EASA widens caution over Gulf flight paths
European aviation regulators have told airlines to avoid the airspace of Iran, Iraq and Lebanon until August 31, raising pressure on carriers to keep long-haul routes away from a region unsettled by renewed United States-Iran...
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Fake receipts deepen Ayodhya donation probe
Police have recovered counterfeit donation receipt books bearing the name and logo of...
in Happening Now Jul 9 ·Hormuz slowdown traps India-bound energy cargoes
Nine fully loaded tankers carrying crude oil and liquefied petroleum gas for India...
in Happening Now Jul 9 ·Kejriwal presses automakers for E20 clarity
Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal has escalated the political fight over...
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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.RSS And VHP Are At Loggerheads On The Issue Of Loot Of Ram Mandir Funds
By Arun Srivastava The Loot of the huge funds and jewelleries from the coffers of Ram Mandir Trust has led to intensification of factional battles between the VHP and the RSS on the one hand and the RSS-BJP on the other. Interestingly, insiders say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Floods And Deficient Rainfall Have Put India’s Preparedness To Test
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Monsoon flooded large part of the country during the first eight days of July with 42 per cent above-normal rainfall causing heavy loss of lives and property. Rain deficit in June was 40 per cent. Northwest, central and western India suffered from the excess rains....
2047 Vs 2049: India And China Race Towards Two Very Different Dreams
By T N Ashok History has an uncanny habit of mocking long-term predictions. Thirty years ago, in the mid-1990s, few economists imagined that China would become the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, accounting for nearly a third of global industrial output. Equally, few believed India, then still wrestling with the after-effects...
Encounter Killing Starts In BJP Ruled Bengal On The Lines Of Uttar Pradesh
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Prabhas Mondal’s death in police firing in Baruipur in West Bengal on early Wednesday after he allegedly tried to escape snatching fire arm from a policeman is a major police administration lapse. The deceased was an accused in the rape and murder of a minor....
NATO’s Ankara Summit Showed Sham Unity By Careful Management Of Trump’s Moods
By Asad Mirza Donald Trump turned NATO’s Ankara summit into a one-man show – reviving Iran hostilities, threatening Spain, demanding Greenland, and needling allies – while Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s flattery-and-spending strategy kept the alliance intact. The summit exposed a NATO that survives not through unity, but through the careful,...
Judiciary Has A Special Role In These Dark Times Of Hate Mongering
By Nilotpal Basu The process of decolonisation in India was initiated, and the Constitution was drawn up, to ensure an equilibrium based on the principle of checks and balances between the three organs of the state – legislature, executive and judiciary. The atmosphere of hate mongering in the present...
Extreme Heat Puts Children At Health Risk In India
By Raju Kumar The impact of natural disasters, climate crises and environmental changes is never experienced equally across society. Children, women and economically vulnerable communities often bear the greatest burden of such crises. For children, rising temperatures are not merely a matter of seasonal discomfort; they directly affect their...
The Ankara Summit Of NATO Exposes Ugly Truths About Western Alliance
By Ben Chacko LONDON: NATO leaders abasing themselves before Donald Trump in Ankara undermine claims that the military spending splurge makes us more independent of Washington. The alliance’s slavish secretary-general Mark Rutte raced today to endorse further US violence that could reignite all-out war with Iran, claiming overnight air...
Modi Govt’s Overcautious Oil Market Reading Hurting Retail Fuel Customers
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government’s position on fuel prices now looks less like prudent caution and more like an overly defensive reading of a market that has already absorbed much of the Iran-US risk. The more calibrated question, therefore, is not whether New Delhi is right to...
Modi-Shah Are Betting Big On Delimitation Bill To Hijack Parliament
By Arun Srivastava North India’s demographic size and Hindi-Hindu majority have long helped propel RSS’s ideological mission and the electoral dominance of the BJP since 2014, such as unifying the Hindu majority and advancing a unified cultural identity of “Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan”. While the RSS aims to deform the secular and...
School Attendance Problem Has Far Reaching Consequences
By Dr. Gyan Pathak School attendance problems (SAP) are no longer a marginal issue. They have become a challenge affecting classrooms in nearly every country. The problem has far reaching consequences – both on individuals and society, but has never been properly addressed. The just released OECD report titled...
Despite Their Neglect, Kurds Remain A Strategic Ally Of United States
By Manish Rai During the recently partially concluded US-Iran war, Iran and its proxies in Iraq have conducted over 850 missile and drone attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Iran launched thousands of projectiles at Israel and the Gulf states, which received wider international attention. However, the attacks...
Former India Cricket Team Captain Sourav Ganguly Turns 54 On July 8 In Great Style
By T N Ashok Few captains have altered the course of Indian cricket as dramatically as Sourav Ganguly. If Kapil Dev gave India belief by lifting the 1983 World Cup, and Mahendra Singh Dhoni transformed belief into global dominance, it was Ganguly who built the bridge between the two...
N. Kavitha Rameshwar’s Book Shows How A Resurrected Constitutional Safeguard Shaped India
By Shobhit Arora Before The Draft Constitution of 1948 provided that no person could be deprived of their life or personal liberty “except according to procedure established by law,” the interim report of the Advisory Committee on Minorities and Fundamental Rights (1947) stated that “No person shall be deprived...
It Is Now Official: U.S. Will Do Everything To Curb India’s Economic Growth
By Satyaki Chakraborty Amidst Trump-Modi bonhomie and the continuation of India-US trade talks, former Indian intelligence chief Vikram Sood said on Sunday in an interview to a British network that the present U.S. deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau told Indian officials during his visit to India in March...
Systematic Theft Of Donations At Ram Temple By RSS-BJP Men Is Established Fact
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The investigation so far, as on July 7, 2026, into the systematic theft worth rupees tens of millions of donations at Ram Temple of Ayodhya has clearly shown that it was the work of no-other than the people of RSS-BJP, and therefore, it has political...
VBG RAM G Act A Threat To Right To Rural Employment In The Country
By Dr. B.K. Kango On 23 June 2026, the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the BKMU jointly organised nationwide demonstrations in all districts of the country against the abolition of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The objective of these demonstrations was not merely to...
The Film They Couldn’t Bury: How Satluj Reopened Punjab’s Deepest Wounds
By T N Ashok A film delayed for years. A censor battle unlike any other. An OTT release that lasted barely two days. And a story that refuses to disappear. By the time Satluj briefly appeared on ZEE5 this week, it had already become one of the most talked-about...
