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By Ashis Biswas India urgently needs to work out new agreements with China and Bhutan to save its Northeast region from floods, land erosion and ecological destruction. Policymakers and economists in Assam feel this more strongly than ever, especially after experiencing the most recent spate of devastating floods....
Kanti Lal Bhuria Getting Support For State Congress Presidentship
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Jhabua Vidhan Sabha by poll is causing serious repercussions in both the BJP and Congress. While in the BJP series of dissenting voices are being raised while analysing causes of defeat, in Congress whispers are being heard about the likely changes because of...
Has a Recalcitrant Rahul Gandhi Shot himself in the Foot?
By Amulya Ganguli Quite unexpectedly, Rahul Gandhi has shown that he cannot be taken seriously. His mournful silence at a time when the Congress has shown faint signs of revival in the Maharashtra and Haryana assembly elections is one of the most curious political events of recent years....
Kerala BJP Chief ‘Banished’ To Mizoram As Governor
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The poor performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the five assembly by-elections held in the State has taken a heavy toll on the party. The first casualty has been the party president himself. P S Sreedharan Pillai has been sent...
Maharashtra, Haryana Verdicts Show Limits Of Bjp’s Saffron Stratagem
By Harihar Swarup What is the most significant message of the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly election to the BJP? The message is this: the ongoing economic slowdown is finally starting to show up as a non-trivial electoral determination. BJP’s Haryana performance can be explained by a re-consolidation of...
People Assume Role Of Failed Opposition
By K. Raveendran The assembly election results carry two kinds of messages: one for the incumbent BJP governments in the states that people’s patience is wearing thin; more importantly, there is a national message, which has implications for both the ruling parties as well as the opposition at...
On Celebrating Hundred Years Of AITUC
By Amarjeet Kaur All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), the first Central Trade Union of India founded on October 31, 1920, in Mumbai with unions of various sectors from all over the country is entering into its centenary year on October 31, 2019. The year-long centenary celebrations...
Sangh Parivar Distorting Definition Of Nationhood
By D. Raja With arrogance of power and Machiavellin politics, the RSS-BJP combine is trying to appropriate, nay to misappropriate, India’s glorious past. The latest in this regard is the call for Bharat Ratna for Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The Maharashtra BJP incorporated the demand as part of...
For Labour Party, An Early Election Is Imperative
By Ben Chako The EU’s decision to hold off on a decision on an Article 50 extension until it sees whether British Parliament will vote for a general election in December will prompt a wave of eye-rolling throughout Britain. MPs have had three years to implement the outcome...
Ease Of Doing Business Rank Of India Is Deceptive
By Gyan Pathak India’s moving up 14 places to be ranked 63rd among 190 nations in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2020 report, fails to give a clear picture of the situation prevailing in the country, since the two most important areas among 12 are not included in...
BJP Has To Focus More On Urgent Economic Issues
By Sagarneel Sinha Although the BJP is going to form the government again both in Haryana and Maharashtra, the voters have given a strong message to the saffron party. The message is — to give more time to other important issues like the dwindling of country’s economy, rising...
Strong Anti-Poverty Programmes Can Only End Hunger
By Dr. Arun Mitra That with a Global Hunger Index (GHI) score 30.3, India is at 102 among 117 countries is a matter of serious concern. We are lowest among the South Asian countries. The countries which fall below us are Sierra Leone, Uganda, Djibouti, Congo Rep., Sudan,...
BJP’s ‘Congress-Mukt Bharat’ Programme Gets A Jolt
By Arun Srivastava The Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be appreciated for putting a brave face and refusing to concede the fact that the BJP has suffered electoral defeat in the states of Maharashtra and Haryana. This stance of Modi has wider implication. Acceptance of defeat would not...
By-Election Results: Lessons To Learn For All Fronts
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of the five assembly by-elections represents a spectacular victory for the secular ethos of Kerala’s polity. Politics of communalism and casteism has no place in the State, which has set an example which other States will do well to emulate. This...
Kamal Nath Gets A Big Boost After Jhabua By-Poll Win
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Result of Jhabua by-election has not only given stability to the Kamal Nath government but has also boosted the morale of the Congress. Almost all the newspapers have commented that it was the biggest Congress victory in the history of the state. The winning...
BJP Weakened In Maharashtra, Shiv Sena Is King-Maker
By Rahil Nora Chopra In Maharashtra, the Assembly election result reflects the BJP falling short of the halfway-mark on its own, with Uddhav Thackeray, the chief of its ally Shiv Sena, saying it was time to implement a fifty-fifty formula for power sharing as decided on earlier. The...
Citizenship Issue Takes Bizarre Turn In Assam
By Krishna Jha Assistant professor at Agartala Government Medical College, Kaushik Chakraborty (39), was placed under suspension on October 21, 2019, under the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules, 1965. He was charged with “objectionable remarks against the CAB” on social media, “which will definitely create...
Days Of BJP’s Surging Success Are Over
By Amulya Ganguli It may be too early to say that the latest election outcome indicates that the tide is turning, but there is little doubt that the days of the BJP’s surging success are over. That the setbacks which the party has suffered in Maharashtra in...
