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Threats, lies, and the breaking of international conventions. Another Italian government, another round of attempts to turn the ports of Italy into a circus of violations and dehumanizing logistical wranglings. Another round of bolstering Europe’s racist border regime — as if the sea were barbed wire and every boat a checkpoint.

With the exception of a coup-government interregnum in 2019-2021, the Movement Toward Socialism political party (MAS) has headed Bolivia’s government since the beginning of Evo Morales’s presidency in 2006.

Much is known about the life and times of Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA. I had the privilege of working for her and with her in the service of self-employed women, which gives me some confidence to speak about her and her work.

Even as panchayat election is inching closer, north Bengal is in the news for the wrong reasons. The demand for a separate state or Union Territory has resurfaced.

Dictionaries have defined democracy as a government by the people, a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by their elected agents (representatives) under a free electoral system, with the practice or spirit of social equality, with a social condition of classlessness and equality and the common people as a political force.

New Delhi: Ace Table Tennis player and Commonwealth Games Gold medal winner Achanta Sharath Kamal has been nominated for the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, while 25 athletes including will receive the Arjuna Award this year.

“It is well for a judge to remind himself or herself of the fact that flattery is the graveyard of the gullible”, said then Supreme Court Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, in one of his judgments. While being alive to this thought of his and how he handles encomiums, here’s why the new Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’), Dr. Chandrachud means the dawn of hope to new India.

Led by CPI(M) Left Front seems to have a leg up in next year’s panchayat polls in the state. The change of political fortune is thanks to the windfall it received from the recent series of intra-party squabbles with state saffron from camp and Trinamool Congress washing its dirty linen in the public.

Bank employees of the country are again up in arms against their management against their alleged highhandedness. To oppose these, which allegedly include unlawful and unfair actions of the bank managements against the employees, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) has already served a notice for all India bank strikes on November 19, that seems a certainty if November 16 negotiation fails.

Let us agree not to disagree with the Congress that the Supreme Court should not have released the six convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case; that this was “totally unacceptable and completely erroneous.” The ruling has made the top court a laughing stock to some, and it comes in the wake of Justice DY Chandrachud taking over as the Chief Justice of India.