Employment Suffers in Digital India

SPEAKING at the Digital Haryana Summit in September 2017, the minster for electronics and information technology, Ravi Shankar Pratap Singh said that “the country’s digital economy is growing fast and by 2020 it is expected to provide job opportunities to about 50 to 70 lakh youth”. This pipe dream let lose by the minister may make one think that the automation and digitalisation process may create new opportunities to tap the so-called ‘demographic dividend’ of the country.

Highlights of the Report Delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping At the Opening Session of the 19th National Congress of The Communist Party of China

The Opening Session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) was held at the People’s Great Hall of China at 9:00, October 18th, 2017.On behalf of the 18th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a report titled “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and strive for the great success of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era”.General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the 19th National Congress of the CPC is a meeting of great importance taking place during the d

BPMO JATHAS IN BENGAL: Woes in Hearts, Marches on Streets

GULJAR Hosaain is on the walk. Sixty-eight-year-old Hossain is walking as his mind is pulled back to the lost land beside the Kaljani river, where he used to produce an adequate amount of rice. A resident of Deocharai in Cooch Behar, Hossain and his neighbours found no support from the administration after their lands were devoured by the river.Mangal Murmu is on the walk. Murmu, a youth in Shibpur of Bolpur, witnessed how an area, acquired for industry has been given away for real estate. It dashed the hopes of the local people.Sirajuddin is on the walk.

AIKS Condemns TN Govt Inaction on Harassment by Loan Sharks

THE All India Kisan Sabha, in a statement issued on October 25, has expressed shock at the incident of a family of four immolating themselves outside the Tirunelveli Collectorate in Tamil Nadu due to the harassment of loan sharks and total insensitivity of the authorities to their request for redressal of the problem. Isakimuthu, a daily wage labourer along with his wife and two kids immolated themselves on October 23, 2017.

CPI(M) Congratulates Xi Jinping

ON behalf of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sitaram Yechury, general secretary of the CPI(M) has conveyed warm revolutionary greetings to Xi Jinping on his re-election as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China in the just concluded 19th CPC Congress.In a message sent on October 25, Yechury said that the CPC’s 19th Congress has taken very important landmark decisions to boost the confidence of all Chinese people in the path, theory, system and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics.The theory of “Four Comprehensives” – a four-pronge

Shielding the Corrupt

CONTRARY to the strident statements against black money and corruption, the Modi government and the BJP are, in practice, taking step after step to shield corruption and to allow the rich to launder black money. Three such instances have occurred in the recent period.In the first case, the Modi government has raised the upper limit for buying jewellery without submitting PAN-Aadhar details to Rs 2 lakh per transaction. Earlier, in August this year, the government had amended the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to make PAN and Aadhar mandatory for jewellery purchases above Rs 50,000 per

Pulling out of the Iran Deal: Or Humpty Drumpf-ty’s Impending Fall

LAST week, Trump decertified the Iran nuclear deal – known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) – while, at the same time, not pulling out of it. He has asked the US Congress to put in additional sanctions on Iran, so that Iran “behaves” the way US wants it.

India is Not America’s New-Pakistan in South Asia

TRUMP’s flip-flops on Pakistan are no different than Modi’s wild-vacillations on Pakistan front. In August, Trump severely criticised Pakistan; in October, he has praised it as a “fantastic country, fantastic place of fantastic people”. Verbal flowers were bestowed on Pakistan after it helped gain the release of an American woman and her family held captive by Haqqani terrorist group. The family was abducted five years ago while hiking in Afghanistan. Trump’s team is celebrating the intelligence cooperation extended by ISI as a success of its policy to get Pakistan back on track.

Announcement of Election Schedule

CPI(M) Polit Bureau has issued the following statement on October 13, 2017IT is strange that the Election Commission has announced the date of election for Himachal Pradesh assembly while withholding the announcement of date for Gujarat assembly elections. Usually when elections are due within a period of six months, these states are combined and a joint announcement used to be made. This has been the practice followed so far. The model code of conduct is now enforced for Himachal Pradesh but not for Gujarat. The chief election commissioner has announced that the Gujarat polls wi

Paddy Straw: Burning Problem

IT is that dreaded time of year again for Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR), the season of high air pollution, in which Delhi regularly ranks worst in the world. Diwali is almost upon us, and the Supreme Court has imposed a total ban on firecrackers, a once unimaginable prohibition, but one that has apparently been greeted with stoicism by citizens and government authorities, who are only too familiar with the choking pall that envelops the megalopolis for several days after the festival of lights.

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