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By Arun Srivastava Like his illustrious leader, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh is also a brainy politician and can dare to come out with any statement. Taking a leaf out of his past experience, he described the two-day-old farmer agitation a publicity stunt. According to him, the...
India Emerges As World’s Top Deal-Street Performer
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s business houses and entrepreneurs are going all out to acquire companies across the world, thanks to the support from the government, RBI and banks. The global deal-street now seriously takes note of Indian bids and transactions. India’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in...
Bat-Like, Nipah Turns Kozhikode Upside Down
Aditya Aamir In Nipah-spooked Kozhikode and Malappuram districts of Kerala, the state has asked for desperate measures to handle an expected second wave of infections. Already 17 of the 20 ‘Nipah infected’, who were hospitalised, are dead. That is a kill-rate of over 89 percent, much more than...
Foolhardiness or living in a fool’s paradise?
K Raveendran Apparently it has taken nothing less than a BJP rout in the latest round of by-elections for the petroleum ministry to realise that the petrol and diesel price situation in the country was untenable. On the day the results were announced Oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan is reported...
CAATSA A Recipe For Disaster To India’s Security Concerns
K R Sudhaman CAATSA (Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act), a new law in the U.S armoury, if implemented by Trump Administration, could have disastrous consequences to India’s security. The law provides for sanctions against India’s arms purchase from its traditional ally Russia. It is, however, a double-edged...
Government’s Silence On Drug Prices Intriguing
Dr Arun Mitra The Delhi government’s proposed regulations to cap the profit margin on several medicines and consumables at 50 percent from their procurement price is a welcome step. A committee on high trade margins on sale of drugs was formed by the government of India under...
Report Card: Four Years Of Modi Government
Harihar Swarup Modi government has completely four years in office and next year—May 2019—it will go to poll. Various ministries have come out with four years of achievements. Naturally, they have painted a rosy picture of the work done. Among the ministers, who listed their achievement, the account...
‘Farrago’ under the ‘cendre’ with ‘ankyloglossia-cured’
Sushil Kutty The “condottiere” of India’s Opposition parties are being hailed post latest bypolls. These leaders of a brand of mercenaries are under a “cendre’ right now and their supporters seem to be cured of “ankyloglossia”. Hey! What’s all that? The answer to that is these three words...
Much More Than Ani-Incumbency Behind BJP Rout
By Arun Srivastava Attributing the defeat of the BJP in the by-elections to the anti-incumbency factor is nothing but a move to protect the party and Narendra Modi from further alienation and sullying. Anti-incumbency has always been a factor in deciding the fate of the ruling party,...
Iraq Elections Results Give Big Jolt To Trump
By David Bacon The U.S. media quickly dismissed the results of Iraq’s national elections on May 12. Journalists were puzzled by what the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr and the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) might have in common, and even more, by why they garnered more Iraqi votes than...
Marxist Scholars Are Giving Big Focus On Environment
IT’S true that much of Karl Marx’s own work was to do with economics. And class is central to a Marxist understanding of history. Much of Marx and Friedrich Engels’s writing was concerned with examining the inherently exploitative and dynamic nature of capitalism, seen as underlying the struggle between...
Tough Challenge Ahead For A Cornered BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The victory of RLD in Kairana Lok Sabha seat and SP in Noorpur assembly seat sets the tone for 2019 Lok Sabha polls for the Opposition parties to pull together. The UP verdict is a clear indication of the shape of things to come...
India Is Top Sacrificer For Peace Around The World
By Gyan Pathak India’s contribution in peacekeeping around the world has been recognized and applauded once again during the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers for laying down highest number of lives since 1948. A total of 163 military, police, and civilian personnel from the country laid down...
Nobody In BJP Makes The 1 Paisa Cut
Sushil Kutty Looks like come mid-2019 Modi will be out on the mat, memories of Jakarta 2018 fading. The one-time Prime Minister will then remember his many foreign trips and the diaspora will sing a hosanna with tears in their eyes. Madison Square Garden will continue to host...
Global Meet In Patna To Debate Marxian Thought
By Sankar Ray The broadest-ever international conference in India on Karl Marx – ‘’Karl Marx-Life, Ideas and Influence: A Critical Examination on the Bicentenary’ (16-20 June, 2018) under the aegis of the Asian Development Research Institute will take place in Patna, the capital of one of India’s most...
Naidu Thumbs-Up For Third Front
By Rahil Nora Chopra Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has revealed his card for the 2019 elections: his TDP will not align either with Congress or the BJP. According to him, 2019 will see the emergence of a winning coalition of regional parties and TDP will...
Why Farm Waivers Won’t Work
Nilanjan Banik On the eve of Karnataka election, waiver of farm loans was one of the major election promises. Now, Chief Minister H.D.Kumaraswamy wants to fulfill his pre-poll promise and has even threatened to resign if he cannot fulfill his promise. As has been seen time and time...
By-Poll Results Give Big Boost To Opposition Unity
By Amulya Ganguli The writing is on the wall. It is now obvious that a united opposition can defeat the BJP. As much is clear from the Kairana and Noorpur by-election results which are a continuation of the anti-BJP trends noted earlier in Gorakhpur and Phulpur. These...
