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By Kalyani Shankar How should the newly elected President Droupadi Murmu be addressed? When congress leader Adhir Chowdhury referred to her as ‘Rashtrapatni’ and claimed it was a slip of his tongue later, still minister SmritiIrani held the word as derogatory. Even when the first woman president, Pratibha Patil...
Aamir Khan Is Being Haunted By Trolls For His Film ‘Lal Singh Chadda’
By Sushil Kutty Actors Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan are getting “brutally trolled”, along with Laal Singh Chadda. On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And people are loving the word ‘brutally’. Especially sub-editors, and headliners. Aamir and Kareena can only “block” the trolls. But that is fraught with risk....
Labour Market Condition To Deteriorate Further Globally
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The number of hours worked in the world fell in the first quarter of 2022 and remained 3.8 per cent below the level of the fourth quarter of 2019 – and that is equivalent to the loss of 112 million full-time jobs. The latest ILO...
Punjab Incident Relating To Dr. Gaur Speaks Bad Of The State Govt
By Dr Arun Mitra The incidence where Health Minister of Punjab rebuked the Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences and asked him to lie down on the bed with torn mattress has brought shame to the nation. Dr. Raj Bahadur Gaur, the Vice Chancellor is an...
Jobs And Justice: Historic Battle Of West Bengal’s Deprived Youth
By Dipankar Bhattacharya The startling recovery of more than fifty crore rupees in cash and gold from two flats belonging to an actress and reportedly a close aide to the now dropped TMC minister Partha Chatterjee has once again put the Mamata Banerjee government of West Bengal in the...
SC Verdict On PMLA And ED’s Power Comes At A Crucial Time
By Nantoo Banerjee The Supreme Court verdict, last week (July 27), upholding the validity of inquiry, arrest and bail provisions of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), could not have come at a more appropriate time when as many as 122 sitting and...
Mamata Banerjee Has Botched Her Chances Of Playing A National Role
By Amulya Ganguli Mamata Banerjee’s latest troubles mean that her challenge to the BJP at the national level is petering out. After the scandal involving a formerly top-ranking minister who has now been sacked, few will credit her with being a person who can give the BJP a run...
NSA Ajit Doval Meeting Sufi Clerics And Seeking Their Intervention, Is Ominous
By Sushil Kutty Forget about the 56” chest; forget about ‘vishwaguru’, answer just this one question: “What was the National Security Advisor of the Prime Minister of India doing at an inter-faith meet talking national security matters with a bunch of clerics, asking their permission to ban the radical...
Sri Lankan President Vickremesinghe Is Powerless With Empty Coffers
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Even though no immediate solution seems to be in sight for millions of hungry people, Sri Lanka is fast becoming a strategic flashpoint. Earlier, there were talks about different world powers playing their roles in giving Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Basil Rajapaksa a safe exit from...
RBI’s Latest Decision Prepares Ground For Full Convertibility Of Rupee
By Subrata Majumder RBI decision to permit rupee convertible in export and import is a precursor to make rupee an international currency. Although the convertibility is limited to current account, RBI’s decision demonstrates India’s readiness to move forward for full convertibility. Essence of rupee convertibility is a challenge to...
Sangh Parivar Is Giving Full Focus On Bihar And Jharkhand In Next Two Years
By Arun Srivastava Making a strategic shift, from accomplishing its mission to create a “Congress Mukt Bharat” the BJP ironman Narendra Modi ably supported by his mentor RSS has embarked on the path to obliterate the opposition and particularly the regional parties from the political map of India. The...
End Of An Era As Keval Arora Retires From Kirori Mal College, DU
By Rudrashish Chakraborty The day has finally arrived: today on July 31, my teacher, colleague and dear friend Mr Keval Arora superannuates after 44 years of an illustrious teaching career, all of which he devoted to Kirori Mal College. He has enthralled generations of students in the classroom with...
BJP Draws Up New Strategy To Win Over Yadavs And Pashmanda Muslims
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Enthused by the success in Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha by polls, BJP is now making serious attempt to make dent in Yadav and Muslim support base of Samajwadi Party. It would be worth mentioning here that during last three polls, BJP concentrated in mobilisation...
Hindu Right Is On Move In Karnataka With BJP Govt Blessings Before 2023 Polls
By Harihar Swarup The BJP in Karnataka is leaving no stone unturned in achieving the permanent marginalization of Muslims in this once cosmopolitan state. A determined march towards realizing (more legitimacy and respectably than in 2018) to the BJP in 2023 has begun. The Bajrang Dal, Jangjaruti Samiti, and...
Ministry Making In Maharashtra Is In Limbo As Fadnavis Tries To Corner Shinde
By Sushil Kutty It’s a month since the Maha Vikas Aghadi government fell and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis took over replacing the Uddhav Thackeray alliance. They haven’t yet started governing Maharashtra in earnest as there is no ministry formation. The two appear...
Global Supply Constraints Darken Indian EV Manufacturing Horizon
By K Raveendran A global crisis in the supply of lithium and other components is hitting the Indian EV industry even harder than other major markets. Apart from the high costs of imports, the relative low size of the Indian market is also affecting the industry’s capacity to negotiate....
Making Further Breakthrough In Eastern States Is Focus Of BJP Meet In Patna
By Arun Srivastava After performing the Ashwamedh Agyna in Hyderabad only a month back, Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah let their saffron horse to travel across the southern India to conquer the region, the duo has revived their old programme of “Look Northeast” by holding the national...
Bridging The Technology Paradox – Metaverse Versus Universe
By Devasis Chattopadhyay Globally, most business and tech media, both online and offline (read print), for the past few days are discussing the muted and declining revenue of the Facebook parent Meta Platforms in the face of growing competition from TikTok. When I look at both these organisations, I...
