Trump lifts extra India tariff under trade pact
Washington moved to roll back an additional 25 per cent tariff on goods from India on Friday, formalising a trade understanding announced earlier this week and tying the relief to New Delhi’s commitment to halt...
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Sonia Gandhi challenges criminal revision plea
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has formally opposed a criminal revision petition filed against...
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Dhaka unrest flares ahead of polls
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Himachal Pradesh challenges HC curb on FIR withdrawals
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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.India Have Reasons To Be Happy At Big U.S. Switch On The Status Of Kashmir
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: For seven decades, American diplomats danced around Kashmir with the precision of tightrope walkers, carefully avoiding any gesture that might suggest the United States had chosen sides in South Asia’s most intractable territorial dispute. Maps were scrubbed of political meaning. Statements were lawyered...
Energy Is Pivot In $500 Billion Indo-U.S. Interim Trade Agreement
By K Raveendran The joint declaration accompanying the Indo-US trade agreement, where the first item on the expansive $500 billion agenda is energy and the lifting of additional tariffs is explicitly tied to India curtailing its purchases of Russian crude, crystallises a shift that had been quietly unfolding in...
Some Tariff Relief For India: Strategic Gains Including Tariff For U.S.
By R. Suryamurthy The India–United States Interim Trade Agreement has been unveiled as a diplomatic breakthrough and marketed domestically as evidence of India’s growing economic heft. In reality, it marks a decisive shift in how trade, security, and sovereignty are being re-ordered in India’s engagement with Washington. The agreement...
February 7 All India Strike Disrupted App Based Delivery And Transport Services
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All India strike of app based transport workers on February 7 has disrupted transport services in major cities of India like Delhi Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Kolkata. Delivery and transport services have also impacted many other cities across the country. This is the second strike...
Trade Unions And Activists Flay CJI’s Remarks On Domestic Workers Rights
By Ayush Kumar Certain comments from a Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) Surya Kant, made on January 29, 2026, has faced widespread condemnation by trade unions and activists. The bench dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by ten domestic workers’ unions seeking statutory recognition...
Mandelson, Trump And The Plutocracy: Why The Rule Of Rich Should End?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is trying to contain the Mandelson-Epstein scandal to Peter Mandelson. Some Labour MPs hope to contain it by sacrificing Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney. Others rightly say Starmer himself must go. But even that isn’t nearly enough. The horrific...
Supreme Court’s Refusal To Hear Direct Cash Transfer To Voters Case Is Flawed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court’s refusal to entertain a petition challenging the direct cash transfer to voters while Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for election was in operation, the Election Commission of India’s turning blind eye to the violation of MCC in this way, and deploying beneficiaries...
Trump May Use India-US Trade Agreement To Delink India From Global South
By Dr. Arun Mitra When the Seed Bill was introduced, followed by the Electricity Bill, and the subsequent budget made no reference to the agricultural sector, it had already become apparent what kind of India–US trade agreement was being shaped. Although the Government of India has not yet disclosed...
Trump Is Gasping In His Own Trap In Iran As He Fails To Deal With Self Created Crisis
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Donald Trump likes to project the image of a man who creates crises in order to dominate them. In Iran, that theory is collapsing in real time. What was meant to be a demonstration of American willpower has instead become a case study...
Budget 2026-27 Has Adversely Hit The Agriculture Sector And Rural People
By Prabhat Patnaik Since even the highest bourgeois oracle, the IMF, has cast doubts on the veracity of India’s GDP estimates, the precise budget figures based on the assumptions of a certain level, and growth rate, in nominal GDP, mean very little; in fact, the current budget, while announcing...
Anatomy Of Kerala HC’s Clean Chit To Sit In Gold Theft Probe
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Opposition parties in Kerala, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again got it in the neck from the Kerala High Court in the Sabarimala gold theft case. In a ruling which has come as a big relief...
Moving Away Totally From Russian Oil Supply Is Not In India’s Interests
By Anjan Roy It is becoming increasingly clear that the acclaimed trade deal between India and US is at best a high profile theatrical. So far, it is not even on paper. It exists on sound waves. Experts are eagerly looking for the joint statement of the two countries...
Indian Officials Have Negotiated Well With U.S. On The Terms Of Trade Deal
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Donald Trump and Narendra Modi announced their trade agreement on February 2nd, the American president called it evidence of an “amazing relationship.” The Indian prime minister thanked his “dear friend” with characteristic diplomatic warmth. Yet beneath this bonhomie lies a more complex...
Sharad Pawar Hints At Potential Merger Of Two NCP Factions
By Rahil Nora Chopra After hinting at barriers before a possible merger between the two NCP factions, the NCP-SP chief Sharad Pawar held a closed-door meeting with the sons of the late Ajit Pawar and later visited the Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar in Baramati to pay tribute to...
To Combat The Far Right Challenge In Europe, Left Must Unite Its Ranks
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: I’ve been able to spot a racist from a mile off from an early age. This has been necessary as a matter of physical and mental health rather than due to any magical powers. I should be really clear that I have never believed that...
India Faces A Precarious Situation In Myanmar As China Supports Junta Led Rigged Elections
By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh, Nepal and now Myanmar. Indian foreign policy makers are clueless in dealing with the developing situation. Myanmar’s three phase general elections organized by the military junta ended on January 25 and the results were released on January 29 and 30. As expected, the military aligned...
Ruling NDA’s Direct Cash To Bihar Voters Challenged In Supreme Court
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Was Bihar election rigged by the ruling NDA through direct cash transfers to voters, and also by deploying the beneficiaries on election duty by the Election Commission of India? Was ECI’s ignoring the direct cash transfer to voters vitiated the very election process in the...
From Federalism To ‘Nationalization’: Trump’s Election Gambit Mid Term Eve
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On February 3, 2026, President Donald Trump renewed a controversial call to “nationalize” U.S. elections — an idea that would shift significant electoral authority away from the fifty states to a centralized federal body. Trump’s remarks, given in the context of ongoing disputes...
