By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Union Ministry of Finance in its Monthly Economic Review of February 2023 has not only defended again the highly debatable criterion of ‘one hour per week’ engagement of a workers in an economic activity being classified as employed by the Periodic Labour Force Survey...
By Anjan Roy Now that the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England have all raised their policy interest rates to fight inflation, there might be further flutters in the financial sector and several other banks might be nervous about the future. However, the central bankers have...
By James M Dorsey A push by Arab allies of the United States to bring Syria in from the cold highlights the limits of a Chinese-mediated rapprochement between the Middle East’s archrivals, Saudi Arabia and Iran. The effort spearheaded by the United Arab Emirates, and supported by Saudi Arabia,...
By Nitya Chakraborty The petition moved jointly by 14 leading opposition parties to the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the ‘misuse’ of central investigation agencies by the Narendra Modi government against the leaders of the non-BJP parties, has big political significance in the present phase of political turmoil...
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is no longer a Member of Parliament. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla took the decision to disqualify the Gandhi Family scion following his conviction in a case of criminal defamation, with two-year jail sentence. Less than two years of jail and he...
By D. Raja “The proletariat will win. Capitalism will be defeated. Death to Imperialism!” Read Shaheed Bhagat Singh, wearing a red scarf, from a telegram message that was to be sent to the Third International on the occasion of Lenin’s death anniversary in 1930.This gesture made by Bhagat Singh...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak What is ‘understanding’ an utterance and what is ‘misunderstanding’? The answer is obvious – if someone understands exactly the same as to what was uttered is ‘understanding’ and if someone derives any other meaning is ‘misunderstanding’. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for two years of...
By Arun Srivastava Barely thirteen months before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, which together contribute 120 seats out of the total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, the political campaigning and organizational activities are most manifest in the BJP camp while the Bihar Mahagathbandhan ...
By Prabhat Patnaik There is nothing mysterious about the reasons for the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank and the Signature Bank in the United States. There is also nothing mysterious about why the entire banking system of the capitalist world has come under a cloud: once some part...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political buzz around the formation of a regional front has been gaining ground, especially after the much anticipated meeting of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with the Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, in which both of them discussed about exploring the possibility...