China advances corridor linking Yunnan to Bangladesh
China has proposed an economic corridor connecting its south-western Yunnan province with Bangladesh through conflict-torn Myanmar, reviving a regional connectivity plan with far-reaching commercial and strategic implications. The China-Myanmar-Bangladesh Economic Corridor was discussed during Bangladesh...
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Kejriwal demands fuel price cut as crude eases
Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal has demanded a steep reduction in...
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By Nitya Chakraborty China is hosting the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on July 17 to 20 the deliberations of which are expected to decide the course of AI development globally as also the scope of AI governance as also collaboration for assisting AI growth in the...
BJP’s National Political Strategy Of Splitting Opposition Is Disgusting
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the pursuit of gaining strength in the Parliament of India – both in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha – the ruling BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adopted a national political strategy of splitting the opposition political parties, that has reached its...
PoK At Crossroads: A New Protest Movement Is Challenging Islamabad
By T.N. Ashok Pakistan-administered Kashmir has once again emerged as one of South Asia’s most politically volatile regions. What began as protests over soaring electricity bills, inflation and governance has now evolved into a broader political movement questioning the relationship between Islamabad and the territory it officially calls “Azad...
South Asian Job Seekers Are Having A Harrowing Time In West Asia As Also Europe
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Nearly 10,000 job seekers and unemployed youths, mostly from South Asian countries, were killed worldwide in various accidents and mishaps in 2025, as their quest for work/migration abroad ended in tragedy. In addition a large number of people were also reported missing. International agencies and...
Bombay High Court Order On Protecting Dissent Is Welcome At The Present Moment
By Krishna Jha Democracy has no space for blind surrender. The right to dissent makes media the fourth estate, with its sanctity under Article 19(1)(a) in the Constitution of our country. Every citizen has the right to freedom of speech, and despite this constitutional safeguard, the effective exercise of...
The ICJ Said Yes To The Right To Strike, But Ducked The Hard Questions
By Rohit Mani Tiwari On May 23, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) delivered a resounding ‘YES’ in its verdict to the question, referred to it by the International Labour Organization (‘ILO’) to draw advisory opinion on “whether the right to strike is protected under the international legal framework...
The 10-Second Addiction: Inside The Billion-Dollar Business Of TikTok’s Drama
By T N Ashok The internet is rocking. It’s not Trump with his strikes on Iran breaking the ceasefire. It’s not India PM Modi getting another great civilian award from Australia or New Zealand. It’s the Vertical Screen Melodrama — VSM — that set the internet on fire just...
Karnataka Cabinet Expansion On The Anvil To Project A Fresh Face
By Rahil Nora Chopra Long-pending expansion and reshuffle of the Karnataka cabinet is expected soon. The Congress high command aspires to use the reshuffle to project a fresh image and also signal a generational transition within the party. Sources signal that the Congress leadership favours induction of several new...
RSS And VHP Are At Loggerheads On The Issue Of Loot Of Ram Mandir Funds
By Arun Srivastava The Loot of the huge funds and jewelleries from the coffers of Ram Mandir Trust has led to intensification of factional battles between the VHP and the RSS on the one hand and the RSS-BJP on the other. Interestingly, insiders say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
Floods And Deficient Rainfall Have Put India’s Preparedness To Test
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Monsoon flooded large part of the country during the first eight days of July with 42 per cent above-normal rainfall causing heavy loss of lives and property. Rain deficit in June was 40 per cent. Northwest, central and western India suffered from the excess rains....
2047 Vs 2049: India And China Race Towards Two Very Different Dreams
By T N Ashok History has an uncanny habit of mocking long-term predictions. Thirty years ago, in the mid-1990s, few economists imagined that China would become the world’s manufacturing powerhouse, accounting for nearly a third of global industrial output. Equally, few believed India, then still wrestling with the after-effects...
Encounter Killing Starts In BJP Ruled Bengal On The Lines Of Uttar Pradesh
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Prabhas Mondal’s death in police firing in Baruipur in West Bengal on early Wednesday after he allegedly tried to escape snatching fire arm from a policeman is a major police administration lapse. The deceased was an accused in the rape and murder of a minor....
NATO’s Ankara Summit Showed Sham Unity By Careful Management Of Trump’s Moods
By Asad Mirza Donald Trump turned NATO’s Ankara summit into a one-man show – reviving Iran hostilities, threatening Spain, demanding Greenland, and needling allies – while Secretary-General Mark Rutte’s flattery-and-spending strategy kept the alliance intact. The summit exposed a NATO that survives not through unity, but through the careful,...
Judiciary Has A Special Role In These Dark Times Of Hate Mongering
By Nilotpal Basu The process of decolonisation in India was initiated, and the Constitution was drawn up, to ensure an equilibrium based on the principle of checks and balances between the three organs of the state – legislature, executive and judiciary. The atmosphere of hate mongering in the present...
Extreme Heat Puts Children At Health Risk In India
By Raju Kumar The impact of natural disasters, climate crises and environmental changes is never experienced equally across society. Children, women and economically vulnerable communities often bear the greatest burden of such crises. For children, rising temperatures are not merely a matter of seasonal discomfort; they directly affect their...
The Ankara Summit Of NATO Exposes Ugly Truths About Western Alliance
By Ben Chacko LONDON: NATO leaders abasing themselves before Donald Trump in Ankara undermine claims that the military spending splurge makes us more independent of Washington. The alliance’s slavish secretary-general Mark Rutte raced today to endorse further US violence that could reignite all-out war with Iran, claiming overnight air...
Modi Govt’s Overcautious Oil Market Reading Hurting Retail Fuel Customers
By K Raveendran The Narendra Modi government’s position on fuel prices now looks less like prudent caution and more like an overly defensive reading of a market that has already absorbed much of the Iran-US risk. The more calibrated question, therefore, is not whether New Delhi is right to...
Modi-Shah Are Betting Big On Delimitation Bill To Hijack Parliament
By Arun Srivastava North India’s demographic size and Hindi-Hindu majority have long helped propel RSS’s ideological mission and the electoral dominance of the BJP since 2014, such as unifying the Hindu majority and advancing a unified cultural identity of “Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan”. While the RSS aims to deform the secular and...
