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By Kurt Hackbarth The outcome was never in doubt: Andrés Manuel López Obrador was going to win Mexico’s historic recall election on Sunday, April 10. And he did, with 91.86 percent of the vote — or 15.1 million out of 16.5 million votes cast. The election is important on...
United Nations’ Double Standards For Russia On Ukraine War
By James M Dorsey Russia’s suspension from the United Nations Human Rights Council was long overdue, even without the mass killing of innocent civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. A country that poisons or otherwise does away with its critics at home and abroad and stifles freedom of...
Inflation Eating Away Earnings And Wages Faster Than Expected
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The erosion of about one per cent of value of rupee in the consumer market within a month was too great a shock for people to absorb. It was felt by everyone in March 2022, and the workers, senior citizens, women and children were among...
India’s Healthcare Policy Needs A Paradigm Shift To Serve The Commoners
By Dr Arun Mitra Healthcare today is faced with several challenges right from medical education, primary prevention of disease, delivery of healthcare, funding for healthcare, scientific inputs, drug pricing etc. In the ancient times promotion of good health was learnt through day-to-day experience, so developed the concept of developing...
There Are Many Lessons To Learn From Sri Lanka’s Economic Collapse
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav On Tuesday, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Ajith Nivard Cabraal announced that the country would default on international debt payments until it receives a $3 billion bailout package it has asked for from the IMF. Sri Lanka’s external borrowings amount to $51...
Strong Case For Raising Retirement Age, Not Lowering
By K Raveendran Attorney General K K Venugopal has been a strong advocate of raising the retirement of judges as he feels 65 years is too early an age for anyone to retire. Serving as India’s AG at the age of 90, there is no one else who can...
Telangana Chief Minister Is Positioning Himself For National Role Before 2024 Polls
By Sushil Kutty This time, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao chose to travel to “national capital” Delhi. The last time it was to Mumbai, India’s commercial capital. Then, he sat with Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to plot the ouster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi come 2024. This...
CPI(M) Leadership Takes Cognisance Of Caste Politics At Party Congress
By Arun Srivastava It took 58 years for the CPI(M) to change its ideological compassion to induct a dalit leader Ramchandra Dome into its politburo the highest political and ideological decision making forum of the party. Besides Dome, the party also admitted four tribal leaders into the central committee....
Basavraj Bommai Is An Unusual Chief Minister In Karnataka With Socialist Past
By Harihar Swarup For an. unlikely Chief Minister, Basavraj Bommai, 61, got off to a good start. In the second month of his tenure, on September 2, 2021, he got a leg up when Union Home Minister Amit Shah—on his first visit to Karnataka after Bommai took over— endorsed...
Republicans Are Making Full Use Of Religion Defying U.S. Constitution
By Debabrata Biswas BOSTON: The American constitution in its 1st amendment adheres the principle of separation of Church and the State. It says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise there off.” The delegates to the 17 87 Constitutional Convention blocked...
Narendra Modi Has Started Exercises For Picking His Next Presidential Candidate
By Kalyani Shankar The 2022 presidential election will occur when President Ramanath Kovind’s term ends on July 25. Though it is more of an ornamental post as the real power exists in the hands of the elected Prime Minister, there are always speculations about the polls. It may be...
Dealing With Debt Crisis Is The Foremost Task Of New Pakistan Government
By Anjan Roy While a new prime minister has been elected by a rainbow coalition of opposition parties in Pakistan, it does not bode well for political stability in the country. Shehbaz Sharif, younger brother of former Pakistan prime minister, Nawaz Sharief, is an experienced political hand. But he...
New Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Starts Well Amidst High Expectations
By Sankar Ray There is a general feeling of relief at the exit of the PTI Government led by Imran Khan in Pakistan and the coming of the opposition coalition leader Shehbaz Sharif as the new Prime Minister Nazam Sethi, editor of the renowned The Friday Times, began his...
Poor Need A Life Of Dignity With Better Livelihood Opportunities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When a person in extreme poverty gets food to eat, it is indeed a relief, and absorbs the major chunk of shock from destitution, but does not eradicate poverty. Throwing some loafs of bread before a hungry is not at all a poverty eradication programme,...
Narendra Modi Has Played Well In The Present Diplomatic Game Over Ukraine War
By Sushil Kutty The elephant in the room at the virtual Modi-Biden talk on Monday evening Indian time did not allow a free and fair discussion in the ‘Virtual Room’, which is different from the ‘Oval Room’. That said, there aren’t any elephants in Russia, only Siberian bears and...
BJP Sets Target For 75 Out Of Total 80 Seats In Lok Sabha Polls In 2024 From Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Enthused by the success in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, BJP has already started working for 2024 Lok Sabha polls under the guidance of party high command. It would be worth mentioning here that soon after the Assembly results were announced PM Narendra Modi called upon...
Russia’s War In Ukraine Leading To Decline In Tea Exports In CIS Region
By Ashis Biswas India’s annual tea exports, industry circles fear, may decline by around 15% because of the ongoing war in Ukraine. In addition to much reduced bulk purchases by Russia and Ukraine, present trends indicate that demand in the months ahead may fall in neighbouring CIS (Commonwealth of...
French Left Is Out Of Contest In The Final Round Of Presidential Elections
By David Broder Yes, we’ve had enough optimistic commentary on near-misses and heroic failures. The result is bad: Jean-Luc Mélenchon ran for president a third time, and again hasn’t made it. Even with an energizing campaign and a likely sizable tactical vote in his favor — allowing the radical-left...
