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WHAT THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS IS TELLING US ABOUT OURSELVES Recently, Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu stated: “Between the consideration of health of the people and stabilisation of our economy being debated, the former shall take precedence…
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ASSAULTING HEALTH WORKERS NOW BETRAYS WORST OF HUMAN NATURE The cry of the peacock, birdsongs at dusk and dawn song— these are the sounds one now hears in the part of Noida where I live. Until a few weeks ago, the only noise that…
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GOVERNMENT’S HEALTH INSURANCE PACKAGE IGNORES EMERGENCY NEEDS The plight of almost 40 crore of workers, based on a very miserly estimate, out of 54 crores of workers with almost 90 per cent of them in the unorganised sector as of now in…
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WITHOUT SOCIAL CONTACT, EMOTIONAL ANXIETY TO SHOOT UP The fear of the unknown is most terrifying. It turns more acute when one is not sure what lies ahead and is not in the position to comprehend how many ways one should try to perceive an…
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DHARAVI’S CORONA CRISIS HAS BRITISH MEDIA GOING BONKERS The Dharavi father knows his children’s Lakshman Rekha. A rope strung across the entrance to his canvas and tin shanty in Asia’s largest slum. His children stand behind the rope. The…
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LEFT MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT OUTLINE PLAN BRUSSELS, Belgium: A Europe-wide coalition of left and progressive members of the European Parliament has outlined a wide-ranging plan to help the continent’s workers cope with the…
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ECONOMY IS BRUISED BUT NOT PANICKED YET Notwithstanding poor demand and production cutback across industry, contributions worth millions of dollars from business establishments are pouring in to government and non government charities ever…
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COMMERCIAL HUB OF MADHYA PRADESH TO BE UNDER STRICT CURFEW Indore, the commercial hub of Madhya Pradesh, not only happens to be the worst affected town of the state, but also among the few worst affect cities of the country. From Monday…
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MODI’S ATTEMPT TO GAG CORONA DATA OFFSET BY SUPREME COURT At a time when the international media has been unfailingly scrutinising the role of their respective governments in fighting the dreaded coronavirus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
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PANDEMIC HAS EXPOSED CAPITALISM’S STRUCTURAL FAULTS The lockdown has completed a week and has two more weeks to go. By that time one hopes the lakshman rekha will be wiped off by Modi, who gloomily declared the lockdown and before on 19…
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11 M. TO GET IMPOVERISHED, RECOVERY NEEDS 10 PC OF WORLD GDP The world is slipping into a crisis for the lockdown, World Bank (WB) and the UN say. About 11 million people would be in severe poverty, WB says. The UN says it requires 10…
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RELIGION CAN GUIDE PEOPLE TO DO THE RIGHT THING What is the impact of coronavirus on religion? As the well-known German philosopher and economist Karl Marx said, religion is the “opium of the people.” For believers, world over it provides…
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NATIONALISE ALL PRIVATE BANKS: DON’T PLAY WITH PEOPLE’S MONEY We are seeing one by one the private banks are taking people's money and mismanaging it.In the last 30 years, 30 private banks have collapsed. Hence the All India Bank Employees…
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SEA CHANGE LIKELY IN GLOBAL FINANCE, HOME PRODUCTION TO SUSTAIN INDIA An unknown disease, corona, has put the world in lockdown. India is competing with others to force its people at home. Where it fails, the cop becomes the bad boy. No…
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ON TRUMP’S ‘ART OF DEAL’, AND MODI’S ‘BANG YOUR POTS It is only in America that presidents get routinely pulled up for real and imaginary breach. Take Trump, for instance. He made the mistake of telling somebody in media, “We’re not a…
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MODI AIMS TO SECURE A THIRD TERM SELLING HIS CORONA WARRIOR IMAGE US President Donald Trump has promised to sign on a $2 trillion economic relief package for the US coronavirus hit. Americans are not very sure if the relief will reach…
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RECENT TERRORIST ATTACKS IN KABUL SHOW PEACE OPTIMISM IS PREMATURE AThe post-peace optimism halts before a politically nebulous terrains in the landlocked Afghanistan is multi-horned. And the manifestation is symbolic as well as…
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CENTRE’S BELATED STEPS MUST INCLUDE HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH Like many parts of the world our country too is grappling to prevent spread of Covid -19 to the third stage. This is a precarious situation wherein every step has to be taken…
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A CLEAR CASE OF ARUN JAITLEY’S CLASS IC EXPOSITION Some of former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi’s judgments, particularly towards the latter part of his tenure, had raised eyebrows as they were seen by many as suffering faults in…
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KERALA-KARNATAKA ROW OVER LORRY MOVEMENT The first death due to Covid-19 in Kerala has been reported on Saturday. The unfortunate victim is a 69-year-old man belonging to Chullickal in Ernakulam district. The man, a heart patient,…
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DEFEAT RUMOURS, ACT FIRMLY FOR SAVING PEOPLE AND ECONOMY Almost all of India is under lockdown as a defensive measure against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID -19), but the ever increasing number of patients and the death cases on account…
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TRADE UNION BODY SAYS RS 5 LAKH CRORE CORONA SUPPORT IS NEEDED The All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) on Friday termed the government’s economic package inadequate to tackle the situation arising from COVID–19 and said it includes…
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‘HERD IMMUNITY’ IS NEOLIBERAL PARLANCE FOR ‘LET THE POOR DIE’ Europe is being called the epicentre of the coronavirus, and particularly western Europe, where the responses have varied from the new Socialist-Podemos coalition in Spain…
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MPS SCEPTICAL OF PARTY’S FUTURE WITHOUT TOTAL REVAMP While UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is contemplating to enforce lockdown by the police, as it has become imperative with people not taking seriously the preventive measure of social…
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DOCTORS, PHARMA INDUSTRY JOIN HANDS TO DEVELOP VACCINE Although there is no preventive vaccine or specific treatment at this time for the new coronavirus SARS COV-2, which causes COVID-19, the Cuban pharmaceutical industry is guaranteeing…
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