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By John Haylett Israel’s next general election isn’t due until November 2019, but an early poll is virtually certain given the outbreak of now traditional mutually antagonistic willy-waving engaged in by would-be prime ministers in Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition. No election is complete without party leaders accusing each...
Democrats With House Majority Can Take Pro-People Steps
By Sam Pizzigati Tony Maxwell, a retired African-American naval officer, was trying — without much success — to get his Jacksonville, Fla., neighbor to go with him to the mid-term election polls and vote. The young neighbor, a high-school dropout, had no interest in taking the ride. “Voting,”...
Why should waving of black flags be a crime?
By K. Raveendran It defies all logic that in a country where burning an effigy of a political leader or official does not constitute a criminal offence, a simple protest by waving black flags leads to arrest and incarceration. Waving black flags is probably the most innocuous...
Raw Deal For Workers Under Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code
By B. Sivaraman 2280 workers of Moser Baer in Noida were left in the lurch in October after the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) initiated liquidation procedure against the company. Though the company has not declared official closure, the workers are jobless as the company is not running...
Assembly Elections Trends Quite Omimous For BJP
By Harihar Swarup What does about 72 per cent polling in Chhattisgarh indicate? This includes Maoist-infested areas. High percentage of voting is generally considered anti-establishment. Of other two Hindi speaking states—Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh—BJP’s chances seem to be better in Chhattisgarh. But at the end of polling, it...
The Naked North Sentinel Truth
By Aditya Aamir In all honesty, the Government of India should erect a Statue of John Allen Chau, taller than the Statue of Unity, a 1,000 meters out at sea from the North Sentinel Island shore to warn people to stay off the island where Chau took Jesus...
Rationalisation Of Drug Prices For Affordable Healthcare
By Dr. Arun Mitra Political parties make several promises during the elections, but healthcare has always been on the back seat. This is, even though, large amount of budget of the household goes towards healthcare. Whereas poverty is a cause of poor health, healthcare expenditure itself leads to...
Maratha Reservation Has To Face Judicial Scrutiny
By Ramachandra Kango As the agrarian crisis intensifies, unemployment keeps growing and education, with privatization, goes out of the limits of common masses, there are communities that were once dominant in agriculture and in politics due to their numerical strength, have been engaged in agitation demanding “Reservation”. ...
AITUC Preparing For Centenary Celebrations
By Sukumar Damle The AITUC was formed in 1920 in erstwhile Bombay during the British Raj. Prior to that the First World War had ended (1914-18) and the Indian working class had gathered some experience of united action (six days hartal for six years imprisonment of Tilak in...
Problems Of MSMEs Adversely Affect Job Creation
By K R Sudhaman BJP ideologue S Gurumurthi, a stout defender of demonetisation, has described this widely criticized move by economists as necessary to resurrect the economy from the brink of collapse but admitted that the MSME sector that accounted for 85 per cent of jobs in...
Shah With The Cheshire Cat’s Luck
By Sushil Kutty Nayamuddin Sheikh had something “new” to offer to the CBI Court to nail BJP president Amit Shah to the fake encounter that killed bro Sohrabuddin Sheikh. Youngest of the Sheikh Brothers, Nayamuddin failed to deliver, turning hostile in court. Another brother Shahnawazuddin Sheikh too stood...
Both Congress And BJP Showing Confidence Towards Their Victory In State Polls
By Raju Kumar Only a few days left for the Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. The main battle in Madhya Pradesh is between BJP and Congress, however, BSP, SP and Aam Aadmi Party also hopeful that this time they will also be successful to register their presence in the...
CPI-CPI(M) State Units Hold Joint Jathas In Punjab
By Gurnam Kanwar CHANDIGARH: To awaken and mobilise the people against the real danger to indian democracy; secular fabric, composite culture, constitution and constitutional institutions like judiciary, election commission, even the RBI, the Punjab units of CPI and CPI(M) have organised Joint Jatha March in almost all the...
If there can be two Punjabs why not two Banglas?
By Rahil Nora Chopra Politics these days is dominated by name changes. Names of cities, stations, roads etc are being changed almost on a daily basis. But Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has had a dismal record in this respect. She has made three attempts in the...
Congress Battling Hard To Retain Mizoram
By Sagarneel Sinha Mizoram, with one of the highest literacy rates in the country, goes to polls on November 28. The state, which has a legislature comprising of 40 seats, is the last surviving bastion of the Congress party in the north-eastern region. The party is in power...
Bangladesh Elections May Witness Bloody Campaigns
By Barun Das Gupta General elections in Bangladesh will be held on December 30. The opposition had boycotted the last elections in 2014, only to regret it later. The ruling Awami League, won 127 out of 154 seats uncontested and scored a cake-walk victory. This time the opposition...
BSP, SP Blame Congress For Missing Great Opportunity
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Congress is facing a three-pronged attack: besides BJP, both Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party have also mounted severe criticism of the Congress. Both the parties have accused Congress of nearly betraying the anti-BJP voters determined to end the 15 year saffron rule of...
Kashmir To Kerala, BJP Left Guessing
By Aditya Aamir Now that chaos extends from Punjab to Kerala, tweaking it in Jammu & Kashmir had, it seems, become a political necessity for the Bharaitya Janata Party, the world’s largest political organization by membership. But what good that distinction when the BJP cannot run a government...
