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By Arun Srivastava With India facing a diabolical threat from the rightwing RSS and BJP, the immediate and most urgent task for the revolutionary communists is to save the country from this flurry of fascist disaster and destruction and to accomplish this it is imperative that all democratic forces...
BJP Leadership Desperate To Retain Power In Tripura Again At All Costs
By Ashis Biswas Pre-poll campaigning has reached its peak in Tripura, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting twice during the last three days for addressing election meetings in the state and the Home Minister Amit Shah holding road shows and meetings on February 6 and 7 and again on...
BJP President JP Nadda’s Bengal Visit Before Panchayat Polls Is A Big Flop
By Tirthankar Mitra Beset by defection and dissension, West Bengal unit of BJP seems to be like a part of retreating army trudging along wearily. Recent tour of party president JP Nadda to the state aimed to be a pep up pill before the yet to be announced panchayat...
Nachiketa Desai’s Death Is A Big Loss To Fearless Journalist Community
By Sagari Chhabra Nachiketa Desai a journalist passed away on in Ahmedabad on Sunday, 5th February after a fall at his house. Why should a journalist’s death, make news when the entire profession has been dealt a dying blow by massive lay-offs, corporate takeover, dissolution of the Working Journalists’...
Like Bolivia, Peru Can Overturn The Coup By Mass Demonstrations
By Ken Livingstone As the mass mobilisations for the return of democracy in Peru intensify, the illegitimate government of President Dina Boluarte this week declared a state of emergency in seven regions where the largest anti-government protests are taking place. The coup-government clampdown now exists in 11 of Peru’s...
Opposition Parties Have To Force The Prime Minister To Agree To JPC Into Adani Affairs
By Sushil Kutty Is Adani-Modi and the so-called Hindenburg revelations that brought the alleged murky ties between a prime minister and a stinking rich moneybag an issue in the Tripura assembly elections, the first of nine state assembly elections scheduled for 2023? The answer is, there is so far...
Using The Cow As A Political Tool In Indian Society Is A Dangerous Trend
By Dr Arun Mitra The cow is in picture again, this time with the approval of competent authority and on the direction of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy. With emphasis on aiming to celebrate the ‘Vedic tradition’ and the immense...
Shorting Being Made Scapegoat For Adani Group’s Woes Due To Malpractices
By K Raveendran In a desperate bid to defend Adani, an orchestrated attempt is being made to present shorting as something undesirable and even abominable. Adani himself has tried to pretend that the action by US investment firm Hindenburg in exposing the irregularities in his group’s accounting practices as...
Labour Market Remains Volatile With Fall In LPR
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s labour market remains volatile. The month of January 2023 witnessed a large number of unemployed moving out from the labour market after they got frustrated after months of searching jobs. This act of the unemployed excluded their count as unemployed resulting in fall in...
Bringing Two Ancient Shalagram Silas From Nepal For Use In Ram Mandir Has Great Significance
By Harihar Swarup Recently, two large boulders, believed to be 60 million years old, were dispatched to Ayodhya. These stones were found along the Gandaki river at a site in Muktinath valley in Nepal. The region is thought to be part of erstwhile kingdom of Mithila, ruled by Ram’s...
Indian Market Has Been Drawing Big Attention Of Global Tourism Industry
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Indian tourism market is slowly but surely taking the centre stage. With Ganga Vilas, India is setting the stage for high-budget tourism products. That could bring a paradigm shift in the way the Indian tourism market is looked at. A four-day meeting of the G20...
For Common Republican Party Supporters, Donald Trump Is The Preferred Candidate
By Luke Savage This week, a poll conducted by Morning Consult about the 2024 Republican presidential field put Donald Trump at nearly 50 percent support with likely GOP primary voters, ahead of presumed rival Ron DeSantis by double digits. Former vice president Mike Pence sits at a meager 7...
Narendra Modi-Adani Combination Is The Symbol Of Corporate-Hindutva Alliance
By Prabhat Patnaik Gautam Adani’s calling Hindenburg’s allegations of fraud against him an attack on the Indian nation is a matter of particular significance. Just before this episode, the BBC documentary on Modi had been labelled a product of the colonial mindset by the government and hence also construed...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Suffering From ‘I, Me, Myself’ Syndrome
By Sushil Kutty The human body is 80 percent water. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s is 80 percent hubris, the remaining 20 percent hot air for ballast, also called ‘bombast’! Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma and qualities to inspire are garnished with enough narcissism to sink INS Vikrant! And his...
Rahul Must Forge Opposition Unity To Become The Consensus Candidate
By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the race for prime ministerial candidate from the combined Opposition will most likely include the names of Sharad Pawar, Nitish Kumar and Mamata Banerjee. But after the remarkable response of Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the former Congress...
All Indications Suggest A Hung Assembly In Tripura With Tm Playing A Key Role
By Tirthankar Mitra Even after Pradyot Kishor Manikya Debbarma, chief of the most powerful party of the tribals in Tripura Tipra Motha (TM) sought to carve out a separate state from Tripura, none of the leaders of the major political parties contesting the state Assembly elections have dared to...
Artificial Intelligence Boom Is Followed By AI War
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom is here, and so is the AI war, and all their consequences that may change our future more quickly than we can imagine now. It has just been reported that a single mistake by Google’s AI...
Bhagwat’s Rumination Of Caste Is A Ploy To Serve Hindu Rashtra Agenda
By Arun Srivastava The observation “everybody is same and do not be misled by caste superiority” coming from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat certainly cannot be described as ambiguous. It has much wider and deeper than it looks at the surface level. His rumination on caste is...
