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Cuba’s socialist approach to developing vaccines against Covid-19 differs strikingly from that of capitalist nations of the world developing vaccines. Socialist Cuba’s production of four vaccines is grounded in science, in a dedication to saving the lives of all Cubans, and in international solidarity.

This year’s Padma Vibhushan winner, the second highest civilian Award of the land, S P Balasubrahmanyam was a musical legend.

Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks, noted “…a state remains democratic only when it is able to draw voluntary consent to its policies through reasoned persuasion. When it fails to do so, it takes recourse to governing through an apparatus of coercions, including engineering of violence calculated to discredit opposition to its clout.”

In an attempt to persuade listeners into believing that Budget 2021will complete the conquest of disease and unleash an era of post-Covid expansion, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman placed special emphasis in her budget speech on two sets of initiatives. The first was a claim that the budget marks a new beginning for the Indian state’s engagement with peoples’ health, riding on an unprecedented 137 per cent hike in allocations for the health sector, from a mere Rs 94,452 crore allocated in Budget 2020-21 to Rs 2,23,846 crore in Budget 2021-22.

The Bengal CPI (M) has decided to use former Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar’s revelation as campaigning tool to alert people about the situation in the north eastern state after the BJP came to power in 2018 and also to show the voters how the BJP is luring people with 'false assurance' and polarising the society.

Vasco, Goa: Goa climbed back to third on the ISL table after sharing the spoils with NorthEast United at the Tilak Maidan Stadium today.

The Indian sages had already unfathomed in the Vedic era, means nearly three thousand years before the Western science began to learn the essential attributes of the universe. They knew of orbits and time consumed by each planet to complete the orbit. They had understood the solar and lunar cycles and successfully divided time in several measures from Pal, Ghadi Prahar, din and ratri, months, Nakshatra, seasons and the year to predict the place of each planet at any given time of the year.

Fatorda, Goa: Bengaluru seem to have finally found the right balance. They kept their first clean sheet in11 games in their 2-0 win against East Bengal, probably their best and most clinical outing of the season.

Kolkata: Putting up a ruthless attacking display, Real Kashmir routed the Indian Arrows 6-0 in the sixth round of the Hero I-League at the VYBK Stadium in here on Thursday.

For the first time in independent India, a full-scale power-shift from public sector to financial private sector has been unleashed, crowning the trend particularly since 2016. Corona has knocked the bottom out of the economy, yet financial business has grown fatter. Productive capitalists, MSMEs, small traders and shopkeepers, workers, peasants, business persons, industrialists, have lost heavily, yet a handful of big corporate business has gained. Trends of forced disintegration of PSUs are clearly discernible: they are being disinvested in all sectors for the first time, except four areas. Rs 1.75 lakh crore sale target has been fixed for 2022. In a dramatic break from the past, government has announced privatization of at least two state-run banks and a general insurance company.