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By Harihar Swarup Maulana Kable Sadiq, who was awarded posthumously third highest civilian award- Padma Bhushan—was conservative yet liberal Muslim. He was recognized world-wide for his liberal image. He and his followers fought a life-long battle to eliminate orthodox tradition from Muslim society. He not only opposed the conservatism,...
Many Factors Are Responsible For Erosion Of Democracy In India
By Ajit Singh History has never been easy for the French. 232 years after the fall of Bastille, the French Revolution still stirs passions of both agony & jubilation. This great revolution of 1789 led to the origin of the principle of liberty and the concept of Constitutional law....
Biden Administration Targets Big Business To Mobilise Resources
By Karl Engels Tax-dodging corporations that pit countries against one another in a race to the bottom may soon have fewer places to hide. That’s because, in a sharp reversal from Trump administration policy, President Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stepped up Monday to back international negotiations for...
Left Voters In Bengal Have To Take Decisive Step To Defeat BJP
By Satyaki Chakraborty Following three phases of polling in Bengal for the state assembly, I got a number of messages from my friends in Kolkata and others of Bengal expressing their dilemma as a supporter of the Left in choosing candidates in the ensuing poll. The problem is the...
Ongoing State Assembly Elections Are Turning Out Tough For All Parties
By Kalyani Shankar Is there an x-factor that could play in the on-going five states assembly polls? X factors are always unexpected and might play sometimes positive and other times a negative role in polls. In a few weeks’ time, we will know which way it has played in...
LDF Has An Edge, Pinarayi Vijayan The Trump Card
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Who will win the Final – the mother of all battles for the Kerala Assembly? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Keralites as the State went to the polls on Tuesday amid a big surge in covid cases. The fear is real...
Uddhav Has A Tough Task To Keep MVA In Power After Deshmukh’s Resignation
By Sushil Kutty The Bombay High Court is right. There cannot be an independent probe if the Maharashtra Police or the Mumbai Police were to investigate the charge against Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. Hidden in that observation was the hint to Deshmukh to resign. Now, the CBI will...
Civil Resistance Growing Against Army Rule In Myanmar
By Barun Das Gupta The army in Myanmar took over power two months ago, ousting the elected government and throwing its leader behind bars. There has been mass resistance to army rule which shows no signs of abating. The army continues to shoot down civil resisters demanding restoration of...
Bangladesh Adjusting Its Policies To Needs Of Growing Economy
By Ashis Biswas Having achieved middle income country status, Bangladesh currently faces complex issues of economic adjustments relating to its export sector. Ironically, the progress made by Bangladesh has been taken note by its allies as also by international organisations. The UN recently confirmed that Bangladesh has in concrete...
What Tim Cook Said On Elon Musk’s Claim Of Trying To Sell Tesla To Apple
“We’re making serious investments in Apple TV Plus,” Tim Cook said Highlights Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc. for 23 years He has been chief executive officer for nearly a decade His latest interview touched on a wide range of topics Tim Cook has been with Apple Inc....
Rahul Gandhi Is Right In Alleging Lack Of Level Playing Field In Current Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The polling to the third phase of the state assembly elections in Assam and Bengal will be taking place on April 6.On the same day, the polling to the t two other states Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry will be completed-...
Assembly Elections Turning Most Unfair In West Bengal
By Nantoo Banerjee It may easily be the worst election battle of its kind ever fought in this country. Murder, rape, stabbing, physical attacks, bombing, gun-shooting, brick-batting, arson and looting have become a commonplace across poll bound West Bengal. With several national leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including...
“Legal Void” On New Labour Codes May Continue For Some Months
By Gyan Pathak Fearing a “legal void” in case of implementation of the four central new labour codes from April 1, 2021, Modi government has deferred it for “some time”, until at least some of the major industrial states frame rules. Since labour is a concurrent subject, both the...
Why The Opposition Is Forever Playing Catch Up With The BJP
By Amulya Ganguli Rahul Gandhi is only partially right when he says that the BJP’s control of the autonomous institutions is hampering the opposition parties at the national level to make any headway. Although there is a grain of truth in the Congress leader’s charge, there are more basic...
Covid Positive Patients Have To Remain Strong During Quarantine
By Dr Arun Mitra With a linear fall of Corona infection cases earlier, not only in our country but around the globe, a complacency had developed about the preventive measures. Life cannot come to a standstill but when the situation is not conducive some changes in the lifestyle need...
EC Response To Mamata’s Complaint On Nandigram Booth Is Too Harsh
By Arun Srivastava The Election Commission accusing the Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee of misdemeanour and contemplating to take severe action against her, has been unprecedented in the electoral history of the country and smacks of a well-defined script written by the top government functionaries. EC threat of taking legal...
More Evidence Of UDF-BJP Deal In Kerala Poll Tumbling Out
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Clear evidence of the tacit deal between the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the BJP in Kerala has surfaced to the acute embarrassment of both the parties. What is even more surprising is that a few top BJP leaders themselves have spilled the beans....
Economic Self Reliance Has Been Jettisoned To Please The Corporates
By Chada Venkata Reddy Our country is sovereign democratic republic. People alone are rulers. People elect governments. Based on the norms of Constitution, government should be restrained by the basic constitutional principles and thus implement laws. But it has become common for ruling government to take unilateral decisions. With...
