Trump presses allies to guard Hormuz oil route
Pressure from Washington on allied governments intensified after US President Donald Trump said he had demanded that about seven countries deploy naval forces to secure the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic maritime corridor carrying roughly...
Full storyHAPPENING NOW
High court keeps excise appeal with Sharma
Former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and several co-accused in the Delhi excise...
in Happening Now Mar 16 ·
Rahul Gandhi seeks Bharat Ratna for Kanshi Ram
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to confer the...
in Happening Now Mar 16 ·
Owaisi attacks Maharashtra conversion bill
Sharp political debate has erupted after the Maharashtra government introduced a sweeping anti-conversion...
in Happening Now Mar 16 ·
Opinion
Appeal
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.Petro Products Prices In Import-Dependent India May Surge Further
By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding the assurance given in Parliament last week by Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on India’s ‘robust’ energy supplies, fuel and gas prices in the country are expected to shoot up soon in keeping with the global trend. The minister’s statement appears...
By Announcing Polling Dates For Bengal Under Incomplete Voters List, ECI Has Shown Its Arrogance
By Dr Gyan Pathak The announcement of election to the five Legislative Assemblies – Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry – on March 15, 2026, marks the arrogance of the Election Commission of India (ECI) and helplessness of the Supreme Court of India, that is yet to announce...
Diplomats Globally Are Looking For India To Play Active Role In Ending West Asian War
By T N Ashok On the 17th day of one of the most dangerous conflicts to erupt in the Middle East since the Gulf War, the world’s attention has fixed on missiles, supertankers, and a coral island barely a third the size of Manhattan. But the most consequential move...
After Defeat Of Impeachment Motion Against Speaker, Opposition Needs To Cooperate
By Kalyani Shankar The role of the Lok Sabha Speaker in promoting parliamentary stability and Independence is incredibly important and deserves recognition. On March 11, 2026, the Opposition’s impeachment motion against Speaker Om Birla was defeated by a voice vote, nearly four decades after the last attempt. With 119...
In A Period Of Global Turmoil, China And Vietnam Launch Innovative Strategic Dialogue
By Satyaki Chakraborty Just three days after the conclusion of the eight day National People’s Congress in Beijing, Chinese Government launched on March 15 an innovative strategic dialogue with its neighbours focusing on political, security as also defence cooperation issues. The dialogue is called 3+3 dialogue and it has...
Stage Set For Bruising Battle Of Ballots In Kerala On April 9
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the Election Commission of India (ECI) announcing April 9 as the date for the 2026 Assembly election, the stage has been set for a bruising, no-holds-barred battle of ballots in Kerala. With less than a month left for the election, political parties will have...
Tripura Left Front To Fight Bypoll Against Ruling BJP Without Allying With Congress
By Sagarneel Sinha AGARTALA: The main Opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist) or the CPI(M)-led Left Front surprised the political observers in Tripura by declaring candidates for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) polls and Dharmanagar bypoll even before the formal election notifications. Days after Left’s declaration,...
Hollywood’s Long Night Of Reckoning: The 98th Oscars Finally Got It Right
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: There are Oscar nights that feel like clerical exercises — the industry awarding itself with the dutiful efficiency of a board meeting — and then there are nights that feel like history being made in real time. The 98th Academy Awards, held Sunday...
Analysts See Prolonged War Cutting Up To 70% Of Crude Output
By K Raveendran #Oil markets have entered a phase of acute uncertainty as military escalation involving strikes on Iran and the resulting closure of the Strait of Hormuz begin to reverberate through global energy supply chains. Within just over a week of the disruption, more than 12 million barrels...
Trump’s Sanctions Easing – India’s Relief, China’s Opportunity And Russia’s Windfall
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the fog of war stretching from the Persian Gulf to Eastern Europe, a quiet recalibration of global energy policy is unfolding in Washington. The Donald Trump administration has moved to temporarily ease restrictions on Russian oil shipments already at sea, a measure...
Iran’s ‘Mosaic Defence’ And ‘Fourth Successor’ Models Working Well
By Asad Mirza In the ongoing war against Iran by US and Israel two terms which have gained prominence are “Mosaic Defence” model of war tactics and “Fourth Successor” model of leadership, both of which have shown the success of the Iranian regime in the war, so far. As...
Decent Job Creation Under New Labour Code To Remain Elusive
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Decent job creation in India will remain elusive, because Union Government has no plan to modify EPFO schemes for now, though it plans to roll out full implementation of the new labour codes from April 1, 2026. The Social Security Code 2020 has a clause...
Narendra Modi’s Pro-US Policy Has Damaged His Standing As BRICS Summit Host In 2026
By Dr Arun Mitra Despite pressures from the United States government, many countries in the Global South have begun asserting themselves and refusing to accept US dictates. After the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the 1990s, the world entered a period of geopolitical uncertainty. The United States emerged...
Wages Of Injustice: The Supreme Court Of India On Domestic Workers
By Maya John Last Month, in a public interest litigation (‘PIL’) seeking inclusion of domestic workers under minimum wages notifications, a bench of the Supreme Court dismissed the petition, with the Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) making several adverse comments against trade unions, projecting them, rather than employers, as...
China, Russia Join Hands To Move Cautiously In Defending Their Ally Iran In War Against U.S.
By Nitya Chakraborty As the U.S. Israel war against Iran entered its fourteenth day on Friday March 13, in the diplomatic corridors in the UN headquarters in New York and in other major capitals including the EU headquarters in Brussels, speculation has started on what can be the likely...
In A Spirit Of Internationalism, Communist Parties Of Iran, Israel, US Take Joint Stand Against War
By Satyaki Chakraborty The war in West Asia entered its 14th day on Friday, March 13 expanding the war theatre with neither Iran nor United States showing any indication of relenting for the end of this brutal high tech war. Trump’s determination to bring Iran to the American knees...
U.S. Govt Is Making A Mockery Of India-US Trade Relations At This War Time
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the fraught geometry of global trade, pressure rarely disappears; it merely changes form. That is precisely what appears to be unfolding in Washington. With punitive tariffs increasingly constrained by legal challenges and geopolitical complications, the office of the Donald Trump has turned...
Iran’s Defiance Of US-Israel Axis Becomes Stronger Under Mojtaba Khamenei
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The new voice of power in Tehran did not sound conciliatory. It sounded resolute. Offensive, defensive and no apologies for its programmes or human rights violations. Warned neighbouring Arabs to take off the US naval bases. In his first statement since assuming the...
