Full Vande Mataram mandated at official events
Government directives issued on Wednesday require that all six stanzas of the national song Vande Mataram be rendered at schools and official functions, expanding the practice that had limited public performance to the first two...
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Greer sees India as pivotal supply hub
United States Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer has said India is well placed...
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Sarma files ₹500 crore defamation claim
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has initiated a ₹500 crore defamation suit...
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Energy choices hinge on national interest, Misri says
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri has pushed back against claims from Washington that a...
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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.Indo-US Trade Deal Promises To Be Contentious
By Nantoo Banerjee The excitement over the finalization of the first tranche of the Indo-US trade deal during last weekend after months of negotiations and uncertainties may be irrational, if not too early, as it remains unclear about the US attitude towards India’s multi-alignment global trade and economic strategy...
BNP Gets Big Boost Before Feb 12 Polls In Bangladesh Due To Limited Awami League Support
By Nitya Chakraborty Just 48 hours before the historic national elections in Bangladesh on February 12, there has been a sudden change in the pre poll scenario with a section of Awami League supporters coming out openly in support of the BNP candidates who have record of supporting 1971...
Viksit Bharat And Net Zero: The Price Tag And The Power Asymmetries
By R. Suryamurthy The most consequential number in NITI Aayog’s newly released study on Scenarios Towards Viksit Bharat and Net Zero is not 2047 or 2070. It is $22.7 trillion. That is the cumulative investment India will need to mobilise to reach Net Zero emissions by 2070 under the...
Trump’s Dismantling Of Obama’s Endangerment Is A Danger To Climate Science
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When the Environmental Protection Agency moves this week to repeal the “endangerment finding”—the 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gases threaten human health—it will mark more than regulatory rollback. It represents the culmination of a worldview President Donald Trump has articulated for over a...
Kerala Let Down By The 16th Finance Commission Too
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Union Budget was a big let-down for Kerala. The State had, however, pinned high hopes on at least the 16th Finance Commission addressing its concerns. That was not to be either. The Commission has followed in the footsteps of the Union Budget by refusing...
British PM Keir Starmer Is Facing His Moment Of Truth During His Tenure
By Ben Chacko LONDON: As the wheels come off the Starmer operation we need pressure from the left for policy change as sweeping as the personnel clear-out at No 10.The PM may not last long, but the culture of cynicism, greed and contempt for democracy personified by Peter Mandelson...
Supreme Court Orders Extension Of Time For Objections By A Week In Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court of India ordered extension of time for objections in West Bengal SIR by a week from Feb 14, which in the notified date for publication of the final electoral roll for the state. It has pointed out problem with the “software” that...
Indo-US Interim Trade Deal: More A Capitulation Than A Strategic Win For India
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When India and the United States announced an interim trade framework in early February 2026, the declaration was terse — a few paragraphs and a handful of bullet points in a framework rather than a full legal text. But beneath that brevity lay...
Continuous Disruption Of Lok Sabha Is A Bad Omen For A Functioning Democracy
By Kalyani Shankar Communication between the Modi government and the Opposition has broken down, as evidenced by the turbulent proceedings in Parliament last week. There have been no back-channel negotiations to resolve the paralysis. The protests intensified on Monday, when Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced that the Leader...
Under The Latest Indo-U.S. Trade Deal, Chinese Imports Importance For India Have Gone Up
By Subrata Majumder US President Donald Trump’s tariff relaxation on India, in lieu of India’s less imports of oil from Russia, gives a new outlook to India- China trade relation. USA’s reduction of reciprocal tariff to 18 percent from 25 percent and withdrawal of penalty tariff of 25 percent...
In Bengal, State BJP Leaders Are Still Failing To Combat TMC In Poll Campaign
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Defeating Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress by BJP in West Bengal is easier said than done even as BJP leaders are speaking of government formation after the assembly elections in April/May this year. Having failed to sweep successive Lok Sabha and Bidhan Sabha elections despite...
India’s Urban Housing Crisis: When Mumbai Costs More Than Manhattan
By T N Ashok By the time you finish reading this sentence, another middle-class Indian family has abandoned the dream of owning a home. Across India’s sprawling cities—from Mumbai’s glass towers to the expanding edges of Pune and Hyderabad—homeownership has shifted from aspiration to impossibility for millions of salaried...
Newly Developed Plastic Set To Replace Microplastics In Indian Market
By Asad Mirza Microplastics have infiltrated our food supply. Now, a Japanese research team has developed a breakthrough plastic that fully dissolves in seawater within hours—pointing toward cleaner and safer packaging. Microplastics represent an escalating challenge worldwide. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, an estimated 2.7 million tons...
India Have Reasons To Be Happy At Big U.S. Switch On The Status Of Kashmir
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: For seven decades, American diplomats danced around Kashmir with the precision of tightrope walkers, carefully avoiding any gesture that might suggest the United States had chosen sides in South Asia’s most intractable territorial dispute. Maps were scrubbed of political meaning. Statements were lawyered...
Energy Is Pivot In $500 Billion Indo-U.S. Interim Trade Agreement
By K Raveendran The joint declaration accompanying the Indo-US trade agreement, where the first item on the expansive $500 billion agenda is energy and the lifting of additional tariffs is explicitly tied to India curtailing its purchases of Russian crude, crystallises a shift that had been quietly unfolding in...
Some Tariff Relief For India: Strategic Gains Including Tariff For U.S.
By R. Suryamurthy The India–United States Interim Trade Agreement has been unveiled as a diplomatic breakthrough and marketed domestically as evidence of India’s growing economic heft. In reality, it marks a decisive shift in how trade, security, and sovereignty are being re-ordered in India’s engagement with Washington. The agreement...
February 7 All India Strike Disrupted App Based Delivery And Transport Services
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All India strike of app based transport workers on February 7 has disrupted transport services in major cities of India like Delhi Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Kolkata. Delivery and transport services have also impacted many other cities across the country. This is the second strike...
Trade Unions And Activists Flay CJI’s Remarks On Domestic Workers Rights
By Ayush Kumar Certain comments from a Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) Surya Kant, made on January 29, 2026, has faced widespread condemnation by trade unions and activists. The bench dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by ten domestic workers’ unions seeking statutory recognition...
