Hormuz squeeze deepens India’s shipping strain
Tensions around the Strait of Hormuz sharpened again on Monday after the United States moved from a fragile ceasefire framework with Iran to a naval blockade focused on Iranian ports, a step that has added...
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Supreme Court shuts door on Bengal appeal votes
People in West Bengal whose names were struck off the electoral rolls during...
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Rahul Gandhi has sharpened Congress’s confrontation with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma,...
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Uttar Pradesh raises floor pay after Noida unrest
Uttar Pradesh has revised minimum wages for workers across categories after unrest in...
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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.Trump Can’t Afford Escalation Of US War With Iran At The Moment
By Nitya Chakraborty President Donald Trump as usual has been talking in conflicting voices on his immediate stand on Iran war. The U.S. President ordered naval blockade of Iranian ports after the failure of the Islamabad peace talks on Sunday but on Tuesday, he indicated that another round of...
Markets See Through Trump’s Consistent Inconsistencies In Iran War
By K Raveendran Financial markets are often accused of being cold, shortsighted and morally indifferent, yet they do possess one quality that political systems frequently lack in moments of conflict: an ability to strip away theatre and price only what appears durable. That seems to be what has happened...
Women’s Reservation As A Cover For A Greater Political Design
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the three-day Special Session of the Parliament of India – from April 16 to April 18, 2026 – approaches, it has become crystal clear that the Constitutional (131st Amendment) Bill 2026, which seeks to implement 33 per cent of the Lok Sabha and the...
Samrat Choudhary’s Elevation As Bihar CM Marks BJP’s Forward March In The State
By Arun Srivastava Samrat Choudhary becoming the chief minister of Bihar is not only the dream coming home for BJP, it will help the BJP to redefine social justice politics in India by shifting the focus from traditional identity-based mobilization to a model based on Hindutva, Samrasta (social harmony)...
Californian Left-Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti Is Running For Congress
By Satyaki Chakraborty With only six months left for the crucial midterm elections in United States in November this year, a large number of Left wing Democrats belonging to the group of Bernie Sanders have entered the contests for primaries in June this year to be able to formally...
ECI Caused Miscarriage Of Democracy In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India (ECI) has caused miscarriage of democracy in West Bengal, which is rejoiced by the Union Government of India led by PM Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP clan, lamented by millions of voters whose names were deleted from the electoral roll under Special...
Modi’s Economic Management Is On Test As 2026 Monsoons To Return With A Bit Risk
By R. Suryamurthy A below-normal monsoon after nearly eleven years is not merely a meteorological deviation. It is an economic stress test, and a politically consequential one, for a government that has anchored its narrative in macroeconomic stability, inflation control, and calibrated welfare support. The India Meteorological Department’s projection...
Arms Race Major Contributor To Climate Chaos In Present World
By Dr Arun Mitra As the temperature around the globe is rising, melting of glaciers, ever increasing typhoons, irregular & untimely rains leading to increase in sea level effecting our day to day life, the climate change has entered to climate crisis and now climate chaos. Hasan Abdullah author...
Resource Competition With China Is A Major Factor In Trump’s Iran War
By Guy Laron NEW YORK: On the morning of February 23, 2026, Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump from Jerusalem with intelligence that would change the course of their war on Iran. Senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, were scheduled to gather at a compound in Tehran...
After Big Meetings By Modi And Shah, BJP Workers Are Upbeat In Bengal Poll Battle
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The mood of the BJP rank and file in West Bengal is certainly upbeat after the electoral rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah in the recent days, barely eight days before the first phase of polling scheduled n April...
Mandatory PNG: Convenience Or Compulsion?
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: In recent days, the steps taken by the central government to promote Piped Natural Gas (PNG) have sparked a fresh debate. Reports from several places suggest that LPG consumers are being issued notices to shift to PNG within 90 days, failing which their LPG connections...
Prices Are Fast Shooting Up Fanning Inflation
By Nantoo Banerjee The country is experiencing a significant surge in commodity and transportation costs following geopolitical tensions in the Persian Gulf region and a weak Indian Rupee. Retail prices of daily essentials are rising rapidly. The prices of edible oils, pulses and packaged foods, including drinking water, have...
Industrial Unrest Begins In India, Spread In Several States Across Delhi-NCR
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the Union Government of India have slowly been rolling out provisions of new labour codes, towards their full implementation from April 1, 2026, an industrial unrest has just erupted today April 13, 2026 in Noida in Uttar Pradesh, and then spread in Delhi-National Capital...
Viktor Orban’s Defeat In Hungary Elections Is A Big Boost For EU Against Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty The big defeat of the Prime Minister Victor Orban in the national elections in Hungary held on Sunday is a big boost to the European Union in its protracted battle with the U.S. President Donald Trump over the future course of Europe. Orban who ruled Hungary...
After The Failure Of U.S.-Iran Peace Talks, The Task Is How To Hold Next Meeting
By Asad Mirza As expected, the United States and Iran failed to reach a peace deal after high-stakes talks in the Pakistani capital, with American Vice President JD Vance saying Tehran refused to accept Washington’s terms after 21 hours of talks in Islamabad. And Iran citing lack of American...
World Can’t Bear The Brunt Of Another Full Scale War In West Asia
By T N Ashok The collapse of high-stakes diplomacy over the weekend has pushed the Middle East to the edge of a far more dangerous phase—one where economic warfare, military brinkmanship, and global disruption are converging around a single chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz. What began as a tentative...
Madhya Pradesh Govt Is Facing Problems In Implementing UCC In The State
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Following in the footsteps of other BJP-ruled states, Madhya Pradesh is also planning to rollout its own version of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Chief minister Mohan Yadav has hinted that the new statute may be in place within the next six months. Uttarakhand is...
Attacks On Media & Journalists: Strangling The Freedom Of Expression
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: UNESCO Director-General, Khaled El-Enany, on last week while condemning the killing of journalist Juan David Gámez in Mexico said, “I condemn the killing of Juan David Gámez and call for a thorough investigation into his death. Violence against journalists is not only an affront...
