Custody clause heads for Parliament test
The Centre is likely to seek Parliament’s approval for the Constitution Bill, 2025, during the Monsoon Session after a Joint Parliamentary Committee completes its report, setting the stage for a sharp debate on corruption, federalism...
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Ayodhya temple cash case moves to court
The Ram Temple donation theft case is set to enter a sharper legal...
in Happening Now Jul 2 ·Ayodhya trust figure faces widening scrutiny
Ayodhya police have widened their probe into alleged embezzlement of Ram Mandir donations,...
in Happening Now Jul 2 ·Jamshedpur murder puts police under pressure
Authorities imposed prohibitory orders across key parts of Jamshedpur after the killing of...
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By Satyaki Chakraborty The U.S.-China high tech battle for supremacy has reached a new peak after the China manufactured Supercomputer LineShine was adjudged the best among the Top 500 supercomputers made by various nations including the USA, at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany held on June 23.China...
CJI Should Give Serious Look At The Opposition Parties Joint Memorandum On SIR
By Arun Srivastava The joint memorandum to the Chief Justice of India, Justice Surya Kant, by the twenty-three opposition parties is virtually of the nature of mercy entreaty which “appeals to the conscience of the judiciary. The judiciary has to see what is happening in the country today. When...
How Donald Trump Turned The White House Into A Blockchain Goldmine
By T N Ashok American politics is full of irony. A real estate agent’s son becomes a president after wasting all the billions his father earned in New Jersey and knocks at the doors of the elite in New York for admission without an answer that angers and frustrates...
DCDG Report On Custodial Deaths In Bangladesh In Last 22 Months Is Chilling
By R. Suryamurthy The true measure of a democracy is rarely found in the grandeur of its elections or the eloquence of its constitution. It is found instead in the silence of its prison cells, the transparency of its police stations and the restraint exercised by those empowered to...
Starmer’s £300 Billion Defence Plan Poses A Challenge For Burnham
By Asad Mirza Keir Starmer announced his resignation as Labour leader on 22 June 2026 after a mutiny within his own party, but before leaving Downing Street he unveiled a near-£300 billion, drone-heavy defence plan – a move critics call his final, and most contested, act as prime minister....
A Judicial Enquiry Is Imperative To Find Out The Perpetrators Of Ram Mandir Scam
By Nilotpal Basu Despite the best efforts of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh (UP), a major scandal has exploded on the face of the Hindutva brigade. The biggest political project of the Sangh, which was like a blank cheque for encashment of...
Writer-Director Vijaya Mehta’s Passing Away Is A Big Loss To The Indian Theatre
By Tirthankar Mitra People often do not find the profession they are suited to. But when eminent theatre director, Ebrahim Alkazi spotted a young girl essaying the role of Desdemona in a stage adaptation of Othello, he asked the upcoming actress to join his drama group, Theatre Group. From...
Progressives Sweep Colorado Democratic Party Primaries Elections
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik WASHINGTON DC: From the governorship race down to the Secretary of State’s contest, progressive candidates—including current Democratic Socialists of America member Melat Kiros for Congress in Denver and former DSA member Manny Rutinel in a swing district north of Denver—won. Melat Kiros made...
Retail Petroleum Prices Fall Only On Paper As Consumers Wait In Anticipation
By K Raveendran The arithmetic of India’s fuel market has long been sold as market-driven, but the latest price movements expose a more selective discipline. When crude oil rises, the pass-through to consumers and businesses is quick, stern and explained as unavoidable. When the same crude oil retreats, the...
Rightwing Surge Continues In Latin America As Fujimori Wins Peru Prez Election
By Nitya Chakraborty The Right wing resurgence in the political arena of Latin America continues with the victory of the far right candidate Keiko Fujimori in the Presidential elections in Peru. Keiko, daughter of the former President Alberto Fujimori won by only less than 50,000 votes in a neck...
India’s Village Democracy Is Facing A Credibility Crisis At Present
By R. Suryamurthy There is an old assumption embedded deep within India’s governance system that democracy can be strengthened by multiplying procedures. Conduct more meetings. Circulate more notices. Upload more records. Build more digital platforms. Yet, the latest national study on Gram Sabha participation suggests that this administrative logic...
Communist Party Of China Has The Largest Party Membership After BJP Of India
By Satyaki Chakraborty Communist Party of China has now 101.28 million members, the second highest party membership in the world after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India which claims to have 180 million members. Both the countries have around 1.45 billion population. While the BJP’s membership increased at...
Trump’s $1 Billion Crypto Filing Shows How Wealth Creation Has Changed
By Nigel Green Trump’s annual financial disclosure report shows that cryptocurrency is already part of mainstream finance. President Donald Trump disclosed more than $1 billion in crypto-related income in his latest federal financial filing, with digital asset ventures generating more revenue than much of the real estate empire he...
‘Drishyam 3’ Review: Jeethu Joseph Proves That Great Sequels Don’t Have To Suck
By T N Ashok Hollywood has conditioned audiences to expect diminishing returns from franchises. The first film dazzles, the second tries to outdo it, and by the third the series usually runs out of ideas. Jeethu Joseph’s Drishyam trilogy breaks that rule with remarkable confidence. If anything, Drishyam 3...
Can ‘Chhatron Ki Goonj’ Spark Education Reform?
By Raju Kumar India’s education system today is grappling with more than shortages of resources, outdated curricula or institutional shortcomings. The deeper crisis is one of trust. Millions of students and their families spend years preparing for competitive examinations, investing enormous amounts of time, money and hope. When paper...
Bangladesh-China Joint Statement On Teesta Cooperation Poses A Big Challenge To India
By Nitya Chakraborty The joint statement of the Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman issued in Beijing on June 26 following the visit of Tarique to China has drawn the attention of the global diplomatic circles due to the sweep of the nature of...
Ram Mandir Scam Poses A Big Challenge To Yogi In Pre-Poll Year
By Arun Srivastava Hindu organizations, including RSS, BJP, VHP are silent on the scam at Ram Mandir. They would. It is expected of them. It is wrong to believe that they are maintaining silence out of shame and public outrage. It is also not the fact that they are...
If A Passport Doesn’t Prove You Are An Indian, Then What Does?
By T N Ashok In most countries, the question would sound absurd. “Can you prove you are a citizen?” A citizen reaches into a wallet, pulls out a passport and the conversation ends. Not in India anymore. A political and legal controversy erupted after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar...
