On 3rd January 2021, Drug Controller General of India (DGCI)’s approval of two Covid vaccines for restrictive emergency usage in INDIA, has created a lot of controversary. The decision to approve Bharat Biotech Covid-19 vaccine (Covaxin), which is still undergoing phase-3 clinical trials, has raised serious questions, writes Dr Kafeel Khan. As we entered into a […]
Abbas Siddiqui is one of them who seems to have made Owaisi a role model in Bengal. Both of them harp on the growing Muslim sentiments about being used as mere vote-bank by the anti-BJP opposition parties and urge Muslims to float their own political outfit, writes Biswajit Roy. Kolkata: Muslim politics in […]
With the seventh round of talks between farmer unions and the central government remaining inconclusive even today, the Working Group of AIKSCC has criticized the various state governments for letting lose severe repression on the protesting farmers and has warned of escalation of the anger amongst the people and intensification of the movement if it […]
পয়লা জানুয়ারি, ২০২১, ঐতিহ্যমণ্ডিত ‘আলাপিনী মহিলা সমিতি ‘ যেটি দেশের প্রাচীনতম মহিলা সংস্থার একটি, বিশ্বভারতী কর্তৃপক্ষ সেই অফিসটি দখল নেওয়ার লক্ষ্যে সেটি সিল করে দিয়েছেন। ১০৪ বছরের পুরানো এই সমিতি বিশ্বভারতীর অবিচ্ছেদ্য অঙ্গ। বলাবাহুল্য, এই গোটা ঘটানাটা শুধুমাত্র অনভিপ্রেত নয়, বিশ্বভারতী ও রবীন্দ্র ভাবধারার পরিপন্থী। অর্ণব সেনগুপ্ত-এর প্রতিবেদন। প্রকৃতির মাঝে, প্রতিবেশীর সাথে সহাবস্থানের মাধ্যমে এক […]
The leader says he is misunderstood. The farm laws are meant to bring in prosperity and double the income of the farmers in a couple of years only if they follow his lead. This is not the first time. The Muslims misunderstood the CAA. The Kashmiries did not see the beauty of repealing Article 370. […]
Fifteen years ago, on this day in 2006, 14 Adivasi villagers were killed in police firing at Kalinganagar in Odisha, when they resisted theforcible acquisition of their land by TISCO to set up a mega steel plant. To break the people’s resistance, the Odisha police went on a rampage and fired indiscriminately in order to […]
The fundamental economic experience of the 126.7 million Americans younger than 30 has been crushing austerity, plutocratic immiseration, and the privatization of health care, housing and education. This generation of Americans, in 2020, changed the course of American history. In the summer of 2020, tens of millions of young people marched in the streets against carceral racism, […]
Overall in 2020, in the backdrop of a pandemic ravaging the country, laws have been forced through by the BJP government to rob the livelihoods of labourers in the form of the four labour code acts and of farmers in the form of the three farm acts, and the citizenship rights of a large number […]