishra, was banned from flying for four months while Air India, the operator of the New York-Delhi...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Has Made Vegetarian Meals Popular In His Foreign Visits
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A key feature of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent foreign trips was the vegetarian meals served in state banquets organized to mark his presence. On June 22, the White House organized a dinner that 400 guests attended. The three-course menu was simple and...
Autocrats Shift Gears By Exporting Repression Of Freedoms
By James M Dorsey Increasingly, muzzling political freedoms beyond national borders is part of an autocrat’s toolkit. Men like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the presidents of Turkey and China, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Xi Jinping are no longer satisfied with silencing critical voices and controlling...
Trump Plans Imperial Presidency Should He Win 2024 Presidential Polls
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Trump and his inner circle are not at all shy about saying he will move to assume the role of a dictator should he be elected in 2024. Back in 1973, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., wrote The Imperial Presidency, a book focusing...
Finland’s New Government Is Showing All Signs Of Far Right Neo-Liberalism
Finland’s new government had been in power for less than two weeks before entering into crisis. Vilhelm Junnila, the new minister of economic affairs, from the nationalist Finns Party, turned out to have had a history of far-right signaling, including jokes implying affinity toward Adolf Hitler. In a tight...
