Congress overseas tour deepens Karnataka power struggle
Twenty-two Congress legislators from Karnataka are set to depart for Australia and New Zealand early Wednesday, defying reported signals from the party leadership to defer the trip, in a development that has sharpened an already...
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Abduction days before wedding sparks unrest
Tension gripped Bhigwan in Pune district after a 21-year-old woman was allegedly abducted...
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Allahabad High Court issues contempt notices
Allahabad High Court has directed that contempt notices be issued to the District...
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Supreme Court on Tuesday rebuked a group of 12 public figures who moved...
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By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken the right move in sending a personal message to the new Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tarique Rahman by stating that “your victory is a testimony to the trust and confidence reposed by the people of Bangladesh in your leadership and...
An Artificial Intelligence Summit Organised Most Unintelligently
By K Raveendran Grand declarations, glittering participation and a stage crowded with policymakers, entrepreneurs and technologists were meant to signal India’s arrival as a decisive force in artificial intelligence. Instead, the India AI Impact Summit has come to symbolise something far less flattering: a troubling gap between ambition and...
BJP’s Stakes Are Very High In Assam, Resorts To No Hold Barred Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Assam is the only state out of the five scheduled for election in April-May, where BJP led NDA is in power, while in the other four – West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry – it hopes to increase its presence, to a significant level...
India France Bilaterals And Macron-Modi Bonhomie Have Special Significance
By T N Ashok The optics of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India for a 4th official in quick time are unmistakable. When he landed in Mumbai a warm embrace from PM Modi welcomed him reestablishing the bonhomie enjoyed between them. Narendra Modi, and Emanuel Macron, had a...
Jesse Jackson’s Death Is A Big Loss To Current Movement In U.S. For Protecting Human Rights
By Tirthankar Mitra A lifelong crusader at home and abroad for the rights of the economically challenged and unrepresented Jesse Jackson is no more. His was a voice respected in US whose citizen he was and far beyond the contours of American borders. For the issues he championed were...
Women And Children Welfare Schemes In Madhya Pradesh Yielding Results
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: An economic survey is often regarded as a mirror of a state’s socio-economic condition. It does not merely present figures on growth rates, investment, and production; it also reflects the state’s vision and the direction in which it seeks to move its future. Alongside agriculture,...
Decoding The Significance Of Popular Front Victory In Spain In 1936
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Ninety years ago, the people of Spain delivered a forceful rebuke to right-wing extremism and opened one of the most dramatic chapters in working-class history. The election victory on Feb. 16, 1936, of the Popular Front (Frente Popular)—an alliance of socialists, communists, republicans, and...
British Communists Remember The Red MP Shapurji Saklatvala On His 90th Death Anniversary
By David Horsley and Jeanne Rathbone LONDON:“By the death of Saklatvala, the Indian people have lost their greatest and most sincere champion, the Communist Party, one of its most devoted and self sacrificing leaders, and his family a kindly, gentle, loving husband and father.” These were the words of...
Veteran Politicians Are Back In Strength As Nepal Votes On March 5
By Nitya Chakraborty Just twenty days after the February 12 national elections in Bangladesh, another South Asian country Nepal is going to the polls on March 5 just six months after the Gen Z movement in the country ousted the K P S Oli government in September 2025. The...
Shocking Lack Of Progress In Human Capital Development In Past 15 Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When the world seems to be on the rapid development trajectory, there has been a shocking lack of progress in Human Capital development across the world. Despite rising incomes and reductions in poverty, two-thirds of low- and middle-income countries have experienced a decline in health,...
Israel’s Aggression Continues Unabated In West Bank Defying Ceasefire
By Asad Mirza Israel unabatedly continues its expansionist policy in the West Bank. The US, United Nations and several Arab states have criticised Israel as it expands powers in the occupied West Bank by allowing Jewish Israelis to buy West Bank land directly, and extending greater Israeli control over...
At Long Last, Transatlantic Alliance Making Efforts To Bring Cohesion
By Anjan Roy World Economic Forum’s Davos dalliance of world leaders, both political and corporate, has become a widely recognised event. However, an even more critical and certainly highly prestigious pow-wow happened last week. This is the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in the eponymous German city held on February13...
Lakshadweep’s Island Agatti Poses Vexed Questions Of Development Cum Security
By Raju Kumar Agatti, one of Lakshadweep’s smallest inhabited islands, has recently found itself at the centre of a serious policy debate. Gazette notifications issued by the Lakshadweep Administration in January 2026 propose the acquisition of land for three separate purposes: 1,01,020 square metres for tourism and other public...
Can Unions And The Left Help Shape Post-Starmer Labour In Britain?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer shows no capacity to respond to the ongoing fallout over Peter Mandelson’s appointment to Washington — which has engulfed the whole Labour Together faction key to his own rise to power. Nor to the demand, put more forcefully than before...
India’s Reliance On Imported Arms For Defence Is A Concern
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little to be excited about the defence ministry’s latest clearance for the acquisition of 114 Rafale fighter jets from France at a huge cost of Rs.3.25 lakh crore (nearly $40 billion), branded as ‘mother of all defence deals’. It is a matter of major...
Supreme Court Hearing On Sabarimala In April To Impact Assembly Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the Supreme Court scheduling the petitions challenging its 2018 Judgment allowing women to enter into the Sabarimala temple in Kerala for hearing before a nine-judge constitution bench from April 7 to 22, it is most likely to impact elections not only in Kerala but...
How India’s Farmers Are Paying For America’s China Strategy?
By R. Suryamurthy Trade agreements are rarely about trade alone. They are instruments of power, redistribution, and risk transfer, disguised in the neutral language of tariffs and market access. The interim trade framework announced this year between the United States and India is a case in point. Framed publicly...
The Demand For Awarding Bharat Ratna To V D Savarkar Is Six Decades Old
By Kalyani Shankar Demands to award the Bharat Ratna to Hindu thinker Vinayak Damodar Savarkar have revived an ongoing political debate between the Congress-led Opposition and the BJP, highlighting the deep divisions over his ideas, beliefs, and role in India’s independence movement. The issue first gained major political traction...
