Diplomatic caution builds in Dhaka ahead of December 25
Unusual diplomatic signals from Western missions have sharpened attention on Dhaka as December 25 approaches, with embassies adjusting operations and issuing travel advisories that point to heightened vigilance around that date. Germany’s embassy has announced...
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BSP faces existential test outside Parliament
Bahujan Samaj Party, once a decisive player in Uttar Pradesh and a regular...
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Bangladesh signals steadier tone towards New Delhi
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Internet shutdown follows renewed unrest in Karbi Anglong
Mobile internet services were suspended across the districts of Karbi Anglong and West...
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By K Raveendran As 2026 approaches, the global oil market is heading into a year that could decisively reshape price dynamics, fiscal planning in producing states, and energy security calculations for importing economies. The defining feature of the coming year is not demand destruction or geopolitical shock, but the...
BlueBird Block-2 Launch: India’s Heavy-Lift Moment Is Beyond Space
By R. Suryamurthy By any technical measure, India’s successful launch of the BlueBird Block-2 satellite should have been routine. Rockets lift satellites into orbit every week now. SpaceX alone has normalised spaceflight to the point of near banality. And yet, the LVM3-M6 mission — which placed a 6,100-kg U.S.-built...
Bodo Movement Groups Restive, Mass Mobilisation Likely Soon
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Whether the Bodo Movement Groups (BMGs) will press ahead with the in-principle decision to organize a mass gathering of two lakh people at Kokrajhar in the near future in support of their five-year-old demand for more powers and more elected representatives — will hinge...
Will FTA With New Zealand Hamper Indian Apple Growers’ Interests?
By Jag Mohan Thaken Amid a stuck period for Indo-American Trade finalization, India and New Zealand announced a bilateral agreement, on December 22, 2025, stating a win-win situation for both. However, the implementation may take a period of six months or so. A Government of India press release through...
Student Assassinations In Bangladesh Can Impact Regional Stability
By Aritra Banerjee It’s often observed that political violence in the Indian subcontinent, especially in the now volatile South Asian neighbours India and Bangladesh, has often announced itself first on university campuses. When students become targets rather than participants in political life, it signals that institutional mechanisms for managing...
December In Chennai: A Season Of Culture, Joy, And Artistic Reverence
By T N Ashok Every December, the southern Indian metropolis of Chennai undergoes a remarkable transformation — its air infused with jasmine, its streets animated with cultural fervour, and its people drawn into a rhythm of music, drama, dance and cinematic celebration. For decades, this coastal city has turned...
An Indian Supporter In Pakistan: Meet Maulana Fazlur Rehman
By Asad Mirza India recently got support in its fight against cross-border terrorism, from an unexpected quarter. Several Pakistani religious scholars and representatives of various religious sects stressed at a meeting that Afghan territory must not be used by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) against Pakistan. In a joint statement...
G Ram G Bill Marks The End Of India’s Rural Employment Revolution
By Nesar Ahmad Since the beginning, the National Democratic Alliance (‘NDA’) government has not shied from showing its dislike towards the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (‘MGNREGA’). In 2015, only a year after the government came to power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking the Parliament mockingly, noted...
Bangladesh’s Bluster On Northeast India: Empty Threats, Or More?
By Ashis Biswas How serious is the slogan for wresting the seven sister states in India’s northeast region, raised by Islamic extremists in Bangladesh, for New Delhi? For a proper assessment of the political challenge this poses for India, a brief study of background information is necessary. Bangladesh sought...
China’s Tech March Grappling Against Its Own Weakening Economy
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: China is steering its future in an uneven manner and with great speed. In gleaming industrial zones, robots guided by artificial intelligence assemble electric vehicles that rival the best in the world. Data centres hum with vast computing power. Laboratories race to design...
Tensions Escalate In West Bengal Over SIR Process And Deletion Of Names
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the Election Commission of India started sending notices to unmapped voters to appear before the officials for hearing from December 27, 2025, tensions in West Bengal have considerably escalated. There are about 32 lakh voters in this category, who are facing a prospect of...
Muhammad Yunus, Microcredit, And The Limits Of Debt-Led Development
By Aritra Banerjee For much of the world, microcredit remains one of the most celebrated innovations in late-20th-century development thinking. Small loans to the poor—particularly to rural women—were presented as a way to bypass weak states, defeat informal moneylenders, and unlock entrepreneurship at the grassroots. Few individuals became as...
Dhurandhar: Bollywood Blockbuster Rewrites India’s Terror Wars
By T N Ashok On a humid evening in Mumbai, the applause began before the final scene had ended. The screen was still soaked in gunfire, bodies still falling, when the clapping rose—hesitant at first, then thunderous. For many in the audience, Dhurandhar was not simply a film. It...
Trump-Backed Kushner-Witkoff Project Sunrise: Charity Or Business?
By Asad Mirza The proverbial ‘cat’ is indeed ‘out of the bag’, after a hiatus of more than two years, following the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. The details of the alleged ‘Project Sunrise’ was shared by the Wall Street Journal, over the weekend. The proposal is to...
SC’s Dismissal In Samuel Kamalesan: Secularism Vs. Military Discipline?
By Shruti Bedi On November 25, the Supreme Court dismissed the Special Leave Petition in Samuel Kamalesan v. Union of India (2025). It declined to interfere with a decision of the Delhi High Court which had upheld the dismissal of a Christian army officer for refusing to enter the...
Assam violence targets BJP leader’s home
Violence erupted in Assam’s West Karbi Anglong district on Monday after protests linked to demands for evictions escalated into arson and stone-pelting, with demonstrators setting fire to the ancestral home of Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council Chief Executive Member and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tuliram Ronghang in Dongkamukam. Police said...
Trump Has Become A Threat To Free Trade
By Nantoo Banerjee US President Donald Trump may have problems with Russia, Venezuela and a host of other states and has every right to decide on the US trade and diplomatic policies to deal with those countries. But he has no right to thrust upon other free nations his...
Bangladesh Govt Interim Chief Dr Muhammad Yunus Under Fire From BNP
By Ashis Biswas Doubts have arisen in Bangladesh as to whether the general elections scheduled on Feb 12 2026 can be held, after yet another major outbreak of mob violence during the last 48 hours. There have been several deaths as frenzied armed gangs of religious extremists publicly butchered...
