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By Krishna Jha Coal workers in the country, engaged in one of the most hazardous jobs, struck work for three days from June 2 to 4, 2020. It was not only against the deplorable conditions that the miners keep facing every day, the struggle launched was also against...
Central Trade Unions Gear Up To Challenge The Government
By Sukumar Damle On 3 July 2020, the Central Trade Unions are slated to launch their nationwide campaign to protest the deteriorating conditions of the workers, spree of privatization of public sector units, suspension of labour laws citing the pandemic and other issues. The pressure cooker situation...
Indian Civil Society Calls For Knowledge-Sharing In Fight Against Covid
By Satyaki Chakraborty Countries across the globe are racing towards developing a successful vaccine for COVID-19. Various governmental research institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and even universities are working around the clock to research fast diagnostics, effective treatment, and vaccines. However, given the large scale demand, concerns have raised...
EU Mulls Real Wall To Bar Entry Of Americans To Europe
By Mark Gruenberg On Tuesday in Arizona Trump had his picture taken at the phony prop he calls his “beautiful wall,” one of the props along the border with Mexico that he runs to every time he wants to stir up fear of immigrants. While he was...
Anti-Slavery Movement Was The Link Between Lincoln And Marx
By John Wight On page 405 of the folio edition of the writings and speeches of Abraham Lincoln there is a letter dated January 19 1863. It is titled “To the Workingmen of Manchester, England” and begins: “I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the address...
Covid Outbreak Drags Everything Down Except Gold
By K Raveendran Gold prices hit record highs last week, with 10 gm of the metal costing over Rs 48,000. Prices have since scaled back a little, but continue to be at multi-year highs. Gold is perhaps the only asset whose value has gone up when everything else...
Big Split In RJD Is A Boost To NDA On Poll Eve In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Three decade old tryst of the RJD with the highly caste sensitive Bihar politics suffered the first ever worst jolt with the founder of the party, former union minister and vice president, Raghuvansh Prasad Singh quitting the party along with five MLCs. The reason...
Priyanka Gandhi Is The Fiery Face Of The Opposition In UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Congress under the leadership and guidance of Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra appears to be taking the Yogi government head-on. She’s questioning the Uttar Pradesh government on various issues and it seems she is not even afraid of going to jail. Much significance is...
Political Considerations, Not Laws, Governing The Courts
By Apurba K Baruah It is necessary to remind ourselves in contemporary India that, politics makes the law as and when required and even remakes and replaces laws and therefore there is a limit to the judicial system under which you seek justice. The case of Akhil...
Corona-Warriors: Delhi Teen Creates Face Shields For Cops
By IPA Correspondent A fourteen-year-old student, Zareb Vardhan, has been able to create a one-of-its-kind face-shield at home using a 3D printer, and has gifted 100 such shields to policemen. Zareb has created the face-shield after noticing people closely interacting with cops in the middle of the ongoing...
Masks, Gloves – The Ocean Is Filling With Covid Trash
By Joseph Winters Are oil companies the true heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic? That’s sure what they’d like you to think. In a recent flurry of “corporate reputation advertising” highlighted by Emily Atkin in the newsletter HEATED, oil and gas companies, plus the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers...
BJP-Led NDA Inches Closer To Majority In Rajya Sabha
By Kalyani Shankar When the Rajya Savha reassembles for the monsoon session, it will be with new equations with a change in the composition of the house. It will see a shrunken opposition and an improved NDA. The BJP is inching towards a majority after this week’s...
Opposition Disunity Boosts Nitish’s Prospects In Bihar Assembly Poll
By Sagarneel Sinha Before the Coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown, it was widely expected that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar led NDA government would have an easy sail later this year when Bihar will go for assembly polls. Although the Election Commission has said that Bihar will be seeing...
Congress Leadership Is Still Clueless In Meeting Modi Challenge
By Arun Srivastava Bravado of Rahul Gandhi has neither helped boost his own personal stock and image nor instil confidence in the rank and file. Undeniably Rahul through his incisive questions has put Narendra Modi in an awkward situation on many occasions and forced him to look helpless...
KPCC President Scores A Self-Goal
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The United Democratic Front (UDF)’s attempt to wrest the political initiative has suffered a setback with Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran soring a political self-goal. What has pushed the UDF on to the defensive is an uncharitable remark made by...
Madhya Pradesh Gears Up For Vidhan Sabha By-Polls In 24 Seats
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: After election to Rajya Sabha, both the Congress and the BJP have turned their respective attention to the by-elections to 24 seats in the state Vidhan Sabha. The outcome of these by-elections will decide the fate of the state ministry. Never in the...
Massive Virtual March In Usa For Eradication Of Poverty, Racism
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—From eradication of poverty, an end to U.S. racism, to dismantling the war machine and creating a Green New Deal with thousands of well-paying jobs—especially union jobs—hundreds of thousands of people demanded a complete reversal and creation of a better society in three virtual...
Prime Minister’s Self-Reliance Mantra
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s self-reliance mantra is most welcome at a time when the country’s economy is suffering from a discomfortably slow-to-negative growth, following the nationwide phased lockdown measures to restrict the spread of Covid-19, compressing industrial production, market and throwing tens of millions out...
