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By Ben Burgis WASHINGTON: Monday January 20 was, as hard as this may be to remember, Martin Luther King Jr Day. An enormous number of schools all around the country were either closed or had assemblies where students heard about the life and accomplishments of the martyred civil rights...
U.S. Society Will Take A Big Hit As A Result Of Trump’s Orders On Immigration
By Tirthankar Mitra The international migrant is a global pariah, if the takes on them of US President Donald Trump and some of the leaders of far Right political outfits in Europe are anything to go by. Both have immigrants on their radar. The migrant is a vulnerable and...
Is U.S. President Donald Trump Eyeing For A ‘Big Deal’ With Xi Jinping?
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the U.S. President Donald Trump looking for a big deal with the Chinese President Xi Jinping in his second term to reshape the global order favouring two super powers and marginalizing both Western Europe and Russia? The question gets all the relevance if one analyses...
U.S. President’s America-First Policy Bound To Hit India In Multiple Ways
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump lost no time in asserting his ‘Tariff Man’ image, which he appears to be relishing to no end. One of his first pronouncements was the 25 percent tariff on Mexico and Canada. His much-touted America First approach would mean this will be an...
Donald Trump Begins Second Term With His Disruptive Global Order
By Anjan Roy Donald Trump’s high decibel inauguration rhetoric has already set in motion new currents in international strategic relationships. Within hours of the new presidency, the inevitable have started happening. Russia and China held their ‘limitless friendship” session reaffirming their close strategic and defence ties. President Xi Jinping...
Trump’s Announcement On Withdrawal From Who Is A Major Setback To Global Healthcare
By Dr Arun Mitra The inaugural ceremony of crowning of Mr Donald Trump as the 47th President of the USA was marked by the presence of superrich who have influence not only their governments but on the governments of other countries as well. Many of them are Techie giants...
Global Food Production Loss Or Waste Is Over 30 Per Cent
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global food production loss or waste has been estimated at 30 per cent, preventing which can be enough to raise 153 million people out of hunger. Despite progress in setting targets for food loss and waste (FLW) reduction at both the international and national levels,...
It Is Free For All Electoral Battle For Delhi Assembly Between AAP, BJP And Congress
By Sushil Kutty Arvind Kejriwal is the man to beat in the Delhi Assembly elections. Kejriwal isn’t the spent force one thought after the stint in jail and the ouster from the Delhi Chief Minister’s post. Jail does things to the toughest of people and not everyone has a...
Sealdah Court’s Life Term Sentence For Rape And Murder Divides Bengal People
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Found guilty of the rape and murder of a doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sanjay Roy has been sentenced to life term imprisonment. The sentence pronounced by Sealdah district and sessions court on Monday has been found unacceptable by many. It cuts...
Beijing Scores Diplomatic Victory In Myanmar Via Regional Ceasefire
By Satyaki Chakraborty China has scored a major diplomatic victory in Myanmar by helping the conclusion of a truce between the ruling military junta and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) in the provinces bordering China. The MNDAA rebels took control of large areas around the border by...
Voter List Manipulation Is A Serious Issue In Delhi Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Voters list manipulation has become a serious issue in Delhi Vidhan Sabha election, more so after the publication of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituency wise number of electors as on January 17, 2025. Shrinkage of number of electorates in ‘one in five’ Vidhan Sabha constituencies compared...
Donald Trump Keeps His Promises But His Friend Narendra Just Forgets
By Sushil Kutty There’s a lesson for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on the morning he took the oath to become the 47th President of the United States: Make sure, you keep the promises made to the electorate. President Trump himself did not wait,...
Productivity Of Workers Is More Important Than Duration Of The Shift
By Arun Srivastava Corporate sector pitching for an increase in the working hours and paying less wages, disproportionate to the value of their labour, sends a terrifying message that character of the Indian economy is experiencing changes and has come full circle to acquire the silhouette of the capitalist...
Trump’s Second Presidency Is An Opportunity To Review UK-U.S. Special Relationship
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Donald Trump’s presidency is an opportunity to challenge Britain’s “special relationship” with Washington and the NATO war machine. Both Trump and his liberal opponents present his movement as one disrupting these old alliances. Trump derides allies for not pulling their weight and even talks of...
French Socialists Ditch Leftwing New Popular Front By Dealing With President Macron
By Harrison Stetler PARIS: French Prime Minister François Bayrou comfortably survived his first confidence vote on Thursday, a little over one month after the veteran centrist became France’s prime minister. The January 16 vote, called by the left-wing force La France Insoumise (LFI), came two days after Bayrou’s inaugural...
How Mark Zuckerberg Fell For The Republican Right After His Liberal Period
By Paris Marx NEW YORK: Until pretty recently, if you thought of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, you’d probably come up with a flesh-and-blood automaton whose mission to connect the world turned into the upending of political systems and poisoning of our information environment — not to mention that weird...
India’s Nouveau Riche Are On A Foreign Spending Binge
By Nantoo Banerjee Indians are travelling abroad like never before. Last year, over 30 million Indians travelled abroad, mostly on leisure trips. The number is nearly 15 percent more than that in 2023. The total expenditure rose by 25 percent. Rich and upper middle-class Indians are also increasingly sending...
Centre’s Invite For Talks With Farmers Averted A Great Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak True to their word, after the Centre’s invite for talk, 121 farmers ended their fast-unto-death hunger strike at Khanauri border of Punjab and Haryana on November 19, while their leader Jagjit Sigh Dallewal who has been on fast-unto-death hunger strike since November 26, 2024, has...
