Bengal border drive sharpens migrant debate
Amit Shah has offered an exit window to Bangladeshis living illegally in Bengal, saying those who return voluntarily will not face prosecution, as the new Suvendu Adhikari government moves to accelerate border fencing and migration...
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Assam TMC exit deepens Bengal fallout
Abhijit Majumdar has resigned as Trinamool Congress chief in Assam, accusing the Mamata...
in Happening Now May 30 ·Gulf tensions deepen after disputed Bushehr aircraft claim
Iranian state media said air defences had destroyed a hostile aircraft in Bushehr...
in Happening Now May 30 ·Kolkata Eid prayers move off Red Road
Kolkata marked Eid-ul-Adha under a changed administrative template as the city’s largest congregation...
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By Nitya Chakraborty Facing the big possibility of China taking control of the new Junta government in Myanmar which took office last month, Indian policy makers are now very keen to give a big push to the India-Myanmar relations covering both economy and security aspects. Myanmar President U Min...
Exam Fiascos A Sad Commentary On Modi Govt’s Claims On Economic Progress
By K Raveendran The promise of India becoming the world’s third-largest economy has become one of the most persistent themes in the political messaging of the Modi government. It is projected as evidence of national resurgence, a sign that India is no longer waiting at the margins of global...
Tripartite Social Dialogue Has Stopped In India Since 2015
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Navigating Change Through Inclusive Social Dialogue, the fourth item on the agenda of the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference scheduled to be held during June 1 – 12, 2026, has pointed out that the tripartite social dialogue in India has stopped since 2015,...
SIR Begins In Manipur Amidst Tense Political Situation
By Rabindra Nath Sinha May 30 marks the launch of SIR in strife-scarred Manipur, where Assembly elections ‘under normal circumstances’ are due between late February and mid-March 2027, SIR, therefore, is preparatory to constituting the 60 member-House in this north-eastern state, where ethnic conflict of alarming proportions on the...
Bollywood’s Copyright War Over Two Songs Has Shaken The Film Industry
By T N Ashok The Hindi film industry has always lived on nostalgia. Every generation rediscovers the songs, stars and stories of the one before it. In recent years, however, Bollywood has turned nostalgia into a business model. Old songs are remixed, recreated, repackaged and inserted into new films...
Democracy Is Dying Under Erdogan’s Autocratic Rule In Turkey
By Manish Rai The Republican People’s Party (CHP), the primary secular opposition party in Turkey, is presently embroiled in a significant political and democratic crisis as a result of an unprecedented court ruling on May 21, 2026, that invalidated the political party’s leadership election in 2023. The fragile democracy...
AI Threatens To Make Economic Anxieties Sharper In India’s White Collar Jobs
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The dimension of the threat from Artificial Intelligence to the human labour force is becoming more clearer as the AI enters its new stage of development. The first wave of artificial intelligence largely functioned like an assistant. It made workers write code faster, summarise documents,...
Fuel Crisis, Inflationary Pressure On Economy, And Now A Deficit Monsoon
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The last three months of 2026 have seen considerable inflationary pressure on Indian economy on account of fuel crisis triggered by the Iran war. All sectors of economy are reeling under the pressure. Unemployment is rising, real wages have declined, and living cost is rising...
Centre And BJP Govt Of Bengal Should Not Rush With Deportation Of Bangladeshis
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In West Bengal, new Chief Minister Mr. Suvendu Adhikari has certainly made an impressive beginning in galvanising/reviving the moribund state administration, which hardly properly functioned during the 15 year long tenure of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Credit for the visible improvement in the functioning of...
From Oil To Solar: Why The World Can’t Afford To Wait On Clean Energy
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Amid reports that Iran and the United States may soon reach a ceasefire agreement over the ongoing conflict, fresh tensions emerged on Tuesday following reports of U.S. strikes on missile launch sites and boats in southern Iran. Washington claimed the action was carried out in...
In Adani-US Govt Deal, Criminality Has Been Financialised Through Transaction
By Nilotpal Basu On the heels of the results of five assembly elections, Narendra Modi was overjoyed in celebration. He aggressively asserted that “this is not just an electoral shift, but a change in the people’s mindset”. Since the LDF had lost Kerala and BJP climbed to office in...
Global Economic Growth Pace Depends On Both Geopolitical Headwinds And AI Boost
By Satyaki Chakraborty The global economic outlook has deteriorated sharply in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists’ Outlook released in Geneva on May 28. Nearly nine in ten chief economists surveyed expect global growth to weaken over the next 12 months,...
Statewide Protests Against Raids On Pinarayi’s Residences
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) organised statewide protest action against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s residences in Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram. The raids, which have touched off a wave anger in the LDF camp, were related to an alleged...
Arms Race Is Becoming An Existential Threat To Global Peace And Stability
By Dr Arun Mitra The failure of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), held at the UN Headquarters in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2026, is deeply disappointing. Despite the fact that a vast majority of participating delegations strongly advocated complete nuclear disarmament,...
CPI(M) Making Efforts For A Turnaround In Bengal Politics Following TMC Washout
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The CPI(M) is in the backfoot with lone legislator from Domkal, Murshidabad Md. Mostafizur Rahman representing it in state Assembly. But the once redoubtable party is still trying to reclaim its footprint in West Bengal with the young faces and veterans joining forces charting out...
From Dusty Grounds To IPL Glory, Many Young Players Of Diverse Background Have Come Up
By T N Ashok There was a time when Indian cricket moved at the rhythm of five-day Test matches — white uniforms, red balls, patient batting, and slow-burning legends. Then came coloured clothing and One-Day Internationals, followed by the explosion of white-ball T20 cricket that changed everything forever. Stadiums...
Siddaramaiah, Longest Serving Karnataka CM, Resigns
By Rahil Nora Chopra Siddaramaiah, who happens to be the longest-serving Chief Minister of Karnataka, has resigned and paved the way for his bête noire, DK Shivakumar. While the Congress will need to handle the fallout very delicately, the party high command will need to take the Siddaramaiah loyalists...
Bollywood Has Represented Indian Classical Dance Form Over Decades
By T.N. Ashok The controversy erupted in seconds. Actress Ananya Panday’s dance sequence in her latest film — all electronic bass lines, abbreviated silk, and a Bharatanatyam mudra executed with the precision of a TikTok tutorial — detonated across Indian social media with the force of a cultural grenade....
