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• We beseech Your Lordship !

  4 April 2020, by Sardar Amjad Ali

  by 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 but also developed indomitable zeal to resist any aggression against their rights they acquired through relentless struggle for a better life than they have left behind.
  Even an insignificant individual would not of his own free will yield to (…)

• Gandhi - Tagore Debate

  4 April 2020, by Ashok Celly

  Gandhi 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 reached him, he was greatly perturbed. He got the feeling that it was a negative force in Indian politics born of hatred of the West and was meant to cut off India from the West which would be a great cultural disaster. In Tagore’s words, "No in passive (…)

• COVID-19: UN chief calls for global ceasefire to focus on ‘the true fight of our lives’

  4 April 2020

  via: 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 threatening all of humankind. “The fury of the virus illustrates the folly of war”, he said. “That is why today, I am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world. It is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus (…)

• Coronavirus and Migrant Workers

  4 April 2020, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Migrant 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 India, the mode of survival and plight of migrant workers rarely gets attention in the mainstream media. Very recently, Delhi witnessed mass exodus of migrant workers to their far-flung home towns and villages as a result of loss of livelihoods (…)

• The race to find a coronavirus treatment has one major obstacle: big pharma

  4 April 2020

  by 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 supermarket hoarders clearing the shelves to the neighbourhood groups organising help for elderly and vulnerable people.
  When it comes to the pharmaceutical companies, how should we judge their response? They, after all, hold the key to ending the (…)

• An Impudent molecule that paralyses the world

  4 April 2020, by Badri Raina

  Those that have been used to having exclusive rights to the power and the glory of the world’s riches are chaffing at the bit.
  Think how a mere invisible molecule defeats their further grandiloquent plans and purposes for mastery of the universe. Having quelled through armed muscle and money power the most determined challenges to their sway, imagine that an impudent nothing of a protein blob with a covering of fat should appear from nowhere to stymie intents and technologies (…)

• Covid 19 Pandemic: What about those not hitting headlines

  4 April 2020, by Arun Kumar

  `Manic Monday’ on March 9th has been followed by another one. Earlier the fall was 5.17% and now almost 8%. The rise on Friday was due to the intervention by public financial institutions, obviously on instructions from above. It is about 20% below its peak and can be characterized as a bear market. Indian markets have followed the global financial markets since they are inter linked, even though there are India specific factors like, the near collapse of the Yes Bank.
  The big news has (…)

• Need for Replacing The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 by a Statute Constitutionally Protected

  4 April 2020

  by Gautam Sen
  The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 is a unique instrument of the British India period, but seems inadequate for the present time and a pandemic affected environment like that resulting from infection of novel Coronavirus or COVID-19. This Act (Act 3 of 1897), is in a way very pithy and an all empowering instrument of the Union and state executive authorities. A health emergency can be virtually declared by invoking the Act. However, no detailed parameters of executive action (…)

• Lockdown: Meaning and Meaninglessness of FM’s Package

  4 April 2020

  by Sudipta Bhattacharyya
  Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman in her press conference on 26.03.20 declared a relief package owing to Corona. However a close scrutiny of the package reveals that the majority of the announcements are centered on financing the old and running projects. In some cases there is no need for financing. Let us look first the newly declared projects and then the old projects.
  Newly Declared Projects
  Project-1: The poor people will be given through PDS 5 kg of (…)

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