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CUBAN DOCTORS ARE THE WORLD’S HEROES — THEIR NATION NEEDS US NOW

TRADE UNIONS ARE LEADING CALL FOR AN END TO THE US BLOCKADE OF CUBA
Rob Miller - 2020-04-23 11:23
“Now we have a chance to show solidarity with Cuba and help the Cuban people in their fight against coronavirus at home and abroad.”

-- Len McCluskey, Unite general secretary

THE ‘OTHER’ PANDEMIC: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DURING CORONA

NOTES FROM A WEBINAR ON WOMEN’S SAFETY UNDER LOCKDOWN
Surabhi Karwa - 2020-04-23 11:11
R, an unmarried woman, who returned to her hometown, due to lockdown, gets beaten daily at the hands of her abusive father. Another woman, S, a married woman, had to lock herself in a room to save herself from her abusive husband. Yet another woman, K, finds herself being raped daily by her husband who had left her 8 years ago, only to return during this lockdown.

GOVT ON THE BACKFOOT OVER SPRINKLR DEAL

CPI EXPRESSES ITS DISPLEASURE ON THE ISSUE
P. Sreekumaran - 2020-04-23 11:08
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government is sharply divided on the agreement it has signed with controversial US-based company Sprinklr for uploading data on the people under surveillance for covid-19.

MACABRE TOSS BETWEEN OLYMPICS AND HUNGER GAMES

LOCKDOWN WEIGHS HEAVY ON INDIA’S HAPLESS MILLIONS
Sushil Kutty - 2020-04-23 11:05
We will not let anybody go hungry sounds fine. But right now for the chap sitting watching television in drawing rooms across India, the ones who do not qualify for ration or direct to bank cash transfers, he is not aware which governments – state and Centre – are doling out food to the hungry millions caught in the lockdown.

FACEBOOK-JIO DEAL: A PRECURSOR TO THE POST-COVID WORLD

IS A NEW GLOBAL ALLIANCE TO TAKE ON CHINA IN THE OFFING?
Anjan Roy - 2020-04-23 11:02
In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a commercial deal between two private companies can have strategic diplomatic significance and can give a clue to the post-corona world.

EXECUTIVE INCAPACITATION AND THE CONSTITUTION

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PRIME MINISTER IS INDISPOSED?
Sanjoy Ghose - 2020-04-23 10:44
The pandemic has brought with it questions of constitutional importance - one of which is what happens if the Prime Minister of a country is incapacitated? These questions arose in the UK when Prime Minister Boris Johnson was hospitalized (now mercifully recovered) and have often arisen in the USA. The answer the author points out depends on which country you are living in.

WORLD COMMUNIST PARTIES VOW TO CONTINUE WORK OF LENIN ON HIS BIRTHDAY

COVID PANDEMIC UNDERLINES ONCE AGAIN NEED FOR SOCIALISM
Steve Sweeney - 2020-04-23 09:57
Communists across the world vowed to continue the work of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin against the “aggressive nature of capitalism” as they marked the 150th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday.

PUNISHING POOR FOR CRIMES OF ARROGANT

Vijay Sanghvi - 2020-04-23 03:55
Ram Avadhesh Singh managed to come to Delhi after his visit to thirty villages in North Bihar districts. As he says he learnt a lot to comprehend issues, processes and values that agitate minds in critical times. Ram grew up in Bihar politics in association with the rising star Laloo Yadav but parted away from him after Laloo Yadav converted his party into a family estate to establish his two sons and daughter. He could not go to Nitish Kumar who gave up association with Laloo Yadav and the congress to win power in 2015 and for no apparent reasons decided to have alliance with the BJP. May be Ram Avadhesh argued with himself that Nitish may have found going difficult in obtaining financial assistance and political stability to make him for alliance with the BJP. But he could not bring himself around to the idea of cooperation with minds that did not comprehend great past of India.

OPPOSITION DEMANDS CENTRE ADDRESSES MIGRANT LABOUR ISSUES

CONGRESS UPSET AT RAID IN AMETHI OFFICE STORING RAHUL’S RELIEF GOODS
Pradeep Kapoor - 2020-04-22 10:27
Opposition has demanded from the central government as well as the state governments to look into the problems to migrant labourers stranded in various parts of country.

FINALLY, SHIVRAJ CHOUHAN ADDS FIVE MINISTERS TO HIS CABINET

CENTRE SENDS TEAM TO INDORE TO TACKLE MASSIVE CORONA MENACE
L.S. Herdenia - 2020-04-22 10:24
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has taken two important steps to strengthen his team to fight the menace of Covid-19. The first step is the addition of five Ministers and the second is the constitution of an advisory committee. Meanwhile, the central government has sent a team to Indore which is one of the worst Covid-19 affected cities of the country.