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By Nilanjan Banik Donald Trump returned to the United States from India a happy man. He inked a $3-billion defence deal with New Delhi, a land which he refers to as a “tariff king”. And all this after the US has terminated India from its Generalised System of Preferences...
Congress At Crossroads In Search Of Credibility
By Arun Srivastava After ten days of the Delhi Pogrom in which 48 persons were killed, Rahul Gandhi along with a team of his party MPs visited the riot affected areas of Delhi on March 4. He was on the mission to assuage the traumatised and ravaged psyche and...
Centrists Consolidate Behind Biden To Ensure Super Tuesday Win
BY C.J. Atkins Last week, Bernie Sanders was forecast to have a 60 per cent chance of going to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee this summer with a plurality of pledged delegates; Joe Biden had around a 30 per cent chance. After Super Tuesday, those odds have flipped....
India’s Sagging Manufacturing Sector Needs New Strategy
By Subrata Majumder While most economists and analysts are exasperated over the third quarter GDP growth, the authority considered the growth a significant as it bottomed out the downswing. The Economic Affairs secretary was upbeat and asserted that it signalled for a bounce back in the growth in the...
UNHRC Application Against CAA Puts Modi Govt On Backfoot
BY Nitya Chakraborty Despite bravado being shown by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the foreign minister S. Jaishankar about India’s success in getting its views heard by the global community on the Citizenship Amendment Act, things are gradually turning bad for India in the international diplomatic arena. The...
New Twist Settles Law In Land Acquisition
By K Raveendran Whistle blower judges J Chelameswar and colleague Kurian Joseph, who had raised an alarm over a so-called ‘preferred bench’ overruling their verdict in a land acquisition case on the ground that it had been issued without ‘due regard to law’ now have the last laugh, with...
BJP Bid To Unseat Kamal Nath Government Ends In Fiasco
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: It is claimed that coup d’etat planned by the BJP to unseat Kamal Nath government has ended into a fiasco. Digvijaya Singh was first to allege that the BJP is offering heavy sum ranging from Rs. 25 to 30 crore to take MLAs to cross...
Congress Needs To Build On The Anti-CAA Mass Protests
By Kalyani Shankar The anti-CAA protests have entered a critical phase with the courts taking cognizance of them. Though it can end only with a court verdict, the judicial process is taking long. So far the protesters remain leaderless and without any organizational strength. The brutal police crackdowns on...
Paralysis Of Centralised System Helped Rioters In Delhi
By Mriganka M Bhowmick It seemed that Delhi came back to its normal hustle-bustle on last Sunday March 1, 2020 after the unfortunate last week of February which was soaked in blood due communal violence in North East Delhi. But evening of that Sunday had a different tale to...
India’s Self-Reliance In Defence Industry Is Eroding
By C Srikumar After the Narendra Modi government came to power, none of the government sector and public sector enterprises is spared. All the sectors are fully opened to the private corporate one, including the Railways, banks, insurance, BPCL and other central public sector enterprises. Even the most strategic...
Amit Shah Is Still Continuing His Hate Campaign
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi has himself to blame for the battering of his image received in the wake of communal riots in Delhi. What is really intriguing is even after this he has not taken the steps to tighten the screw and punish the guilty persons. After the...
India’s Booming Alternative Drugs Market
By Nantoo Banerjee The alternative drugs industry is booming in India in keeping with the global trend as the pharmaceutical products such as drugs, vaccines, syrups and injectables are increasingly under global scanner for their side effects — ranging from bad to severe. While physicians rarely explain the side...
Is AAP another Pro-BJP Party like JD(U) or BJD?
By Amulya Ganguli Arvind Kejriwal’s political career has followed a meandering course. It began in the now nearly-forgotten days of Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption drive against the Congress-led UPA. Kejriwal, then a devoted chela of the Gandhi wannabe, was a self-confessed anarchist. He shunned politics, agreeing with his then mentor,...
Kejriwal Has Lost His Credibility On Kanhaiya Kumar Sanction
By Arun Srivastava The Arvind Kejriwal government granting sanction to prosecute the former JNU Student Union’s president Kanhaiya Kumar in a sedition case is part of the well chalked out design by the BJP leadership to ruin the political and academic career of the budding youth leader. Kejriwal’s action...
America’s Socialist Moment Has Come
By C.J. Atkins It started with the near collapse of the economy in 2008-09 when millions lost their homes and jobs and started questioning the status quo. Discussion about it picked up again with the Occupy Wall Street movement as young people realized the future they faced—low-wage jobs, endless...
Contest For 55 Rajya Sabha Seats Will Be Keenly Watched
By Harihar Swarup Fifty-five Rajya Sabha seats will be up for grabs next month in the biggest biennial polls since Prime Minister Narendra Modi won his second term. According to calculations based on election process to the House of Elders, voting across 17 states assemblies, set for March 26,...
Sedition Has Become A Joke Under Modi Govt
By K Raveendran Arvind Kejriwal’s Delhi government has given sanction for the prosecution of former JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in the infamous 2016 JNU sedition case. Congress leader and senior Supreme Court lawyer Manu Abhishek Singhvi has challenged the government to charge him with...
From Constitutional Anguish To Judicial Apathy
By Amritananda Chakravorty “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season...
