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By Mark Gruenberg Many congressional Democrats—along with party presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren—are warning that President Donald Trump’s targeted drone assassination strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian military leader Gen. Qassim Suleimani will trigger Iranian retaliation, a regional war in the Middle East,...
Dynasty Now A Mainstay Across Indian Political Spectrum
By Harihar Swarup Among the political parties the Congress is most maligned for being a dynastic organization. But now almost all political parties have been affected by this menace except the Left parties. Look at Maharashtra: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s recent expansion of his Council of Ministers exemplifies...
Stir A Manifestation Of Widespread Discontent
By K Raveendran The nationwide protest against the citizenship law, spearheaded by students and youth, has its own irony. BJP has been the beneficiary of such an agitation between 2011 and 2013, which helped the party to be swept to power in 2014. Today, the party and its...
Amit Shah Is Refusing To Recognise Anti-CAA Resurgence
By Arun Srivastava People around the world have been worried of the rising tide of rightwing populism, nationalism and polarisation, but the situation is more alarming in India. The rightist forces are out to eliminate the liberal and democratic forces from the political scenario of the country. ...
Stage Set For General Strike Of Central Trade Unions On January 8
By Satyaki Chakraborty The stage is now finally set for the one day all India general strike on January 8 called by the central trade unions of the country excepting the BJP affiliated BMS to dare the attention of the Government to the ten demands including the hike...
Kerala Governor-Govt Faceoff Over CAA, NRC
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Can a Governor act like a full-time politician? Are there deterrents to stop him from crossing the ‘Lakshman Rekha’? What are the options before a State Government which is at the receiving end of gubernatorial misconduct? These are the questions which springs...
Top RSS Leaders To Hold Strategy Meeting In Indore
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: RSS has chosen Madhya Pradesh for intensive and extensive campaign to explain positive aspects of citizens (amendment) act and NRC. Not only for campaign but Indore has also been selected as the venue to prepare long-term strategy to clear the confusion created...
The Elephant In The Room Is NRC
By Shailesh Gandhi There is considerable turmoil and controversy surrounding the Citizen Amendment Act, 2019 (CAA). Over twenty lives have been lost so far and, in many places, there are stories of pitched battles between police and protestors. I am trying to look at this dispassionately. The...
Modi Regime’s ‘Double Speak’ Is Exposed
By Krishna Jha Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his ‘Man Ki Bat’, the last one for the year, said on a conciliatory note that ‘young’ today does not like lack of governance and instability. It was his way of veiling the fact that police was let loose to...
Priyanka Makes Frontal Attack On Yogi
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The manner in which AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra has taken the centre stage in opposition space in Uttar Pradesh has unnerved Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav and BSP president Mayawati. Priyanka is more aggressive in criticising Modi government and Yogi government on...
Will Loss In Jharkhand Teach BJP How To Fight Delhi Polls?
By Rahil Nora Chopra After getting weakened in Haryana and losing out Maharashtra to the smart power-play by the Sharad Pawar-stitched Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance, now BJP has lost the Jharkhand assembly elections as well, in a triple-whammy. The BJP is facing this kind of consecutive checkmates because the elections...
U.S. Encirclement Endangers Cuba’s Economy
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Closing a session of Cuba’s National Assembly on December 21, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel declared that, “The 61st year of the Revolution has indeed been difficult and challenging.” He blamed these troubles on the “brutal” and “demented” U.S. blockade. Dangers have mounted for...
2020 Will Be A Year Of Big Struggles And Challenges
By D. Raja 2019 ended with country plunging into a political turmoil from North West to Noth East, from North to South and from East to West. It marked the Mr. Narendra Modi government taking over the power for the second term. It witnessed the abrogation of Article...
Supreme Court Failed In Its Constitutional Duty In 2019
By Amritananda Chakravorty As the year 2020 dawns on us, the state of the country, and its judiciary, fills me with dread, and yet the protests of the people of India in coming out on streets, wanting to defend their ‘own’ Constitution are deeply heartening and keep...
India Suffers Surprise Oil Shock With Devastating Effect
By K Raveendran The spurt in global oil prices could not have come at a worse time for India. The benchmark Brent crude at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) futures market traded at $67.02 a barrel at the beginning of the week, up 0.22 per cent over the previous...
Labour Passing Through The Process Of Severe Churning
By Arun Srivastava The leadership selection process for Labour is under way. But what is not to the runners is ideological contour and the probable programme the party should adopt for becoming the party representing the aspiration of the Britishers. Though after the abysmal electoral performance of...
Savitribai Phule – A Great Poet Of Protest And Awakening
By Awanish Somkuwar I was surprised to find no book by or about Savitribai Phule in a prominent well-equipped public library of my city Bhopal. Efforts went vain searching them elsewhere. I am not sure about public libraries across the country except a few but it is...
Authoritarianism Of Ruling Regime Facing Resistance
By Prakash Karat THE fortnight since the adoption of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill by parliament has been witness to one of the significant moments in recent political history in India. It has revealed two facets which are interrelated but opposite in nature. The first facet is that the...
