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By Juan Lopez By sending federal militarized units in fascist-like fashion into major cities to attack peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrators, President Donald Trump is assaulting democracy and setting a dangerous precedent less than 100 days before the November elections. Clearly, it is a desperate move...
Economy Reached The Nadir In The April-June Quarter
By Nantoo Banerjee It is still not clear on the part of the government about how to handle the spread of coronavirus across the country and follow at the same time a well designed programme that will save life as well as economy. Five months already passed since...
Corrupt Legislators Are Vitiating Indian Electoral Politics
By Amulya Ganguli India has been at the receiving end of adverse comments from the world community on several counts. These include the prolonged incarceration of social activists and the civil unrest on the citizenship measures while inside the country, there is disquiet about the emasculation of...
Both Short And Long Term Strategy Needed For Covid Management
By Gyan Pathak The same lackadaisical approach of the rulers over spending on health continues. COVID-19 infection and related deaths have ever been increasing. In absence of health facilities, governments resorted to lockdowns, which crippled the world economy and created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis of survival and...
Trouble Galore With Indian Matrimony
By Urvi Desai In July 2020, the popular streaming platform, Netflix, released the reality-documentary show, Indian Matchmaking, to a global audience. The show follows the journey of a Mumbai-based matchmaker who arranges marriage alliances between wealthy families in India and the US. In one scene, Akshay, a Bombay...
Leadership Issue Is Dogging The Congress Party For Far Too Long
By Harihar Swarup In 1959, when Indira Gandhi was elected president of the Congress, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had to face criticism for promoting his daughter. Significantly, he was quick to deny this was his intention “I am certainly not grooming her as my successor,” Nehru told his...
Concept Of Whip Cuts At The Very Root Of Democracy
By K Raveendran Irrespective of what happens to the petition by Rajasthan Assembly Speaker in the Supreme Court, questioning the Rajasthan High Court’s restraint on him to act on the notices issued to rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot and 18 other MLAs, remarks made by a bench...
Hard Practical Policies Are Needed Now To Revive Economy
By Anjan Roy Emergency financing is the main instrument which the Narendra Modi Government is using in the current period of pandemic to bring about economic recovery. The situation as of now has gone out of hands and nearly four months after the first lock down in...
Time To Focus On Assam Battling Both Covid-19 & Floods
By Sagarneel Sinha At a time when there is a surge of cases of Coronavirus in India, the northeastern state of Assam has to battle another crisis — floods. Already, the deluge has affected 26 out of total 33 districts of the state. It is not that the...
Coronavirus Has Exposed Deep Divide In Indian Castes And Communities
By Arun Srivastava Passive approach of the dalit leaders, especially of Mayawati and Chandrashekhar Azad on the police torture and state repression of writer and poet Varavara Rao, lawyer and activist Sudha Bhardwaj, academic and activist Vernon Gonsalves, and human rights activists Arun Ferreira and Gautam Navlakha has...
Worsening Covid Situation Worries The Kerala Government
By P Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is a double whammy for the embattled Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government led by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. On the one hand, the covid situation has taken a turn for the worse. On the other, the gold smuggling case probe has ‘reached’...
India Should Not Be A Part Of Trump’s Global Strategy
By Arun Srivastava A chorus is systematically being fashioned that the time for ambivalence is over and India must assert its might with determination to fight its own territorial battles. This has emerged in the wake of the revelation that fresh initiative has been launched to revive...
Health Ministry Should Take Scientific Approach To Covid Management
By Dr Arun Mitra It is the prerogative of the Health Minister to speak on the issues that concern health of the people in our country. This is even more relevant when the Health Minister is a doctor specialized in Otorhinolaryngology and is also Chairman of the Executive...
India Facing Continuing Surge In Coronavirus Infections
By Sushil Kutty India’s Covid numbers have risen, outstripping Brazil’s, and are second only to that of the United States. The news report proclaimed this “fact” louder than the racket made by the falling waters of the Niagara on the US-Canada border. But wait, a caveat first: This...
Joint Platform Of Trade Unions Plan Action At National Level
By Satyaki Chakraborty National Platform of Central Trade Unions that includes INTUC, AITUC, HMS, CITU AIUTUC, TUCC, SEWA, AICCTU, LPF, UTUC along with sectoral federations and associations has called upon working class to observe August 9 as “SAVE INDIA DAY” and also CTUs and other PSUs to observe...
Demand For Priyanka Gandhi To Be Up 2022 Face Gets Louder
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress Working Committee will decide on a long-standing demand of the party workers that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra be the party’s face in the 2022 UP Assembly elections. Senior Congress leader Jitin Prasada, who is a special invitee to the Congress Working Committee (CWC), said...
Rajasthan Govt Crisis Is A Result Of BJP’s Bid For One Party Rule
By Prakash Karat The political drama in Rajasthan, consequent to the revolt of Sachin Pilot who was the deputy chief minister and PCC president, is still unfolding. But the essential contours have become clear. The inner tussle in the Congress cannot be separated from the BJP’s drive...
Public Sector Banking Facing Severe Attack By Modi Government
By Krishna Jha The ordinance on nationalisation of 14 commercial banks, promulgated on July 19, and presented in Lok Sabha on July 21, 1969 by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was a momentous decision to achieve one of the prime goals spelt out in the Constitution The Communist...
