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By Sushil Kutty ‘Unreachable’ is what mobile phones communicate when the tower can’t connect. But when a bunch of Shiv Sena MLAs went “incommunicado” midnight on Monday, the future looked grim for Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, who couldn’t get through to Eknath Shinde, a key Sena MLA and...
Infrastructure For Combating Cyber Crimes In India Is Still Weak
By M.Y. Siddiqui States/Union Territories (UTs) have set up 169 cyber police stations across the country to combat ever rising cyber crimes in the country as per a latest report, Data on Police Organizations for 2020 by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D). Union Government in the...
Gujarat Glows As Epicentre Of India’s Development
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be a very happy person today as his dream to make his home state Gujarat an epicentre of India’s economic development has finally come true. Modi has been relentlessly trying to make Gujarat the country’s choicest investment destination since he became...
Oil Diplomacy Has Assumed Critical Importance For Survival Of Economy
By Anjan Roy As the three big names of Europe rolled into Kyiv by train on June 16 of for a pow-wow with the Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelensky, Russia had warned France, Germany and Italy of consequences. President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany and Prime...
Super Profiteering In Essential Drugs Cannot Be Allowed
By Dr Arun Mitra The COVID-19 Pandemic has brought to the fore necessity to bring about changes in the international agreements on drugs/vaccines keeping the public health priorities uppermost. Latest data points out that 66.2% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine...
Anger Against Acute Unemployment Finally Explodes In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unprecedented unemployment crisis in independent India that has been building up with sharpest ever hike in joblessness since 2014 has finally exploded on June 14, 2022, when the Centre announced Agnipath (literally the Path of Fire) scheme for short term recruitment in armed forces. The...
Leftwing Gustavo Petro Is Elected As The New President Of Colombia
By Satyaki Chakraborty The people of Colombia belonging to the Latin American region elected the left wing leader Gustavo Petro as the next President of the country in the Presidential polls held on June19,setting the stage for further radicalization of the politics of the continent. This was for the...
BJP Has Advantage In Presidential Polls With Support From BJD And YSRCP
By Amulya Ganguli The BJP’s advantage in the forthcoming presidential polls is that it has friends – both overt and covert – in the opposition camp. Their presence not only boosts the party’s own numerical strength, but also sows seeds of doubt and disaffection among its adversaries. The two...
Narendra Modi Is Packaging The Agnipath Scheme To Tame The Protesters
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi has directed BJP leaders and his ministerial colleagues to market his product Agnipath in a more professional manner and to accomplish the mission they should reach out to every individual. Modi is known as a marketing guru. He can market anything. People of the...
Rajya Sabha Election Results Have Shown Fault Lines Of Congress
By Harihar Swarup The outcome of the recent round of elections for 75 Rajya Sabha seats offers significant political insight into lay of the land in India’s states and at the Centre, and highlights the institutional paradoxes at the heart of India’s bicameral Parliamentary system. Take the political fallout...
Aftermath Of Another Haphazard Modi Government Decision
By K Raveendran Another thoughtless decision and the country is burning again. Knee jerk reactions by the government have not succeeded and the violent protests are continuing, gaining intensity by the hour and spreading to new territories. Beginning primarily in the north Indian states of UP and Bihar, the...
Bilawal Bhutto Has Put Pak Foreign Policy In A Fresh Perspective
By Sankar Ray Pakistan’s new foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s speech at the foundation ceremony of Institute of Strategic Studies in Islamabad marks a complete hyphenation from his maternal grandfather Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who took over as the foreign minister in the early 1960s following the death of Mohammad...
Rahul Gandhi Has Turned 52 : He Is Still Young As A Politician But What Next?
By Sushil Kutty June 19 Rahul Gandhi turns 52. And it called for a perspective on the life and times of Rahul Gandhi. Not everybody’s cup of tea, because Rahul Gandhi doesn’t leave much to the imagination. He is in a class all his own. First and foremost, Rahul...
China Heading To Choppy Middle Eastern Waters
By James M Dorsey China could be entering choppy Middle Eastern waters. Multiple crises and conflicts will likely shape its relations with the region’s major powers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. The laundry list of pitfalls for China includes the fallout of the Ukraine war, strained US relations...
Hate Campaign Against Minorities Is Being Normalised
By Shaoni Das On November, 2020 The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020 came into being, which was subsequently passed by the UP Legislative Assembly in 2021 as an Act. Under this Act, a person can’t change their religion without giving a prior notice to...
Healthcare System Has To Deal With Worsening Mental Disorders
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the largest global review by WHO so far, nearly one in eight people have been found suffering with mental disorders while this ratio is one in seven for teenagers. The common conditions, such as depression and anxiety have even gone up by over 25...
Speeding Up Hindutva Programme Before 2024 Polls, Is Backfiring
By Arun Srivastava It would be simply an act of naiveté to believe that the BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma has dented the image of Narendra Modi or his government. It is Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah who had prepared the backdrop and handed over the brief, to malign...
Unemployment In India Today Is Worse Than Any Year Since Independence
By Prabhat Patnaik The craftiness of imperialism is boundless. In several countries of the world at present there are neo-fascist governments, propped up by their respective big bourgeoisie (all aligned to globalized capital), and implementing neo-liberal policies with their characteristic ruthlessness; in many other countries, there are neo-fascist outfits...
