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First the Zaporizhzhia and now the nuclear power plant in Kursk under threat are issues of extreme concern. UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on August27 warned during a visit to Russia’s Kursk nuclear plant that situation is very grave because the plant is situated hardy 50 kilometre from the war zone. “At the end of the day, again, this may sound common sense and simple: Don’t attack a nuclear power plant” he warned. The IAEA has issued several warnings about threat to the nuclear power plants particularly after the Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southern Ukraine.

The Nepal bus accident on August 23, in which a tourist bus with 40-odd Indian tourists fell into the Marsyangdi river, killing 26 people on the spot and one at the hospital, comes across as a grim reminder of how dangerous Himalayan mountain roads can be during the monsoon. All the victims came from Jalgaon in Maharashtra and were travelling in a group of three buses. There were more than 150 people from the same village. One of these buses fell into the roaring monsoon river, killing 27 of these tourists, with one still missing after five days of the incident.

Narendra Modi’s brief visit to Ukraine has been hailed by the pro-American circles and the corporate media as a big success. According to this version, here is an Indian leader whose international stature has been heightened by the holding of the G20 summit in Delhi and gaining recognition as a leader of the Global South, making a historic visit to Kyiv, thus opening the way for India to play a mediating role in bringing about peace in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

What emerged from the meeting held by the Union Minister of Labour and Employment Mansukh Mandaviya with Central Trade Unions (CTUs) on August 28 is quite disconcerting, since the government is bent upon implementing the newly announced Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) in the Budget 2024-25 which it has been said, would further enrich the corporates in the name of employment generation at the cost of small enterprises and workers, who will have to suffer even more than now.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in all sorts of moods. She is “deeply sad". She is boiling mad. And she's not in a forgiving mood. But in a generous mood, she was dedicating a Trinamool event to the memory of the Kolkata rape-cum-murder victim, the 31-year-old trainee doctor, who was mindlessly and senselessly slaughtered in the seminar hall of Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College & Hospital on the night of August 9, leading to nationwide protests.

KOLKATA: India’s population census was initially due for completion in 2024 but was delayed by COVID-19 pandemic. It’s resumption scheduled to begin in September this year will be a pivotal moment. The history of Indian census can be traced back to 1800 during the British colonial period. The first census of an Indian city was conducted in Dhaka in 1830 by Henry Walter who is known as the father of Indian census.

Growing Unemployment rate is not only a challenge to the economic fabric of the country, it occupies the basic tenet on which a county is assessed. Our country is one of the most populous nations and hence its needs are also different, in both size and resources. The human labour imperative for production and growth has to be supportive of employment generation also. But that is not happening because we are now living in an era of growth without jobs. That precisely means losing the way in a blind alley.

Appearing at the triumphant moment of the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Fred Halliday’s book Iran: Dictatorship and Development immediately became an iconic text to Middle East readers and the international left. The book’s appeal to a generation of leftists, particularly Iranians, was phenomenal.

Artificial intelligence, a never before new frontier of technology is emerging worldwide in a big way, which will disrupt traditional voice and video communications as well as produce mindboggling data that will change all round human conduct in all walks of life. Be it trade, commerce, industry, businesses, education, justice delivery, health care, life style, travel, tour, hospitality sector, road traffic, safety of vehicles, and may disrupt altogether existing technology, pattern of innovations, research and development. It will affect wokings of media world enormously as well. The way Big Tech and governments worldwide are pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, there are worries about future of humans. Could humans be fast approaching the point when machines do not need human inputs any more?

Democratic compact between chief minister and Lieutenant Governor of Delhi has broken in the last ten years, LG VK Saxena has admitted in his opinion piece published in Indian Express on August 28, which is just an expression of the fact existing in all states and UTs where the opposition political parties or alliance rule.