The Foreign Contribution Amendment Bill, 2026 has slipped from Parliament’s immediate legislative schedule, raising expectations that the government may avoid forcing a vote on the contentious measure during the closing days of the Monsoon Session....
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By Dr. Nilanjan Banik The protesters at Jantar Mantar, whose protest is now over for the time being, had good reason to be angry. The NEET paper leaks are one symptom; the deeper problem is youth unemployment. Young and educated Indians account for a significant share of the unemployed,...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Monday August 10 started his foreign envoys outreach with a meeting with Indian ambassador Naveen Srivastava. He met later during the day, the Chinese ambassador also, but his first choice of Indian envoy signals a positive development in the area...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers Something unusual is happening on the other side of the Line of Control. For decades, Pakistan has presented Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as the unfinished business of Partition and India as the country responsible for denying Kashmiris their right to self-determination. Islamabad has repeatedly invoked the United...
By T N Ashok The Monsoon Session of Parliament has been politically turbulent, frequently disrupted and, at times, short on the prolonged debates that legislation of consequence deserves. Yet beneath the noise, Parliament has been quietly rewriting some of the rules that govern everyday India — from competitive examinations...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress leadership has initiated within party discussion for an alliance with Samajwadi Party to defeat BJP and dislodge Yogi Adityanath government in 2027 assembly polls. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge convened the meeting to discuss the issue with Rahul Gandhi, AICC UP incharge Rajendra Kumar Gautam,...
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a Class 4 student was assaulted and subjected to casteist slurs by a teacher at a Government Primary School in Ukawal village, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh on...
By Ben Chacko LONDON: At a point when trust in politicians is at an all-time low, Andy Burnham’s “cost-of-living” tour is an astute move. The sense that politicians promise much but deliver little is woven into the understanding of the British people because it is true. So Burnham is...
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s eighth post-Independence census of 2027, coming after a gap of almost 16 years, assumes a great importance in the country’s political system as it will lift the long-standing freeze on redrawing Parliamentary boundaries. The census report will provide the official population data required under Article...
By Subrata Majumder Battered by President Donald Trump’s high tariff, China resorted to Look East policy with a new investment linked trade strategy to increase resilience to USA’s tariff woos. China’s direct export to USA plummeted due to US high tariff. It declined by 29.7 percent in 2025 –...
By T N Ashok There is something almost cinematic about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s sudden discovery of India’s youth. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has spent years addressing young Indians as the engines of Viksit Bharat, has now begun speaking to them in the language of Instagram reels, selfies,...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers The SAD-BJP thaw is more interesting than a routine parliamentary numbers game. The immediate trigger is delimitation and women’s reservation, but the larger question is whether two estranged political partners are quietly testing the waters for a reunion before the 2027 Punjab Assembly election. The...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 is back in the centrestage with the Union Government bent upon going ahead with it in the current session itself and the Opposition and Catholic organisations bent on preventing the Government from proceeding with it. Reports have it...
By K Raveendran Mohan Bhagwat’s attempt to open a conversation with India’s younger generation carries significance precisely because such an intervention would hardly have been necessary if the political establishment were confident that the youth remained comfortably within its fold. The RSS chief’s argument that young people are neither...
By Asad Mirza On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, an “Islamic NATO”-style mutual-defence pact, in Islam’s holiest city rather than any capital. Born from doubts about US protection after Iranian strikes went unanswered, and Yemen’s collapsing truce, the deal reshapes regional...
By T N Ashok The political battle for 2029 may already be taking shape—not in Parliament or at election rallies, but on Instagram, in student gatherings, on streets and in the informal spaces where India’s youngest voters increasingly form their political opinions. Rahul Gandhi appears to have understood something...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Protests of the “Cockroaches” (jobless) led by Cockroach Janata Party has (CJP) brought the unemployment crisis in India in focus that has compelled the ministers of the Union Government of India to come with their statements that Centre led by Modi has been doing a...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers Ever since home minister Amit Shah tabled the Foreign Contribution Regulation ACT 2026 in parliament for discussion and eventual passage on August 12, it has invited criticism from opposition and evoked fears, especially among foreign missionaries, especially the Christian churches which receive large donations from...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Right-wing lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in as Colombia’s new president on August 7 after winning a run-off election on promises to crack down on armed groups, cut government spending by as much as 40 percent, and revive the South American country’s oil and...
