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American Defeat To Taliban Is The Burial Of Biden’s Liberal Intervention Doctrine

By Anjan Roy Twenty years back on September 11 evening, I was in the news room of a leading newspaper, on Delhi’s Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg. Following the normal rhythms of a newsroom in the evening, journalists were sitting down to slog on their copy, discussing news items, someone...

Sep 13 · >

PLI Scheme Is A Welcome Move To Push Jobs In Pandemic Period

K R Sudhaman Productive linked incentive scheme to stimulate and revive the covid-hit Indian economy is very thoughtful and a welcome development as it weaves in job creation in Modi government’s Atama Nirbhar Bharat.  This critical factor that is usually lost while analyzing the possible impact of the scheme...

Sep 13 · >

Over 2.57 Lakh People Evicted In India During The Current Pandemic

By Sumedha Pal Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, the Indian government has demolished over 43,600 homes and forcibly evicted over 257,700 people; or at least 505 people per day; or 21 people every hour. Over 173,300 people lost their homes in 2020 alone as a...

Sep 13 · >

As Long As There Are Laws, Nobody Is Free From A Raid Under Modi Govt

By K Raveendran The so-called ‘survey’ by the IT sleuths at the offices of news websites is as ominous as all other raids routinely conducted by government agencies against those who refuse to toe the official line. Any questioning is responded with a raid or survey, the fancy name...

Sep 11 · >

Indian Households Under Unprecedented Unemployment And Debt Crisis

 By Gyan Pathak  All indicators point to an unprecedented unemployment and debt crisis in India, both in urban and rural areas. Households are reeling under the crisis that has been crippling their growth and well being. The latest data sets, for unemployment and debts, released by National Statistics Office...

Sep 11 · >

Pakistan Is Most Advantageously Placed Vis A Vis Taliban 2 Regime

By Sankar Ray  Pakistan seems optimistic, pushing ahead with its policy of backseat driving to keep the Taliban 2.0 in good humour and under control. Not the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, but Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence director-general, Lieutenant General Faiz Hameed has been assigned to play the principal role...

Sep 11 · >

Faction Ridden Tripura BJP Is Resorting To Terror Against Opposition

By Arun Srivastava  The chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, Arun Mishra, who has shown extreme form of alacrity in announcing a probe in the post poll violence and constituting a BJP controlled probe panel has intriguingly been maintaining a passive attitude towards the brutal assault and reign...

Sep 11 · >

Congress-AIUDF Alliance And Breakup Affair Is No Surprise

By Sagarneel Sinha  The Congress, despite facing internal opposition, decided to ally with the AIUDF of Badruddin Ajmal before the Assam assembly elections to dethrone BJP from power. The grand old party, however, failed to dislodge the saffron party from power. The dissensions, which somehow got silent keeping in...

Sep 11 · >

Decoding Twenty Years Of ‘War Against Terror” After September 11, 2001

 By C.J. Atkins How do we measure the time that has passed since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and crashed another in a field in Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001? It has been 20 years; that’s of course the obvious answer....

Sep 11 · >

Monetisation Of National Assets Is Nothing But Abrogation Of Rights

 Prabhat Patnaik EVERYWHERE in the world people got vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus without having to pay a penny, but not in India. Everywhere in the world, historic landmarks that define a nation, that constitute the warp and woof of a nation’s consciousness, are held sacred and left untouched...

Sep 10 · >