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By Subrata Majumder India’s GDP growth continues to slid and plunged to six yeas’ low at 4.5 percent in the second quarter of 2019-20. Policy makers hoped for an upturn in the third quarter, but the investors keep their fingers crossed. Indeed, the fall in growth deciphers...
Doctors And Patients Must Have A Collaborative Relationship
By Dr. Arun Mitra In the past few years there has been increase in incidents of violence against the doctors, some of them of very serious nature in which doctors have been seriously injured. Unfortunately most of the times it is the young doctors, who are at...
Real Estate Must Get A Mega Boost To Fight Slowdown
By Anjan Roy For many many years, India’s economic paradigm used to be defined win the political articulation of popular demand: “roti, kapda aur makan” In the last three decades, we seem to have graduated from our list of demands. By and large the overall demand food and...
Bhopal Gas Disaster Victims Observe December 4
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: With tears in eyes, shouting slogans against central and state government and Union Carbide thousands of gas victims marched on the streets of Bhopal, formed human chain and attended public meetings organised by various NGOs on December 4 commemorating Bhopal Gas disaster on the...
Congress Reorganisation Snagged On Groupism
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Mullappally Ramachandran succeed where former PCC chief V M Sudheeraan failed? That is the question agitating the minds of lakhs of Con gress activists in Kerala. The question has acquired added resonance in the backdrop of...
Modi Govt Has No Policy To Rejuvenate Public Sector
By Nitya Chakraborty The Modi Government in its second term is set to follow a policy on public sector under which there will be no special efforts to rejuvenate the loss making units which have potential but due to extraneous factors, are ailing. At the same time,...
With Bhima Koregaon Decision, Uddhav Makes A Grand Start
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Maharashtra Government headed by Uddhav Thackeray has started well with a human rights face by agreeing to consider the withdrawal of cases against the activists who were implicated in the famous Bhima Koregaon case by the state police under the earlier regime of...
Stage Set For Withdrawal Of Cases Against Bhima Koregaon Activists
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 28th November, 2019, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (‘MVA’), a post-poll coalition between Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party, and Indian National Congress formed the government in Maharashtra under the aegis of Uddhav Thackeray, after almost a month long drama. It was difficult to envisage that...
A Tale Of Two Manifestos In Britain’s Elections
By Stephen Low The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) has published their manifesto. Its 50 pages paint a picture of a party stuck in the past and concerned more with changing flags than changing lives. The contrast with the forward-looking radicalism of Scottish Labour’s manifesto couldn’t be clearer. Indeed...
NDA Allies Are Uneasy With BJP Power Right Now
By Kalyani Shankar All is not well with the BJP allies, as there are murmurs from the alliance partners more so after the Sena quit the NDA recently. But the BJP is not worried as it has absolute majority in the Lok Sabha though Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
BJP’s Period Of Expansion Is Not Over Yet
By Sagarneel Sinha Ever since the installation of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government in Maharashtra, there have been discussions on BJP’s shrinking political dominance in the country compared to last year — when the BJP and its allies ruled states peaked to 21. Presently, it has dipped to...
Only A Labour Government Can Change Britain’s Future
By Ben Chako This is no ordinary election. Lying and deceit may be common to all elections but this campaign takes the biscuit. Facebook has banned a Conservative advert for containing misleading clips from the BBC. Google has banned no fewer than eight Tory ads for breaking its...
Few New Jobs, Rising Redundancy
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be time to track job losses in the country alongside the routine study of job growth. The government may disagree, the country’s job scene looks truly dismal, if not alarming. This is partly because of the dwindling economic growth and recessionary pressure on...
BJP Will Be Wary Of The Shiv Sena
By Amulya Ganguli Of all the BJP’s opponents, the party of which the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo will be extremely watchful is the Shiv Sena. The reason is that the Sena can be uncommonly sharp in its criticism, a trait it has acquired through its years as a...
Gotabaya Has Given Reassuring Signals To India
By Barun Das Gupta Perhaps the most significant of Sri Lanka’s new president Gotayaba Rajapaksa’s New Delhi visit was that as a man who has never concealed his Sinophilia, he made New Delhi, rather than Beijing, to be his first port of call. On assuming presidency, he...
Opposition Against PSU Disinvesment Is Now All-Pervasive
By Satyaki Chakraborty The opposition against the Narendra Modi Government’s decision to sell stakes in the five leading public sector companies including BPCL and the privatisation of Air India, has become all pervasive with the RSS think tank firing its salvo at the disinvestment policy and also the...
Johnson’s Election Campaigning Ignores Ethical Norms
By Arun Srivastava Rightist forces led by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson are resorting to all the mischievous intrigues having at their command to ensure the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn the Labour Party at the December 12 general election. From launching the disinformation campaign against Corbyn...
Maharashtra’s Pawar-Play Has Sent BJP Top Brass Reeling
By Harihar Swarup Politics is a weird game; yesterday’s enemies are today’s allies. Nobody thought the Congress and Shiv Sena will come on the same platform. One can give some margin to NCP; the Congress-NCP have been in alliance for so long. The BJP and Shiv Sena...
