Trump unveils Texas refinery backed by Reliance
United States President Donald Trump announced plans for what he described as the first major oil refinery to be built in the country in roughly half a century, a project to be backed by investment...
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Priyanka Gandhi targets Rijiju over Nehru quote
Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra criticised Union minister Kiren Rijiju during a heated...
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US grants temporary clearance for India’s Russian oil purchases
United States authorities have granted a temporary waiver allowing India to purchase limited...
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Tribunal relief opens path for disputed voters
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has welcomed a Supreme Court direction calling...
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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.Wild Swings In Petroleum Prices May Be An Exaggerated Response
By K Raveendran Uncertainty surrounding the trajectory of the Iran war has unsettled global oil markets, producing dramatic price swings that underline the fragility of energy supply expectations in a period of geopolitical stress. Within a matter of days, benchmark crude prices have oscillated sharply between levels approaching $120...
India’s China Investment Filter Gets A Cautious Technical Patch Keeping Intact Deeper Contradictions
By R. Suryamurthy Six years after India introduced the controversial Press Note 3 (PN3), the government has finally moved to adjust the framework governing foreign investments from countries sharing land borders with India. But the latest changes, unveiled in 2026, fall well short of a meaningful policy rethink. What...
Trump’s High Value Missiles Are Battling Cheap Iranian Drones In Sky War
By Asad Mirza Recent US and Israeli operations against Iran and the latter’s retaliatory strikes have once again demonstrated the mathematics of modern air defence. Waves of Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones—crude, slow, and estimated to cost as little as $20,000 apiece—have in a number of exchanges forced the United States...
Supreme Court Asking Calcutta HC To Set Up Appellate Tribunals For Disputed Voters Is Welcome
By Arun Srivastava It is not a tough proposition to decipher the reasons for Supreme Court asking Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on March 10 to form special appellate tribunals with former high court judges to examine the appeals filed by those excluded from Bengal’s voter list...
Himanta’s Political Narrative Has Got A Jolt Just Before Elections In Assam
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The chief minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma’s political narrative has weakened just before the Legislative Assembly election to be held within few weeks from now in April-May, which he has tried to restore by dropping the name of Ex-President’s name from Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed...
New RSP Government Of Nepal Has Put Job Generation Task As Top Most Priority
By T N Ashok For decades, Nepal’s politics functioned like a wheel that never stopped spinning. Governments rose and collapsed. Coalitions formed and fractured. The same surnames recycled through the same ministries. Voters grew cynical, the young grew restless, and the country’s most ambitious citizens quietly packed their bags...
How Youth Revolt In Two South Asian Nations Gave Differing Results In Polls
By Asad Mirza During the last six months, there have been two political movements and subsequent elections in India’s immediate neighbourhood, which might have an impact on India’s regional aspirations and impact. These two movement and elections happened in Bangladesh and Nepal. Both were led by the young voters...
Oil Volatility Before Polls Exposes India’s Political Windfall Trap On Fuel Taxes
By R. Suryamurthy Few economic variables carry the political volatility of oil prices in India. When global crude rises, inflation anxieties spread quickly across households, transport costs ripple through supply chains, and governments scramble to contain the political fallout. Yet the latest oil shock — triggered by tensions involving...
LPG Shortage Has Started Affecting People Across Indian States, Cities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the government of India has assured that there are enough oil and gas resources in the country, and there is no reason for public to panic, hotels and eateries in several cities in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and elsewhere have shut down causing great...
The $75 Billion Paradox: India And The Global Arms Bazaar
By T N Ashok In the dusty archives of 1947 sits a photograph that serves as the moral conscience of a nation: Mahatma Gandhi, a man of “soul-force” and homespun cotton, walking toward an independence won without a single division of tanks. He famously argued that a nation’s strength...
Colombia’s Ruling Left Coalition Wins Maximum Seats In March 8 Elections To Congress
By Satyaki Chakraborty The ruling Left coalition in Colombia headed by the President Gustavo Petro recorded a significant victory in the national elections held on March 8 by getting maximum number of seats in the legislature. The polls held in the background of US President’s war in Iran and...
Himanta Sarma Is No More The Strong Leader He Was Before 2021 Polls
By Rabindra Nath Sinha Party hopping is on in full swing among the BJP and the Congress ranks in Assam where Assembly elections are due between March-end and mid-April latest and for which the Election Commission of India is expected to announce the schedule in a matter of days....
Nuancing Feminism In The Indian Bar To Make It More Gender Neutral
By Nandita Rao In December 2025, the Supreme Court of India, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant passed a historic decision, reserving thirty percent posts in all State Bar Councils for women. The Court passed these directions in a Public Interest Litigation, pointing out that the percentage...
Red Letter Day For People Of Kozhikode, Wayanad
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a Red Letter Day for the people of Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. Friday, March 6, 2026 saw the first controlled rock blast at the site of the proposed Anakkampoyil-Kalladi-Meppadi tunnel road project connecting Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. A long-standing dream of the people...
Iran War Is Likely To Hit Indian Economy Hard
By Nantoo Banerjee The all-out war in West Asia, involving the US-Israel combine and Iran and covering 10 countries in the region, is expected to have a big economic backlash on India. At stake are India’s $120-billion trade in this region, huge oil imports, overall balance of payments, inflow...
Nepal Electorate Give Unequivocal Verdict Against Instability, Old Faces, Corruption
By Nitya Chakraborty With the final results of the March 5 elections in Nepal, almost available, it is clear that the Gen Z supported Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is set to form the next government in this tiny Himalayan nation headed by the RSP leader Balendra Shah whose political...
Respect (Disrespect) To President Is New Electoral Narrative In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest controversy involving the President of India Draupadi Murmu is being shaped as a new electoral narrative in West Bengal, and the way it is being done shows that it is less about protocol itself and more about electoral narrative building ahead of the...
U.S. Defence Companies Are Making Fortunes As Iran War Escalates
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Strip away the flags. Silence the speeches. Turn off the generals with their grave faces and PowerPoint slides showing red arrows across sand-coloured maps. When the theatre clears, what remains is not a clash of civilisations, not a battle for freedom, not even...
