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By K Raveendran Developments in Sri Lanka have served as an eye-opener to the inherent dangers of prodigal spending by governments and the implications of freebies model. Unprecedented visuals from the island nation — of people dropping dead while waiting in multi-kms long queue for petrol and diesel, a...
Climate Change To Cause Further Rain And Flood Related Human Deaths
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All indications suggest that climate change is going to further worsen the rain and flood related human and livestock fatalities in India, apart from drowning of Indians that is the third largest cause of all accidental deaths in the country. Many states in the country...
Does Narendra Modi Govt Want An Opposition Mukt Parliament?
By Sushil Kutty Can anybody shout Parliament has gone to the dogs and get away with it? Will such liberty with the temple of democracy invite the wrath of Parliament, a privilege notice? But how does one get the blasphemous thought out of the head? For things have certainly...
New President Droupadi Murmu Has Aroused Expectations In Tribals
By Harihar Swarup Droupadi Murmu has become the 15th President of the Republic of India. The constitutional framework of India is Parliamentary, that is led by elected representative and overseen by the first person of the country, the President of India. India inherited the Presidential position equivalent to the...
Filipino Youth In United States Denounce New Marcos Regime
By Jamal Rich WASHINGTON: On Saturday, July 23, hundreds of Filipino youth activists from all over the D.C. and Baltimore areas came to the nation’s capital to denounce the new Marcos family dynasty regime in the Philippines. Filipino and Filipino-allied organizations—such as Anakbayan D.C., Migrante Washington D.C., Katarungan D.C.,...
Major Theme For 2024 Lok Sabha Polls Is ’Dynast Free Bharat’
By Kalyani Shankar Dynastic politics is perhaps the antithesis of democracy. Critics say it is amongst many political evils in the Indian democratic setup where most parties, including the Congress, are being run like family enterprises. The paradox is many regional satraps have emerged in the past 75 years...
Monetary Policy Is Not Adequate To Tame India’s Present Inflation
By K R Sudhaman India’s Chief Economic Advisor V Anantha Nageswaran is of the view that India’s Inflation though beyond RBI’s band is not that big a source of worry as it is still much less than several advanced economies, some of whom have it in double digits. Inflation...
Standoff Over Centre’s Attempt To Target KIIFB
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A political showdown is brewing between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government and the Union Government over the latter’s attempt to weaken the former through partisan use of the Enforcement Directorate(ED). CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan fired the first salvo by declaring the CPI(M)’s intent...
How ‘Public Demolition’ Emerged As A Model Of ‘Justice’ In Uttar Pradesh
By Amitanshu Verma Few images have dominated the political discourse in recent times as much as the ‘bulldozer.’ For the Bharatiya Janata Party (‘BJP’), it stands for its ruthless but popular mode of performing ‘justice’ on those it sees as criminals or enemies. For critics, the image of a...
Sonali Bank Of Bangladesh Disregards Laws To Punish Workmen
By Sankar Ray The Sonali Bank Limited, the biggest state owned bank in Bangladesh is under controversy. The Bank management has been accused by All India Bank Employees’ Association general secretary C H Venkatachalam in a letter on 25 March 2022 of having trampled the laws of land in...
Rising Jobless Educated Youth Outpace India’s Economic Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee It is a matter of great concern that for the country’s millions of educated youth, degrees and certificates have become as useless as wastepapers as they fail to provide jobs and help brighten their future. Going by the official records, in the academic year of 2018...
Indian Judiciary Is Still Failing To Act As The Custodian Of Democracy
By Amulya Ganguli An unprecedented event in January, 2018, saw four Supreme Court judges hold a Press conference – the first and last, in their view – to announce that democracy in India is in peril because “things are not in order” in the judiciary. Four years later, Chief...
Modi Government Turns Back On National Employment Policy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is no secret now. Modi government has now brazenly said in the Parliament of India that the Centre has no plans to develop National Employment Policy (NEP). It has raised its veil from its true face on this issue ever since it came to...
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s Kargil Day Boasts Ring Hollow
By Sushil Kutty Raksha Mantri Rajnath Singh on Kargil Divas reiterated that Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) will be returned to India, and that POK remains an integral part of India. We’ve heard this before, umpteen number of times, more and more after the Bharatiya Janata Party came to rule...
Privatizing Public Sector Assets Is Against Society’s Interests
By Uttam Kumar Verma The Narendra Modi-led Union Government professes the credo of ‘minimum government, maximum governance’, popularized and propagandized by large sections of mainstream news media and the ideologues of English-speaking public officers who usually support government decisions in every step. This is another example of ‘Modinomics’, which...
Rishi Sunak-Liz Truss Battle Accentuates Among 1,6 Lakh Tory Members
By Arun Srivastava While the MPs and intellectuals belonging to the Conservative party are impatiently waiting for the D-Day, September 5, to choose Rishi Sunak as the new Prime Minister, from the two left over contestants, Sunak and Liz Truss, a vicious drive has been launched against Sunak cautioning...
President-Elect Droupadi Murmu Represents Tradition With Modernity
By Harihar Swarup The NDA’s Presidential pick Droupadi Murmu has been elected to the high office defeating her rival Yashwant Sinha, joint Opposition candidate. Hailing from a predominantly tribal district of Odisha, Mayurbhanj, Murmu’s work as a state functionary in various capacities is remembered as bold with grit and...
Congress Discrediting Modi’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ Call May Be Suicidal
By K Raveendran Congress hasn’t done any credit to itself by criticising prime minister Narendra Modi‘s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ call to hoist the national flag atop homes to mark the 75th year of India’s independence under the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav campaign. It was somewhat uncharacteristic of him at...
