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By Robert Griffiths What forces shape today’s world and why? How can they be harnessed and directed in the interests of the people and our planet? In 2017, the majority of the world’s 150 biggest economic entities were giant capitalist corporations. The largest 25 were countries,...
BJP Braces Up For A New Caste Game In Uttar Pradesh
By Rahil Nora Chopra As the BJP faces a formidable challenge in Uttar Pradesh in 2019 due to the Samajwadi Party-BSP tie-up, political observers are watching keenly what counter move BJP president Amit Shah has up his sleeve. As a first step the party is seen likely...
Modi Fails To Make Wave In Karnataka Campaign
By Arun Srivastava The Karnataka BJP leaders have pinned their hopes on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ensure defeat of the Congress. But the speeches of Modi have not enthused them much. Though they love his taunts and acerbic comments about Rahul, in private they question whether it...
BJP, Oppositon Parties Brace For Up By-Elections
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Enthused by the success in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, opposition parties are working on a formula to field joint candidates against BJP in Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpor Assembly by-elections due on May 28. The by-elections have been necessitated by the death of Hukum Singh...
Job Record Will Decide Whether Modi Can Retain Power
By Aditya Aamir For quite a while, Arvind Panagariya was deputy chairman of Niti Aayog. That was his ‘job’. Then, he quit this job and moved on. That is what happens. Most people with jobs are always looking for another job. Call it the ‘restlessness of the job...
Parcel The ‘Hero’ Off To Wagah Border
By Sushil Kutty Young Indian men are squabbling outside the Aligarh Muslim University campus over a portrait of Mohammad Ali Jinnah on the wall of the AMU Students’ Union office. It has so far not become one ‘helluva fight’. But it will if the portrait, removed from the...
On Jey’s Day, Jigna Walks Free
By Sushil Kutty Finally, the day came for journalist Jey Dey to get justice. Mafia don and Dawood eyesore Chhota ‘Chindi’ Rajan got convicted along with 9 others while another journalist, alleged femme fatale and jealous professional Jigna Vora walked free. She was out on bail, so that...
Sharad Launching Bihar Party With National Agenda
By Arun Srivastava Rebel JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav may not be a native of Bihar, but the state’s political relevance at the national level and the ability to provide a new political alternative has made him wager for the state. Sharad is conscious of the fact any political...
Is ameliorating India’s farmers’ plight a mirage?
By G. Srinivasan With the domestic peasant community having been bitten not only because of natural aberrations such as the twin back-to-back droughts following the ascension of the NDA government in 2014 and the policy-induced follies that neglected corrective actions when the chips were down, the run-up to...
Farm Crisis: Solution Lies In Raising Farm Income
By K R Sudhaman Even though agriculture accounted for only 15 per cent of GDP, it can make or shatter Indian economy as nearly half of the 1.3 billion population depend on farming. If Indian economy has to clock a double digit growth on a sustained basis, the...
Biplab Deb Insulting Diana Hayden No Surprise
By Amulya Ganguli The belief that Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb mocked Miss World 1997, Diana Hayden, because of her brown skin – “Even Diana Hayden got it (the crown). See, everyone is laughing!” – isn’t quite right. Perhaps this idea gained ground because of...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
Fresh petitions filed challenging Section 377, IPC – The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Union Government on a petition filed by Keshav Suri, Executive Director of Lalit Hotels, seeking to quash Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (‘IPC’),which criminalises sexual acts between men. The Court...
Time Has Come To Rediscover Karl Marx
By O.P. Sabherwal The 125th death anniversary of Karl Marx is at hand, recalling the words of Frederick Engels, “The greatest living thinker (has) ceased to think”. The critics may go wild, but the BBC forum listing the ‘greatest of the millennium’ at the turn of the century,...
Big Boost To Formation Of Broad Anti-Bjp Front
By P. Sreekumaran A firm resolve to forge a broad front of left, secular and democratic forces to take on the fascist forces led by the BJP-RSS combine; a concerted effort to strengthen the party’s organizational muscle and a welcome move to induct a younger brand of leadership...
Who’s may day is it: kaamdar or naamdar?
Sushil Kutty Lots have happened in the last two days. Major Rohit Shukla neutralized terrorist ‘Tiger Sameer’ in the Kashmir Valley. Lalu Prasad Yadav fled an AIIMS ward to his Ranchi cell. Google put a google-doodle to mark international workers day. And Prime Minister Narendra Modi took on...
India Doing Well In Industrial Production
By Nantoo Banerjee It feels good to note the Union Law and IT Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad’s recent tweet on India’s praise-worthy progress in industrial production. The country has emerged as one of the world’s top producers of steel, mobile phones, electricity and automobile. It mentioned that India...
Spureme Court’s Independence Faces Severe Threat
By Amritananda Chakravorty Last week the ongoing tussle between the Supreme Court and the Central Government over the appointment of judges took a particularly acrimonious turn, when the Centre on April 26, returned the name of Justice K.M. Joseph, Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand High Court, to the...
Psychology Of Crime In India Changing Fast
By Gyan Pathak Psychology of crime in India has been changing at a very fast pace outsmarting our overall crime control strategy. The strategy we adopt always becomes outdated in the changed situations in the society. The government and its agencies responsible to control crime tend to stick...
