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By Sushil Kutty Delhi’s New York Times-accredited Education Minister Manish Sisodia is the latest cult figure to invade our minds. And whoever knew Manish Sisodia is a “kshatriya” kept the secret to himself, which was fine because now that we all know, we can look down at the...
Farmers’ Relaunching Their Struggle To Get Their MSP Demand Conceded
By Arun Srivastava The farmers are again on the battle path against the Narendra Modi Government as the centre did not fulfil its commitment given to the farmers leaders last year before withdrawal of the year long agitation. The farmers’ demonstrations in and around Delhi on Monday...
Withdrawal Of PDP Bill Points To Tech-Shy Government’s Weak Spot
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav In a surprise move, the government on August 3 withdrew the much-awaited Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill from parliament. After it was introduced in Lok Sabha in December 2019, the PDP Bill was referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), which tabled the bill...
China’s ‘Quadrilateral’ With Bangladesh, Lanka, Pakistan Aims At Trade-Military Cooperation
By Nantoo Banerjee There is nothing to be surprised about Sri Lanka’s decision to dock Chinese ‘spy’ vessel Yuan Wamg-5 at its Chinese-built Hambantota port, last week, despite protests from India. Sri Lanka President’s belated statement that China won’t be allowed to use the port for military...
Reduction Of Prices Of Essential Drugs Is Imperative For Common People
By Dr Arun Mitra The news that the company producing Paracetamol in the trade name of ‘Dolo’ spent 1000 crore rupees as freebies to the doctors for the promotion of their drug is a matter of concern. It shows the total failure of the government in regulating the...
Anand Sharma And Azad’s Resignation From Panels Is A Bad Omen For Congress
By Sushil Kutty Unless a plane crashes or a jeep turns turtle, Congress politicians always seem to have a long autumn. The long and short: regardless of what happens, Congress politicians carry on with stoic resolve. Not even self-respect comes in the way. But it is “self-respect” that has...
A Coastal Community’s Struggle For Protection Of Their Livelihood, Habitat
By K Raveendran A month-long agitation by the coastal fishing community around Kerala’s Vizhinjam port in defence of their livelihood is threatening to stall India’s leading corporate Adani group’s schedule for the development of the port. Hundreds of fishing community members, mainly women from the nearby...
Remembering Rajiv Gandhi On His 78th Birth Anniversary On August 20
By Anjan Roy Had he been alive, Rajiv Gandhi would have been somewhat of an old man today. He would have crossed 78. But he remains for ever a young man who had once said that he had a right to dream — dream about India. Rajiv...
Nitish Kimar May Be The New Mascot Of Opposition To Fight Modi In 2024 Polls
By Harihar Swarup Here’s something about Nitish and the number 7, Circular Road. As Chief Minister, he has been at 7, Circular Road, while using 1, Anna Marg, the official residence as his office. Now, with CM severing his five-year-old old alliance with the BJP and walking over...
Decoding My 72 Years In Independent India: Part Four
By Nitya Chakraborty The third millennium began in the midst of resurgence in telecom and computer sector. India with its reservoir of technologists soon came in the front line of that global churning with the Indian engineers making a big name in the software sector. But in...
Bilkis Bano Case, Yet Another Eye-Opener To Judge BJP
By Binoy Viswam On the 75th year of Independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi as usual was eloquent in his rhetoric. He minced no words to impress upon the people of India by preaching his government’s commitment to the men and women of the country. Though he addressed the...
Crowd In Field Against Modi Is A Delight For Saffron Party
By K Raveendran The line-up against Narendra Modi for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is expanding steadily, but not in terms of its overall clout, but in the number of divisions. Mamata Gandhi was seen as one of the early claimants, but her Trinamul is...
BJP In Panick To Weaken AAP Before Crucial State Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty The CBI action against AAP excise and education minister Manish Sisodia is betraying uneasiness in the BJP. More so, after America’s ‘No.1’ newspaper, the New York Times, put Sisodia on its front-page, declaring him the world’s ‘No.1 education minister’. This, two days after AAP...
U.S. Sanctions Against Russia Are Leading To The Decline Of Dollar
By Prabhat Patnaik The hegemony of the US dollar was based on the fact that the world’s wealth-holders considered it to be “as good as gold”, even when it was no longer officially convertible to gold at a fixed rate, as it had been under the Bretton...
Labour Market In India Becoming More Elusive To Youth
By Gyan Pathak Labour market in India is becoming more and more elusive for youth. During the last six years their participation in the total workforce in the country has dropped from 17 to 13 per cent at a time when their population increased from 26 to 28...
Governor- LDF Govt Standoff Takes A New Turn In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRIVANTHAPURAM: The confrontation between Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government of Kerala on the Kannur University issue has touched a new low. A protracted legal battle is in the offing with the Vice-Chancellor of the Kannur Varsity...
Bihar Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav Vows To Fulfil Old Jobs Pledge
By Rahil Nora Chopra With Tejashwi Yadav becoming the deputy CM of Bihar, media persons reminded him of his pledge of providing 10 lakh jobs. Seeing the political situation and Nitish Kumar’s prime ministerial aspirations, he played a masterstroke and announced that his government would create up to...
Next Round Of GST Readjustment To Lead To More Price Increases
By K Raveendran A brief respite in retail inflation registered for July may not be of much assurance about price stability as another GST readjustment is threatening to push up prices of items of mass consumption. Retail inflation was steady in June, although well above the...
