Passenger turmoil grows as IndiGo axes hundreds of flights
Passenger queues stretched across major airports as IndiGo faced a surge of flight cancellations that reached roughly 500 services in a single day, creating widespread disruption for travellers and raising pressing questions over the airline’s...
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IndiGo warns air travel chaos to persist until February 10 as FDTL waiver sought
IndiGo has informed DGCA that resumed flight operations will only stabilise by February...
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U.S. threats of sanctions sharpen focus on Pakistan’s military leadership
Washington is pressing Islamabad with demands tied to accountability as calls grow for...
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Pakistani-origin student held after weapons cache found with ‘kill all’ manifesto
Law enforcement officials in Delaware have taken into custody 25-year-old Luqmaan Khan after...
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By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India Thursday evening for a two-day state visit that has become a diplomatic flashpoint, testing New Delhi’s ability to maintain strategic independence amid mounting pressure from Washington and European capitals. The arrival marks Putin’s first trip to...
RBI Monetary Policy Has Little Impact On Falling Rupee
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rupee is falling, but Reserve Bank of India did not come to rescue it. No wonder, immediately after the latest announcement of the repo rate cut by RBI by 25 basis points (bps) on December 5s, bringing it down to 5.25 per cent, the rupee...
Occupational Safety, Health And Working Conditions Code, 2020 Must Be Withdrawn
By Dr Arun Mitra Occupational Health and safety has been an issue of serious concern of health personnel as well as the workers’ organizations since long. During the industrial revolution in England, even the children were made to clean chimneys and work in hazardous industry. As a result many...
U.S. Signals Expansion Of Travel Ban To 30 Countries Leading To Big Furore
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The Trump administration is preparing to dramatically widen its travel ban, potentially restricting entry from more than 30 countries, in what officials describe as an urgent response to national-security concerns and a series of violent incidents involving foreign nationals. The proposed expansion, confirmed...
India’s Food-Security Architecture Is Straining Needing Immediate Reforms
By R. Suryamurthy India’s public distribution system (PDS)—a sprawling, decades-old welfare mechanism that feeds 81 crore people—has managed to sustain an extraordinary scale of operations. Month after month, through pandemics, inflation shocks and erratic procurement cycles, the system delivers subsidised or free foodgrains to two-thirds of the country’s population....
Delhi Air Pollution: Opposition Holds Protest At Parliament Complex
By Rahil Nora Chopra Opposition parties on Thursday staged a protest in the Parliament complex over the issue of air pollution in the national capital, with Congress leader Sonia Gandhi asking the government to take immediate remedial action. The Congress national president and the leader of the opposition in...
Takeaways From The Sanchar Saathi Saga Of Modi Government
By Harsh Gour India’s Department Of Telecommunications (‘DoT’) recently quietly ordered all smartphone makers to pre-install its new “Sanchar Saathi” cybersecurity app on every phone sold in India. The directive, under the Telecom Cyber Security Rules, instructed manufacturers to push the app to new devices. Once this came to...
CEA’s Calmness Over Steep Fall Of Rupee Ignores Key Risks To India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When Indian rupee was falling in the Mumbai market against US dollar on Wednesday, December 3, 2025 – sliding past the 90-a-dollar mark for the second day, plumbing a new low of 90.29 in the morning trade after opening flat at 89.96, analysts were pegging...
The Great AI Battle Between U.S. And China Is A New Version Of 21st Century Cold War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: A global competition is reshaping technology, geopolitics, and the world economy as Washington and Beijing race to dominate artificial intelligence—with no guarantee of success. In the spring of 2024, executives at a prominent Chinese artificial intelligence company found themselves fielding an extraordinary barrage...
RSS Is Deliberately Reducing India’s Entire Past Within The Confines Of Rama Legend
By Nilotpal Basu Ram and the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya has been the most rewarding campaign for BJP, catapulting it to political hegemony in India’s contemporary political history. Ram, revered by many and attributed with divine quality, was part of the mythology which has been engrained...
Behind The Steep Fall Of Indian Rupee, There Are Many Factors Including Fall In Exports
By Anjan Roy The Indian currency has depreciated beyond the psychological level of Rs 90 to a dollar in course of trading during Wednesday. It closed at 90.22 at the close of trading. It now looks as though the Indian rupee is inevitably set for continuous depreciation. Some traders...
Latest Cyclone And Flood Situation In Asian Countries Is A Wake Up Call For India
By Tirthankar Mitra The deadly floods sweeping through Indonesia since last week mark a sobering moment for this region. It is a grim reminder that this region is long accustomed to the monsoon’s mood but rarely prepared for the nature’s most erratic turns. More than 500 people have been...
‘Under The Same Sky’: Palestinian-American Author’s Novel Shows Gaza’s Will To Survive
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Leila Majaj Kirkconnell’s Under the Same Sky is more than a novel; it is a monumental work of witness and a significant literary achievement. It accomplishes what countless reports and statistics fail to do: It translates a vast, complex geopolitical tragedy into a deeply...
An Election Commission That Treats Critics As Enemies Has No Place In Democracy
By K Raveendran The steady erosion of trust between political parties and the Election Commission has become one of the more troubling developments in India’s democratic life, revealing an institutional drift that carries implications well beyond a single electoral cycle. The body entrusted with safeguarding the integrity of elections...
Russian President Putin’s Dec 4-5 Visit To Delhi Set To Reboot 70 Year Old Relationship
By T N Ashok How a seemingly routine bilateral summit could reset global energy flows, defence alignments, and Asia’s security geometrics. When Vladimir Putin steps onto the tarmac in New Delhi on December 4 , it will not be merely another ceremonial handshake between two leaders who have perfected...
The Rupee At 90 Leaves The RBI Exposed: India Currency Not Responding To High GDP Rate
By R. Suryamurthy India’s policymakers have grown comfortable repeating a familiar mantra: growth is strong, inflation is defeated, reserves are high, and therefore the economy is stable. But the rupee’s slide past ₹90.14 to the United States dollar has taken that mantra and torn right through it. What was...
Asia And The Pacific Is Now Ultimate Testing Ground For Artificial Intelligence
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia and the Pacific stands as the world’s most diverse region, where wealth and deprivation, stability and fragility, technological leadership and digital exclusion coexist side by side. This diversity makes it the ultimate testing ground for artificial intelligence (AI), a new UNDP report says. With...
India’s Data Credibility Problem Is No Longer A Whisper – It’s A Warning
By R. Suryamurthy India’s statistical system has always been vast—thousands of field investigators, dozens of ministries generating streams of administrative data, and a legacy built by some of the world’s finest statisticians. But size is no longer strength. The country’s data architecture is now creaking under its own weight,...
