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By Dr Arun Mitra That out of a population of 100000 in our country 32 persons die due to Tuberculosis every year, is a matter of grave concern and shame. Recently we have seen death of large number of children having fallen prey to Dengue fever and Encephalitis in...
Opposition Parties In Uttar Pradesh Make Lakhimpur Killings A Major Poll Issue
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Battleground Uttar Pradesh is ready for assembly polls with three important opposition leaders former chief ministers Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party and Mayawati of BSP and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi launching their election campaign. Former chief minister and national President of Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav...
Pakistan’s Father Of Nuclear Bomb Dr. A Q Khan Has An Amazing Life Story
By Harihar Swarup Pakistan’s father of nuclear science, Abdul Qadeer Khan, who died recently was born in Bhopal. “This child appears to me prodigy…. Look in his eyes.” In 1936, these were the words of Maharani of Narasinghar, a tiny princely state, 45 kms from Bhopal. Zulekha Begum, mother...
Mohan Bhagwat Is Totally Confused In Understanding New Hindu Youth
By Arun Srivastava The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has blamed the Hindu parents, the Hindu families, for not giving their children the values of pride for one’s religion and traditions. He was not far from the youth. The Hindu parents in recent times have lost control on their wards...
Repealing Of Sedition Law And UAPA Is A Major Demand Of Indian Jurists Now
By Satyaki Chakraborty The demand for the repeal of the sedition law and the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act(UAPA) has now come to the fore once again with the former Supreme Court Justice Rohintan Nariman forcefully stating that the time has come for the apex court to let citizens...
The New Service Rules In Jammu And Kashmir Open The Doors To A Witch Hunt
By Dr Radha Kumar On the September 16, 2021, the administration of Jammu and Kashmir, headed by lieutenant-governor Manoj Sinha, issued an administrative order titled ‘Verification of Character and Antecedents of Government employees’ (GO No. 957-JK (GAD) of 2021). Under the order, a government employee can be dismissed...
Modi Govt’s Decision To Abstain From Voting On UN Resolution Is Wrong
By Gyan Pathak Deshbhaktas’ beating their drum of ‘nationalism’ reached such a high decibel that has become deafening. India’s leadership, in the name of nationalism, reached even such a point when it decided to abstain from the voting in the United Nations which passed the resolution that...
Kashmir Situation Needs Thorough Review By The Govt Leadership
By Sushil Kutty Fear is the key! That’s the title of a James Hadley Chase novel. It had a Native American doing targeted killings of rich pokes. The first killing is followed by a second. The third body gets the cops thinking: This killer is killing only the...
Minority Targeting By Terrorists In J & K Is A Measure Of Frustration
By Ashok B Sharma Union Government needs to carefully develop appropriate stratagems on how best to counter the recent lone wolf attacks by terrorists in the Kashmir valley. The developments in Afghanistan with Taliban in power have posed a new challenge. Of course Taliban has assured that its...
Economic Buoyancy Is Back With A Bang In India
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to see that buyers are no longer willing to wait. This October-December festive season hopefully promises to be a buyers’ paradise. The country’s marketing and sales firms have long been waiting for such a situation. Buyers are no longer scared of the pandemic,...
Is Mamata Banerjee Working On 1996 Scenario After 2024 Lok Sabha Poll?
By Nitya Chakraborty New winds are blowing in the political landscape of the country, seemingly contradictory, for the emergence of a strong front of the opposition parties to fight the BJP in the coming assembly as also in the Lok Sabha elections in 2024 The latest positive development for...
At Long Last, Amit Shah Has To Declare Our Prime Minister Is A Democrat
By Sushil Kutty It took Home Minister Amit Shah seven years to tell countrymen that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the “most democratic leader” he has known in 20 years. But why believe Shah? After all, Shah and Modi are not very different. If Modi is “democratic”, then Amit...
Stark Disparities Among Lower Castes In India Are Shocking
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Scheduled Tribes (ST) constituted 9.4 per cent of the population of India and are the poorest, with 65 million of the 129 million people living in multidimensional poverty, and among all multidimensional poor five out of six are from lower tribes or castes. This...
Nobel Laureate In 2021 Abdulrazak Gurnah Is A Chronicler Of East African Reality
By Sankar Ray Decades after Franz Fanon, perceptive readers’ community the world over will queue at bookstands for books of Zanzibari fiction writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, the Nobel laureate for literature in 2021. From his debut novel ‘Memory of Departure’ (1987) to Afterlives (2020) one is acquainted with the plight...
Bolivia Under New Leftwing President Luis Arce Is Revamping The Economy
By Ken Livingstone The politics of the post-cold war period were originally dominated by the famous claim of Francis Fukuyama that we had reached “the end of history” — neoliberalism was now the only game in town and in the words of our own champion of Chicago school economics,...
Historic Wrong Has Been Set Right Again With Tatas Getting Air India
By Anjan Roy It was a paradigm shift for the Indian aviation industry, as well as for India’s economic policy in general, when on Friday the Tata Group was adjudged the winner for the bid to take over the beleaguered national airline, Air India. Nationalisation of the airline services...
BJP Is Following Indira Model Of High Command, But With Good Success
By Harihar Swarup Among the many unique phrases in Indian politics, a particularly widely used one is “High Command” (HC) or “Aala Kaman”, meaning individual(s) at the apex of a political party. It’s a term that originated with Indira Gandhi, the famously dictatorial Congress chief, who sacked state chief...
Lakhimpur Kheri Violence Can Be A Game Changer In Uttar Pradesh Politics
By Kalyani Shankar In politics, certain poignant moments give incredible support to the opposition parties and adversely affect the ruling party in a state. The Singur moment for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, former Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa’s lavish spending on her adopted son’s wedding in 1995...
