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By Nitya Chakraborty The announcement made in Tokyo on Monday by the United States President Joe Biden about the formation of a new economic block named Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity (IPEF) has signalled the arrival of a new economic arrangement in the India-Pacific region to counter growing influence...
Coming Biennial Elections For 57 Rajya Sabha Seats Significant
By Kalyani Shankar The Composition of Rajya Sabha will soon mirror Lok Sabha giving an advantage to the ruling BJP. Though it might reach double digits, it will not gain the majority yet. Stakes are high for the BJP and the opposition parties because of the upcoming Presidential and...
TRS Supremo K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s Moves On Presidential Poll Make Sense
By Sushil Kutty Whenever Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal get into a huddle for opposition unity, the first thought that breaks the reverie is which of the two will dump the other for a shot at the PM’s chair come 2024? A...
Congress Unit In Uttar Pradesh Starts Implementing Udaipur Decisions
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: After Udaipur Chintan Shivir, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is looking forward to massive revival plan to face 2024 Lok Sabha polls. There are indications that armed with the decisions taken at the Chintan Shivir the party high command is contemplating significant changes in state...
Bangladesh Feeling Impact Of Ukraine War On Its Exchange Rate
By Ashis Biswas In recent weeks, the value of Bangladeshi Taka (tk) has been declining sharply, as the US dollar has emerged as the strongest currency in the aftermath of the Ukraine war. According to reports from Dhaka this morning, the Bangladeshi tk further declined by 40 paise vis-à-vis...
Narendra Modi Is Now Following U.S. President Joe Biden In Most Global Issues
By Arun Srivastava Now there is no ambiguity the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised the goal post and put Russia in the club of his enemies. The credit goes to Joe Biden. He could accomplish the task which Donald Trump, the so called best friend of Modi...
Places Of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 Is Binding
By Priyanshi Bhageria A Hindi couplet by an unknown writer has been going viral on social media recently. Its English translation goes thus, “Birds feed on grains at the temple, and drink water at the mosque/I have heard that Radha’s stole is sewn by one Salma Begum/One Rafi used...
Never-Ending Plans To Expand NATO In Europe Threaten World Peace
By Amiad Horowitz In 2012, then United States President Barak Obama announced the so-called “Pivot to East Asia.” The United States started to focus less on the Middle East and more on East Asia. The main catalyst for this policy change was a fear of a rising People’s Republic...
Traders Behind Soaring Wheat Prices In India
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s domestic wheat market is on fire ever since the government said it was targeting record shipments this year after exports from the Black Sea region plunged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Wheat prices in India rose to record high levels in the last...
Navjot Sidhu Sentence Speaks Poorly Of The Pace Of Judicial Process
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Navjot Singh Sidhu has been sent to the Patiala Central Jail to serve a year-long sentence in a case of road rage, registered in 1988. It took more than three decades for the Indian judicial system to convict and sentence a person whose felony was...
Gyanvapi Masjid/Mandir Issue Is More Complex And Volatile Than Ayodhya
By Sushil Kutty The #MeToo movement was also about correcting the ‘wrongs of history’ in which powerful men got to get their comeuppance for bad deeds done decades ago. Those out of the ambit of #MeToo cheered and clapped, and the #MeToo survivors a sense of justice, and closure—...
Europe Is At Crossroads Between Neoliberalism And Justice
By Nora Garcia Nieves “Neither war that destroys us, nor peace that oppresses us.” This historic anti-war slogan of the Spanish feminist movement holds one of the fundamental keys to building a horizon of peace. It claims that peace is not just a ceasefire, nor is it surrender, or...
Remembering Rammohan Roy On His 250th Birth Anniversary On May 22
By Dipankar Bhattacharya As India observes the 250th birth anniversary of Rammohan Roy, one of the earliest and greatest campaigners for modern India, on May 22, 2022, we are faced with one of history’s cruel ironies. The incumbent regime is pushing 21st century India into revenge-fuelled mass violence by...
Supreme Court Stress On Cooperative Federalism A Slap On Centre
By K Raveendran The decision by the Supreme Court this week that the powers of the Centre and the States to legislate on GST-related issues are equal debunks the idea that the Centre can ride roughshod over the states, as it has been happening to a large extent. The...
Even After Udaipur Chintan Shivir, Congress Is Groping For Its Role
By Amulya Ganguli The one significant outcome of the Congress’s recent Chintan Shivir in Rajasthan was Rahul Gandhi’s acknowledgement that the party has lost touch with the people. Nothing demonstrated this disconnect more than the steep fall in the party’s Lok Sabha tally to 44 in 2014 and 53...
Learning Poverty In India To Induce Huge Loss Of Jobs And GDP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak COVID-19 crisis triggered school closure in India has induced learning poverty to such an extent that the country is set to suffer the worst in South Asia in absolute terms both in respect to jobs loss and decline in GDP, which in turn may accelerate...
Winning The Hearts Of Foreigners Abroad Is Not Going To Help Rahul Gandhi
By Sushil Kutty Sitting abroad and lashing out at the government, is not going to help the Opposition win the people at home over to its side. The ploy will boomerang even before the opposition leader tightens his seat belt on the return flight. Similarly, a pair of journalists...
Rammohun Roy And Karl Marx: Resonating Together
By Pradip Baksi Why may one study Rammohun Roy (1772-1833), a contemporary of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) while studying Karl Marx (1818-1883) today? Some of the burning issues addressed by Rammohun Roy have remained with us since his time and, some others that had seemed to have been...
