Lok Sabha clash over quota redraw
Tempers flared in the Lok Sabha on Thursday after Congress MP K C Venugopal objected to the introduction of three government bills tied to women’s reservation and delimitation, accusing the Centre of mounting “a fundamental...
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Rahul Gandhi attacks quota rollout plan
Rahul Gandhi has accused the government of trying to turn women’s political reservation...
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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was “permanently” opening the...
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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.Modi Government Introduced Three Bills To Change Electoral Map Of India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the first day of the three-day Special Session – April 16 to April 18, 2026 – of the Parliament convened by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government, three legislations have been introduced seeking to change the electoral map of India. Lok Sabha Speaker...
Iran’s Threat Of Counter Blockade Has Damaging Consequences For Oil Importing Nations
By Anjan Roy Responding ominously to American blockade of the Hormuz Strait, Iran has threatened a counter-blockade over a vast stretch of waters from Red Sea in the west to Gulf of Oman in the east. This, if done effectively, could jeopardise ship movements and international trade from the...
India’s Delimitation And Lok Sabha Expansion Bills Are Using Women’s Reservation As A Cover
By Tanishka Shah Parliament is set to convene for a three-day special session beginning April 16 to consider proposals to expand the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 members and to remove the requirement that delimitation be based on post-2026 census data, thereby permitting the use of existing...
How China’s Outreach To European Nations Is Bringing Results Amidst Iran War
By Satyaki Chakraborty The world of diplomacy is going through uncertain times as the West Asian war is yet to end even after 48 days beginning with the attack by USA and Israel on Iran on February 28. President Trump has been bruised diplomatically, Iran has been battered in...
Crowds, Charisma, And A Three‑Cornered Contest In Tamil Nadu Assembly Polls
By K R Sudhaman CHENNAI: As the scorching April sun beats down on Tamil Nadu, the political temperature is rising just as fiercely. On April 23, the state heads to the polls in what promises to be one of the most unpredictable assembly elections in recent memory. The traditional...
Pushing Delimitation Through Back Door In The Garb Of Women’s Reservation
By Nilotpal Basu Slogan mongering and inventing fake narratives has been the main forte of Narendra Modi and his government. An extremely severe and obnoxious example is its latest act. The convening of the two day special session of Parliament is a glaring example of that very same trait....
Songs, Music And Dance Add Momentum To West Bengal Poll Campaign
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Be it the parched plains of Durgapur or the cool hills of Darjeeling, ongoing election campaign in West Bengal is swaying to the beat of song and dance. And if it is Billy Joel’s 1977 song “Trading a Chevvy for a Cadillac”, it is rap...
New WEF Report Charts Key Strategies And Trade-Offs For Long-Term Growth
By Indrani Chakraborty As the growth strategies that powered the global economy over the past three decades lose relevance, a new World Economic Forum report released on April 15 calls for a renewed blueprint to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by AI, geostrategic competition, rising debt and inequality,...
Trump Can’t Afford Escalation Of US War With Iran At The Moment
By Nitya Chakraborty President Donald Trump as usual has been talking in conflicting voices on his immediate stand on Iran war. The U.S. President ordered naval blockade of Iranian ports after the failure of the Islamabad peace talks on Sunday but on Tuesday, he indicated that another round of...
Markets See Through Trump’s Consistent Inconsistencies In Iran War
By K Raveendran Financial markets are often accused of being cold, shortsighted and morally indifferent, yet they do possess one quality that political systems frequently lack in moments of conflict: an ability to strip away theatre and price only what appears durable. That seems to be what has happened...
Women’s Reservation As A Cover For A Greater Political Design
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the three-day Special Session of the Parliament of India – from April 16 to April 18, 2026 – approaches, it has become crystal clear that the Constitutional (131st Amendment) Bill 2026, which seeks to implement 33 per cent of the Lok Sabha and the...
Samrat Choudhary’s Elevation As Bihar CM Marks BJP’s Forward March In The State
By Arun Srivastava Samrat Choudhary becoming the chief minister of Bihar is not only the dream coming home for BJP, it will help the BJP to redefine social justice politics in India by shifting the focus from traditional identity-based mobilization to a model based on Hindutva, Samrasta (social harmony)...
Californian Left-Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti Is Running For Congress
By Satyaki Chakraborty With only six months left for the crucial midterm elections in United States in November this year, a large number of Left wing Democrats belonging to the group of Bernie Sanders have entered the contests for primaries in June this year to be able to formally...
ECI Caused Miscarriage Of Democracy In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India (ECI) has caused miscarriage of democracy in West Bengal, which is rejoiced by the Union Government of India led by PM Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP clan, lamented by millions of voters whose names were deleted from the electoral roll under Special...
Modi’s Economic Management Is On Test As 2026 Monsoons To Return With A Bit Risk
By R. Suryamurthy A below-normal monsoon after nearly eleven years is not merely a meteorological deviation. It is an economic stress test, and a politically consequential one, for a government that has anchored its narrative in macroeconomic stability, inflation control, and calibrated welfare support. The India Meteorological Department’s projection...
Arms Race Major Contributor To Climate Chaos In Present World
By Dr Arun Mitra As the temperature around the globe is rising, melting of glaciers, ever increasing typhoons, irregular & untimely rains leading to increase in sea level effecting our day to day life, the climate change has entered to climate crisis and now climate chaos. Hasan Abdullah author...
Resource Competition With China Is A Major Factor In Trump’s Iran War
By Guy Laron NEW YORK: On the morning of February 23, 2026, Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump from Jerusalem with intelligence that would change the course of their war on Iran. Senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, were scheduled to gather at a compound in Tehran...
After Big Meetings By Modi And Shah, BJP Workers Are Upbeat In Bengal Poll Battle
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The mood of the BJP rank and file in West Bengal is certainly upbeat after the electoral rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah in the recent days, barely eight days before the first phase of polling scheduled n April...
