By Gyan Pathak Majority of Indian kitchens do not have access to clean cooking energy. We have been worst in the world, and are still so. There are many programmes to trumpet, but government fails to provide a full clean energy security cover to over half of...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: There is virtual no opposition to Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh. There is complete demoralisation in the rank and file of main opposition parties following near surrender by top leadership. Yogi Adityanath has completed more than half of his term in the...
By Harihar Swarup The upcoming by-elections assume special significance given the record number of 51 seats assembly seats across 16 states and one union territory going to polls around the same time. In Uttar Pradesh, chief minister, Yogi Adityanath-led BJP is aiming to snatch Rampur and Jalalpur...
By Conn Hallinan and Max Elbaum When Leon Wofsy died at age 97 on August 25 this year, progressive movements throughout the United States lost a champion. Leon accomplished many things in his long life. He was an innovative scientist, and a fine writer and teacher, but above...
By Al Neal British Prime Minister Boris Johnson offered the European Union a proposed “best and final offer” Brexit deal Wednesday, saying it encapsulates a real compromise for both sides and urged EU leaders to hold “rapid negotiations towards a solution” after years of squabbling. The U.K....
New Delhi: India can address its concerns over China’s growing hypersonic missile arsenal by seeking cooperation with Russia in developing similar missiles through the bilateral BrahMos cruise missile programme, a security analyst has said. As India and Russia’s most productive and beneficial joint venture defence programme, the Brahmos...
By Amritananda Chakravorty On 3rd October, 2019, the newly elevated Justice Ravindra Bhat became the fifth judge in the Supreme Court to recuse himself from hearing the appeal by Gautam Navlakha, a human rights activist, who has been implicated in the Bhima Koregaon case. Before Justice Bhat,...
Major decisions – SC Constitution Bench adjourns hearing on Article 370 for Centre’s reply – On 1 October 2019, the Supreme Court Constitution Bench adjourned hearing of the petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the repeal of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status and its reorganisation till 14 November...
By Subrata Majumder Majority of industry associations, entrepreneurs and trade analysts rang alarm bell for India in joining RCEP – a new and the largest trade block consisting of ASEAN -10 and 6 countries. Before, India had several FTAs. But, none of them yielded any trade benefit. Instead,...
By Anjan Roy While until now, the Reserve Bank has maintained a more nuanced view of the current slow-down and tended to attribute it to cyclical factors, the fine print of RBI’s policy statement on Friday betray its concerns about the future. The Reserve Bank’s monetary...