Banerjee alleges AI-driven voter deletions
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of deploying artificial intelligence to erase 54 lakh names from electoral rolls, a charge that injects a volatile digital dimension into the...
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Congress–RJD tensions surface after Kadwa leader’s remarks
Veteran Congress leader and former legislator from Kadwa in Katihar district, Shakeel Ahmad...
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Shah targets Bengal over illegal migration claims
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday accused the West Bengal government of...
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Shivakumar denies appeasement claims on encroachment action
Deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar on Tuesday dismissed opposition allegations that the government...
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By K Raveendran As Indian corporates step into the new year buoyed by stronger growth momentum and easing inflationary pressures, a sense of anticipation is spreading across boardrooms and policy circles alike over a dispute that dwarfs most corporate battles seen in the country’s history. At the heart of...
UDF On Upswing, But Groupism Takes Shine Off Its Win In Local Bodies Poll
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As the sun sets on 2025, a close look at the prospects of the principal political fronts in Kerala is in order. The Left Democratic Front (LDF) is certainly down, but not out. Its ‘unexpected’ defeat is not an unmitigated disaster its political rivals are...
Disturbing Decline Of Diplomacy Across South Asia Bodes Ill For All
By Ashis Biswas Within the South Asian context, a noticeable coarsening of diplomatic discourse among four countries has occurred, following the violent regime change in Bangladesh, a brief encounter involving India and Pakistan and sporadic skirmishes between Pakistan and Afghanistan. A new political alignment, whose contours will be clearer...
Overconfidence, Identity Politics Caused LDF Defeat: CPI(M) State Chief
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has attributed its ‘unexpected’ poor performance in the local bodies elections in Kerala to overconfidence and the big surge in religion-caste identity politics played by the Congress, the BJP and Islamist forces. Analysing the reasons for the defeat, CPI(M)...
Haryana Minister Anil Vij Exposes Rs. 1,500-Crore Work Slip Scam
By Jag Mohan Thaken By exposing the Rs.1,500-Crore “Work Slip Scam” in his own department and recommending for a high-level probe to the Chief Minister, Haryana Labour Minister Anil Vij has landed the CM Nayab Singh Saini in hot waters, who always claims to preside on a corruption-free Haryana....
Brigitte Bardot, The Face That Changed Desire—And Then Turned Away
By T N Ashok Brigitte Bardot, who died at 91, was not merely a movie star. She was an event. Before Madonna, before Jane Birkin, before the age of celebrity-as-performance, Bardot arrived in the 1950s as something both unsettling and liberating: a woman who seemed indifferent to approval. Her...
No Illusions Of Fairness From Recently-Held Myanmar Elections
By Tirthankar Mitra December 28 has come and gone marking the end of the first phase of the three-phase elections in Myanmar, but democracy seems to be elusive. The elections are widely being viewed at home and abroad as a “sham”. Myanmar is in need of peace, democracy and...
Blockade, Aggression, And Jus Cogens: US Sanctions On Venezuelan Oil
By Atul Alexander On December 16, the United States (US) announced measures to block oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela. The Trump administration alleges that Nicolás Maduro’s regime is engaged in drug trafficking and human trafficking. The U.S has expanded its naval presence in the region, ostensibly to interrupt...
Rupee Decline May Not Be Bad For Economy Now
By Nantoo Banerjee It does not make sense for India to deplete its hard-earned foreign currency reserves to temporarily protect the Rupee’s exchange value. In fact, Indian Rupee’s downturn vis-à-vis other major currencies has not adversely impacted the country’s impressive economic growth, at least for the present. On the...
Time Has Come To Call Modi Government’s Bluff On Environmental Hypocrisy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak How many definitions were changed under various legislations by the Union Government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014 and for whose benefit? Aravalli Hills case has once again prompted us to think, because definitions were changed to profit the mining lobbies at...
Bangladesh’s Intense Political Turmoil Has Potential To Spill Over
By Kalyani Shankar Bangladesh has been going through a massive political crisis since the resignation of the former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina-led government last year. This volatile situation has caused regional tensions. A series of riots, arson attacks, and political unrest hit across Bangladesh from December 18 to 20,...
India Enters 2026 Strong—But Is The Growth Self-Sustaining?
By R Suryamurthy India enters 2026 buoyed by numbers that invite celebration but resist interrogation. Real GDP growth has pushed past 7 per cent, inflation has collapsed to levels last seen more than a decade ago, and policymakers speak with renewed confidence about the economy’s resilience amid global turbulence....
Why The Air Littoral Is A Land Forces Problem In India’s Future Wars
By Aritra Banerjee For decades, air power debates in India have been framed around strategic bombing, air superiority, and long-range strike, domains traditionally led by the Indian Air Force (IAF). Yet, India’s most likely wars will not be decided at 40,000 feet or by deep-penetration missions alone. They will...
Weeks The World Lost: Wuhan Exposed A Global Failure Still Unfixed
By Huma Siddiqui Pandemics are governed not by intention but by timing. COVID-19’s global catastrophe was shaped less by what governments did in March 2020 than by what failed to happen weeks earlier, when the virus was still geographically contained and politically manageable. In retrospect, the decisive period was...
Somaliland Recognised By Israel, Sparking Regional Security Concerns
By Asad Mirza On Friday last (26 December) Israel became the first country to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign state, a breakthrough in its quest for international recognition since it declared independence from Somalia 34 years ago. However, the move has prompted a critical international and regional response. The...
Brigitte Bardot: Screen Goddess Oozing Oomph Exits Theatre Of Life
By Tirthankar Mitra Often referred to by her initials B.B., Brigitte Bardot (91) one of the best-known symbols of sexual revolution, is no more. Apart from being an actress, singer and model, she was a well-known animal rights activist. The pouty, tousle-haired French actress cut short her film career...
Law, NGOs, And The Afterlives Of Rescue: Reviewing ‘Immoral Traffic’
By Ajitesh Singh At a book discussion recently held at the India International Centre Annexe, New Delhi, lawyers, feminist researchers, academics, and students came together to examine how law, NGOs, and global anti-trafficking regimes govern sex work in India. The occasion was the launch of the book ‘Immoral Traffic’,...
Gold’s Race To Magic $5000 Most Keenly Watched Milestone For 2026
By K Raveendran Gold’s surge has turned a long-running Indian household instinct into a global macro trade. With spot prices pressing above the $4,500 an ounce mark late in 2025 and year-to-date gains running above 70 percent, the metal is headed for its strongest annual performance since 1979. The...
