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By Kalyani Shankar The Grand Old Congress Party faces criticism from its INDIA coalition partners for mishandling the recent Haryana Assembly polls, allowing the BJP to win for a third time despite ten years of anti-incumbency. Most exit polls had predicted a clear win for the Congress, but the...
Labour Supply Not Likely To Meet The Demand Of Green Jobs
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World economy is in transition, so the world of work. The transition to a sustainable and green economy requires workers to move out of carbon intensive jobs to green jobs. Since green jobs are associated with wage premium – 7 per cent premium for men...
The Curious Case Of Wannabe Assassin Of Donald Trump Vem Miller
By Sushil Kutty Man arrested near a Donald Trump rally had two guns and fake passports. Vem Miller, 49, told police he wasn’t out to harm Trump. The suspected wannabe assassin was on his way to a Trump rally in Coachella, California, a state which would rather vote for...
Bhagwat’s Dussehra Address Incites RSS To Act Against Mamata Govt In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat taking out time to condemn the sordid incident of rape and murder of a woman medic, after two months of its happening, exposes his hypocrisy. What is also inexplicable is he had taken more than a year to speak on Manipur genocide...
New Realignment Of Caste Forces Was Evident In Haryana Assembly Polls
By Harihar Swarup Haryana has delivered a historic verdict. Never before has any party come to power for three consecutive terms. Everyone, from ground reports to exit polls, predicted a massive majority for the Congress. How did the BJP managed to pull off such an impressive victory? It might...
Cheap Russian Oil Supplies Helping India To Avert Oil Price Rise Shock
By Subrata Majumder World is engulfed by oil conundrum. OPEC is no more in hegemony to stir oil shock. The global political conflicts and bi-polarization led the world oil price shock slipped from the Arab clutches. With the breakdown of Israel-Iran war, threats loomed large on oil price hike....
Israel-Iran Confrontation May Widen The War Theatre In West Asia
By Asad Mirza Just a week before the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Israel was rattled by a barrage of missiles fired by Iran. This came in retaliation of the Israeli assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and a key ally of...
ASEAN Summit Calls For Peace Talks To End Hostilities In Myanmar
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav At the recently concluded annual ASEAN Summit, member nations called for “an immediate cessation” of violence and the creation of “a conducive environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and inclusive national dialogue.” The conflict between Myanmar’s military government and armed rebel groups, whose size...
NATO Begins Its Two Week Nuclear War Exercises In North Sea On October 14
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: Peace campaigners have slammed NATO’s dangerous nuclear war games which began on October 14 in the North Sea. Dubbed Steadfast Noon, the exercise will run for two weeks. Led by Belgium and the Netherlands, it uses eight military bases and will involve 2,000 personnel and...
Shunned By Biden Administration, Awami League Lobbying With Donald Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. Presidential elections on November 5 have assumed unusual significance in the shaping up of the future of Bangladesh which is presently ruled by an interim government headed by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. In the last two weeks, hectic activities were on in...
Mahayuti Takes OBC Politics In Maharashtra To A New Level
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a countermove to INDIA bloc’s caste census promise, the ruling Mahayuti in Maharashtra taking clue form BJP’s gain in Haryana has decided to take the OBC politics in the state to a new level on the eve of Vidhan Sabha elections likely to be...
Ratan Tata Led From The Front To Make Tata Brand Global
By Anjan Roy When Ratan Tata bought the sick and besieged Jaguar Land Rover —iconically JLR— the company had fished out the voucher for the purchase of a Jaguar car by his father, Naval Tata, in 1923. European automobile industry bigwigs had then expressed their doubts about an Indian...
Akhilesh Yadav Reminds Nitish Kumar Of Ideals Of Five Decades Old JP Movement
By Sushil Kutty People living outside Uttar Pradesh did not know that Jayaprakash Narayan, who countered Indira Gandhi’s authoritarian streak with mass appeal, has a place in Lucknow to remember him by – the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC). But it remains an incomplete monument and certain shades of...
Andhra CM Naidu Follows Rahul Gandhi’s Suit, Bats For Caste Census
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is advocating for a nationwide caste census to address the exclusion of approximately 90 per cent of the population from the system. He argues that this census is essential for effective policymaking, as it will...
Just Not Congress, Other India Partners Also Have To Take Lessons From Haryana Results
By Arun Srivastava Constituents of INDIA bloc flexing muscles after Congress’ Haryana defeat and blaming it for the audacity to contest solo, has not come as a surprise. Indian politicians, irrespective of their party affiliations, are known for resorting to this practice to prove their indispensability and reiterate the...
Split In Bolivia’s Ruling Socialist Movement Enthuses Right Wingers In Latin America
By W. T. Whitney Jr. NEW YORK: Beginning on September 17, marchers proceeded north for 118 miles from Caracollo in Oruro department to La Paz, Bolivia’s capital city, arriving there on September . 24. Numbering from 5,000 to 15,000 – estimates vary – they were supporting former President Evo...
Results of Two Assembly Polls Underline Need For Consistent Fight By INDIA Bloc Against BJP
By P. Sudhir The results of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections are of great significance. The victory of the National Conference-led alliance, winning 49 of the 90 seats, is a strong verdict against the Modi government and the BJP’s authoritarian steps to dismantle the state of J&K and...
Its Shocking, 10 Per Cent Children Aged 6-10 Are Out Of School In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It may be shocking to know that about 10 per cent of children in India aged 6-10 are out of schools, and out of pocket health expenditure of Indian rural households are just unaffordable to them since they need to spend Rs 4,129 yearly on...
