US report sharpens terror focus
A US Congressional Research Service assessment has reinforced New Delhi’s longstanding position that armed groups targeting Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of the country continue to operate from Pakistani territory, renewing attention on a...
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BJP presses EC over Bengal poll fears
A Bharatiya Janata Party delegation, led by senior leaders including Union ministers, met...
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Mumbai lunchbox network pauses for six days
Mumbai’s famed dabbawalas have suspended their tiffin collection and delivery service for six...
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Mamata Banerjee has turned a personal attack by Amit Shah into a wider...
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By Nantoo Banerjee The central excise duty cut on petrol and diesel oil to help petro-fuel producers and marketeers partly cover their losses on account of the rising crude oil import prices is an internal government matter. It is not meant to have any impact on retail prices which...
India Faces Multi-Layered Set Of Risks At The Onset Of FY2026-27
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the very onset of the Financial Year 2026-27, beginning from April 1, 2026, India faces a multi-layered set of risks, given its position as a major energy importer with strong trade, investment, and remittance linkages with the West Asia region, which has turned into...
Four Weeks Of Israeli-American War On Iran: Remaking Of The World
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: It began, as these things often do, with the language of certainty. Targeted strikes. Decisive blows. A crippled nuclear program and a supreme leader dead. Washington and Tel Aviv declared the opening salvos of their campaign against Iran a strategic masterstroke — a...
Battle Royale For Kerala Assembly: UDF Majority, Or LDF Hat-Trick?
By Kalyani Shankar After a decade in the Opposition, the Congress party is striving to regain its influence in Kerala ahead of the 2026 elections. The Congress-led UDF wants to snatch power, bolstered by strong results in past Lok Sabha elections and local body polls. The ruling CPI(M) is...
Shah’s Chargesheet Against Mamata: Doomed Move To Sway Bengalis
By Arun Srivastava As Union Home Minister, Amit Shah has brazenly criminalised Indian politics under the saffron Raj. Now, the tone and tenor of his chargesheet against West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee, which he unveiled on March 27 in Calcutta, provides ample clue towards...
Will PM Modi’s Much-Hyped Visit Boost BJP’s Poll Prospects In Kerala?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders in Kerala are over the moon in the wake of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to pep up the party’s election campaign. Understandable. They think it will give a big boost to the party’s chances of winning a couple...
Samajwadi Party Launches Mission 2027 With Huge Rally In Western UP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The successful launch of Mission 2027 by the Samajwadi Party assembly election campaign at a massive rally at Dadri on Sunday boosted the morale of leaders and workers in Western UP, considered to be stronghold of ruling BJP. The selection of the venue at Dadri...
Ghost In The Ledger: Digital Buccaneer Tycoons Hoodwinking Banks
By T N Ashok The glass towers of Bandra-Kurla Complex gleam with the sterile promise of a modern economy, but their foundations rest on a history of spectacular wreckage. For seven decades, thirteen Indian Prime Ministers—from the socialist idealism of Jawaharlal Nehru to the digital muscularity of Narendra Modi—have...
An Ode To The Thespian Utpal Dutt On His 97th Birth Anniversary
By Tirthankar Mitra Think of an actor equally at home on stage and screen, and Utpal Dutt whose birth anniversary was on March 29, comes to mind first. With an English accent which would have made even an Englishman envious, coupled with mannerisms to match, Dutt would have been...
‘No Kings’ Protests Symbolises Global Frustration With Trump
By Asad Mirza More than 3,000 ‘No Kings’ protests against the Trump administration were held across America and in more than a dozen countries on Saturday (March 27), according to a coalition of organisers that included “anti-authoritarian” groups – Indivisible and 50501, labour unions and other grassroots organisations. Saturday,...
Energy Markets See Through Shallow Peace Talk, Move On Their Own Terms
By K Raveendran US President Donald Trump’s attempt to jawbone oil lower has run into the hard edge of market reality. At the start, the strategy appeared to work. When he signalled that peace talks with Iran were possible and suggested a diplomatic opening, crude quickly gave back a...
Centre Bleeds, States Gain: India’s Fuel Tax Compact Is Breaking
By R. Suryamurthy Strip away the political theatre around fuel price relief, and what emerges is not a story of benevolence, but of a fiscal system stretched to its limits — and increasingly out of balance. India’s latest excise duty cuts on petrol and diesel are not just a...
AI-Driven Automation Could Close Off Many Pathways To Decent Work
By Dr. Gyan Pathak AI-Driven automation could close off many pathways to decent work, including clerical and administrative positions, particularly for women and young workers, which historically represent relatively higher-quality jobs in lower-income countries. Not only that, the disruption by Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in developing economies may materialize...
Desperate Congress Bid To Dictate Political Discourse In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) is making a desperate attempt to dictate the political discourse in the run-up to the crucial Assembly elections. It is not difficult to understand why the UDF is doing that. All its earlier efforts to push the CPI(M)-headed Left...
Farmers Killing Themselves Despite Centre’s Claims Of ‘Doubled Income’
By Jag Mohan Thaken The tragic incident of suicide by two farmer brothers of Punjab on 23rd March, 2026 by jumping in front of a moving train has not only left behind a devastated family —their wives, two young daughters aged 8 and 10, and elderly parents with diminished...
Alarming Gear Shift In Climate Crisis As Energy Imbalance Intensifies
By Tirthankar Mitra There is a shift in climate crisis. It is not a headline temperature spike or a heatwave. The earth is now consistently absorbing more energy than it releases. The growing imbalance is a structural break in the planet’s physical equilibrium which is driven by human activity....
Twists And Turns In Naxalite Movement In Last Six Decades After 1967 Uprising
By Arun Srivastava The Naxalite movement, originating from a 1967 peasant uprising in Naxalbari, West Bengal, has witnessed numerous “twists and turns,” evolving from a localized armed insurrection into a fragmented insurgency and, in recent years, a shrinking threat experiencing mass surrenders and gruesome killings of cadres by the...
Central Subsidies Declined To 1.7 Per Cent Of GDP By 2024-25
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The data show that subsidies and transfers by the central government increased after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, peaking in 2022-23 at about 2.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), and then declining to 1.7 per cent of GDP by 2024-25. However, such expenditures...
