Putin flags Caspian risk in Iran war
Vladimir Putin has sharpened Moscow’s warning over the widening Iran conflict, signalling that any spillover into the Caspian Sea would be viewed by the Kremlin “extremely negatively” as Israeli military action pushes into an area...
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Oli held as protest deaths haunt Nepal
Former Nepal prime minister KP Sharma Oli was arrested on Saturday along with...
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Murshidabad flare-up jolts Bengal campaign
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Strikes force US troops into remote war
Sustained missile and drone strikes attributed to Iran have rendered parts of several...
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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.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...
India’s Trade Agreements Are Gender-Aware, Not Gender-Responsive
By R. Suryamurthy India’s trade negotiators have, over the past decade, begun to speak a new language—one that acknowledges women not merely as beneficiaries of growth, but as agents within it. Yet, as the fine print of the country’s recent free trade agreements (FTAs) reveals, this rhetorical shift has...
Akhilesh Yadav Makes Phoolan Devi’s Sister State President Of SP’s Women’s Wing
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav wants to revive the magic of bandit queen Phoolan Devi by making her sister Meenakshi Nishad as state president of the women wing of the party. It would be worth mentioning here that Nishad community belongs to OBCs and...
Modi Govt’s Faulty Policies Contributing To A Great Extent The Fall Of Indian Rupee
By Prabhat Patnaik Most Asian currencies have fallen significantly against the US dollar since the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran. Of these however the Indian rupee has been perhaps the worst performer, having fallen to as low as Rs. 93.73 by Friday March 20, from Rs. 91.01...
Where Soldiers Once Marched, Gen Z Now Orders Cappuccino In A Café In Tawang
By T N Ashok In Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, there is a café where coffee is excellent. The altitude is 10,000 feet. And beneath your chair, under riveted steel plates that once shook with the boots of soldiers retreating in the bitter winter of 1962, a stream murmurs through...
Election Observers Sent By National BJP To Bengal Under Fire By Locals
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal unit of BJP is yet to get its act together even as Assembly elections are inching forward in West Bengal. The wraps over an unwieldy organisation in the state came off before the party’s national president, Nitin Nabin when he was in Kolkata...
Even After March 22 Municipal Poll Results, Socialists And LFI Are Fighting
By Pablo Castaño PARIS: Nearly all parties celebrated the results of France’s municipal elections, held on March 15 and 22. Above all, the contests confirmed just how muddled the country’s political situation is ahead of the 2027 presidential elections. The conservative party Les Républicains (LR) will govern the most...
Trump-Xi Summit Rescheduled On May 14-15 In Beijing Worries Japan And Taiwan
By Nitya Chakraborty U.S. President Donald Trump finally rescheduled his much awaited visit to China on May 14 and 15 by announcing in his Truth Social there by creating big interest in the diplomatic circles about the possibility of a sort of ceasefire in the current West Asian war...
US-Iran Talks On Peace In West Asia Have Many Roadblocks Needing Tough Mediation
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Peace in the middle east has many roadblocks as Iran rejected initially Trump’s 15-point one sided peace plan coming up with its own counter terms and retaining its right to maintain stock piles, control of Hormuz and arming militias in its neighbourhood as...
Cabinet Approved India’s NDC 2031-35 Adopts Calibrated Middle Path
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The cabinet approved India’s Nationally Determined contribution (NDC) 2031-35 has clearly adopted a calibrated middle path between its climate responsibility and development sovereignty in the backdrop of the country’s unfinished development agenda. It signals India’s willingness to act on climate action but on terms that...
Civil Society Outfit Targets BJP-Led Assam Ministry, Wants Regime Change
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Assam’s chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is leading the NDA for the forthcoming Assembly elections on April 9, may have succeeded in prevailing upon Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), BJP’s steadfast ally, into fielding 50 per cent of its candidates from the minority community....
