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By Harihar Swarup RPN Singh’s exit from the Congress and entry into BJP has less to do with the Congress and more to do with BJP. Another leader leaving the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is hardly likely to make a difference to the party’s dim prospect in Uttar Pradesh....
Supreme Court’s Non-Committal Stand Points To Complexity Of Quota System
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court was expected to introduce some clarity on the issue of reservation for promotion in jobs for scheduled castes and tribes. In fact, the Centre had specifically requested the court to remove the prevailing confusion in the issue. But the court has not only...
Jats Of Western Uttar Pradesh Determined To Teach BJP A Big Lesson
By Sushil Kutty The Jats of western Uttar Pradesh are bent on teaching the Bharatiya Janata Party a lesson in losing elections! For the last week and more, the ruling party at the Centre, and in Uttar Pradesh, has been doing its best to change the thinking of the...
CPI Declares To Contest 20 Seats On Party Symbol
By Gurnam Kanwar CHANDIGARH: Punjab unit of CPI has declared to contest more than twenty seats in Punjab elections, if Samyukat Samaj Morcha leadership does not listen to Left’s concerns and goes on cornering the left forces which determinedly fought in recent peasant struggle. Addressing a press conference at...
Centre’s Denial Of Debate On Uniform Civil Code Unconstitutional
By Dr Saumya Saxena The vexed debate on a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) predictably picks up around election time. The issue ties up conversations on women’s rights, secularism and national integration in a single albeit unconvincing narrative. National unity is emphasised vociferously by those who often carry a record...
The Tragedy Of Macbeth Is A Cinematic Feast For Starving Film Lovers
By Eileen Jones It’s an amazing thing to watch Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, currently playing on Apple TV+, after seeing a lot of other new American movies recently. The film’s beauty, ambition, and impact are so much greater than what even gets attempted these days, it’s discombobulating...
The Big Lie Behind United States And NATO Policy In Europe
By David Cavendish In a speech in 1881, Wendell Phillips, the famous abolitionist and Native American rights activist, said that history is but “a series of lies agreed upon.” The expression originated in 18th century France, with both Voltaire and Napoleon Bonaparte, along with the American transcendentalist writer Ralph...
Large Govt Expenditure Transfer To Working People Is Needed For Economic Revival
By Prabhat Patnaik The Indian economy is currently caught in a vicious spiral of inflation, stagnation, and a widening of the fiscal deficit. And this spiral is set to become even more vicious because inter alia of developments in the world economy. Even before the current omicron wave, the...
Mayawati’s Jatav Base Is Switching Over To Akhilesh In Uttar Pradesh Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The biggest question trending out of the circumstances is, which path will the Dalits go? Will they turn to BSP or vote for the SP alliance or vote for Congress or BJP? Dalit votes also get bi-furcated on the basis of sub-caste. For example Jatav,...
BJP Finding Tough In Western UP Against RLD-Samajwadi Party Combine
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Finding it on a slippery wicket this time in Western Uttar Pradesh facing tough challenge from RLD-Samajwadi Party combine, BJP has mobilised all resources. Retaining hold in 100 assembly seats of Western UP is the biggest challenge for BJP and the sangh parivar that is...
Rahul Gandhi’s Dilemma Over CM Choice In Punjab Mounts As Poll Approaches
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi faces a dilemma and he is not used to dilemmas. The Nehru-Gandhis always and always took decisions and there was no brooking them. Decisions concerning the Congress and those which had to do with Congress governments. So, it’s a departure of sorts...
Sustainability Of Middle East Rush To Bury Hatchets
By James M Dorsey How sustainable is Middle Eastern détente? That is the million dollar question. The answer is probably not. It’s not for lack of trying. Gulf states and Egypt have ended their debilitating 3.5-year-long economic and diplomatic boycott of Qatar. The UAE has moved at lightning speed...
Amit Shah’s Kairana Meetings Replay BJP’s Communal Agenda In UP
By Arun Srivastava Amit Shah has returned to the forefront of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls campaign with a visit to Karana. He descended in Kairana with the mission to prepare the ground for the BJP to win the 2017 assembly election and also to trounce the 2019 lok Sabha...
BSF Steps Up Strict Vigil Along Bangladesh Border Areas
By Ashis Biswas As the new year gets under way, the law and order situation along the difficult Indo-Bangla border (4096 kilometres long) still remains somewhat unsettled, despite the best preventive initiatives taken by the Border Security Force (BSF). A cursory analysis of current criminal trends from the East...
Why We Must Remember Holocaust Day On January 27 Every Year
By Prof. Mary Davis “The magnitude of the Holocaust, planned and carried out by the Nazis, must be forever seared in our collective memory. The selfless sacrifices of those who defied the Nazis, and sometimes gave their own lives to protect or rescue the Holocaust’s victims, must also be...
Cuba Distributing 200 Million Doses To Poor Countries To Fight Pandemic
By Steve Sweeney Cuban plans to distribute 200 million doses of its homegrown COVID vaccine to lower-income countries were said to have reached a “historic turning point” on Tuesday. David Adler, who headed a Progressive International delegation to the socialist island, said the “lifesaving package” was an example of...
Privatisation Of Financial Sector Jewel LIC By Modi Govt Must Be Stopped
By Prakash Karat The worst aspects of the Modi government’s privatisation drive are now coming to the fore. The initial public offering (IPO) prospectus for disinvesting shares in the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), the crown jewel of the financial sector, is expected to be issued in early February. The...
Fight For Rights And Secular Values Is The Call Of The Republic Day
By Binoy Viswam On the 75th year of independence, India has just celebrated the 72nd anniversary of her becoming a Republic. ‘We, the people of India’ will naturally look back to the sagas of struggle waged by our predecessors for the liberation of this great country. The foundation of...
