Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar has stated that India has consistently rejected any third-party mediation in dealing with bilateral issues, especially relating to Jammu and Kashmir. He declared that India...
Full storyShahid Afridi’s commendation of Rahul Gandhi as having a “positive mindset” and favouring...
in Happening Now Sep 17 ·Rouse Avenue Court has directed that every proposed accused in the National Herald...
in Happening Now Sep 17 ·Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking the replacement and consecration of a...
in Happening Now Sep 17 ·By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stepped into his 75th year on Wednesday, September 17.His birthday is being celebrated by the BJP nationally. The significance is much more as PM’s 75th birthday celebrations have coincided with the centenary programmes on the founding of the RSS in 1925.On...
By K Raveendran Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s argument before the Delhi High Court in the case concerning Umar Khalid and others points to the creeping erosion of basic constitutional protections in the criminal justice system. The High Court’s decision to reject bail to these accused in the UAPA larger...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Bihar is nearing close to the publication of final Electoral Roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on September 30, 2025, the politics in the state is being sensationalized by the BJP on the issue of women’s pride and Muslim infiltration issues, while the...
By Anjan Roy Great Britain is bending backward as much as it can to entertain and woo the imperious US president, Donald Trump, who is currently visiting the country as a state guest at the invitation of the King Charles. The US president is being hosted at the 900...
By R. Suryamurthy India’s agriculture establishment loves big numbers. Year after year, ministers stand before cameras to announce record production targets, claiming the country’s farmers are marching toward self-sufficiency and prosperity. The latest came at the National Agriculture Conference – Rabi Abhiyan 2025, where Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh...
By Asad Mirza In a much-anticipated decision by the country’s Supreme Court on the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, the court treading on very sensitive ground, granted relief to the Muslim petitioners on three provisions of the new Act. The Muslim petitioners back-slapping each other have described it as...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s announcement of a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times represents the latest salvo in what has become the most systematic assault on press freedom by an American president in modern history. The staggering sum—exceeding the newspaper’s entire market...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP and the state government ruled by the party are not able to find solutions of two problems. The one problem related to implement policy of the one family. One member in party organisation. Despite party policy, in several cases it...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: Robert Redford died as he had lived for the better part of nine decades—on his own terms, in a place he loved, surrounded by those who mattered most. At 89, the golden-haired icon who once embodied America’s idealized vision of itself passed away...
By Andrew Murray LONDON: Plans for the first conference of the new left party in Britain launched by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana have been announced to the 800,000 people who have signed up as supporters. Thousands of delegates to the November gathering are to be chosen by lottery...
By Nitya Chakraborty Europe which was the main centre of two world wars in the last century is showing signals of many of the features of the politics of the continent in the pre- second world period spanning 1925 to 1939 in political and military terms. Though in term...
By R. Suryamurthy On September 22, India will roll out the most sweeping reform of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) since its launch eight years ago. The political packaging is clear: cheaper soaps, medicines, and small cars just in time for the festival season. The new regime collapses...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The rhythmic pulse of American capitalism beats every ninety days. As earnings season approaches, corporate America enters a familiar choreography: CFOs massage spreadsheets, CEOs rehearse optimistic narratives, and employees brace for potential restructuring. This quarterly ritual, enshrined since the Securities Exchange Act of...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The recent suicides of two Congress leaders in Wayanad and the reverberations over the Rahul Mamgootathil issue have exposed the deepening factionalism in the Kerala unit of the Congress. Last week witnessed the death, allegedly by suicide, by a local Congress leader Jose Nelledam in...
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump has sued ‘The New York Times’, the newspaper he has been calling the “failing New York Times” for nearly 19 years and still hasn’t seen it failing. So now he has gone and sued The New York Times’ believing if it doesn’t fail...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: FBI Director Kash Patel’s swift capture of the suspect in conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination should have been an unqualified victory. Instead, his handling of the case has exposed the tensions inherent in placing a political loyalist atop the nation’s premier law enforcement...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer Tamil superstar Rajnikanth will be 75 on December12,this year. Three months before th matinee idol steps in into his life’s platinum jubilee, celebrations have started in Tamil Nadu organized by his fan clubs. AT this age, when people enjoy a retired life, Rajnikanth defies age,...
By Nantoo Banerjee Union Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya’s recent claim of the country’s unemployment rate being the lowest among the G20 nations at two percent seems to lack credibility as per the records available with various government and non-government agencies connected with the matter. Mandaviya’s reference to...