Trump urges Venezuela to align oil ties with US interests
The Trump administration has set stiff conditions for Venezuela’s government under interim president Delcy Rodríguez to expand oil production, demanding the country sever economic links with China, Russia, Iran and Cuba before Washington will allow...
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Bangladesh’s statehood anchored in 1971, Tarique says
Bangladesh’s political identity and statehood remain inseparable from the 1971 Liberation War, according...
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UP CEO rejects voter list lapse claim
Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa has rejected allegations of procedural lapses...
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Alleged ragging incident triggers action at Palghar medical college
Authorities at a private medical college in Maharashtra’s Palghar district have moved to...
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By K Raveendran The sharp criticism mounted by Opposition leaders against the Supreme Court’s refusal to grant bail to Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam in the 2020 Delhi riots conspiracy case has been foregrounded as a defence of constitutional liberty. Yet, when examined closely, the argument appears driven more...
BCCI Disallowing Bangladeshi Cricketer From Playing In IPL Was Wrong
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Even the return of Bangladesh -Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Mr Tarique Rahman to Dhaka may not help in reducing present political tensions in Indo-Bangla bilateral ties. On the contrary, there is a strong possibility of a fresh eruption of poll-related violence in all likelihood to...
Millions Of Americans Planning Massive Demonstrations Against Trump On January 20
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON D.C.: It’s back to the streets, on January 20, for 50501, No Kings, the Women’s March and their labour and other allies, campaigning anew against the autocracy of Republican White House occupant Donald Trump. “History is clear: Authoritarianism is defeated by broad, nonviolent movements rooted...
High Court Satisfied With Sit Probe Into Sabarimala Gold Theft Case
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala high Court’s expression of satisfaction with the investigation being conducted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the Sabarimala gold theft case constitutes a major setback to the combined Opposition in the State. The Opposition has been launching a vituperative campaign to discredit...
Punjab Govt Led By AAP Has Taken Major Measures To Improve Women Health
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Hindustan Times on its web portal reported an incident, on Oct 15, 2025, which makes everyone shudder and reflects how humanity has dipped into a deep well of poisonous inhuman water. “A 27-year-old woman was allegedly forced to give birth on the roadside in...
Hungarian Film Director Bela Tarr Inspired Many Young Film Makers In Europe
By Tirthankar Mitra Not known to be a filmmaker with a penchant for rainbow themes, Bela Tarr’s films stood apart for their unconventional method of direction and issues which stayed in the minds of the audience long after they have left the movie theatres. If the works of the...
Narendra Modi Has Lost His Moral Right To Lead 2026 BRICS Presidency
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s isolation from Global South on the issue of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is now complete. Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims himself as the leader of Global South. Both at the SCO summit and BRICS meeting last year, Modi was active in articulating the aspirations and...
Trump’s Onslaught On Venezuela Is Aimed At Looting Natural Resources Including Oil
By Asad Mirza During the past one year, perhaps no other man has garnered so much news headlines and space as the American President Donald Trump. This is not due to any of his humane policies or pro-people announcements, but based solely on his quirky and unpredictable executive orders...
U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela And Kidnapping Of President Is A Threat To Global South
By Dr Arun Mitra US aggression on Venezuela, kidnapping its elected President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on the cooked up charges of narcoterrorism reminds one of the familiar story of Lion and the Lamb. Similar excuse was given when the US attacked Iraq in 2003 that...
A Decade After 2014, Modi’s Farm Income Promise Looks Economically Hollow
By R. Suryamurthy By any reasonable political measure, the promise to double farmers’ incomes was one of Narendra Modi’s most consequential commitments. Announced with flourish in the early years of his first term, it sought to reframe India’s agrarian question—not as one of chronic distress to be periodically managed,...
Trump’s Venezuelan Invasion Facing Serious Roadblocks Leading To Uncertainty
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The unmarked aircraft that spirited Nicolás Maduro from Miraflores Palace three days ago was meant to close a chapter. Instead, it has opened a Pandora’s box of interventionist ambition that now stretches from the Arctic Circle to the Rio Grande. In the smoking...
State Help Is Helping Chinese Auto Industry To Dominate Overseas Market
By Kunal Bose Till not very long ago, people around the world loved to believe that bigness in volume of industrial and agricultural products was the only hallmark of China. But this is now disabused by a growing number of sectoral experts. More recently, Nvidia chairman Jensen Huang reminded...
Donald Trump Who Promised To End Wars In Poll Campaign, Goes To War
By Ben Burgis NEW YORK: In January 2023, J. D. Vance had just arrived in the Senate. One of the first things he did was to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination. His primary argument was that Trump, “started...
Remembering American Writer Jack London On His 150th Birth Anniversary
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Jack London’s journey as a socialist and a writer is a story of dramatic ascent and tragic decline. His socialism grew from lived experience: childhood poverty, hard labour in factories, and first-hand exposure to capitalism’s exploitative logic, crystallisedin1894 . He was born on January...
U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela May Set The Process Of Trump’s Down Turn In November Mid Term
By Nitya Chakraborty The invasion of Venezuela by the United States on the early hours of January 3 along with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro and his wife marks a new phase in Donald Trump’s foreign policy which has been termed by The Guardian columnist as “naked imperialism”....
More New Airlines Are Bad News For Existing Small Domestic Carriers
By Nantoo Banerjee The civil aviation ministry’s much publicized issue of ‘no objection certificates’ to proposed three airlines – Shankh Air, AIhind Air and FlyExpress – apparently to break the near monopoly of IndiGo in the fast-expanding domestic aviation market shows, if anything, a lack of market perspective and...
The Great Indian Paradox – GDP Is Growing High But Rupee Is Sinking
By T N Ashok When India overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth-largest economy, policymakers celebrated a milestone that had been decades in the making. Official growth numbers showed an economy expanding at 6.5 to 7 percent, far outpacing a global slowdown stuck near 3 percent. Yet even as...
Twelve Years After The Maruti Manesar Violence, Workers Still Restive
By Tanishka Shah More than twelve years after an incident at Maruti Plant in Manesar, which led to the death of an HR manager, the dismissal of over five hundred workers and numerous arrests, on November 7, 2025, Gurugram’s Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court issued a judgment denying reinstatement to a...
