Opposition bloc faces widening alliance strain
Opposition unity under the Congress-led INDIA bloc has come under sharp pressure after the DMK moved away from a planned national strategy meeting, the Trinamool Congress was hit by open internal dissent and the Aam...
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Dutta claim deepens Trinamool turmoil
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak After a series of political setbacks since Lok Sabha Election 2024, the meet of the INDIA bloc scheduled to be held at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on June 8 is a significant development, especially when one of its allies DMK has announced to...
ED Raids Against Vedanta Linked To Adani-Anil Agarwal Corporate Battle
By T N Ashok In India’s high-stakes corporate world, timing is everything. Sometimes it creates billionaires. Sometimes it destroys them. And occasionally, it raises questions that refuse to go away. The latest controversy involving mining billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Group, the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) searches under the Foreign Exchange...
Trump’s Defeat In U.S. Congress On Iran War Bill Is A Big Personal Setback
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEWYORK: For nearly four months, President Donald Trump has projected confidence that America could sustain a military confrontation with Iran while simultaneously negotiating peace from a position of strength. This week, however, the strongest challenge to that assumption did not come from Tehran, Moscow, Beijing,...
Breakaway Trinamool Congress Led By Ritabrata Is Still Unstable
By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress has split. The handiwork of the BJP is discernible in wrecking the outfit to which it was once allied and later turned a bitter political adversary. Inarguably the most significant indication in this regard was accepting Mamata Banerjee as the leader of splinter group...
TMC May Split As Ritabrata-Led Legislature Bloc Garners Majority
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Trinamool Congress is struggling with its biggest-ever internal crisis, with 58 MLAs wresting control of the party’s legislature wing, electing Ritabrata Banerjee as their leader and attaining recognition from the Assembly Speaker, while reaffirming Mamata Banerjee as the party’s leader. The move is being...
Present Growth In India-China Trade Relations Is A Welcome Development
By Krishna Jha The recent trend of growth in trade and economic exchange between India and China is a welcome development, particularly in the context of the deepening Hormuz Crisis consequent upon the US imperialist aggression against Iran and its bullying tactics against other countries. The US began arm-twisting...
IPTA National Theatre Festival Held In Mumbai Was A Big Success
By Harman Singh When the country was struggling for independence, the world was grappling with World War II. The people of Bengal were suffering from the tragedy of famine. During that period, on May 25, 1943, writers and artists from various states and princely kingdoms came together in Mumbai...
India Stares At Difficult Days Ahead With Sharp Decline In Growth Rate In 2026-27
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The preliminary version of the OECD Outlook released on June 3, 2026 has projected the real GDP of India to grow by 6.3% during the FY 2026-27, which is a sharp decline from the robust growth rate of 7.8 per cent year-on-year in the quarter...
Supreme Court Order On SIR In Bihar Poll Has Handed The ECI A Sweeping Mandate
By Nilotpal Basu The Supreme Court’s order in connection with petitions against Election Commission’s SIR orders in Bihar states that “the commission is empowered in the exercise of its constitutional mandate to undertake a limited enquiry into citizenship for the purpose of satisfying itself as to eligibility for inclusion...
Shifting Stance Of Kerala Chief Minister VD Satheesan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Three weeks are too short a period to evaluate the performance of a newly-elected Government. But the period throws up significant straws in the wind which show the direction in which the Government intends to move. And there are clear indications that the VD Satheesan-led...
When Movie Stars Sell Products, Belief And Responsibility Collide
By T N Ashok In India, where film stars command a level of public trust that often exceeds that enjoyed by politicians, doctors and even religious leaders, a familiar question has resurfaced: how much responsibility should celebrities bear for the products they endorse? The latest controversy centres on actor...
Trade And Financial Fragmentation Spreads Beyond Rivals As Costs Mount
By Indrani Chakraborty Geoeconomic fragmentation imposing an annual cost of $213–$307 billion on the global economy, according to a new World Economic Forum report release on June 4. Driven by geopolitical tensions, economic security concerns and shifting trade relationships across major economies, fragmentation accelerated through 2025 and 2026 and...
Protests Mounting Throughout USA Over Trump’s Birthday Bash On June 14
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON DC: As President Donald Trump’s planned taxpayer-paid birthday bash June 14 concert collapsed, activists—led by labour, the No Kings movement, and 50501—stepped up plans for events opposing his agenda this week. One organization, Seven Days In June, got a jump on others. It is sponsoring...
Former Cuban President Raul Castro Is A Firm Revolutionary At 95
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: Raul Castro was born on June 3 in the small Cuban village of Biran in Holguin Province in 1931. If there was ever a time when we needed to celebrate the life and contribution of this heroic revolutionary it is today. Castro, Cuba’s former president,...
Cockroach Politics And The Limits Of Public Anger
By K Raveendran Public anger has a strange way of finding symbols. Sometimes it gathers around a saintly figure in a white cap, sometimes around an unlikely political label that sounds almost like a joke until it begins to speak for a generation. The overwhelming response from Gen Z...
Mamata Banerjee Facing Her Toughest Battle In Keeping Her Elected MLA’s Together
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Post poll political violence between the rank and file of bitter political rivals – the BJP and the TMC –continues even after a month of declaration of results on May 4, 2026. Former CM Mamata has been alleging that the BJP is intimidating their leaders,...
SP-Congress Combo Has The Potential To Defeat BJP In 2027 Assembly Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava The electoral future of the Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh in the context of the 2027 assembly polls, hinges on their ability to mobilize Dalits and OBCs. By aggressively championing a caste census and articulating a credible “social justice” narrative, both parties have...
59 Of 80 TMC MLA’s Elect Ritabrata Banerjee As Leader Defying Party Choice
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: More things change, the more they remain the same Trinamool Congress Legislature Party has split, but it continues to consider Mamata Banerjee as its leader. This was stated in a letter to state Assembly Speaker, Rathindra Bose on Wednesday signed by 59 MLA’S seeking Ritabrata...
