Ayodhya temple row traps BJP in donation storm
Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Rai and a party delegation were stopped on Tuesday from visiting the Ram temple in Ayodhya, intensifying a political confrontation over allegations that donations made by devotees were siphoned from...
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Ayodhya trust faces deeper donation scrutiny
The Ayodhya Ram Mandir donation controversy has widened into a larger test of...
in Happening Now Jul 1 ·Privilege row deepens over Operation Sindoor deaths
Congress stepped up its confrontation with the government on Tuesday after KC Venugopal...
in Happening Now Jul 1 ·Cockroach movement draws notice without poll ambitions
The Cockroach Janta Party has moved from online satire to street mobilisation, drawing...
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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...
Bangladeshi Migrants Are Having Hard Times In All Parts Of The World
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In recent years, migration has become more difficult for Bangladeshi immigrants, in the context of unsettled economic/political conditions worldwide, the continuing Ukraine war and the US/Iran conflict. Somewhat worryingly for the present BNP Government it seems the hard times will continue for Bangladeshis ,as the...
The Rise Of The Stand-Alone Hero Marks The Latest Cinema In South
By T N Ashok For decades, the conventional wisdom of Indian cinema was remarkably simple. Producers discovered stories, assembled stars, hired directors, raised money, marketed the film and hoped for a blockbuster. Actors merely performed the role assigned to them. The producer carried the financial burden while the star...
Burnham’s Promise Of ‘Change’ Will Be Judged On What Comes Next
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Heavy on rhetoric, light on detail, Andy Burnham set out his vision for “change,” delivered symbolically from the People’s History Museum in Manchester this morning. There was much to commend in the statement — a commitment to devolve power to the regions (“place first, party...
Bid To Rebuild Bengal To Its Old Glory Is Welcome, Though Difficult
By Nantoo Banerjee West Bengal’s first ever Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s resolve to rebuild the state to its “old glory” sounds good though reversing decades of economic stagnation and industrial decline remains an incredibly difficult challenge. Economically, West Bengal’s rank among Indian states has dropped from No.1 till...
Uddhav Thackeray Is Losing His Status In Maharashtra Politics After Latest Split
By Kalyani Shankar On June 19, the Shiv Sena marked its 60th anniversary. Since its inception, in the past 60 years. The party has experienced several splits, with the latest occurring on June 26. Shiv Sena’s 60th anniversary is contested by two factions—Thackeray’s Sena (UBT) and Eknath Shinde’s Sena—each...
Eight Rules Set By The Centre For Implementation Of VB-GMRG Act Must Go
By Satyaki Chakraborty Former CPI(M) politburo member Brinda Karat has alleged that the eight rules published by the centre for the implementation of the new VB-GRAMG Act replacing MGNREGA have been set without having any consultations with rural and MGNREGA workers associations. She has mentioned that the rules of...
Evasive Peace: How The US-Iran Ceasefire Is Unravelling Each Day Continuing Conflict
By Asad Mirza The ink on the Islamabad Memorandum was barely dry when missiles and drones began flying again across the Persian Gulf. A week of tit-for-tat strikes between Washington and Tehran, compounded by Israel’s relentless pounding of Lebanon, has exposed the US-Iran ceasefire of June 2026 as a...
BRICS Has Assumed More Importance In The Present Global Geopolitics
By Dr. Arun Mitra In the just concluded G7 Summit, in addition to the seven member states, several other countries—including India, Brazil, South Korea, Kenya, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—were invited to participate. This may reflect a growing realization among the G7 powers that...
