Delhi High Court seeks replies in excise policy appeal
Delhi High Court on Monday issued notices to former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and 21 others after the Central Bureau of Investigation challenged a trial court ruling that...
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Iranian drones strike Bahrain refinery injuring dozens
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Centre demands explanation over Murmu protocol lapse
Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan has asked the West Bengal government to submit...
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Opposition states intensify backlash over LPG price hike
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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.Iran War Is Likely To Hit Indian Economy Hard
By Nantoo Banerjee The all-out war in West Asia, involving the US-Israel combine and Iran and covering 10 countries in the region, is expected to have a big economic backlash on India. At stake are India’s $120-billion trade in this region, huge oil imports, overall balance of payments, inflow...
Nepal Electorate Give Unequivocal Verdict Against Instability, Old Faces, Corruption
By Nitya Chakraborty With the final results of the March 5 elections in Nepal, almost available, it is clear that the Gen Z supported Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is set to form the next government in this tiny Himalayan nation headed by the RSP leader Balendra Shah whose political...
Respect (Disrespect) To President Is New Electoral Narrative In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest controversy involving the President of India Draupadi Murmu is being shaped as a new electoral narrative in West Bengal, and the way it is being done shows that it is less about protocol itself and more about electoral narrative building ahead of the...
U.S. Defence Companies Are Making Fortunes As Iran War Escalates
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Strip away the flags. Silence the speeches. Turn off the generals with their grave faces and PowerPoint slides showing red arrows across sand-coloured maps. When the theatre clears, what remains is not a clash of civilisations, not a battle for freedom, not even...
Naming Mojtaba Khamenei As Supreme Leader Marks Continuity Of Iranian Leadership
By Asad Mirza Iran on Monday (March 9) named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as the supreme leader of Iran, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge. Iranian institutions and politicians, from the foreign ministry to lawmakers, issued statements expressing their allegiance to the country’s new...
Narendra Modi Has Politicised President’s Visit To Bengal To Help BJP
By Arun Srivastava Never before in the political history of India, the institution of President was used in such a blatant manner as was done on Saturday March 7, by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for ensuring the victory of the BJP at the Bengal assembly elections. What has...
Britain Is Drifting Into Donald Trump’s Iran War, That Has To Be Stopped
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The tens of thousands who marched against war with Iran on Saturday speak for the huge majority of the British public. That is clear from every opinion poll. It was clear on the BBC’s politics show Question Time, where presenter Fiona Bruce, asking for a...
Oil Shock Fears Mount As Gulf Conflict Impact Spreads Far And Wide
By K Raveendran Escalating hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran are rapidly transforming a regional confrontation into a global economic and geopolitical crisis, raising the spectre of what many analysts are beginning to describe as a Third Gulf War. Tehran’s early warning that Washington might possess the...
Women Workers Facing Double The Risks From Generative AI Than Men
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the world is celebrating the International Women’s Day on March 8, a new concern has emerged for women workforce. They are facing double the risks from Generative AI (Gen AI) compared to men, which an International Labour Organisation (ILO) research brief has just confirmed....
Iran War Threatens Growth, Jobs, And Fuel Prices Ahead Of Assembly Elections
By T N Ashok The Strait of Hormuz is ablaze, and India’s economic miracle is suddenly hostage to a war it did not script. What began as a regional clash between Iran and Israel has metastasized into India’s most acute economic crisis in a decade. For New Delhi, the...
Israel, US, Iran War Is An Economic Disaster For India
By Matein Khalid The geopolitical convulsion in Iran has led to panic buying in Brent crude as Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery Ras Tanura and Qatar’s LNG mega complex at Ras Laffan shut production even as tanker traffic in the Straits of Hormuz comes to a halt amid soaring war...
Bangladesh Takes Emergency Measures To Deal With Energy Crisis Due To Iran War
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Bangladesh has resorted to petrol rationing to stave off a crippling shortage of fuel in the days ahead, as the war against Iran by the US/Israel forces completed its first week. New Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has cut down on power consumption in his official...
Pentagon’s Internal Memo Expects The US’s Iran War To Run Till September
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: By a seven-vote margin, the Republicans-run U.S. House backed Donald Trump’s war on Iran, but that wasn’t the big war story out of Washington on the sixth day of the war. A Pentagon memo saying the military expects the war to continue through at least...
Spain Shows Europe How To Oppose Donald Trump’s Illegal War In Iran
By Pablo Castaño MADRID: Pedro Sánchez has done it again. The Spanish prime minister has once more become the sole voice among major European countries standing up to Donald Trump, this time over the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran. The Madrid government has denied...
Gen Z Supported RSP’s Resounding Win In Nepal Elections Is A Gamechanger
By Nitya Chakraborty The resounding victory of the Gen Z supported Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in the March 5 general elections in Nepal is a game changer not only in the political history of this tiny Himalayan nation but also in the evolving polity of South Asia. Nepal is...
Reshuffle Of Governors Is Manifestation Of Centre’s Changing Political Stance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest reshuffle of the governors in 9 states and UTs of India seems not merely an administrative exercise, but has greater political significance. It is actually a manifestation of Centre’s changing political stance vis-à-vis most politically sensitive states and UTs of the country at...
A Oil Buying Waiver That Reveals The Limits Of India’s Strategic Autonomy
By R. Suryamurthy The United States’ decision to grant India a temporary waiver for Russian oil purchases may appear, at first glance, to be a pragmatic gesture designed to stabilise energy markets during a geopolitical emergency. In reality, the episode reveals something far more consequential: the structural limits of...
With Nitish Kumar In Rajya Sabha, NDA In Bihar Will Not Be The Same Again
By Arun Srivastava Never write off a politician. Yes, media plays a key role in showing the door or refurbishing the image of the politician, but it is the resilience of the politician that defines his role and survival, the political durability. It is a general perception that once...
