Muslim board challenges Vande Mataram mandate
All India Muslim Personal Law Board has objected to a central government notification directing that all six stanzas of Vande Mataram be recited at official functions and in schools before the National Anthem, Jana Gana...
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Rahul Gandhi rebukes media over privilege row
Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on...
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Paswan blames Gandhi for House deadlock
Union Minister Chirag Paswan has accused Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi...
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Venugopal dares BJP to counter Gandhi
Congress parliamentarian K. C. Venugopal has thrown down a political gauntlet to the...
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By Nitya Chakraborty The landslide win of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in the national elections in Bangladesh held on February 12 is a positive development in the geopolitics of not only South Asia, but also augurs well for the bilateral relationship between India and its eastern neighbour. BNP...
When Workers Were On Strike, Government Amended Industrial Relations Code
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When the workers of India were on general strike on February 12 and protesting against the four controversial labour codes and demanding their withdrawal, the Union Government got the Industrial Relations Code (Amendment) Bill 2026 passed in both the Houses of Parliament by voice votes....
Can India’s Opposition Leader Be Expelled For Foreign Associations?
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: India’s Parliament faces a constitutional and political confrontation after BJP MP Nishikant Dubey signalled his intent to seek the expulsion of Rahul Gandhi, Leader of the Opposition, over alleged associations with the Open Society Foundations and questions about his international travel. The controversy...
Bangladesh’s PM Designate Tarique Rahman Has To Revive A Battered Economy
By T N Ashok After 17 years in London exile, Tarique Rahman is poised to become Bangladesh’s next prime minister following his Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s decisive victory in Thursday’s elections — a watershed moment that ends nearly two decades of political tumult and sets the stage for a complex...
Why The U.S.–Bangladesh Trade Pact Demands India’s Close Attention?
By R. Suryamurthy Trade agreements are written in the language of reciprocity. They are sold as mutually beneficial, technically balanced, legally tidy. But their real consequences often unfold outside the negotiating room — in mandis, ports, supply chains and balance sheets that were never explicitly mentioned in the text....
Indo-US Trade Deal Is A One Sided Unequal Agreement
By Prabhat Patnaik The Indo-US Trade Agreement, even leaving aside specific provisions, has two unusual features that mark it out as an Unequal Treaty, of the sort that imperial powers used to impose on countries of the global south that they did not directly rule. The first is the...
Successful General Strike Sounds A Stern Warning To Modi Govt
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 24-hour nationwide general strike on February 12 called by 10 trade unions handed out a stern warning to the Union Government and hinted at stronger steps if it failed to roll back the “anti-working class and pro-corporate” Labour Codes. Expectedly, Kerala led the nation...
Majority In Britain Want Major Shift To Left – But Can The Opportunity Be Seized?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: As the Westminster political crisis unfolds, the hopes and fears of the capitalist class were spelt out plainly in two separate articles in The Telegraph, appearing on the same day this week. The first was headlined “Why bond markets may be Starmer’s closest friend.” The...
General Strike Of Workers Spread And Intensify Creating History
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India witnessed on Thursday February 12 the most intensified of all India general strike of workers in the country so far in which over 30 crores workers were estimated to have participated in about 600 districts of the country, surpassing the record of July 9,...
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma Is A Rabid Communal Hate Monger
By Krishna Jha A gun is pointed at two men with skullcaps. The man holding the gun is Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. It is a video posted by the BJP’s official twitter handle in Assam. Almost an open call for ethnic cleansing and genocide. The video, uploaded...
Servile Erosion Of Autonomy Is The Hallmark Of India-U.S. Trade Deal
By Nilotpal Basu The role of US, and specifically of President Donald Trump, is assuming the spectacle of ‘bulldozer’. In India, we are now familiar with the unilateral deployment of ‘bulldozers’ to trample legitimate rights of the weak and the defenceless. In a majoritarian ambience, such display of naked...
How Tamil Nadu Balances Caste, Charisma And Governance On Eve Of State Polls
By T N Ashok Tamil Nadu presents Indian democracy’s most intriguing paradox: a state that rhetorically rejects caste operates the subcontinent’s most sophisticated caste-based electoral system. As the 2026 assembly elections approach, understanding how voters balance community identity, leader charisma, and governance performance reveals lessons that extend far beyond...
Mohammad Deepak Is Upholding Fraternity Amidst Communal Turmoil
By Dr. Ram Puniyani India is a country full of all types of diversities. The diversity of religions is astounding. The British used the Hindus and Muslims identity to sow the seeds of ‘divide and rule’. They harped on history to plant the hatred, which became the base on...
Why PMO’s Instructions To Lok Sabha Secretariat Raises Serious Questions?
By S.N. Sahu Recently, a shocking report by Indian Express stated that the Prime Minister’s Office brazenly interfered in the functional autonomy of the Lok Sabha Secretariat, by instructing it to not admit questions, notices to raise issues in zero hours, or Special Mentions by Lok Sabha MPs, in...
Germany Pushes European Rearmament, Using Trump As An Excuse
By Mark Ellmann MUNICH: These days, the Bavarian capital resembles a fortress. Dozens of heads of government and foreign ministers from around the world have arrived for the Munich Security Conference, which will be opened by Germany’s conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday, February 13. The private event has...
Armed With Robust Subsidies, US Farm Producers To Flood Indian Market With Cheaper Goods
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ministers in the Government as also loyal experts are having a pathetic time in explaining the great benefits that the Indo-US Trade Deal are conferring to India, especially the agricultural sector which is one of the major focus area of...
No-Confidence Motion Against Speaker Is Erosion Of Neutrality In Temple Of Democracy
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: The Indian Parliament, long a theater of robust debate and occasional ruckus, has devolved into a battlefield where the very concept of the “neutral umpire” is under siege. The recent submission of a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla by approximately...
Let The Truth Come Out On What Happened In Indo-China Border
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Government of India led by PM Narendra Modi has been clearly suppressing the truth about what happened on Indo-China border during China’s aggression on India in 2020 in Ladakh. Many details might be secret and may not be strategically correct to reveal them, but...
