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By Nantoo Banerjee No country in the world is known to have witnessed such a messy situation with its vital telecom industry as India. In last 10 years, 16 telecom operators, most of them with foreign links, had to shut down India operations. Of them, as many...
BJP’S Surgical Strike Will Cement Maha Aghadi Ties
By Amulya Ganguli More than any other state – Karnataka, Goa, Arunachal Pradesh – where the BJP’s “Operation Lotus” succeeded in winning over opposition legislators, Maharashtra is a prize which the party was loathe to lose. Hence, the unseemly haste in swearing-in a government of its...
Maharashtra Twist Shows Sena Resenting Being Bjp’s B-Team
By Kalyani Shankar No political party has come out of the mess in the formation of the Maharashtra government smelling of roses. It sends out a clear message that they are after power and for that they are willing to go any length. The Devendra Fadnavis government formation...
Fiscal Federalism Needs New Mechanism In Present Day India
By Anjan Roy There are some resolved and hitherto unthought of issues on fiscal federalism in the aftermath of the introduction of the GST framework. It is time to critically examine these and introduce necessary changes and amendments to the laws and even the constitution. The entire gamut...
Indian Economy Is In Virtual Recession
By Sitaram Yechury ON the first day of the winter session of Parliament, the finance minister has stated that though the economy has slowed down, it is well on the target of reaching a $5 trillion economy by 2025. At the current rates of growth, notwithstanding all the...
India Should Be Most Worried Nation Amidst Trade War
By Gyan Pathak India is now most worried nation in the world on account of new trade restrictions and increasing trade tensions that has been taking the world in its grip since July 2018. It is also a matter of a serious concern for G20 governments and the...
Corbyn Is Determined To Build A New Britain
By Arun Srivastava It has been the most radical election manifesto but unlike the past documents, this second election manifesto presented to the Britishers by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has virtually no critiques. An impression was being created by the Tories and Lib-Dem leaders that this “most...
Students Demand Restoration Of Unions In Balochistan
By Sankar Ray The sexual harassment scandal at the University of Balochistan in early October this year emboldens the demand for lifting the ban on the right of students to form unions. This ban was clamped in 1984 by General Zia-ul Haq and the same was upheld...
Coup in Bolivia has U.S. Fingerprints all over it
BY W. T. Whitney Jr. The socialist government of Bolivian President Evo Morales took power in February 2006. He and Vice President Álvaro García Linare on October 20 had been elected to their fourth terms in office. A coup culminating on Nov. 10 removed them—a coup that the...
Confrontation Imminent On Industrial Relations Code
By Satyaki Chakraborty The passing of the revised Industrial relations Code by the NDA Government in its cabinet on November 20 has imparted a fresh dimension to the continuing confrontation between the central trade unions and the centre on the economic policies of the Government. Already the job...
An Unspeakable Crime Against Humanity
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: November 20, 2019 will go down as one of the darkest days in the annals of Kerala’s history. The day witnessed an unpardonable crime against a 10-year-old school girl. It is an unredeeming tale of human beings’ shocking insensitivity to a fellow human...
Sabarimala Verdict – Curious Case Of Review Petitions Adjudication
By Nivedhitha K A week before his retirement on November 17, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi had the task of pronouncing judgments on various significant cases. He presided over the bench that dismissed the review petition in the Rafale deal and pronounced a contorted order...
Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP Set To Form Maharashtra Government
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Shiv Sena has not attended the meeting of the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance on past Sunday, ahead of the month-long Winter session of Parliament that started from Monday, 18 November. In fact, all the three Rajya Sabha MPs of Shiv Sena will now...
Labour Manifesto Is Radical For Changing Britain
By Ben Chacko A Labour Party victory on December 12 means Christmas has come early. A Labour government is a gift we give to ourselves. Labour aims to “kick start a housing revolution.” Its pledge to build hundreds of thousands of council homes is a keystone policy...
‘Trump Must Go’ Is The Call Of Democratic Hopefuls
By Mark Gruenberg ATLANTA: When it comes to GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump, the ten Democratic hopefuls on stage in Atlanta on November. 20 all agree: Impeach him. None of the ten—former Vice President Joe Biden, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Kamala Harris of California, Amy...
Centre Must Not Politicise Hunger
By Krishna Jha The government has refused to accept the numbers that showed the falling affordability of the common masses to meet even the essentials. In its denial, the government has openly gone into politicizing Hunger. The credibility of the source of the data, the NSSO, remains...
Narmada Project Oustees Demand Immediate Rehabilitation
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Led by the veteran Medha Patkar, more than one thousand oustees of the Narmada project are camping in Bhopal for the past five days to highlight their grievances. They have laid siege to the office of the Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) here, spending...
Bjp Fighting A Losing Battle In Jharkhand Assembly Poll
By Arun Srivastava Senior Jharkhand BJP leader Saryu Roy will contest as the combined independent candidate against incumbent CM Raghubar Das in the ensuing Jharkhand assembly polls. This decision of Roy to oppose Das has not come a surprise. Das’s machination to help the corporate sector get the...
