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By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After ensuring victory of most of the Congress defectors, the BJP has launched a project of their ideological assimilation in the party. For this the BJP organised a two day training camp. The camp was attended among others by Jyotiraditya Scindia. Besides...
Pro-Corbyn Group Fare Better In Labour Party Executive Elections
By Arun Srivastava The Labour leader Keir Starmer managed to gain some more seats in the national executive committee (NEC) elections on Friday, but miserably failed to succeed in his mission to completely weed out the Socialist and leftist supporters of ousted leader Jeremy Corbyn as they...
Brazil’s Local Elections On Nov 15 Was A Blow To Far Right President
By Ana Carvalhaes Although traditionally fast and efficient, the electronic vote count from Brazil’s local municipal elections last Sunday was delayed by more than three and a half hours. Yet this alarming development did not prevent the electorate’s general mood from making itself clear well before midnight:...
Talk Of Economic Recovery By Finance Minister Is Misplaced
By Prabhat Patnaik Ministers from Narendra Modi to Nirmala Sitaraman are talking about a recovery of the Indian economy from the pandemic-induced crisis. Even the Reserve Bank of India which estimated the second quarter GDP growth to have been -8.6 per cent, has seen signs of recovery in...
India Most Threatened Of Losing A Generation
By Gyan Pathak The impact of COVID-19 crisis on the lives of children in India has been far worse than most of the countries of the world, because the country’s share in the global burden was already unacceptably high in the beginning of the pandemic. With neonatal...
The Sudden Twist In Kerala Political Tale
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The roles have been reversed in a sudden twist in Kerala’s political tale. The United Democratic Front (UDF) which has been launching an aggressive campaign against the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s ‘corruption’, has now become the defender in the wake of...
Sushil Kumar Modi To Be Inducted Into Union Cabinet Soon
By Rahil Nora Chopra After appointing Tarkishor Prasad and Renu Devi as deputy chief ministers in place of Sushil Kumar Modi in new Bihar government, BJP high command has decided to bring Sushil Kumar Modi in Rajya Sabha and he is expected to be elected from the seat vacated...
Wall Street Is Worried As Trump Is Delaying Transition Of Presidency
By C.J. Atkins With their plan to steal the election by having ballots disqualified failing in court after court, President Trump and his legal team are switching gears. His lawyer Rudy Giuliani is now pivoting to a strategy of delaying the final vote count and certification in as...
November 26 Will Be A Golden Day In History Of Indian Working Class
By Sukumar Damle The Central Government passed three Labour Codes on September 23, 2020, on Industrial Relations, on Social Security and on Occupational Health & Safety, while the entire opposition had boycotted Parliament in protest against suspension of eight opposition Rajya Sabha MPs. This suspension itself was...
Congress Should Make Deep Introspection
By Binoy Viswam Election outcome in Bihar is neither an end nor a beginning. It is to be considered as an important landmark in the ongoing battle to decide the destiny of India. The battle was and is to decide whether India should continue as a secular democracy...
Targeting The LDF Govt In Kerala Will Boomerang
By Prakash Karat The efforts to discredit and denigrate the Left Democratic Front government in Kerala have been mounting in the past few weeks. The Congress-led UDF and the BJP have conducted agitations utilising the gold smuggling case to target Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the LDF government....
India-China Talks On Ladakh Border Making Little Headway
By Barun Das Gupta It is almost seven months that the Indian and Chinese armies are finding themselves in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation in eastern Ladakh, with no possibility of an early de-escalation or disengagement in sight. China finds that any attempt to further encroach into Indian territory will...
Debate Rages In Left Over Strategy On Fighting BJP In West Bengal
By Arun Srivastava The assembly elections in West Bengal in April/May 2021 has opened up a debate on what should be the correct strategy of the Left to combat the aggressive BJP in the state which is currently ruled by the Trinamul Congress led by Mamata Banerjee....
BJP State Governments Are Violating Constitution On Issue Of Love Jehad
By Dr. Arun Mitra The statement by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath that the Uttar Pradesh government will make tough laws against Love Jehad is not surprising. Haryana and Madhya Pradesh governments too have now joined the chorus. Haryana’s Minister Anil Vij has gone even further....
Two Elections In Two Democracies Have Lessons For Indian Polity
By D. Raja We just saw two election results. One was the defeat of the blatantly anti-people, pro-corporate, racist right-wing authoritarian Donald Trump in the US presidential elections by the Democrat Joe Biden. This should send a huge message to all right-wing parties and leaders who try to...
Ever-Growing Reach Of ‘Digital Republics’ Poses Challenge
By K Raveendran The fight against misinformation and fake news on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and others is apparently entering a decisive stage, with the government reportedly floating a tender to invite agencies for providing solutions and services related to fact verification and...
PTI Of Imran Khan Strnegthens Its Position In Gilgit-Baltistan Polls
By Sankar Ray Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf bagged ten out of 23 seats that went to poll in the Gilgit-Baltistan provincial assembly elections on Sunday. Political analysts most of whom foresaw a three-party neck-to-neck contest among PTI, Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League...
Process Of Making Full Use Of Covid Vaccines Will Be Long
By Dr. Kafeel Khan As coronavirus cases surge around the world, hospitals are getting overstretched and economies, gasping. Within a week, there was good news from two US-based companies and both were to do with the much-awaited vaccine that spells hope in these dire times. The first...
