Complaints mount against CEC in Bengal
Multiple complaints have been registered against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in South 24 Parganas district, as political tensions escalate ahead of assembly elections in West Bengal. Police confirmed that petitions were lodged on Friday...
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Rahul Gandhi likens Modi to trapped fighter
Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has...
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Top court rejects plea over Babur mosque naming
Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking a prohibition on constructing or naming...
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Hanuman Chalisa recitation follows Jabalpur unrest
Members of several Hindu organisations gathered outside Sihora police station in Jabalpur district...
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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.How A Supreme Court Ruling And A Russian Oil Gambit Rewrote India’s Trade Destiny
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: When the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on February 20, delivering a 6–3 verdict that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 confers no authority to impose broad-spectrum duties without Congressional approval, the most...
Learning To Live With ‘Shirtless Protest’ At India AI Summit
By K Raveendran Global summits have long offered a global stage not only for heads of government and corporate leaders but also for those who oppose them. Protest movements have learnt to converge where television cameras, diplomats and policy makers gather, turning high-profile meetings into arenas of dissent as...
Gujarat Govt’s Latest Marriage Notification Order Has Ominous Consequences
By T N Ashok Last Friday, in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi rose to announce what the BJP government described as a measured administrative reform. Couples who elope and wish to register their marriage, Sanghavi explained, would henceforth be required to submit...
Why Madras High Court Ruling On Cryptocurrency As Property Sets A Critical Precedence
By Harsh Gour In October 2025, the Madras High Court took a noteworthy step in India’s crypto framework. The High Court had to decide on whether a digital token – bought on a Mumbai-based exchange and lost in a cyber-attack – could be treated as “property” under Indian law....
Iconic Bengali Writer Shankar’s Death Leaves A Void In Literary Arena
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better named as Shankar, passed away in Kolkata on Friday, February 20 imparting grief to thousands of his readers who enjoyed his story telling power portrayed through hundreds of his works. He was 92. One hardly comes across a person who is...
Why Communist Manifesto Written By Marx And Engels In 1848 Is Relevant Now
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Saturday February 21 is the anniversary of the 1848 publication of The Manifesto of the Communist Party drafted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and adopted by the International Working Man’s Association in 1864. We mark this event each year with Red Books Day in...
Unemployment In India Rose For The Third Consecutive Month In January 2026
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The year 2026 began with worsening of unemployment scenario in India, which rose for the third consecutive month in January and stood at 5 per cent in Current Weekly Status (CWS). Youth (15-29 years) unemployment is urban areas rose more sharply in the last five...
Agitation Against UGC Guidelines Vindicate B R Ambedkar’s Fears
By D. Raja The outrage triggered among certain socially dominant sections against the UGC’s Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026 has reaffirmed, with renewed force, B R Ambedkar’s profound characterisation of the caste system as representing “an ascending order of reverence and a descending order of...
New Delhi Architectures A ‘Global South’ Blueprint For Sovereign AI
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The India AI Impact Summit 2026, which concluded on February 20 at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, has officially redefined the global trajectory of artificial intelligence. While previous international gatherings, such as the AI Safety Summits in the United Kingdom and South Korea, were...
Can Europe Provide A Third Way Outside The Domination Of Donald Trump?
By Prabhat Patnaik With the Trump administration adopting brutally repressive measures not just against immigrants but even against US citizens, a tendency has emerged within American liberal circles to look towards Europe for providing a “third way”, a “model” different from both China and the US, the two major...
Congress High Command Smoothens Rough Edges Over DMK Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress high command has taken direct control of the brewing discord within the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu. While formal negotiations are scheduled to begin on February 22, public remarks by Congress leaders have already set off debate over whether the...
Christianity And Islam Share The Fasting Month In 2026 After A Gap Of 33 Years
By Asad Mirza Two largest religions of the world, i.e. Christianity and Islam started their most important period of fasting in a year on the same day this year. This rare convergence comes after a gap of 33 years. The Islamic month of Ramadan and Christianity’s 40-day period of...
Restarting Bullock Cart Races In Rural Olympics Is A Welcome Move
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Ultimately after a long wait for 13 years, the ban on bullock cart races has been quashed by the Punjab government. Bullock cart races were halted during the tenure of previous governments in Rural Olympics. Addressing a gathering during the Kila Raipur Sports Rural...
India Positions Itself As The AI World’s Third Pole Under PM Modi’s Active Leadership
By T N Ashok At the center of Bharat Mandapam, the chiselled, lotus-shaped convention complex that has become the theatre for India’s global ambitions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood for a “family photo” that looked less like a diplomatic formality and more like a merger of Silicon Valley and...
Bengal BJP Leaders Looking For March 15 Rally Of PM Modi For Poll Boost
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Optics rather than cohesive groundwork to build up an efficient poll machinery marks the activities of West Bengal unit of BJP in the run up to the Assembly elections in April/May this year.. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed meeting on March 15 at Brigade Parade...
Epstein Files Reveal A Saga Of Systematic Crimes By The Super Rich In Neoliberal Era
By Nilotpal Basu Since the release of the Epstein Files by the US Department of Justice on January 30, outrage has been unleashed across the United States and Europe. But the revelations, which include more than 30 lakh e-mail exchanges, over a lakh of photographs and above a thousand...
Great Punjabi Sufi Poet Bulleh Shah Was A Rebel Against Caste, Orthodoxy
By Krishna Jha “Break down the mosque, break down the temple, break down everything that can be broken, but do not break a human heart, for that is where God resides.” That was Bulleh Shah, relevant even after so many years. One of Punjab’s greatest Sufi poets, he makes...
Asia-Pacific To Miss 88 Per Cent Of The Sustainable Development Goals By 2030
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia-Pacific region will miss 103 of 117 measurable targets – or 88 per cent – across the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by world leaders in 2015, a new report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has...
