THE US president is keen to selling hope to his citizens that the disruptions in trade and investments caused by tariff shocks would ultimately bring new manufacturing jobs to the US. The key argument ...

I am not going to deal with the larger question of why unrestricted trade helps rich countries more than poor ones, why the condemnation of Trump's tariff is correct but for the wrong reason, or what ...

New Central Committee Elected at the 24th Congress. 1. Pinarayi Vijayan. 2. B V Raghavulu. 3. M A Baby. 4. Tapan Sen. 5. Nilotpal Basu. 6. Md Salim. 7. A Vijayaraghavan. 8. Ashok ...

In progressive circles of course an altogether different argument is advanced against Trump’s policy, namely that the imposition of tariffs in US, the leading metropolitan economy, even as the global ...

ACROSS the country, theatre activist and writer Safdar Hashmi's birthday on April 12, was celebrated as National Street Theatre Day. Since his martyrdom, this day has been observed annually to honour ...

The Left Front organised a protest at the Kharagpur Divisional Railway Manager’s (DRM) office on April 10 to strongly object to the ongoing issues affecting passenger train services. The protest aimed ...

IN a historic judgment, the Supreme Court has struck down the West Bengal School Service Commission’s (SSC) 2016 recruitment panel, annulling 25,752 appointments and branding the entire selection ...

THE Dalit Shoshan Mukti Manch (DSMM) of the Delhi-NCR region celebrated Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s 134th birth anniversary on April 14 at Parliament Street, Delhi, with a call to wage a united struggle ...

DONALD Trump has put off his proposed tariffs by ninety days; but countries like India have to respond to Trump’s measures whether now or after ninety days. These measures are not just an episodic act ...