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The US Special Representative for Afghan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad apparently overreached by effusively welcoming the 21-member list announced in Kabul on Thursday by President Ashraf Ghani to engage with the Taliban in the (...)
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Taliban gets Khalilzad leg before wicket but won’t appeal
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Professor Arjun Dev, The Historian of ‘Contemporary World’
4 April 2020TRIBUTE
by Pritish Acharya
Professor Arjun Dev, a renowned Historian of our time, passed away on 29th March 2020 in Delhi. Born on 12 November 1938 at Leiah in West Punjab (present Pakistan) young Arjun with his parents had to migrate to India (...) -
COVID 19 Lockdown, Fleeing Masses, Rohingya Refugees of Delhi, Jayshree Misra Tripathi’s Poetry
4 April 2020, by Humra QuraishiMusings, April 1, 2020
What takes place when the rulers of the day turn a medical emergency into a human nightmare! Yes, our masses are getting subjected to the worst forms of abuse. Shots of our migrant workers and daily-wagers getting sprayed (...) -
India Needs Return of Five-Year Plans
4 April 2020, by Bharat DograIn a highly arbitrary decision taken in 2014, the newly - elected NDA government shut down the Planning Commission and halted the process of preparing five-year plans which had continued for over six decades. Even the midterm evaluation of the (...) -
What is Chandrasekhar’s politics?
4 April 2020by SR Darapuri
On March 15, Chandrashekhar Azad announced the formation of a new political party called Azad Samaj Party (ASP) which is welcome as in a democracy every citizen has the right to form his own party. But no announcement has been (...) -
We beseech Your Lordship !
4 April 2020, by Sardar Amjad Aliby Sardar Amjad Ali, Ex-MP
Needless it to say that one of most indispensable institutions of any civilised society is judiciary. With the advent of civilisation throughout the ages all over the world people have not only become right conscious (...) -
Gandhi - Tagore Debate
4 April 2020, by Ashok CellyGandhi launched his Non-Cooperation Movement in 1921-22 when Tagore was touring the West pleading for cooperation between East and West so that peace and harmony may prevail in the world. When the news of Gandhi’s Non-Cooperation Movement (...) -
COVID-19: UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on ‘the true fight of our lives’
4 April 2020via: UN News
23 March 2020
In an appeal issued on Monday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged warring parties across the world to lay down their weapons in support of the bigger battle against COVID-19: the common enemy that is now (...) -
Coronavirus and Migrant Workers
4 April 2020, by Arup Kumar SenMigrant footloose labour plays a dominant role in the accumulation of capital under neo-liberal capitalism on a world scale. India is no exception on this score.
In spite of its dominant role in the capitalist mode of production in contemporary (...) -
The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma
4 April 2020by Ara Darzi
AI companies and scientists are cooperating, but they desperately need access to pharmaceutical companies’ data
The past few weeks have revealed the worst and the best in human responses to the coronavirus crisis – from the (...)
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