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‘Shock and awe’ has come to stay as a cardinal feature of Narendra Modi’s policy pronouncements. Its first major manifestation was demonetisation, which was announced without proper consultations and even went against wise counsel, to the limited extent it was sought. And the result has been a complete flop.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Covid management policy is increasingly showing its faultlines as the virus surges ahead exponentially in the country and the death rates also continue hiking. Corona is a new disease and all the countries are at wits end to deal with this life threatening disease which originated in China. India with its huge 132 billion populations will naturally face a tough battle in tackling the virus. But the problem with the present PM is that he thinks that he knows everything and the PMO is the real think tank of the country which has solutions for all problems including a challenging one like coronavirus.

Several concerns have been expressed with respect to this recent change to the nature of workspace in the socio-legal sphere of the country. It is essential to note that ever since this way to work has become the convention now, there may arise various issues in the near future regarding ‘cyber workplace harassment’. Thus, the article focuses on the need to extend the protection of Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 [“POSH Act”] to digital workspaces thereby providing similar protection to the victims as it exists in physical workplaces.

There is a massive problem of external debt building up for the third world, of which the recent Argentine debt crisis was only one manifestation. At the root of the problem is the collapse of primary commodity prices in the world market which began in April 2011. In March and April 2020 this fall of course has been precipitous, but even if we leave aside these two months which fall within the pandemic period we find that between April 2011 and December 2019 there has been a 38 per cent fall in the All Commodity Price Index prepared by the IMF (base 2016).

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has hijacked the concept of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar Bharat). He claims this is the way to revive growth and make the 21st century, India’s century. Behind such bombast lies a crude contradiction and deception. The Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan special package announced to realise this goal has exposed the reality – the aim is to make India’s economy more dependent on international finance capital and to privatise India’s natural resources to benefit foreign and Indian big business.

WASHINGTON—Declaring that working people are saying, “We’ve had enough,” AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said unions will continue the fight to root out systemic racism in the U.S.

The People’s revolt engulfing the length and breadth of America should be an eye opener to the oppressive regime the world over. It tells the world about the deepening crisis of Trumpism, which has become the synonym of aggressive capitalism followed by many countries including India. President Donald Trump and his henchmen attempt to depict it as a simple law and order issue. It is a social and political upheaval with serious economic connotations. That exactly being the reason, why they want to call it a law and order problem. The brutal killing of George Floyd shows the ugliest face of racial hatred in recent times.

Right now China should be vulnerable with the ‘gang-up’ of nations against it over the ‘origins’ of the coronavirus pandemic. But, for all that, Chinese incursion against India is unstoppable. The Chinese PLA is all over and this side of the LAC. “Quick Chinese incursions” have become the order of the Chinese day, says a ‘conflict analyst.’ But, it emerges later, that he’s friendly with the Indian establishment and could be a RAW implant! Now, he says, with rare aplomb, PLA troops haven’t set up tent in India territory though they roamed about in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh for nearly two weeks!

It is only 12 months since Narendra Modi led the BJP to a historic victory. His gaining nearly two third majority has recast the political as well as the electoral landscape. His facing the popular agitation against his manoeuvring of changing the basic character of the Indian Constitution and then confronting the challenges of the dreaded coronavirus has actually come as a boon in disguise.

India and China are set to meet on June 6 at a fairly high military level consultations for resolving the recent fracas in the high Himalayas in the Ladakh as well as northern Sikkim frontiers.