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By Harihar Swarup Tucked away in the scenic yet underdeveloped Konkan region lies Mahad, a small town that is 175 km to south of Mumbai. This obscure place is home to one of India’s internationally acclaimed physicians and an authority on scorpion and snake stings, Dr. Himmatrao Bawaskar. He...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin Is Steadily Emerging As A National Leader
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil Nadu chief minister M. K. Stalin has proved worthy of his late father and five times chief minister M. Karunanidhi. Within nine months of his party coming to power, Stalin has consolidated his position in the state, establishing his authority with a massive win in...
Imran Khan’s Two Day Moscow Visit During War Ends In Near Disaster
By Sankar Ray The Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi’s visit to the Russian Federation has resulted in a damp squib, if not a ‘diplomatic disaster’. To call it just ill-timed because of Russian invasion of Ukraine is to hide the frustration beneath. True, President Vladimir Putin had little...
BJP Harping On Need For Strong Leader In Sixth Phase Of Polling In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Playing the emotional card of nationalism Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought vote for BJP during sixth phase polling scheduled on March 3 to empower Uttar Pradesh and for strong India in the changing world scenario. PM’s thrust of speech for a strong leadership has...
Ukraine: Result Of Lessons Not Being Learnt From Past Mistakes
By James M Dorsey Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the international condemnation it generated contains key lessons for policymakers. They are lessons that should have been learned in past global crises but weren’t. However, the Ukraine crisis offers an opportunity to correct that mistake. A first...
International Law Has Been Violated By Russia By Attacking Ukraine
By Atul Alexander The ongoing Russian aggression in Ukraine has captured the spotlight in the past weeks, with condemnation pouring from all corners. However, Russia seems unfettered and is going on a rampage, capturing the major cities of Ukraine. International organisations and States have registered their outcry. For instance,...
India Should Be More Active In Bringing About A Solution To Ukraine Crisis
By K R Sudhaman Maverick politician Subramanian Swamy of BJP is right when he likened to that of a circus lion India’s stand to abstain from voting on UN resolution against Russia for its aggressive war against Ukraine. Swamy in an interview said India is like a circus lion,...
Saving People From Climate Risks Needs Concrete Actions Now
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The stark warning that the UN scientists have served to the world through their report titled “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” has also a grave warning for India that Modi government must heed to save its people in near future, since India is...
Russia’s Move Against Ukraine Divides Common Indians On Generational Lines
By Sushil Kutty Are we Indians in the majority confused? Who do we support, Russia or Ukraine? Sitting here in India, the question bounces off umpteen talking heads. Russia is an old friend, Russia stood with India through thick and thin—War & Peace. But have we forgotten Russia when...
West Banning Russia From SWIFT Is A Jolt To Putin’s Financial Muscle
By Anjan Roy Russia has been thrown out of what is called the “SWIFT” system, which is a kind of global gmail network among banks to undertake their funds transactions securely. Exclusion from this network would mean that Russian banks would not be able to carry out their normal...
When Diplomatic Allies Fight, It Is Unwise To Pick Sides
By Nantoo Banerjee Indian diplomacy has shown a great character and maturity by not taking sides in the Ukraine crisis in the face of a warlike situation there involving the US-led NATO and Russia. All the key actors engaged in building a highly belligerent situation over Ukraine are some...
Cryptocurrency Can Not Help Russia Much To Avert Financial Isolation
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the fierce battle between the two nations for the last 5 days have strengthened the worst fears of our times. It seems that a war is never a done thing; it’s always possible. But what’s truly devastating is the...
Ukraine War: Human Tragedy And The Bigger Economic Disaster
By Matein Khalid The Russian invasion of Ukraine is both a humanitarian tragedy and an economic disaster. Something is dangerously wrong in a world where its second largest oil producer is now a pariah state and will soon be crippled once its banks are ejected from SWIFT. Russia and...
Dangerous Inequalities In Workmen Need Urgent Redressal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The outcome of the Global Forum for Human-centred Recovery must be taken seriously by the Modi government which is preparing to roll out the profit oriented labour reforms in 2022, in the form of four labour codes, at a time when India urgently needs to...
Two National Parties BJP And Congress Are Marginal Powers In Tamil Nadu
By K R Sudhaman It is really amusing that there is a raging tug-of-war between two national parties, Congress and BJP over who finished poor 3rd or 4th in the recently held Tamil Nadu urban local body elections where none of the party made it to single corporation even...
Odisha Rural Polls Verdict Confirms Trends Of Regional Grassroots
By Sushil Kutty Rural Odisha isn’t wasting time on Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Instead, the grassroots voted for the Biju Janata Dal, the Odisha political party with a dead man’s name for mascot. Biju Patnaik was Chief Minister and incumbent Chief Minister Navin Patnaik’s father. But...
BJP Is Going All Out To Retain Power In Uttar Pradesh Defying Many Odds
By Harihar Swarup In Uttar Pradesh politics, predicting an electoral winner is difficult and foolhardy in equal measure. This is a state that has not given any chief minister a second chance at a full five-year term. It has an electorate that has long debunked the prophesy that whosoever...
Putin Pushing For A New World Order Through Ukraine
By James M. Dorsey Ukraine is about much more than the security of one sovereign nation. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for the new world order. In that battle, Russian President Vladimir Putin is living up to the worst expectations of Western policymakers and analysts. Unlike Chinese...
