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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress winning three Vidhan Sabha Constituencies and the BJP and its ally winning two in the byelections held for five seats in four states’ legislative assemblies –Maharashtra, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Tamil Nadu – is defeat a clear indication of the Congress emerging stronger vis-à-vis...
Supreme Court Order On Composition Of Election Commission Is A Positive Step
By Sushil Kutty Before the year is out there will be more than one troubling contretemp for the Bharatiya Janata Party. For the Supreme Court, and for the Modi government, too. Both are in the middle of a war over the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner and his...
Modi Ecosystem Presenting Distorted Image Of Tripura Poll Verdict
By Arun Srivastava Riding on the back of the regional forces in Meghalaya and Nagaland, the political ecosystem of the BJP has put its entire effort and resources into projecting Narendra Modi as the invincible leader and new face of the New India. The BJP megaphones in the media...
Eye On Lok Sabha 2024 Polls, Congress Renews Focus On Social Justice
By Rahil Nora Chopra In an attempt to revive the politics of social justice before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress made 85 amendments in its constitution at its 85th plenary session, seeking to provide 50 percent reservation to scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs), other backward classes...
Suspension Of Start By President Putin Imparts A New Dimension To Ukraine War
By Prabir Purkayastha The Ukraine War has now completed one year. Unfortunately, one of the consequences of the war is that the New START, the last remaining arms control agreement on nuclear weapons and missiles, has also gone into limbo. On February 21, President Putin announced that Russia has...
Trinamool Congress Has Got A Big Jolt In State Assembly Elections
By Ashis Biswas Ironically, opposition parties in India were further divided by the outcome of Assembly elections in three Northeastern states, not to mention the Sagardighi seat by- election in West Bengal. In broad terms, the Left parties and the Indian National Congress (INC) fared much better than their...
DMK Supremo M K Stalin’s Call For Broadest Unity Of Opposition Against BJP Is The Need Of The Hour
By Binoy Biswam The decisive battle is coming closer. In this battle the very idea of India is at stake. The forces, which control political power since 2014, are adamant to prepare the ground in their favour. They have mobilized all their resources to win the battle once again. ...
RBI Is Yet To Find A Viable Policy Of Balancing Both Inflation And Growth
By Anjan Roy The latest GDP figures show that the Indian economy is slowing down. The last quarterly figures indicted national income grew by 4.4%, which was lower than in the preceding two quarters. This was immediately ascribed to the hikes in interest rates by the Reserve Bank for...
New Netanyahu Govt In Israel Has Intensified Attacks Against Palestinians
By Prakash Karat Ever since Benjamin Netanyahu formed a coalition government comprising far-right and ultra-orthodox religious parties, at the end of last year, there has been a spate of attacks by the Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. The Netanyahu government has declared...
Narendra Modi’s Backing To Yediyurappa Signals Nod To Communal Politics
By Arun Srivastava Eulogy of senior BJP leader B S Yediyurappa as the strongest and tallest political figure from the Lingayat community by the prime minister Narendra Modi early this week at a public meeting certainly is an ominous indicator of the political development that would entail in the...
Political Fallout Of Manish Sisodia’s Arrest Does Not Favour BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Getting Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia arrested might have been thought of by Modi-Shah duo as masterstroke to politically finish AAP and its leader Arvind Kejriwal to prevent their emergence as chief challenger to BJP and its leader Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha...
The Bizarre Story Of Gangsters In Uttar Pradesh Under Yogi Regime
By Sushil Kutty India has the most number of gangsters-turned-politicians and one of them is Atiq Ahmed of Prayagraj, who is petrified he will go the way of Vikas Dubey, another gangster of the same neck of the woods, who was killed after the police jeep bringing him to...
China Led RCEP Has Led Many Asian Nations Into Major Debt Crisis
By Subrata Majumder With RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) making debut in January 2022, after a long hard negotiations for over a decade, it emerged as the biggest trade block with duty free access in the world. It accounts for 30 percent of global trade. The noticeable features of...
Case For A ‘Legal Coalition’ Of Opposition Parties To Fight Attacks By Modi Govt
By Sushil Kutty We are in the Ides of March. And like Caesar’s wife, all holders of top positions in India should be above suspicion. Shouldn’t that apply to the Prime Minister of India? It’s a thought. Why should anybody get a free pass, spared the rigmarole that applies...
Gallup Survey Shows Russian Economic Outlook Better Than Pre-Ukraine Scenario
By K Raveendran Western nations, led by the US, slapped economic sanctions against Russia, targeting its financial system, oil and gas exports, and thousands of oligarchs in the hope that Moscow will be brought down to knees for having invaded Ukraine. In fact, the World Bank, International Monetary Fund,...
Mexico’s President Under Attack From Neoliberals At Home And In U.S.
By Alvaro Rodriguez Mexico’s capitalist class is angry with the present President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) and they’re resorting to some desperate tactics to defame him. Recently, they held a multi-party protest featuring a white woman, the mother of the main opposition leader Claudio X. Gonzales (formerly an...
Bernie Sanders Is Set To Expose The U.S. Capitalists In His New Role In Senate
By Liza Featherstone The capitalist class is always trying to will Bernie Sanders into death or retirement. A recent New York Times report noted, perhaps wishfully, that his new role as chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labour, and Pensions “could be his final act in Washington.”...
Saudi Strategy Challenges Global Sports Administrations As Well As Fans
By James M Dorsey Even before it officially launched, Saudi Arabia’s bid to host the 2030 World Cup is on thin ice. The bid suggests that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is determined to do whatever it takes to become a dominant force in international sports. However, the hubris...
