By Philip Marcelo As Wall Street reels from the swift demise of Silicon Valley Bank—the biggest American bank failure since the 2008 financial meltdown—some social media users and conservative journalists are honing in on a single culprit: its socially aware, or “woke,” agenda. But the Santa Clara-based institution’s professed...
By Sushil Kutty The Narendra Modi government will not let Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to speak in Parliament till he gives in to the government diktat. Forget Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, he stands no chance against the government. And as for the rest of the BJP, including those...
By Arun Kumar India’s per capita income, representing the average income of an Indian citizen, has risen from INR 79,000 in 2013–14 to INR 1,71,000 in 2022–23 — an increase of 116 percent. Therefore, some claim that incomes have more than doubled in India since the present ruling dispensation...
By Prabhat Patnaik For a large part of the dirigiste period, the gross domestic product of the Indian economy grew at a rate of around 4 per cent per annum or less, which, though an improvement compared to the colonial era that had witnessed virtual stagnation, was not very...
By Prabir Purkayastha The recent Australia, US and UK 368 billion dollar deal on buying nuclear submarines has been termed by Paul Keating, a former Australian PM, as the worst deal in all history. It commits Australia to buy conventionally-armed, nuclear-powered submarines which will be delivered earliest in the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Civil Aviation sector in India remains a victim of low budgetary allocation as well as improper plans and implementation by the Narendra Modi led government at the Centre that claims about its good governance and performance. It has been revealed in an assessment of the...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the seven-party alliance of Mahagathbandhan, led by Chief Minister of Bihar Nitish Kumar, is planning to give land to landless people to construct houses. In addition, the ruling alliance in Bihar is also planning a special survey of those...
By Roger McKenzie The U.S. share of global arms exports has risen to 40%, according to a report published Monday. The U.S. has long been the world’s leading exporter of military equipment, but its share of the deadly trade grew by 14% between 2013–17 and 2018–22, says the report...
By Prakash Karat Heralding a new offensive against the opposition by the Modi government, there has been a spate of activities by the central agencies – particularly, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED). In the past two weeks, the CBI summoned for questioning Manish...
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi, known for his histrionics, trying to equal the record of Jawaharlal Nehru, by becoming the prime minister for the three successive terms, simply by reactivating the dormant Sangh sympathisers and modules to ensure his victory During his never die campaign in Karnataka, during the...