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Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge against It

HUNDREDS of millions of people, across the world, have been deeply moved by the atrocity of the Israeli war on Palestine. Millions have attended marches and protests, many of them participating in such manifestations for the first time in their lives. Social media, in almost all the world’s languages, is saturated with memes and posts about this or that terrible action.

Attempts to Poison and Choke the Indian Science Congress

OVER the decade rather successfully the current government and the Sangh Parivar have poisoned the more than 100 year old Indian Science Congress (ISC) by injecting controversies deliberately since 2014.  As a last blow and an attempt to strangle the ISC, the Modi government’s Department of Science and Technology cancelled the funding for ISC which was to have been held in January 2024.As an economist puts it in the larger perspective “The commitment to promoting scientific temper, self reliance in S & T, and spread of science education was relatively strong in the first three decades f

Private Investment Slump: Plummeting New Projects

ADVANCED economies had been worst hit by the financial crisis when real GDP fell in 34 out of 37 advanced economies of the world. The growth rate recovery was slow and it took about three to five years for most of these countries to get back to their pre-crisis levels. Some argue that western capitalism has entered into a phase of secular stagnation characterised by low private investment and declining productivity. Capitalism is a system driven by investments mobilised by capitalists in view of future expectation of profits.

WB: DYFI Brigade Rally Gears Up for Booth Level Outreach

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×PUTTING all apprehensions of the mainstream media to rest, the Brigade Parade Ground rally organised by DYFI West Bengal state committee on January 7, recorded an outstanding turnout with the presence of thousands and thousands of vibrant students and youth who had come from different parts of the state adding a special dimension.  At about noon, marches from various corners of the city gathered together and the vast grou

All India Lawyers Union Holds National Conference

THE 14th national conference of the All India Lawyers Union (AILU) took place at Ashok Bakshi Manch (Sarat Sadan) in Naranarayan Gooptu Nagar (Howrah), West Bengal, from  December 28-30, 2023. The conference centered around the theme "Fight communalism, save constitution, and save democracy."On the morning of the 28th, Rabilal Moitra, vice president of AILU and former law minister of West Bengal, hoisted the flag, marking the commencement of the conference proceedings.

Welcome Judgement on Bilkis Bano Case: AIDWA

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×AIDWA, in a statement issued on January 8, has welcomed the supreme court judgement which quashes the Gujarat government’s decision to allow premature release of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape which had happened during the Gujarat riots of 2002.

The Question of Pensions

WE observe a strange phenomenon everyday, so strange that its strangeness goes generally unnoticed. Government spokespersons from the prime minister downwards go on repeating ad nauseam that India is the most rapidly growing major economy in the world today, that it will soon become a 5 trillion dollar economy, and that it has overtaken China in terms of the growth rate of the gross domestic product.

What “Dollarisation” Entails

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceEdit in Ginger×ARGENTINA’S new president Javier Milei proposes to use US dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. What is involved in this proposal is not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition of the domestic currency altogether.

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