Congress Admits Vote-Chori Strategy Backfired in Bihar
Functionaries of the Indian National Congress have pointed to the party’s heavy reliance on the “vote chori” narrative—centering on alleged electoral roll manipulation through Special Intensive Revision —as a principal cause for its sweeping losses...
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Admissions Row Sparks Protests at Vaishno Devi Medical College
A storm has erupted over the first-ever MBBS batch at the Shri Mata...
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Siddaramaiah Camp Mobilises Pressure Over CM Post
Camp loyal to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has shifted into high gear as bids...
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Congress Leaders’ Exchange Sparks Security Concerns
A sharp confrontation during a Congress review meeting in New Delhi over the...
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By Nitya Chakraborty 2025 has been a golden year for the Chinese President Xi Jinping in global diplomacy. In the last ten months since taking over the U.S. presidency by Donald Trump on January 20 this year for the second non-consecutive term, Chinese supremo Xi Jinping is on the...
Centre’s Decision To Set Up System For Rare Earth Magnets Is A Game Changer
By R. Suryamurthy India’s decision to establish a domestic rare-earth magnet industry may seem like a technical footnote in a week crowded with political and economic headlines. In reality, it marks one of the country’s most important strategic turns in years. The Union Cabinet’s approval of a ₹7,280-crore scheme...
Farmers Must Not Be Blamed As Easy Target For Air Pollution
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Stubble burning by farmers of Punjab and Haryana has been chiefly blamed for years for deterioration of air quality in the Nation Capital Territory Delhi by the Government of Delhi while keeping a blind eye on other major factors and veiling its own failure. The...
Centre’s Four Notified Labour Codes Dilute The Protection Of Labour
By Nilotpal Basu Four Labour Codes have been notified by the Government of India immediately after NDA’s major electoral victory in the Bihar Assembly elections, and the accompanying euphoria. The Codes on wages, industrial relations, occupational safety and social security override in the name of ‘simplification of 29 Labour...
Japanese Investment In India May Go Up Further Under New PM Sanao Takaichi
By Subrata Majumder Japan’s new Prime Minister and the first female Prime Minister Sanao Takaichi is unlikely to be moved by the historic gender inequality. She is not a staunch supporter for gender equality because of her social conservation and opposition to key reforms. She has long opposed legislation...
Superstar Dharmendra’s Demise Marks The End Of Bollywood’s Golden Age
By T N Ashok When Dharmendra breathed his last on November 24, 2025, at the age of 89, something intangible yet profound died with him. It wasn’t just the loss of one man, however legendary. It was the final, irreversible closing of a chapter in Hindi cinema that can...
Babri Mosque Demolition On December 6, 1992 Was The Continuation Of Communal Politics In India
By Krishna Jha The sinister episodes of how a masjid was turned into a temple is still fresh in the memory of people. The forced placing of the idols of Ram under the high dome of the main hall prohibited any Namaz, a practice that was continuing since ages....
Farmers In Punjab Are Furious Over Centre’s Notification Of Four Labour Codes
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: To oppose the implementation of New Labour Codes, made effective since 21st November, A Nationwide Massive protest was organised jointly on 26th November, 2026 by the Trade Unions and Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a major union of farmers, in more than 500 districts, as...
Hitlerism Is Back In Force In The Western Democracies As Centrists Are Collapsing
By Andrew Murray LONDON: Hitler, it seems, is back centre stage amid the rapidly progressing collapse of bourgeois centrist politics in Europe and USA. Those who follow US politics will have noticed that the country’s numerous and powerful right-wing is riven on the Nazi question. The feud began when...
India, US Energy Alignment Shapes A Quieter Trade Push
By K Raveendran A quieter phase has set in around discussions on a potential trade agreement between India and the United States, yet the subdued optics conceal a period of more intense negotiation. Officials on both sides describe a process that has deliberately stepped away from public signalling, opting...
Union Govt’s Exercise For Base Revision Of GDP, CPI, And IIP Series Underway
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Exercise for base revision of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Indes (CPI), and Index of Industrial Production (IIP) series is underway which will change the base year 2011-12 to 2022-23. National Accounts Division of the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) of...
India’s Digital Leap In The Informal Economy Masks A Deeper Structural Drift
By R. Suryamurthy The latest quarterly numbers for India’s unincorporated non-agricultural sector look, at first glance, like a modest win for an economy navigating global shocks: digital adoption is rising sharply, establishments have inched up, and employment remains steady. Nearly 39% of enterprises now use the internet in some...
Youth Unemployment Drops In China, This Time It Might Stick
By Dr Imran Khalid In the autumn of 2025, China is quietly showing signs that it is turning a corner on one of its most daunting economic challenges: youth unemployment. The National Bureau of Statistics reported that the urban jobless rate for 16 to 24 year-olds (excluding students) fell...
Why India’s Seventh Entry Into The UNHRC Is A Troubling Tale For People?
By Edgar Kaiser On October 14 this year, India was elected to the UN Human Rights Council for the seventh time from the Asia group, along with Pakistan, Vietnam, and Iraq. While this may read as a diplomatic triumph for the state and a national prestige for the citizens...
British Labour Party Must Back Current Talks Based On Ukraine Peace Plan
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Everyone must hope that the present talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine succeed. It is a conflict that has cost perhaps half a million lives with many more injured, driven millions more into exile and wreaked havoc with the economy and infrastructure...
India’s Strategic Shift Toward Diversified Trade And Green Commitments
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik With the long-awaited trade deal with the US delayed, India is deepening engagement with other developed partners such as the European Union (EU) and New Zealand to secure free trade agreements (FTAs). This shift reflects New Delhi’s intent to diversify its trade relationships and reduce...
Future Of Millions Of Children In Poverty Is At High Risk
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Regrettably, efforts to reduce poverty are slowing. If we are to reverse this slowdown and accelerate progress, we need to maintain and extend the approaches that have been shown to work in recent decades,” says the State of the World Children 2025, a flagship report...
New Labour Codes: A Most Unfair Labour Practice
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The trade unions with the exception of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sabha (BMS) have condemned the notification of the four new labour codes as the most unfair labour practice. Expectedly, Opposition parties and many trade unions have demanded that they be revoked as the codes were...
