Tripura: PM Modi’s Claims and Facts

PRIME Minister Narendra Modi paid a visit to Tripura on December 18, at a time when the election authority and key administrative officers are engaged in preparations for the upcoming assembly elections in the state that are expected to be held in mid-February 2023. Crores of rupees from government exchequer were spent on displaying images of the prime minister and other ministers throughout the state, cleaning and decorating the road from the airport to the meeting ground, issuing advertisements in various print and electronic media and hiring vehicles for carrying people to the meeting.

The Week in Parliament

THE Rajya Sabha passed the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Bill. Speaking on the bill, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya said the whole amendment is only to change the name to India International Arbitration Centre. The change of name was absolutely a misguided concept. Not only a misguided concept, this excessive legislation reflects the lack of governance.

Educate All, Employ All, and Unite All: SFI All India Conference

EDUCATE all, employ all, and unite all – is the slogan of the 17th all India conference of the SFI. Even after seven decades of independence, India has not been able to ensure that all its children can go to school. What is all the more shocking is that even access to education has become a distant dream for many at present.

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PGWFI Calls for Nation-wide United Strike

THE 5th triennial conference of the Petroleum & Gas Workers’ Federation of India (PGWFI) was held on December 10-11, 2022 at Duliajan, Assam. Assam is one of the oldest oil-explored regions of the world and has more than 125 years of glorious history in the field of production, refining & marketing of natural crude oil.PGWFI is a united federation of affiliated and independent trade unions representing the upstream, middle stream, and downstream oil PSUs.

Jobless Numbers are Touching Five Crore

Labour force has still not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, according to CMIE.LATEST estimates put the number of unemployed in India at over five crore. This is just short of the heights reached during 2020, the first year of the pandemic, which saw recurring lockdowns and a shutdown of the economy. These estimates, made by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), are drawn from periodic sample surveys carried out by the consultancy.

Football and Politics – Politics in Football

ARGENTINA won the FIFA World Cup. Millions of football crazy fans heaved a sigh of relief. Messi achieved his dream, cementing his place as one of the greatest footballers of all time. There are many surprises in this edition of the world cup. Morocco reaching semifinals is one among them. The other one is the elimination of another fan favourite Brazil in the quarterfinals, denying the chance to enjoy a mouthwatering Brazil Vs Argentina semifinal. Of course, the failure of countries like Germany and Belgium to pass through the group stages was a surprise.

Kerala: Remembering Historic Karivellur Struggle

DECEMBER 20, 1946 was witness to historic Karivellur Struggle against feudal landlords. After the Second World War, faced with a famine like situation due to shortage of food, the grains produced by the peasantry were being forcibly transported to the Chirakkal royal household.

India’s Creeping Industrial Stagnation

THERE has been much discussion in public about the index of industrial production for October 2022 being 4 per cent lower than the index for October 2021; and quite rightly so, since no obvious explanations like a Covid-induced lockdown or even its residual lingering effects can be adduced to explain this fall.

Lasers for Fusion Breakthrough and Its Nuclear Bomb Connection

LAWRENCE Livermore Laboratory's advance in achieving fusion energy using lasers has been splashed worldwide as a huge success. So what was the success all about? The joint press release of the US Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration states that this experiment "...will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power." In other words, there was also a weapons component to the fusion experiment.

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