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By Ashis Biswas In an unforeseen regional political fallout, it has taken a statement made by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah of all things, to bring the worst of enemies in Bangladesh together to defend their country’s national pride and its secular credentials. Dhaka-based media has reported in...
CAB Creating A New Generation Of Homeless Hindus
By Arun Srivastava Citizens Amendment Bill (CAB) is a majoritarian exercise carried out by the Modi government at the directive of the RSS. This would change the approach and attitude of the state towards its citizens. The new definition of citizenship will fundamentally change the century old concept...
CAB Provisions Are Helpful For Hindu Refugees
By Sagarneel Sinha There have been many opinions about Indian secularism and constitution being shattered because of the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 passed by both houses of the parliament — a bill which will ease the hurdles coming in the way of refugees of six religions — Hinduism,...
Lowering Income And Rising Prices Badly Hitting People
By Gyan Pathak Lowering income owing to serious slowdown in the economy and rising prices of goods and services is a deadly combination that has been delivered to us to be swallowed. Inflation is set to rise more sharply than expected. Moreover, the government of India does not...
BJP’s Eknath Khadse Blames Fadnavis For Maharashtra Fiasco
By Rahil Nora Chopra After losing its three-day government and with the formation of Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government in Maharashtra, the infighting within the state unit of the BJP is at its peak. Eknath Khadse has become the leader of the BJP rebels and has blamed the party for...
CAB Is The Biggest Assault On Indian Constitution
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 11th December, 2019, the Modi 2.0 Government led by the Home Minister, Amit Shah, bulldozed through the Rajya Sabha the single most divisive piece of legislation in the history of independent India, i.e., the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (‘CAB’). It was earlier passed by...
Passing Of CAB Is A Denial Of Democracy
By Krishna Jha Can we deny our heritage? Can we denounce Rahim Khankhana, and Ghalib, and then Hasrat Mohani, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sajjad Zaheer, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and so many who had their own contributions to the nation making in India? Without our plurality, we are left...
Anti-CAB Sentient Gathering Momentum
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party and the party-led Government at the Centre are understandably over the moon. They have every reason to feel elated as they have scored two significant political victories within a week: a creditable victory in the Karnataka assembly by-elections and the...
Modi Govt Needs Easing Present FDI Norms
By Subrata Majumder Dissection of the slow growth of the Indian economy revealed that sagging domestic investment and slump in demand dragged the growth in downtrend. Domestic investors were shy and consumers were hesitant to spend. Growth in construction felt the pinch of wiping of black money and...
Impeachment: It’s Not Just About Trump
By Joe Sims This is truly an extraordinary moment. Now, for only the fourth time in U.S. history, a president faces impeachment. Impeachment is a huge people’s victory. And let’s be clear—it is a victory born of struggle. The American people from many different walks of life...
Agitations Mark First Anniversary Of Kamal Nath Govt
By L.S. Herdenia The completion of one year of Kamal Nath government is being marked by several agitations. They include agitation by farmers, by college and school teachers and an agitation launched by the BJP demanding effective security for women. Farmers all over the state are protesting...
Kashmir Action Faces Tough Supreme Court Challenge
By K Raveendran The noise over Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) has turned public gaze away from the otherwise crucial hearing of the petitions challenging the Presidential orders issued under Article 370 of the Constitution, which revoked the special status of Jammu & Kashmir. The five-member bench comprising...
Bangladesh Closely Following Debate Over Cab
By Ashish Biswas For once, Union Home Minister Mr. Amit Shah’s brief reference in the Lok Sabha to simmering tensions in Assam and the Northeast (NE) over the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) is spot on. Some people in those areas, he reasoned, were genuinely (even if wrongly!) concerned...
BPCL Privatisation Is Going To Be A Major Disaster For Economy
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Modi Government’s decision on the privatisation of the public sector oil company BPCL is going to be a major economic disaster for India making the country poorer by lakhs of crores by handing over this blue chip company to the private sector. Top...
December 12 Poll Is Crucial For Britain’s Future
By Arun Srivastava Britain has not faced a more critical election in decades than the one it faces on Thursday. Though it was envisaged that it would have direct bearing on the issue of Brexit, it is expected to decide and direct the future of Britain and...
Macron Unites all French Workers—Against his Pension “Reforms”
By Dennis Broe PARIS—“Reform” is a word with a varied history. At the beginning of the last century, there were many battles among progressives over whether capitalism as a system could be reformed or whether it needed to be abolished. Sometime in the 1980s, with the rise of...
Law Enforcement Needs To Wake Up To India’s Rape Epidemic
By Kalyani Shankar In William Shakespeare’s famous drama Julius Caesar, Cassius, a nobleman, speaking with his friend, Brutus, confides in the latter that in the best interests of the public, Julius Caesar must be stopped from becoming the monarch of Rome. Cassius tells him “The fault, Dear Brutus,...
Why Fake Encounters, Like Lynchings, Are Popular In India
By Amulya Ganguli As the showering of proverbial petals on the Telangana policemen — who gunned down four, accused of allegedly gang-raping and burning to death a young woman veterinarian in Hyderabad — showed, the summary execution of alleged criminals in circumstances which are outside the legal process...
