Shared Shield: Saudi Arabia and Pakistan Forge Mutual Defence Pact
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan have formalised a Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement under which either state may invoke the pact if the other is attacked. The treaty was signed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and...
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Abdullah Blames Divine Wrath for Highway Crisis
National Conference president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah has...
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Handshake Row Forces Delay of Pakistan-UAE Asia Cup Fixture
Dubai hosted drama when Pakistan’s Group A match against the United Arab Emirates...
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Kasuri Vows Kashmir Rivers, Dams Will ‘Belong to Us’ in Video
Saifullah Kasuri, deputy chief of Lashkar-e-Taiba, issued a video threat to India and...
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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.CEC Officially Refutes Fresh Allegations By Rahul Gandhi Against Him On Vote Chori
By Sushil Kutty Ahead of the expansion of SIR to the rest of the Union of States, the Election Commission of India has rejected Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s fresh charge on Thursday against CEC Gyanesh Kumar as ‘baseless’. “Allegations made by Shri Rahul Gandhi are incorrect and baseless....
Modi’s Diplomacy: Balancing Putin’s Friendship And Pakistan’s Defiance
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On his 75th birthday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi found himself at the center of a carefully choreographed display of international diplomacy and domestic strongman politics that perfectly encapsulated his evolving foreign policy strategy. As world leaders lined up to offer birthday greetings, Modi’s...
President Trump Is Feeling Taste Of British People Anger In His Current UK Visit
By Anjan Roy In the days prior to World War One, England had a popular song: “We don’t want to fight, But if we have to, We have the men, We have the ships, We have the money too” In these days, a bankrupt Great Britain was seen to...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Manipur Visit Marks Empty Rhetoric, Zero Empathy
By P Sudhir The prime minister last week made an inordinately delayed visit to Manipur after 28 months – 864 days to be precise – of internecine ethnic violence that was presided over by the then BJP-led government in the state under chief minister Biren Singh. The visit itself...
SC Gives The Green Signal For Global Ayyappa Sangamam
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS combine suffered a second successive setback when the Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Kerala High Court’s order allowing the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) to conduct a Global Ayyappa Sangamam on the banks of river Pampa which flows adjacent to the famed...
Manipur: Free Movement Through NH 2 A Test For MHA, Governor-Led Regime
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It is abundantly clear that the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Manipur on September 13, Saturday, has made little difference to the ground realities in the ethnically-divided north-eastern state. Optics may help the principal political outfit, the Bharatiya Janata Party, to live...
Supreme Court Has Muted Posh Act Of 2013 In The Very Place It Came Alive
By Ashna Siddiqui The Supreme Court on September 15 refused to extend the scope of The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (‘POSH Act, 2013’) to political parties. The decision, in my understanding, retreats from certain core tenets of how we must imagine...
India Has Been Converted Into A “Flawed Democracy” Under 11 Years Of Modi Rule
By Krishna Jha On September 15, the world observed International Day of Democracy, 2025, focusing on attainment of freedom, promoting equality and removing the hurdles that deter peoples’ participation in decision making which together constitute the core of democracy. In India, at least during the last one decade or...
Decoding Prime Minister Narendra Modi As A Political Leader On His 75th Birthday
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stepped into his 75th year on Wednesday, September 17.His birthday is being celebrated by the BJP nationally. The significance is much more as PM’s 75th birthday celebrations have coincided with the centenary programmes on the founding of the RSS in 1925.On...
Bail For UAPA Accused: Weighty Issues For Supreme Court To Ponder
By K Raveendran Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s argument before the Delhi High Court in the case concerning Umar Khalid and others points to the creeping erosion of basic constitutional protections in the criminal justice system. The High Court’s decision to reject bail to these accused in the UAPA larger...
PM Narendra Modi Will Be NDA Mascot For Bihar Polls, Not CM Nitish Kumar
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Bihar is nearing close to the publication of final Electoral Roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on September 30, 2025, the politics in the state is being sensationalized by the BJP on the issue of women’s pride and Muslim infiltration issues, while the...
British Royal Pageantry Is On Full Display To Woo Visiting US President Donald Trump In UK
By Anjan Roy Great Britain is bending backward as much as it can to entertain and woo the imperious US president, Donald Trump, who is currently visiting the country as a state guest at the invitation of the King Charles. The US president is being hosted at the 900...
Record Harvests, Empty Wallets: The Mirage Of India’s Farm Targets
By R. Suryamurthy India’s agriculture establishment loves big numbers. Year after year, ministers stand before cameras to announce record production targets, claiming the country’s farmers are marching toward self-sufficiency and prosperity. The latest came at the National Agriculture Conference – Rabi Abhiyan 2025, where Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh...
Supreme Court’s Interim Order On Waqf Act Is A Partial Victory For The Muslims
By Asad Mirza In a much-anticipated decision by the country’s Supreme Court on the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, the court treading on very sensitive ground, granted relief to the Muslim petitioners on three provisions of the new Act. The Muslim petitioners back-slapping each other have described it as...
Donald Trump Is In A Continuous Battle With American Print Media
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s announcement of a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times represents the latest salvo in what has become the most systematic assault on press freedom by an American president in modern history. The staggering sum—exceeding the newspaper’s entire market...
BJP Is Facing Problems In Madhya Pradesh With The Party’s One Family One Post Formula
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP and the state government ruled by the party are not able to find solutions of two problems. The one problem related to implement policy of the one family. One member in party organisation. Despite party policy, in several cases it...
The Last Cowboy: Robert Redford’s Journey From Sundance To Sunset
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: Robert Redford died as he had lived for the better part of nine decades—on his own terms, in a place he loved, surrounded by those who mattered most. At 89, the golden-haired icon who once embodied America’s idealized vision of itself passed away...
Jeremy Corbyn Announces The Plan To Hold Conference Of New British Left Party
By Andrew Murray LONDON: Plans for the first conference of the new left party in Britain launched by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have been announced to the 800,000 people who have signed up as supporters. Thousands of delegates to the November gathering are to be chosen by lottery...
