Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
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Topic: Communist Party

#MeToo hits Chinese Communist Party, tennis star alleges sexual assault by former vice-premier

Pia Krishnankutty -
Peng Shuai purportedly made the allegation against China’s former vice-premier Zhang Gaoli in a Weibo post that soon 'disappeared' from the website.

China approves three-child policy to prevent steep decline in birth rates

PTI -
The new law stipulates that the country will take supportive measures to reduce families' burdens as well as the cost of raising and educating children, the state-run media reported.

India needs a party like CPI(M). But it finds no takers outside Kolkata colleges now

Sourjya Bhowmick -
In ‘Gangster State’, political journalist Sourjya Bhowmick asks a burning question – will the Communist Party recover from 2021 Bengal election?

Former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao’s essay on his mother is rattling Xi Jinping’s China

Aadil Brar -
Wen Jiabao was Chinese premier from 2003 to 2013. His essay on his mother is more than what Xi’s China can like, share, subscribe.

Not just Hollywood artists & intellectuals, McCarthy also went after 500 US journalists

Victor Navasky -
Journalists were subpoenaed and asked about suspected ties between Communist Party and the newspaper industry. The US press is yet to fully recover from McCarthyism.

MN Roy, the Indian revolutionary who founded Mexican Communist Party

Ratnadeep Choudhary -
On his 65th death anniversary, ThePrint recalls the life of the revolutionary who was a founding member of the CPI.

The toppling of the Lenin statue is keeping the Left alive, in headlines at least

Seshadri Chari -
A word of advice to friends in the Left movement, or whatever is left of it. The Communist party in Russia is looking for non-Communist icons to rebuild the country.

Global Pulse: China’s a step closer to one-man rule; the faults in the European project

Sanya Dhingra -
China just edged a step closer to one-man rule after Xi Jinping did not include a clear successor while unveiling the new line-up to the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Committee.

Hypocritical contestations

TN Ninan -
There isn't much to choose between BJP and opposition parties when it comes to their record of undermining constitutional principles. T.N. Ninan

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Opinion

Opposition leaders protest outside Parliament | Representative image | ANI

Confused, aimless—why Opposition parties live up to Ronen Sen’s ‘headless chicken’ remark

D.K. Singh -
From ‘compromising national security’ to 'playing havoc' with institutions, the Opposition continues to attack Modi while failing to reflect on own actions.
Illustration by Manisha Yadav | ThePrint

After Mammootty and Mohanlal, who? Fahadh Faasil is the new poster boy of Malayalam cinema

US Special Forces and NATO troops in Afghanistan | Representational image | Commons

US interests in Af-Pak now just ‘transactional’. People can fight their own battles

Economy

A suspension pylon in Tamil Nadu | Commons

You thought power subsidy is a Delhi-Punjab problem? Check out Tamil Nadu’s power sector mess

Nikhil Rampal -
RBI data shows Indian discoms owe power generation firms over Rs 4.5 lakh crore, almost a third of which is owed by Tamil Nadu, where power subsidy cost is twice that of food subsidy.

Defence

Women Army officers outside the Supreme Court in New Delhi on 17 February 2020 ( representational image) | Photo: Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint

First batch of 19 women cadets join NDA, set to begin training this week

Suchet Vir Singh -
The cadets will train for three years at NDA, Khadakwasla for the 148th course. The Supreme Court last year paved the way for women to take the NDA test for the first time.

National Interest

In Kashmir 3 years on, 3 positive changes, 3 things that should’ve happened & 3 that got worse

Shekhar Gupta -
Kashmir as a crisis has fallen off our headlines and from the top of our collective minds. Which is precisely the most important change for the better.

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