Tehran turns on Islamabad’s peace role
Pakistan’s bid to position itself as a go-between in the US-Iran war has run into a sharper challenge from Tehran, with commentary carried in Iran’s media space openly questioning Islamabad’s neutrality and putting unusual focus...
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Mahila Congress presses quota rollout
A nationwide postcard drive by the All India Mahila Congress has opened a...
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Court rebuke jolts Bengal poll battle
New Delhi/Kolkata, April 23 — The Supreme Court has delivered a sharp warning...
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the first phase of election in West Bengal in underway on April 23, the electoral battle for the second phase of election to be held on April 29 has now become a rare spectacle in which Bengal Tigress Mamata Banerjee is seen fighting back...
The Quiet Hollowing Of India’s State Assemblies Before The 2026 Polls
By R. Suryamurthy If elections are the theatre of democracy, legislatures are meant to be its workshop—the place where power is questioned, policy is tested, and governments are forced to explain themselves. Yet, as several states head into high-stakes assembly elections in 2026, that workshop looks increasingly deserted. The...
BJP’s Electoral Discourse Hateful And Devoid Of Accountability
By Nilotpal Basu The assembly elections in the five states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry are extremely important. But the context and the objective which the BJP is trying to pursue is unique in many ways. For the neo-fascist characteristics it has come to assume,...
Women’s Reservation: A New Colour To The Old Deception Of The RSS–BJP
By Mahesh Kumar Rathi The question of women’s reservation is not merely a legislative issue before Indian democracy; it is also a decisive question that shapes the direction of power, ideology, and social justice. However, the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party has presented this issue transforms it...
Oil Refusal To Hit $100 Reveals Confidence Against Supply Disruption
By K Raveendran Oil’s refusal to break decisively towards $100 a barrel, despite a tense geopolitical backdrop and repeated threats tied to the Strait of Hormuz, says something important about how markets are reading the balance between rhetoric and reality. At one level, the price action looks counterintuitive. A...
Pakistan’s Peacemaker Moment, A Challenge To India’s Global Leadership
By Asad Mirza Pakistan’s emergence as a diplomatic intermediary between the United States and Iran has introduced an unexpected variable into South Asia’s strategic equation. For a country more often associated in global discourse with internal instability and regional tensions, Islamabad’s role — whether seen as substantive mediation or...
BJP’s Chanakya Amit Shah Masterminding Poll Preparations In Bengal Sitting From His Hotel
By Arun Srivastava While a popular movement against the mass deletion of voter names with the slogan “Apnar vote, jader naam kata gache tader janya” ( your vote for those whose names have been deleted) launched at the call of Mamata Banerjee to “take revenge” through the ballot, has...
Bhabanipur To Write The Fate Of Mamata Who Suspects Rigging By BJP
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Focus of the West Bengal assembly election has now shifted to Bhabanipur, the home constituency of the Chief Minister and TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee who is contesting from there. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of Home Amit Shah have been telling her “good...
Rising Fuel Costs, Debt Pressures Deepen Bangladesh Security Concerns
By Tajul Islam Over the past several weeks, Bangladesh has been facing a growing wave of economic pressure marked by rising fuel prices, increasing LPG costs, mounting public debt obligations, and concerns over weakening investment and employment conditions. Taken together, these developments are creating a complex and interconnected set...
The War In Iran Has Triggered A Helium Crisis Globally
By Freddy Brewster NEW YORK: A crucial resource is being choked off from the world amid the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran — and it’s not oil. It’s helium. The rare, non-renewable gas is a key ingredient for more than just party balloons. It’s needed for...
India’s Regional Titans Facing Seize From The Rulers Of The North
By T N Ashok India’s electoral map is not a monolith; it is a collection of distinct, often defiant political idioms. As Tamil Nadu enters its final hours of campaigning and West Bengal readies for a high-stakes, multi-phase marathon, the subtext is singular and urgent: the traditional regional bastions...
BJP’s Strategy To Disrupt TMC’s Political Campaign May Boomerang
By Dr. Gyan Pathak PM Narendra Modi led Central government and Election Commission of India (ECI) are being perceived by the electors of Bengal as disruptor of Mamata Banerjee’s and her TMC’s political campaign. Anti-Mamata people are happy to see that Central investigating agencies like Enforcement Directorate (ED) has...
South Asia Showing Steep Decline In Growth In 2026 Along With Missing Jobs
By R. Suryamurthy South Asia’s economic narrative has long relied on a familiar comfort: growth will take care of jobs. That assumption is now collapsing in plain sight. What was once described as a lag between output and employment is hardening into something more structural, more persistent—and far more...
In Bengal, BJP Is Using ED To Weaken Mamata’s Election Machinery
By Arun Srivastava Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee exercising her democratic rights has approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging that Narendra Modi is misusing central agencies and forces during the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections. But the big question is; will CEC Gyanesh Kumar act on her...
Congress Strongman Adhir Choudhury Is A Frontrunner In Bahrampur
By Tirthankar Mitra BAHRAMPUR: Emotion is pitted against electoral arithmetic in Bahrampur assembly segment In West Bengal, which once used to be synonymous with toehold of Congress in the political scenario of the state. There has been a change of scene over the past five years which saw two...
MEPSC Is Turning Skill Development Into A Launchpad For Entrepreneurship
By Nisha Singh In a world where jobs are evolving faster than ever, true empowerment comes not just from finding employment but from creating opportunities. Across India, thousands of aspiring individuals, young graduates, women from self-help groups (SHGs), street vendors and mid-career professionals are discovering this power through the...
Akhilesh Yadav Adopts Broader Hindu Outreach To Take On BJP In 2027 Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national President Akhilesh Yadav has adopted broader Hindu outreach besides consolidating PDA (Pichda, dalit and Alpsangkhayak) to capture power in 2027 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh Yadav has initiated construction of huge Lord Kedareshwar Mahadev Temple in 11 acre area in his...
BJP’s Support To Women’s Reservation Bill Is A Façade To Hoodwink People
By Dr. Ram Puniyani The Women’s Reservation Bill aiming at 33% of Lok Sabha seats for women in Lok Sabha was passed in 2023, but was not implemented so far. Despite the crocodile tears of PM Narendra Modi when the amendment to the bill fell, the fact is that...
