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BHOPAL: The ugly incident of assault by BJP legislator Akash Vijayvargiya on Indore Municipal Corporation official was still hitting headlines a report has come from Satna district according to which a BJP Municipal committee president has physically attacked Chief Municipal Officer. According to yet another report Damoh district president of Bhartiya Janta Yuva Morcha (BJYM) Vivek Agarwal threatened to beat Nagar Palika accountant Anil Gupta with a cricket bat.

The left has a chance to “change the balance of power in this country forever” if it comes together to fight for Jeremy Corbyn’s socialist vision, Derby North MP Chris Williamson told the Morning Star today.

On July 19, 2019, the day dawned normally for the people of Rae Bareli. In the busy national highway that passes through this small town in the constituency of Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, people were going about their daily routines normally. Unexpectedly, there was a sudden commotion. Thousands of people suddenly marching through this small town shouting slogans disturbed its morning serenity. It turned out to be a protest rally by the workers of the Modern Coach Factory belonging to the Indian Railways.

WASHINGTON: A coalition of pro-worker House Democrats, led by veteran Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., opened talks on June 25 with President Donald Trump’s trade negotiator about writing strong and specific worker rights straight into Trump’s “new NAFTA,” rather than just into U.S. legislation to implement the controversial “free trade” pact.

An important information sent by one of my senior colleagues made sense. Even in India in so called trust not for profit hospitals the main take away is by the top two or three non medical executives and the marketing team distributing pay offs.

The European left forces have at last asserted their strength defying the disaster in this year's European Parliament elections, by emerging victorious in the recent general elections in Denmark. Denmark will now be the third Nordic country after Finland and Sweden to form left governments by winning majority in the elections held earlier in 2019.

A new saffron government has come to occupy the coveted throne of prime minister. People vouch that Modi has undergone change and so his approach to the contour of social relations. His opening remark at the MP’s meeting strengthened the belief that he is a changed ruler and has now developed soft corner even for the Muslims for whom he had high level of hate.

It is good to have harmonious relations with neighbours. Though the initiative has to come from one side, there should be a sense of reciprocity from the other side also. Overall it is the will to have good neighbourly relations that matters for both sides. Gestures and reciprocity can build up the process. In our daily life you can opt to change your place and go and settle in a neighbourhood of your choice. But this is not so in case of country to country relations in a region. You just have to live with your neighbours. This is what the former Prime Minister of India Atal Behari Vajpayee said in his effort to normalise relations with Pakistan.

With the ever-growing public trust deficit in police and the police continuing as instruments of oppression, suppression, bullying, vendetta politics, framing up innocents, misuse by the state governments, democracy in India is in peril. In our system of rule of law based democratic governance, people are sovereign masters as all state organs are accountable to them (people). Added to this, police are also continuing to be brutish, nasty, corrupt and extortionists to the detriment of the people’s interests. Police continues to function under the draconian Police Act, 1861, which worked to serve the repressive colonial power. In the Independent India since 1947 there has been no credible action to bring about needed police reforms despite nine reports on police reforms including two directives from the Supreme Court to this effect. Result has been for all to see; police cannot be trusted.

Voices of rebel demanding resignation of Tejashvi as the leader of opposition have started gaining momentum inside RJD. The senior leaders of the party who till other day were appreciative of his moves and held him as the future of Bihar, have started finding fault with him and his style of functioning. His month long absence from politics has further aggravated the situation. Some party leaders have even put posters announcing awards for tracing his whereabout.