This draconian Special Public Safety Bill, which has extremely arbitrary and authoritarian provisions which are even worse ...

The four Labour Codes on wages, industrial relations, social security, and occupational safety and health, working conditions convey four key messages: increased freedom for employers to lay off ...

DONALD Trump’s foreign policy has left commentators in a real tizzy. His markedly differing positions with regard to Ukraine and Gaza, in the first case apparently pursuing peace, and in the second ...

They are implacably hostile to intellectual activity in general and to intellectuals as a social group. The destruction of all educational institutions of excellence that is occurring not only in ...

The inevitable followed, and the Congress, along with Indira Gandhi, could not avert political defeat. The eighteen-month Emergency has gone down in contemporary Indian history as a grave aberration ...

SATYESHA Leuva, state secretary of the Gujarat unit of the Students' Federation of India (SFI), has been elected as the sarpanch of Vadvasa gram panchayat in Prantij taluka, Sabarkantha district, ...

WELL-known Marxist scholar, the late Amalendu Guha, had argued persuasively that in modern India there co-existed in the minds of the people a dual national consciousness: a local, regional-linguistic ...

LIBERAL opinion holds that the international monetary and financial system is a device for promoting the interests of all participating countries by providing a convenient payments arrangement within ...

TO write about Comrade Sitaram Yechury in the past tense is exceedingly difficult and painful for me. For five decades our political lives have been closely and intricately intertwined while we have ...

There were also reports from Western sources that Israel was running out of anti-missiles and the US was in no position to replenish its stocks in view of a possible Iran attack on its own bases and ...

TRUMP’s victory in the US Presidential election conforms to a pattern presently observable across the world, namely a collapse of the liberal centre and a growth in support either for the Left, or for ...

Israel justified its attack by claiming that Iran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon. This conclusion was allegedly based on remarks made by Rafael Grossi, Director-General of the ...