Russia Declines to Meddle in India–US Oil Pressure
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov affirmed that Moscow will not intervene in relations between New Delhi and Washington DC when asked about mounting US pressure on New Delhi to curb purchases of Russian crude. He acknowledged...
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Indian Defence Lab Proves Fighter Jet Escape Safety
The Defence Research and Development Organisation has completed a high-speed rocket-sled trial of...
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Kharge Flags Dhankhar Exit As R.S. Welcomes New Chairman
Mallikarjun Kharge welcomed C. P. Radhakrishnan as the new Chairman of the Upper...
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Mahayuti Fractures Emerge Before Maharashtra Polls
Maharashtra’s local-body elections are testing the unity of the ruling coalition as public...
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.An Election Commission That Treats Critics As Enemies Has No Place In Democracy
By K Raveendran The steady erosion of trust between political parties and the Election Commission has become one of the more troubling developments in India’s democratic life, revealing an institutional drift that carries implications well beyond a single electoral cycle. The body entrusted with safeguarding the integrity of elections...
Russian President Putin’s Dec 4-5 Visit To Delhi Set To Reboot 70 Year Old Relationship
By T N Ashok How a seemingly routine bilateral summit could reset global energy flows, defence alignments, and Asia’s security geometrics. When Vladimir Putin steps onto the tarmac in New Delhi on December 4 , it will not be merely another ceremonial handshake between two leaders who have perfected...
The Rupee At 90 Leaves The RBI Exposed: India Currency Not Responding To High GDP Rate
By R. Suryamurthy India’s policymakers have grown comfortable repeating a familiar mantra: growth is strong, inflation is defeated, reserves are high, and therefore the economy is stable. But the rupee’s slide past ₹90.14 to the United States dollar has taken that mantra and torn right through it. What was...
Asia And The Pacific Is Now Ultimate Testing Ground For Artificial Intelligence
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia and the Pacific stands as the world’s most diverse region, where wealth and deprivation, stability and fragility, technological leadership and digital exclusion coexist side by side. This diversity makes it the ultimate testing ground for artificial intelligence (AI), a new UNDP report says. With...
India’s Data Credibility Problem Is No Longer A Whisper – It’s A Warning
By R. Suryamurthy India’s statistical system has always been vast—thousands of field investigators, dozens of ministries generating streams of administrative data, and a legacy built by some of the world’s finest statisticians. But size is no longer strength. The country’s data architecture is now creaking under its own weight,...
Aditya-L1, India’s Sun Watching Spacecraft Marks An Important Shift In Country’s Strategy
By Tirthankar Mitra India’s sun-watching spacecraft, Aditya-L1 is inching to face the moment it was built for. In 2026, the solar cycle will crest and the sun will flip its magnetic poles. And the familiar yellow disc will turn into a furnace of violent expulsions. For Aditya-L1, positioned patiently...
Akali Dal Is Getting Relevance To BJP As An Ally For 2027 Assembly Polls In Punjab
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Punjab political parties have started to gird up their loins for the forthcoming 2027 assembly elections. The present ruling party Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is anxious about retaining the throne, whereas the main opposition party congress is trying hard to regain its lost power....
IMF Categorising Indian Data In C Grade Casts Doubts About Govt Claim On GDP
By Krishna Jha There is the severe fall in growing household savings that can be measured in the observation that says that at least 95 percent cannot save any money. At the best the ratio stands at Rs 5 out of a hundred. The crisis has come down to...
Chile’s Right Consolidation Set To Win Presidential Run Off In December 14 Polls
By René Rojas NEW YORK: On November 16, Chile held its first general election since former student movement leader Gabriel Boric won the 2021 presidential runoffs as a candidate of a promising new left coalition. This time, however, a hard right emerged as the country’s dominant political force. It...
Behind The Nobel Prize: Controversial Alliances Of Muhammad Yunus
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury For decades, Muhammad Yunus has been hailed globally as the visionary behind microfinance- a Nobel laureate celebrated by presidents, philanthropists, and world leaders for lifting the poor out of misery. But as layers of his vast “Grameen” empire come under renewed scrutiny, a troubling...
Next Round Of Elections Are Just Five Months Away – Where Is The INDIA Bloc Doing?
By Nitya Chakraborty What is happening to the INDIA Bloc which gave just a big jolt to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his NDA in 2024 Lok Sabha elections? The BJP for the first time since the taking over of Narendra Modi as PM failed to get majority...
Disruption In Parliament Continued For The Second Day Over SIR
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Protests over demand for debate on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls continued for the second day of the winter session of the Parliament on Tuesday, December 2 causing disruption. Neither Houses – the Lok Sabha an Rajya Sabha – could conduct their business,...
India’s Drug-Pricing Rot: A Market Engineered For Profits By Big Firms
By R. Suryamurthy By any meaningful measure, India should be the cheapest place on earth to fall sick. It is the world’s largest supplier of generic medicines, the factory floor for global pharma, the so-called “pharmacy of the Global South.” Yet for ordinary Indians, the lived experience is the...
The Degeneration Of The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification
By Norma Alvares If any Indian state would stand to benefit from a strong coastal law, it is Goa. With its open seafront and numerous tidal rivers that criss-cross the land before draining into the Arabian Sea, Goa and its residents have lived in tune with this intricate and...
Parliament’s Standing Committee Report On Pharma Attracts Global Attention
By T N Ashok In a windowless committee room on Parliament Street, Indian lawmakers have lit a fuse that threatens to detonate the business model of the world’s most profitable industry. The numbers are stark, even obscene. A common allergy pill that costs distributors two cents to procure sells...
US Power Play In The Caribbean: Washington’s New Monroe Doctrine
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: We have grown used over the years to client regimes in the Middle East and parts of Africa doing the bidding of the various colonial rulers. Sadly, these “misleaders” are not restricted to those regions. We are seeing the same spectacle playing out across the...
India’s Push For Self-Reliance In Rare Earth Magnet Making Is Laudable
By Nantoo Banerjee It is encouraging to note that the government has decided to invest large sums of money in support of rare earth magnet manufacturing and substantially improve the country’s rare earth-based metals production to escape China’s global chokehold in this strategic sector. Presently, there are a few...
Trump’s Venezuela Gambit: A Drug War Or A Geopolitical Power Play?
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: When President Trump declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety” last Saturday, threatening imminent land-based military strikes against what he described as drug trafficking operations, the announcement marked a dramatic escalation in a campaign that has increasingly strained credulity among foreign policy experts...
