Rupee slide squeezes household budgets
Household budgets across India face a fresh strain as the rupee’s slide to record lows threatens to raise the cost of fuel, imported electronics, overseas education, foreign travel and daily essentials over the coming months....
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Sami rejects nationality jibes over Bhagwat meeting
Adnan Sami has pushed back against online attacks questioning his nationality after his...
in Happening Now May 21 ·Delhi transport strike strains daily commute
Delhi-NCR commuters faced longer waits, costlier rides and patchier last-mile connectivity on Thursday...
in Happening Now May 21 ·FBI tightens net on call-centre fraud
Federal investigators have dismantled a call-centre fraud operation linked to India after hundreds...
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By Nitya Chakraborty The joint declaration made by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin after their summit in Beijing on May 20 has major ramifications on the global geopolitics in the context of the present unilateral actions of the U.S. President Donald Trump including...
Uttar Pradesh Politics Hots Up, Akhilesh Identifies With Cockroaches
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Uttar Pradesh became the hottest state in India on May 20. 2026 with Banda earning a distinction of the hottest city in the world with 48.2°C. Whether this affected the minds of the political leaders is not known, but their statements were hot, that made...
Narendra Modi Should Come Out Revealing The Real State Of Economic Crisis
By Nilotpal Basu The trouble with the post truth world is that it has an expiry date. The truth can be glossed over for some finite length of time, not perpetually. Truth eventually triumphs. It seems that we have reached that hour of reckoning. Indications were pronounced, coming from...
How A ₹1 Melody Toffee Became India’s Sweetest Soft-Power Gift
By T N Ashok The gift wrapped Melody chocolate seemed to sing a new jingle : Jab Melody hain, tho Meloni hain” to soft power India’s diplomatic thrust into a country where a saint was crucified and a great new religion was born that swept the world with millions...
Kerala UDF Govt. Scraps SilverLine Rail Project, Announces 100-Day Action Plan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In an important policy decision, the V. D. Satheesan Government has decided to scrap the K-Rail (SilverLine) semi-high-speed railway project from Thiruvananthapuram to Kasaragod. Addressing a press conference after the Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Satheesan said all the land acquired for the project would be...
World Health Organization Warning On Ebola Is A Call To Seal “Viral Frontiers”
By Tirthankar Mitra Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has been declared to be an international public health emergency by World Health Organisation (WHO). It is much more than a timely medical alert. It is a call to seal “viral frontiers”. The epidemic in fragile states are no longer local...
Trump Plans International Summit To Take On Left And Liberals Globally
By Dave McKee NEW YORK: In what can only be described as an acceleration and expansion of the bellicose and dangerous far-right populist movement around the globe, the U.S. government of Donald Trump is reportedly seeking to build an international coalition to oppose the anti-fascist left. Washington says U.S....
British PM Starmer’s Crisis Needs The Search For A New Class Politics
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Former Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford is the latest figure to call for an orderly removal of Keir Starmer. The defenestration of the Prime Minister is now Westminster Labour’s default position as well as meeting the desires and expectations of most people. Drakeford’s measured intervention...
Cuba Is Under Siege By USA, But Neither Xi Jinping Nor Putin Taking It With Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty This is the season of high level summits. On May 14 and 15, U.S President Donald Trump visited Beijing and had ‘ fantastic’ talks, according to the U.S. President, Chinese media also went overboard explaining the great possibilities of China-US cooperation in political and economic spheres...
Congress In The Politically Sensitive And Emotionally Complicated Terrain
By Dr. Gyan Pathak History has again put the Congress in the politically very sensitive and emotionally complicated terrain. After the election result in Tamil Nadu, the Congress decided to support the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) led by Vijay. As chief minister of the state, Vijay on May 18,...
Supreme Court Ruling Forces Hard Reset On Stray Dog Policy
By K Raveendran Supreme Court’s endorsement of lawful euthanasia for rabid, incurably ill and demonstrably dangerous stray dogs marks a decisive shift in India’s long-running debate over public safety, animal welfare and the limits of sentiment in civic governance. The ruling does not license indiscriminate killing, nor does it...
Post-Poll Defeat, Trinamool Congress Gripped By Serious Organisational Crisis
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Time was when Trinamool Congress stood on firm organisational foundations all over West Bengal with each and everyone of its leaders and activists looking up to party supremo Mamata Banerjee for helming them to electoral triumph. But the days when none dared to question Banerjee’s...
Bengal Has Plenty Of Resources And Talent For Industrial Revival
By Anjan Roy KOLKATA: Now that a “double-engine sarkar” is in the driving seat in Bengal, strong expectations have been roused about a revival of a long-hibernating economy of the state. The background is that once, almost beyond the living memory of the newer generations, Bengal was in the...
Why Weakening Trade Unions Produces The Labour Unrest It Claims To Prevent?
By Purbasha Panda, Rongeet Poddar On April 13, 2026, a demonstration led by garment factory workers in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Noida turned into a violent protest leading to fraught public order in several areas of the city. There were reported incidents of stone pelting, clashes between...
What Is Behind India’s Education Minister’s Refusal To Reform NTA?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite several orders and recommendations of the Supreme Court and the Parliamentary Standing Committee, the Union Government did not structurally reform the National Testing Agency (NTA), and also did not take appropriate actions that helped the education mafia of the country to strengthen its grip...
Indian Stock Market Moves Not Just With Earnings But With Oil Prices Also
By T N Ashok India’s stock markets have seen panic before. They have survived wars, sanctions, pandemics, banking collapses and political earthquakes. But the latest selloff triggered by the Iran-linked oil shock has exposed something far deeper and more structural inside Asia’s third-largest economy: India’s extraordinary vulnerability to imported...
Trump, Tehran And The New Battle For Hormuz In The Ongoing War
By Asad Mirza The United States and Iran appear locked between diplomacy and military escalation as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz intensify. While President Donald Trump has temporarily postponed military action following pressure from Gulf allies, Tehran is simultaneously advancing new proposals on nuclear talks and unveiling a...
Audio Tape On Joe Biden Revives Tale Of U.S. Conspiracy In Removing Imran Khan
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: For years, Pakistan’s political class has lived inside a hall of mirrors — where conspiracy theories become national doctrine, where whispers from Rawalpindi travel faster than court judgments, and where the line between reality and manufactured narrative has almost entirely collapsed. Into that...
