Youth protest reaches Jantar Mantar
Hundreds of supporters of the Cockroach Janta Party gathered at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Saturday after police granted permission for a day-long demonstration, turning a viral youth-led online campaign over examination failures into its first...
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Congress banks on balanced Rajya Sabha slate
Congress expressed confidence on Friday that it would win all seven Rajya Sabha...
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Mahua Moitra has accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of using threats of arrest...
in Happening Now Jun 6 ·Mamata moves to contain TMC revolt
Mamata Banerjee moved to reassert control over the Trinamool Congress after signs of...
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By K Raveendran Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government may have done itself a favour by allowing the Cockroach Janta Party protest led by Abhijit Dipke to proceed without turning it into another confrontation between the state and restless young citizens. For a government that has often preferred firmness over...
Workers And Farmers Preparing To Intensify United Protests
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Workers and farmers of India are again preparing to intensify their united protests against the policy of BJP led NDA government under PM Narendra Modi, what they perceive to be anti-worker, anti-farmer and anti-people. Future course joint struggle of workers and farmers will be decided...
India Should Avoid Signing A Trade Deal With U.S. On Washington’s Terms
By R. Suryamurthy India and the United States appear to be racing toward a mid-July deadline to conclude the first tranche of a bilateral trade agreement. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal has projected confidence, describing negotiations as constructive and suggesting that the proposed arrangement would provide Indian exporters with preferential...
The Incredible Rise Of Rajesh Exports Is A Fascinating Corporate Story
By T N Ashok For years, Rajesh Exports looked like one of India’s great corporate success stories. Founded by Bengaluru businessman Rajesh J. Mehta, the company rose from a jewellery exporter into a global gold-processing giant. It acquired Valcambi SA, one of the world’s largest gold refineries, reported annual...
India’s Hardest Economic Test Begins After The Latest 7.7 Per Cent Growth Story
By R. Suryamurthy India’s 7.7 percent GDP growth in FY2025-26 will inevitably dominate headlines, reinforce the government’s economic narrative and strengthen the country’s claim to being the world’s fastest-growing major economy. Yet while the number itself is impressive, perhaps even exceptional by contemporary global standards, it risks obscuring a...
India’s Policy Of Becoming A Strategic Partner Of The U.S. Will Be Wrong
By Dr. Arun Mitra Venezuela’s acting President, Delcy Rodríguez, was in India recently. This was known in advance because, even before the Government of India made any statement on the matter, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had already announced it during his visit to India. It has now...
A Paper That Blames Former LDF Govt For Kerala’s Economic Woes
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The White Paper tabled in the Kerala Assembly by the VD Satheesan-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government proclaims from the housetop as it were that the former Left Democratic Front (LDF) alone is to blame for Kerala’s economic woes. Ironically, the White Paper itself is...
Rebellion From Below Threatens Overthrow Of Bolivia’s New Right-Wing Govt
By W. T. Whitney, Jr. NEW YORK: For more than two months, Bolivian Indigenous and working people have been protesting the repressive measures imposed by the government of conservative President Rodrigo Paz, in office since Nov. 8, 2025. Since he took office, it has been one attack after another...
Israel’s Aggressive Policy In Lebanon Is Meant To Displace Its People
By Ahlam Chemlali LONDON: In 1895, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary that the penniless population of Palestine must be “spirited across the border,” discreetly and circumspectly. In 1948, that vision became policy. With the Nakba, approximately 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced, their land absorbed by the newly declared...
After A Series Of Setbacks, INDIA Bloc Meet On June 8 Is Significant
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After a series of political setbacks since Lok Sabha Election 2024, the meet of the INDIA bloc scheduled to be held at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on June 8 is a significant development, especially when one of its allies DMK has announced to...
ED Raids Against Vedanta Linked To Adani-Anil Agarwal Corporate Battle
By T N Ashok In India’s high-stakes corporate world, timing is everything. Sometimes it creates billionaires. Sometimes it destroys them. And occasionally, it raises questions that refuse to go away. The latest controversy involving mining billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Group, the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) searches under the Foreign Exchange...
Trump’s Defeat In U.S. Congress On Iran War Bill Is A Big Personal Setback
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEWYORK: For nearly four months, President Donald Trump has projected confidence that America could sustain a military confrontation with Iran while simultaneously negotiating peace from a position of strength. This week, however, the strongest challenge to that assumption did not come from Tehran, Moscow, Beijing,...
Breakaway Trinamool Congress Led By Ritabrata Is Still Unstable
By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress has split. The handiwork of the BJP is discernible in wrecking the outfit to which it was once allied and later turned a bitter political adversary. Inarguably the most significant indication in this regard was accepting Mamata Banerjee as the leader of splinter group...
TMC May Split As Ritabrata-Led Legislature Bloc Garners Majority
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Trinamool Congress is struggling with its biggest-ever internal crisis, with 58 MLAs wresting control of the party’s legislature wing, electing Ritabrata Banerjee as their leader and attaining recognition from the Assembly Speaker, while reaffirming Mamata Banerjee as the party’s leader. The move is being...
Present Growth In India-China Trade Relations Is A Welcome Development
By Krishna Jha The recent trend of growth in trade and economic exchange between India and China is a welcome development, particularly in the context of the deepening Hormuz Crisis consequent upon the US imperialist aggression against Iran and its bullying tactics against other countries. The US began arm-twisting...
IPTA National Theatre Festival Held In Mumbai Was A Big Success
By Harman Singh When the country was struggling for independence, the world was grappling with World War II. The people of Bengal were suffering from the tragedy of famine. During that period, on May 25, 1943, writers and artists from various states and princely kingdoms came together in Mumbai...
India Stares At Difficult Days Ahead With Sharp Decline In Growth Rate In 2026-27
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The preliminary version of the OECD Outlook released on June 3, 2026 has projected the real GDP of India to grow by 6.3% during the FY 2026-27, which is a sharp decline from the robust growth rate of 7.8 per cent year-on-year in the quarter...
Supreme Court Order On SIR In Bihar Poll Has Handed The ECI A Sweeping Mandate
By Nilotpal Basu The Supreme Court’s order in connection with petitions against Election Commission’s SIR orders in Bihar states that “the commission is empowered in the exercise of its constitutional mandate to undertake a limited enquiry into citizenship for the purpose of satisfying itself as to eligibility for inclusion...
