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UNDER MODI, CONSTITUTIONAL CHECKS AND BALANCES HAVE ERODED MORE Most commemorate Emergency on June 26 as a reminder of the bleak 21 months when democracy was derailed. Actually, the Emergency came into effect on June 25 at 11:45 pm when…
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INDIA HAS TO FRAME ITS GEO-POLITICAL STRATEGY WITH GREAT CARE Lockdown being gradually lifted across the globe does not signify that the fears of corona virus are over. Yet great powers have become active in asserting to play their role in…
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WITH NO OPPOSITION, THEY HAVE TO FIGHT IT THEMSELVES It is high time the government’s decontrol of petroleum products is challenged in the court. The decontrol, which has its declared intention of leaving the prices to market forces rather…
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INDIAN POLITICIANS OF ALL PARTIES ARE YET TO LEARN FULL LESSONS Our hard experiences teach us lessons. But, India hasn’t learnt its full lesson from the State of emergency clamped by the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi on 25th June…
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BEIJING LEADERSHIP FIRM ON ACHIEVING GOALS BY 2049 Chinese aggression against India it seems is unstoppable. What’s more, this incursions dates back to the 1950s. Long before Mao Zedong categorized China's ties with India as “armed…
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ITS INTRUSION INTO INDIAN BUSINESS IS TOO DEEP AND WIDE China’s fast economic incursion into India looks as portentous as its constant land-grab attempts into Indian territory along the Line of Actual Control. The entire Sino-Indian border…
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INDIA AND CHINA NEED PEACE IN THE REGION FOR SPEEDY DEVELOPMENT Every life lost by the migrant labour in the wake of the lockdown must be considered a martyrdom in the country’s defence against coronavirus. Their numbers must, therefore,…
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CHALLENGE IS TO AVERT TOTAL COLLAPSE AND FOOD INSECURITY The threat to human life from COVID-19 and food insecurity is most likely to put greater challenges before all the countries of the world, especially the least developed and…
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IT NEEDS A MOVEMENT BIGGER THAN FREEDOM STRUGGLE Nationalist elements have called for a ‘boycott China’ movement in the wake of Chinese border incursions in Ladakh. But it is clear that independence from China would take a bigger struggle…
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EXPULSION OF JOSE GROUP IN KC(M) MAY CHANGE EQUATIONS The crisis bedevilling the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) has deepened with the Congress leadership expelling the Jose K Mani-led faction in the Kerala Congress(M). The…
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MORE SAFE HAVEN INVESTMENTS FLOW INTO YELLOW METAL Gold prices hit record highs last week, with 10 gm of the metal costing over Rs 48,000. Prices have since scaled back a little, but continue to be at multi-year highs. Gold is perhaps the…
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AWARENESS CAMPAIGN IS KEY TO THE FIGHT AGAINST PANDEMIC Continuous increase in number of COVID 19 cases in the country is a pointer to its community spread. Even though the ICMR does not agree with this, but several Epidemiologists have…
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PM HAS TO MOVE WITH CAUTION AND LONG TERM STRATEGY The recent escalation of tension between India and China started with two incidents in the border. On May 10, at Naku La in Sikkim, the Chinese troops crossed into what India considers to…
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OPPOSITION PARTIES ARE HANDICAPPED TO CHALLENGE NITISH Three decade old tryst of the RJD with the highly caste sensitive Bihar politics suffered the first ever worst jolt with the founder of the party, former union minister and vice…
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TRADE WAR WILL HURT INDIA, WON’T SOLVE THE BORDER ISSUE Reminiscent to the Swadeshi movement of pre Independence times, India is witnessing a new movement to boycott the Chinese goods. But the character and cultural implication of both the…
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RISING COSTS LOWER DEMAND, GROWTH The nation needs wisdom to stir it out of difficult situation. An economy sinking for months hurt grievously by corona lockdown needs ability to come out of the blues with humane moves to help the…
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“What is this life, if full of care, there is no time to stand and stare ”. What is it that you want from life? This question is variedly answered by most of us, but every answer sums up to one simple word – Happiness. What is a life’s…
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The BJP-led NDA completed one year of its second term on 30 May, with senior party leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda listing the central government's achievements during the period.…
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The People’s revolt engulfing the length and breadth of America should be an eye opener to the oppressive regime the world over. It tells the world about the deepening crisis of Trumpism, which has become the synonym of aggressive…
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CORBYNITES NEED DEEP INTROSPECTION FOR A TURN-AROUND Electoral compulsions and the impulse to keep the rightist forces in good humour have witnessed fundamental transformation of the UK’s Labour Party. The party has decided to divorce the…
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CHINA HAS GOT THE CHANCE OF REDEEMING ITSELF THROUGH PROMPT ACTIONS China and the coronavirus is all about markets. If in Wuhan, it was a ‘wet market’ where the virus got a foothold before taking off to climes across the world, the…
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NEED TO PLUG MANY LOOPHOLES TO MAKE IT INCLUSIVE The Coronavirus pandemic has created an unprecedented situation around the world with states struggling to curb the spread of infection and treat the already infected people. The impact of…
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G-20 MUST TAKE CARE OF PLIGHT OF POOREST 77 There is a massive problem of external debt building up for the third world, of which the recent Argentine debt crisis was only one manifestation. At the root of the problem is the collapse of…
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EXPERTS, NOT BUREAUCRATS, MUST LEAD THE BATTLE As per predictions by the experts, India is in for peak in the COVID-19. The rate of increase of new cases has already started showing up. We stand at 4th position in the world as far as…
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PREPARATIONS START FOR LONG STRUGGLES TO PROTECT LABOUR RIGHTS The central trade unions of the country in a joint statement has asked all its members as also the workers of all industries, to observe protest day on July 3 to focus on the…
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