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By Ashis Biswas Apparently, the centre-state confrontation over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizen exercise (NRC) has reached a premature climax in West Bengal. Largely ignored by mainstream media, Bengal suffered the longest spell of organised arson and the planned destruction of...
Floods In India To Become More Disastrous
By Gyan Pathak Mean annual rainfall and extreme single day rainfall events in India are projected to increase the frequency and intensity of floods in India. Apart from Global Warming and Climate Change, the scale of the impact of these extreme events on people is to be further...
All-Party Meet For Joint Protests In Kerala Against CAA, NRC
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala will continue to conduct joint protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). The politically significant decision was taken at the All-Party meeting convened by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday. The meeting was attended by all parties...
Big Lessons In Jharkhand Poll Results For Modi-Shah
By Harihar Swarup The Jharkhand results should worry the BJP; not least because it has been losing assembly elections and allies since 2017-18. The loss of Jharkhand will rankle particularly, since the BJP had won 11 of 14 Lok Sabha seats in the state in May and provided...
Row Over Army Chief’s Remarks Most Unfortunate
By K Raveendran The controversy over remarks by outgoing Army chief General Bipin Rawat is a clear case of the interpretation doing more harm than the original statement. With all shades of opinion joining the acrimony, the armed forces have been willy-nilly drawn into the highly politicised issue...
Army Chief Is Trying To Please His Political Masters
By Arun Srivastava The observation of the Army chief, General Bipin Rawat on the nature of the students’ protests against the new citizenship law and the quality of the leadership at a public event in Delhi is not only bizzare, or inappropriate, nor amounts to overstepping the Laxman...
French Workers Are Making History
By Dennis Broe PARIS: Time magazine named teen climate activist Greta Thunberg its Person of the Year last week, but in truth, given that this has been a year of global unrest and efforts from the streets worldwide to counter the effects of an ever more rapacious neoliberal...
Jharkhand Defeat Is A Definite Shift
By Binoy Viswam Umpteen reasons are there for a party like BJP to panic. The facade of chivalry that they wear as a cover is only meant for hiding their internal fear and related worries. Who among those in the RSS Parivar has expected such a people’s verdict...
RITES Is Now Functioning As Indian Multinational
By Satyaki Chakraborty RITES, the Mini Ratna public sector enterprise has gone global and its performance in the areas of railways and transport infrastructure has got high appreciation from the developing countries of all regions of the world. As a a result, the company is getting big orders...
Modi Charisma Has Not Totally Waned
By Sagarneel Sinha Seems that the ending of 2019 is not on a comfortable note for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party — which stormed back to power this year with a strong mandate under the able leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi. But as the year ends, the...
UP Law And Order Situation A Headache For BJP High Command
By Rahil Nora Chopra The law and order situation of Uttar Pradesh has now become worrying even for the BJP high command, even though UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been claiming that everything is under control. With the anti-CAA/NRC protests, the situation has deteriorated at an alarming...
Labour’s Future Lies In More Radicalism
By Ben Chacko Former Labour leader Ed Miliband is in some respects well placed to head up a review of Labour’s election defeat. Miliband may have received a smaller share of the vote in 2015 than Jeremy Corbyn did this month. But that experience may place him in...
Now It Is BJP’s Turn For Self-Preservation
By K Raveendran It was NCP spokesman Nawab Malik who described the Jharkhand assembly poll results as the demolition of the arrogance of Modi and Amit Shah. There has not been a more cryptic analysis of BJP’s situation today. It would appear that the BJP has been...
PM Throws To Winds The Collective Responsibility Of Union Cabinet
By Chidambaram N As the year 2019 is nearing a close, the year will be remembered for the continuing rejection of RSS-BJP in the elections to the state assemblies, the last lap of the year being Jharkhand verdict, and disowning of a Union home minister by the prime...
NPR Is The First Stage For Promoting Rss Agenda
By Arun Srivastava Announcement of the formal rollout of the National Population Register (NPR), in the middle of the nationwide storm over the contentious citizenship issue and conflicting signals from the Centre on the status of NRC have simply deepened the concern and shaken the trust of the...
More Accurate Data Would Help Overcome The Economic Crisis
By Gyan Pathak Getting the word out on India’s true fiscal stance could yield significant benefits for policymakers and the Indian economy. A more accurate picture would better inform decisions regarding how much stimulus should be provided in a cyclical downturn. The government of India could increase its...
Police Can’t Enter Hospitals Without Permission
By Dr Arun Mitra Several medical organizations including the Indian Medical Association (IMA), the Alliance of Doctors for Ethical Healthcare (ADEH), the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) and others have taken a strong note of police brutality on doctors and the paramedical staff in Highland hospital...
Congress’s Massive March In Bhopal Unites Secular Forces
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, with the active co-operation of his ministers and party colleagues, put up a massive show against the Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC. The most significant feature of this show was the support lent to it by the...
