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Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee (File Photo/ANI) TMCs Kalyan Banerjee criticizes MHA over summoning chief secretary and DGP, calls it political vendetta ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 12:40 IST Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 12 (ANI): Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kalyan Banerjee has written to Union Home SecretaryAjay Bhalla over a letter from latters office summoning Chief Secretary and Director General of Police of West Bengal on Dece...

ISSUE DATE: December 21, 2020 UPDATED: December 11, 2020 20:38 IST Brewing discontent, Farmers protesting at Delhi’s Singhu border For much of his first term as prime minister, Narendra Modi seemed content with incremental reforms in agriculture. His critics charged him with using only an air rifle to target the changes needed. A year into his second stint, in the middle of a raging Covid-19 pandemic, Modi saw an opportunity in adversity to accelerate the reform process. This time, he pulled ...

Political-corporate nexus It is not every day that one needs a doctor, a lawyer, a policemen or a priest, but everyday, three times a day, you need a farmer. Farmers are not a homogenous community. There are caste and class differences because, among land-owning farmers, the socio-economic spectrum of farmers is huge. At one end are wealthy, university-educated farmers with large land-holdings, who are also traders or aggregators, own agri-based industries, have political clout (sometimes as M...

Terrorism and whats happening in afghanistan, ukraine and north korea. including the trump administrations just announced new aggressive moves against the rogue nation. putting it back on the state list of terrorism sponsors and imposing a new round of sanctions. overnight, a north korean state newspaper published a report, warning that trumps moves were hideous crimes committed by the lunatic president. the president leaves washington with a number of topics on the table, including russian inte...

He should be seen as a different american leader than all the ones who have gone before him who have dealt with north korea. >> the regime has interpreted americas past restraint as weakness. this would be a fatal miscalculation. this is a very different administration than the united states has had in the past. >> reporter: so, certainly, it is a different administration, a different president in substance and style, but the issues and challenges remain the same. but speaking of other president...

A group of young writers led by viennas literary dorian hans vika. ceylon attracted attention for instance with these verses written like a darkly plaintive exchange with his mother. still do the southerly waters know mother the wave whose blows wounded you so. still does the field with those windmills remember how gently your heart to its angel surrendered cannot of the aspens and none of the willows allow you the solace remove all your sorrows. in vienna risen from the ruins to return to its o...

Met a group of young writers led by viennas literary dorian hans vika. ceylon attracted attention for instance with these verses written like a darkly plaintive exchange with his mother. still do the southerly waters know mother the wave whose blows wounded you so. still does the field with those windmills remember how gently your heart to its angel surrendered can none of the aspens and none of the willows allow you the solace remove all your sorrows. in vienna risen from the ruins to return to...

Cuba from the list of governments that sponsor terrorism. cnns jim acosta has more. >> reporter: john and christine, all eyes on what could be an historic encounter with president obama and raul castro at the summit of the americas. it takes place later on today. now they have spoken on the phone before and they did shake hands in 2013. nothing like what we may witness today. one anything we should point out this interaction comes that the administration recommend that cuba be removed from the s...

Putting them back on the state list of state sponsors of terrorism. exposes them to significant economic sanctions. i think we ought to close off their access to the international financial community. i think we have got to put pressure on china and russia and others to enforce the existing u.n. sanctions that were put on after their ballistic missile and nuclear tests in 2005 and 2006. and i think we ought to be increasing our efforts to stop their international commerce in weapons and other th...

Lot of other things. putting them back on the state list of state sponsors of terrorism. exposes them to significant economic sanctions. i think we ought to close off their access to the international financial community. i think we have got to put pressure on china and russia and others to enforce the existing u.n. sanctions that were put on after their ballistic missile and nuclear tests in 2005 and 2006. and i think we ought to be increasing our efforts to stop their international commerce in...