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By Krishna Jha We had our Republic Day this week, the day when our Constitution came into effect for the first time with a democratic governing system completing the transition towards becoming a sovereign republic. For the first time we addressed ourselves as “We the People” of a...
BJP’s Dirty Insinuation Against Shaheen Bagh Protestors
By Arun Srivastava BJP experimenting violence with hatred has been gradually reaching to the flash point. This has not come as surprise. Amit Shah, the Home Minister has been providing it a perfect shape and character in the form of pitting Shaheen Bagh against India. In his election...
Delhi Gears Up For Triangular Fight, But AAP Is Frontrunner
By Rahil Nora Chopra Delhi will witness a triangular fight among Congress, BJP and AAP when it votes to choose a new legislative assembly on 8 February. The Congress, which ruled the city for 15 years till 2013 but drew a blank in the 2015 polls, is also...
In Gaza, Protests Rage Against Trump’s ‘Deal of The century’
By Steve Sweeney Palestinians waged a general strike in the besieged Gaza Strip January 29 as protests continued to rage against the “dismal” Middle East peace plan announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday. His so-called “deal of the century” has been met by global...
PM Modi’s New Strategies To Tide Over Economic Downturn
By Subrata Majumder Budget for 2020-21 will be the toughest for Nirmala Sitharaman, more than any other Finance Minister has faced during the past eight years. With the downturn in economic growth, which has unleashed a cascading impact on revenue growth and widened fiscal deficit, presenting an appropriate...
Man Of His Time: Remembering Trade Unionist George Fernandes
By Anjan Roy George Fernandes was supposed to die in course of the Emergency in 1976. The orders were conveyed and the exception awaited. But an encrypted telegram had apparently landed on the wrong desk and therefore the plan had leaked out. The leak was also deliberate....
Predictive Analytics Is Euphemism For Surveillance State
By Joel Wendland-Liu “Communicative capitalism,” writes the communist philosopher Jodi Dean, refers to a phase of knowledge- and technology-based commodity production in which information on a massive scale is produced, gathered, and sold for profit. What we now call the “information society” or “knowledge economy” sees the large-scale...
All About Nitish Kumar’s Head-On Battle With Prashant Kishor
By Arun Srivastava Around two decades back, the RJD leader Lalu Prasad had quipped: “Nitish does not believe anyone. He does not trust his friends. He is like a snake who does not hesitate to bite his friends.” In the past he deserted many of his friends, which...
Kerala Theatre Over Governor’s ‘Politics’ Turns Nasty
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Petty politics over Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan’s stand on the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) has plumbed a new low with Leader of the Opposition(LOP) Ramesh Chennithala seeking Khan’s recall. Kerala’s political pitch has, to put it in cricket parlance, turned nasty with...
Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Justice Ravindra Bhat Recuses From Sc Bench
BY Nishant Sirohi After recusal of the Justice S Ravindra Bhat from hearing the case, the Supreme Court on Monday adjourned the hearing of a curative petition filed by the Central Government in 2010 for direction to the Union Carbide Corporation to pay enhanced compensation of over Rs...
Trump Team Conducts Theatre Of The Absurd In The Capitol
By John Wojick Donald Trump’s legal team is shifting its defense of the president to an argument that even if he is guilty of everything charged in the articles of impeachment, neither he, and nor president for that matter, can be removed for either abuse of power or...
Will Union Budget 2020 help Reboot the Sliding Economy?
By Kalyani Shankar All eyes will be on the annual general budget for the year 2020, which will be presented this week. The budget session is all set to begin with the customary President’s address to the joint session of Parliament on January 31. The session is important...
Modi Government’s Worst Week In Credibility
By K Raveendran The Modi government would be completing 300 weeks in office next month. But its 296th week that has just been completed will be considered probably its worst, which saw a slew of adverse reports squeezed into the seven days, making it an unmitigated public...
Modi-Shah’s Policies Have Shattered India’s Image Abroad
By Arun Srivastava The Minister of External Affairs, Jaishankar has tried to display his loyalty to his boss Narendra Modi by conveying his dislike to the European Union’s move to debate six resolutions in its parliament on January 29 and 30. In his perception, EU cannot do it...
Now It’s Time For The Public To Reclaim The Republic
By Nachiketa Desai SEVENTY years after the people of India gave themselves a sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic, the youth from university campuses and women in towns across the country are up in arms to reclaim the republic from a fascist regime out to impose a Hindu...
Bolton’s Bombshell Explodes Main Trump Defense Argument
By John Wojcik A bombshell news report that has emerged is game over for President Trump – at least as far as facts are concerned. What Republican senators trying him now for high crimes and misdemeanors do about it, however, is an entirely different matter. The explosion...
After Painful NRC, Assam’s Regionalism Faces Internal Challenge
By Ashis Biswas Has regionalism run its limit in Assam? Four explosions on Republic day 2020 after a prolonged spell of relative peace and stability certainly breathed new life into the question in Assam’s context. The secessionist wing of the ULFA, which operates from abroad, has claimed responsibility....
Need Clarity On Plan And Non-Plan Spending
By Nantoo Banerjee Going by the government’s annual spending trend, the size of the 2020-21 union budget scheduled to be presented in Parliament on February 1 may be close to Rs. 31,00,000 crore. The large expenditure budget is unavoidable despite the grim picture on the revenue front...
