Kejriwal overture fails as AAP MPs defect
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal’s attempt to contain a revolt in his parliamentary ranks collapsed after seven of the party’s 10 Rajya Sabha MPs quit and moved to the Bharatiya Janata Party, leaving the...
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Pakistan channels Iran’s wary ceasefire diplomacy
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Islamabad as Pakistan stepped up efforts...
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Poll watchdog removes Diamond Harbour officers
Five police officers from West Bengal’s Diamond Harbour Police District have been suspended...
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Gauhati High Court has refused pre-arrest bail to Congress leader Pawan Khera in...
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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.India Plan To Bring Out Employment Profiles For Million-Plus Cities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India, for the first time, have planned to bring out employment profiles for cities having million plus population as well as city level profiles of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises. The former, as is proposed, will provide key labour market indicators, such as Labour Force Participation Rate...
Insulting Senior Govt Officials By BJP Leaders Is Now Common In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The pattern is similar, if not the same. First, a ruling party leader or his kin makes a verbal or physical assault on a government officer or behaves arrogantly, humiliating, abusing or insulting someone. After an uproar, he is summoned to the state BJP...
The Great Dental Robbery: Inside India’s Corporate Smile Industry Trap
By T N Ashok CHENNAI: It began, as modern cautionary tales often do, with something trivial. Tea. Mullu murukku. A careless bite. It’s a wheat based savoury spicy, salty , peppery and after taste is awesome, it leaves you with taste buds with an indescribable feeling of joy. The...
British Left Must Do All It Can To Keep Reform UK Out Of Power
By Ben Chacko LONDON: As the Westminster vultures circle its twitching corpse, one could be forgiven that the May 7 elections in Scotland, Wales and the 136 English councils and for six Metro mayors were no more than a referendum on the Starmer premiership. Unlike the 2025 elections which...
What Record Turnouts In Tamil Nadu And West Bengal Really Signal On Results?
By T N Ashok In most democracies, high voter turnout is read as a simple good—an affirmation of faith in the system. In India, it is rarely that straightforward. The extraordinary participation seen in the 2026 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal—with turnout brushing past 84% and...
Day After Record Voting In First Phase, Modi-Shah Battle With Mamata For Final One
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP leaders Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister of Home Amit Shah April 24, 2026, a day after highest ever 92.89 per cent polling in the first phase of election on 152 constituencies, claimed to win West Bengal, while TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee vowed...
Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman Shows Signs Of Improving Relations With India
By Satyaki Chakraborty At long last, there are clear signs that India-Bangladesh bilateral relations are set to be normalised under the new Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman who took power only two months ago following the historic national elections held on February 12 this year. Tarique Rahman has just...
Congress Aims For Organisational Rejig Once 2026 State Polls End
By Rahil Nora Chopra Whispers are making rounds in the Congress that organisational reshuffle will be undertaken only once the ongoing state Assembly elections conclude, with internal discussions signalling a broader redistribution of responsibilities across the party structure. Numerous senior Congress leaders are advocating a more prominent role for...
A New Framework For Land Acquisition In Madhya Pradesh Has Drawn Attention
By Raju Kumar BH0PAL: Recent provisions announced by the Madhya Pradesh government on land acquisition have drawn attention from farmers, policy experts, and the wider public. The new rules propose that in rural areas, farmers will receive compensation up to four times the market value of their land in...
Banning Of Web Series Lawrence Of Punjab Is A Welcome Decision Now
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police, on April 24, 2026 afternoon, heaved a sigh of relief, when it received the information of banning the Web Series- “Lawrence of Punjab”, by the centre. DGP Punjab Police on his X@DGPPunjabPolice wrote, “Punjab Police is committed to maintaining peace, public order,...
Ruling Left Coalition Nominee Ivan Cepeda Is Front Runner In Colombia Presidential Polls
By W. T. Whitney, Jr. NEW YORK: Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s first and only left-leaning president, leaves office soon. First round voting on his replacement takes place on May 31, and Iván Cepeda, standard bearer of Petro’s Historic Pact party, leads in opinion polls. Cepeda and his vice-presidential running mate...
Pope Leo XIV’s Strong Criticism Of Iran War By Trump Sure To Impact November Midterm
By Kevin Gallagher NEW Y0RK: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.” As thousands of believers filled St Peter’s Square in the Vatican for the rites of Palm Sunday this year, Pope Leo XIV chose to include in his homily...
Narendra Modi And Amit Shah’s Vicious Attacks On Mamata Catapult Her To National Stage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the first phase of election in West Bengal in underway on April 23, the electoral battle for the second phase of election to be held on April 29 has now become a rare spectacle in which Bengal Tigress Mamata Banerjee is seen fighting back...
The Quiet Hollowing Of India’s State Assemblies Before The 2026 Polls
By R. Suryamurthy If elections are the theatre of democracy, legislatures are meant to be its workshop—the place where power is questioned, policy is tested, and governments are forced to explain themselves. Yet, as several states head into high-stakes assembly elections in 2026, that workshop looks increasingly deserted. The...
BJP’s Electoral Discourse Hateful And Devoid Of Accountability
By Nilotpal Basu The assembly elections in the five states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry are extremely important. But the context and the objective which the BJP is trying to pursue is unique in many ways. For the neo-fascist characteristics it has come to assume,...
Women’s Reservation: A New Colour To The Old Deception Of The RSS–BJP
By Mahesh Kumar Rathi The question of women’s reservation is not merely a legislative issue before Indian democracy; it is also a decisive question that shapes the direction of power, ideology, and social justice. However, the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party has presented this issue transforms it...
Oil Refusal To Hit $100 Reveals Confidence Against Supply Disruption
By K Raveendran Oil’s refusal to break decisively towards $100 a barrel, despite a tense geopolitical backdrop and repeated threats tied to the Strait of Hormuz, says something important about how markets are reading the balance between rhetoric and reality. At one level, the price action looks counterintuitive. A...
Pakistan’s Peacemaker Moment, A Challenge To India’s Global Leadership
By Asad Mirza Pakistan’s emergence as a diplomatic intermediary between the United States and Iran has introduced an unexpected variable into South Asia’s strategic equation. For a country more often associated in global discourse with internal instability and regional tensions, Islamabad’s role — whether seen as substantive mediation or...
