Congress readies Aravalli outreach push
Congress is preparing to step up its ground-level mobilisation around the “Save Aravalli” campaign, with party leaders weighing a statewide yatra that could feature participation from the central leadership as part of a broader effort...
Full storyHAPPENING NOW
Bhagwat links science and dharma as shared quest
Mohan Bhagwat said there is “no contradiction” between science and dharma, arguing that...
in Happening Now Dec 27 ·
Professor faces suspension over exam question row
A university professor has been suspended after an examination paper set by him...
in Happening Now Dec 27 ·
UP BJP warns against caste mobilisation amid internal unease
Uttar Pradesh BJP leadership has issued a clear directive cautioning party members against...
in Happening Now Dec 27 ·
Opinion
Appeal
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.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...
Indian Workers Lost Many Of Their Hard-Won Labour Rights In 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Code on Wages was passed in the Parliament of India in August 2019, followed by three other codes – The Industrial Relations Code, 2020, Code on Social Security, 2020, and Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code 2020, a year later in...
Dismantling MGNREGA: An Outrageous Assault On The Indian Constitution
By Prabhat Patnaik Several employment schemes, each limited in scope and constrained by the availability of fiscal resources, had existed in different states of the country earlier; what the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme enacted in 2005 did was to introduce a uniform, nation-wide, essentially centrally-funded, demand-driven...
Delhi’s Unbreatheable Air Crisis Returns To The Supreme Court
By T N Ashok Before the Indian Supreme Court, there’s not just another plea on Delhi’s choking air; it’s not adjudicating a new emergency. It is confronting an old failure—one that has returned with brutal predictability, thick smog, and a mounting toll on public health. Each winter, the national...
Why United States Must Strengthen Vital Ally Peshmerga
By Manish Rai The Peshmerga, the armed forces of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), constitute a highly effective and well-trained military organization that protects not only Kurdistan but also the whole of northern Iraq. The rapid disintegration of the Iraqi military in 2014, after minimal resistance to ISIS, left...
Worldwide Rise In Extreme Inequality Is The Hallmark Of Neoliberalism
By Sanjay Roy Extreme inequality in terms of income, wealth, gender and regions has become the hallmark of neoliberalism. Fewer than 60,000 multi-millionaires who are the top 0.001 per cent wealthiest of the world possess three times the wealth of half of humanity. Their share has grown over the...
Honouring Punjab Boy Sharvan Singh, A Bearer Of True Patriotism
By Jag Mohan Thaken History repeats itself; but a few are fortunate to get the recognition. The spiritual world, especially the Sikh world, is proud of the act of kindness, humility and service to mankind exemplified by Bhai Kanhaiya Ji, who is widely known for his water seva during...
Radio Ceylon Turns 100: One Of Indian Popular Music’s Oldest Medium
By Tirthankar Mitra One of world’s oldest broadcasters, Radio Ceylon, has turned 100. It arrived decades before television when radio was a novelty and Radio Ceylon started officially broadcasting from December 16, 1925. Radio Ceylon may seem an aberration today; after all, Ceylon is Sri Lanka. But the British-era...
The New Nuclear Bill Severely Compromises India’s National Interests
By Dr Arun Mitra The new nuclear bill, titled Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI), passed by Parliament, has received the assent of the President of India, Droupadi Murmu. With this, it has become an Act governing various aspects of nuclear energy in the...
Beyond Funding: What Determines Employment Guarantee Success?
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik One of the contentious issues in the Vikshit Bharat Guarantee for Rojgar and Aleevika Mission (VB-G Ram G) Bill, which was eventually passed in Parliament, concerns allowing states to pause MGNREGA-related work for 60 days of their choice during peak sowing and harvesting seasons. The...
Disrupting Christmas Celebrations Allegedly By RSS Activist Is Ominous
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Disruption of Christmas celebrations 2025 is several states in India, allegedly by the RSS activists and Hindutva forces, has brought in focus the pitfalls of fanning the majority Hindu communal passions against non-Hindu religious groups, more so because the inter-religious tensions are rising sharply on...
India’s Space Agency Emerges As Major Force In Global Launch Market
By T N Ashok A rocket lifted off at dawn from the coastal launch complex of Sriharikota, carrying a 6.1-ton American communications satellite into the December sky. Within minutes, the payload was safely deployed in orbit, another mission completed with the metronomic precision that has become India’s calling card...
Trade Unions Toughen Stance, Call For General Strike On Feb 12
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The major trade unions in the country except the BMS have decided to toughen their stance against the implementation of the four new labour codes, enactment of a new law to replace the MGNREGA, amendments to the Insurance Act and changes in the nuclear energy...
2025, The Year That Was; 2026, The Year That Will Be
By Nilotpal Basu Reviewing the year gone by is important, as the past gives us the wherewithal to understand the present and step into the future with all our energy and purpose, particularly in an environment which is engulfed by a mainstream media which is increasingly hegemonised by corporate...
In Defence Of Our Anti-Colonial Socialist-Communist Heritage
By Krishna Jha The national freedom movement, both through its successes and failures, greatly deepened the national consciousness. This consciousness went through the stages of evolving new strategies and methods of struggles, creation of new traditions of resistance, of secularism, of democracy and egalitarianism. Among its great successes and...
Trump Focuses On Nigeria, The New Epicentre Of ISIS Terrorism
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers On Christmas night, American warplanes struck northwestern Nigeria. The targets: suspected ISIS positions in Sokoto State. The location surprised seasoned observers. Nigeria is neither Syria or Iraq. Yet for Donald Trump, that was precisely the point. The operation signals a fundamental shift. America’s war on...
Murmurs Of ‘Rahul Hatao, Priyanka Laao’ Pinch Congress
By Rahil Nora Chopra After poll routs in Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi and poor performance in the assembly elections of Bihar, the voices for Priyanka Gandhi Vadra have grown stronger. The rumbling heard within the party is “Rahul hatao, Priyanka laao”, publicly calling for a meaty central role for Priyanka....
Sreenivasan, The Keeper Of Malayali Conscience On Screen Passes Away
By Tirthankar Mitra The common factor between the Malayali films Sandesam (1991) and Nadodikkattu (1987) is no more. Sreenivasan, who was part and parcel of both the films, has passed away. It did not matter to the multifaceted man that the two films were on divergent topics. Sreenivasan enacted...
