US strikes Iranian missile sites near Hormuz
United States forces have targeted Iranian missile positions along the Strait of Hormuz using some of the heaviest conventional munitions in its arsenal, signalling a sharp escalation in efforts to secure one of the world’s...
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Iran emerges stronger after conflict shock
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Retired officials rebuke opposition protest conduct
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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.Energy Markets Entering A New Phase Of Infrastructure-Related Uncertainty
By K Raveendran Energy markets are entering a phase where the traditional assumptions underpinning pricing models are being fundamentally reshaped by the evolving nature of conflict, with the Iran war serving as a critical inflection point. For decades, oil prices have largely responded to state-driven variables such as production...
What Makes Mamata Banerjee So Confident Of Winning 226 Seats?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is mockery of election in West Bengal, that has begun in the right earnest after its announcement by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 15. The election will be held on a very faulty and incomplete electoral roll as the foundation of...
GST 2.0’s Missing Link: Why Consumer Protection Must Anchor Tax Reform?
By R. Suryamurthy When India recalibrated its GST structure in September 2025, the promise was seductively simple—cut taxes, soften prices, revive demand. It was a proposition that carried both political appeal and economic logic, particularly in an economy where consumption had yet to regain durable momentum and household balance...
Pak-Afghan War Enters A Dangerous Phase After Monday’s Kabul Massacre
By T N Ashok The protracted war between Pakistan and Afghanistan entered a critical phase on Monday following the death of about 400 persons in a Kabul Hospital due to air strikes by Pakistan. Kabul immediately talked of severe retaliatory action. India also strongly condemned the barbaric attacks by...
Gulf States Brace For A New Order Post-Iran Conflict
By Arjavi Indraneesh Missile and drone strikes linked to the widening confrontation around Iran have forced Gulf governments to confront a reality long considered unlikely: the region’s economic hubs, energy infrastructure and aviation networks can no longer assume insulation from large-scale conflict. Airports, oil terminals and urban centres across...
Iranian Security Chief Ali Larijani’s Killing Is A Big Jolt To Tehran Command
By Anjan Roy Another key leader of Iran was assassinated in an Israeli raid on Tuesday, leaving the country even more deeper in a stormy sea with lost leadership. Ali Larijani, who was the head of national security of Iran, and was reportedly virtually leading the country since the...
Decoding The Leading Bengali Dramatist, Badal Sircar, On His Centenary
By Nabanita Chakraborty Badal Sircar, a civil engineer turned dramatist, was born in Calcutta in 1925. He died in 2011 at the age of 86. His birth centenary celebrations have been observed nationally as he was the only writer of plays in Bengali in the second half of the...
First Round Local Polls In France Show Far Right’s Surge As Also Left’s Power To Hold
By Harrison Stetler PARIS: This month’s local elections in France may not turn out to be such a debacle for the Left after all. A far cry from the nationalist and conservative wave that many had feared, left-wing candidates are reasonably well positioned to hold on to power, not...
Iran War For U.S. AND Israel Is A Test Lab For AI Warfare
By Marc Vandepitte NEW YORK: War is increasingly being fought less by humans and more by algorithms. In Iran, we see how artificial intelligence is driving the pace of destruction to an unprecedented speed, bringing with it a host of profound moral problems. New wars are rarely purely military;...
Trump Is Facing His Moment Of Truth In Iran War With Isolation From NATO
By Nitya Chakraborty On Wednesday, the 18th day of the U.S.-Israel combo’s war against Iran, Trump got two bad news simultaneously which made him ponder on how to go about on his next forward strategy to ensure Iran’s submission to the U.S. might. The first news was the European...
RSS Conclave Decides To Launch Fresh Outreach To Dalits And Nationalist Muslims
By Arun Srivastava For keeping the rank and file in high spirit and let not its logical difference with the BJP conjure them to lose trust in the saffron philosophy, the three day Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha of RSS which concluded on Sunday, has decided not only to launch...
UN General Assembly’s Emergency Session On March 18 Is Of Crucial Importance
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The Middle East is on fire. Not metaphorically — literally. Since February 28, 2026, when U.S. and Israeli stealth assets struck 400 Iranian targets simultaneously in a “surgical” operation designed to decapitate the clerical regime and bury its nuclear program, the Persian Gulf...
Rural Youth Unemployment In February 2026 Rose To 13.1 Per Cent
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rural youth unemployment in February 2026 rose four months high to 13.1 per cent in Current Weekly Status (CWS), while for urban youths it remained even higher at 18.3 per cent, shows the latest data of the monthly bulletin of Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)...
Despite Jaishankar’s Repeated Talks With Iranian Minister, Tehran Is Angry With New Delhi
By Asad Mirza The US-Israel attack on Iran has placed India in an uncomfortable diplomatic position, exposing the limits of its much-touted strategic autonomy. New Delhi’s cautious and delayed responses suggest that its foreign policy is increasingly being shaped by immediate economic and energy concerns rather than by a...
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...
