India condemns attack on commercial ships in Hormuz
New Delhi has condemned the targeting of commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz after a Thai-flagged cargo ship bound for Kandla port was struck by projectiles, raising fresh alarm over the safety of civilian...
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Menon warns silence weakens diplomatic voice
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By T.N. Ashok NEW YORK: Let’s be blunt about what’s actually happening in the current no holds barred war between Iran and US-Israel combine. The United States and Israel have been bombing Iran for thirteen straight days. Cruise missiles, precision strikes, relentless sorties. The kind of firepower that flattened...
India’s GDP Was Shown 1.5 To 2 Per Cent Higher Under Narendra Modi Regime
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On an average, India’s GDP was shown 1.5 to 2 per cent higher than the actual under PM Narendra Modi regime, chiefly due to error in methodology of estimation of the growth rate. Only a few days ago at the end of February 2026, the...
U.S. Under Trump Is Setting The Agenda Of Global Industrial Expansion
By R. Suryamurthy The United States has opened a new front in its long-running effort to police global trade. This time, the focus is not only on China—its usual adversary—but on a much broader set of economies, including India, whose industrial ambitions are beginning to reshape the global manufacturing...
Capturing The Strategic Kharg Island In Iran Is A Prime Task Of Trump Now
By Asad Mirza Iran’s Kharg Island lies in proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial global oil passage, besides itself being an important site for petroleum and petrochemical installations. In practical terms, that makes Kharg the single most important piece of energy infrastructure Iran possesses. Reports suggest that...
West Asian War Is Increasingly Turning Into A Battle Over Hormuz Straits And Oil Prices
By Anjan Roy The West Asia war between Iran and US-Israel combine now seems to be converging on the Strait of Hormuz and the price of oil. Three vessels have been hit on the twelfth day of the war by projectiles while approaching the Strait of Hormuz and in...
Antonio Kast Sworn As President In Chile Marking The Country’s Biggest Right Wing Shift
By Satyaki Chakraborty Far right politician Jose Antonio Kast was sworn in as the new President of Chile on March 10 indicating the biggest shift in the politics of the Latin American nation since the return of democracy in 1990. In the last 36 years, the Left or Centre-Left...
Electoral Democracy In West Bengal Is Facing A Big Threat Due To Deletion By ECI Of Genuine Voters
By Nilotpal Basu The idea of India was not forged in the fiction woven by Savarkar’s Hindutva ideology. It was shaped by the blood and sweat spilled in the national freedom struggle to dislodge British colonial rule. Obviously, the idea set out a different playbook which contributed to the...
International Women’s Day On March 8 Has Highlighted Ongoing Fight For Gender Equity, Social Justice
By Krishna Jha In 1910, the Second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. German socialist Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office in the Social Democratic Party, proposed an International Women’s Day – a global celebration dedicated to women’s demands for equal rights. Zetkin, known for...
Partisan Politics Mars Prime Minister Modi’s Kerala Visit
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A needless controversy marred Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Kerala on Thursday, March 11. What should have become an example of cooperative federalism, descended into a petty spectacle of uncooperative federalism due to partisan comments of BJP and senior BJP leaders of the state....
Trump Sponsored Miami Summit Of Latin American Nations Favours Regime Change
By C.J. Atkins and Cameron Harrison NEW YORK: The signal coming out of Miami this past weekend was that in the “Trump Corollary” you’re either a vassal or a target. Twelve Latin American and Caribbean right-wing leaders gathered at Trump National Doral Resort and Spa for what looked suspiciously...
Wild Swings In Petroleum Prices May Be An Exaggerated Response
By K Raveendran Uncertainty surrounding the trajectory of the Iran war has unsettled global oil markets, producing dramatic price swings that underline the fragility of energy supply expectations in a period of geopolitical stress. Within a matter of days, benchmark crude prices have oscillated sharply between levels approaching $120...
India’s China Investment Filter Gets A Cautious Technical Patch Keeping Intact Deeper Contradictions
By R. Suryamurthy Six years after India introduced the controversial Press Note 3 (PN3), the government has finally moved to adjust the framework governing foreign investments from countries sharing land borders with India. But the latest changes, unveiled in 2026, fall well short of a meaningful policy rethink. What...
Trump’s High Value Missiles Are Battling Cheap Iranian Drones In Sky War
By Asad Mirza Recent US and Israeli operations against Iran and the latter’s retaliatory strikes have once again demonstrated the mathematics of modern air defence. Waves of Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones—crude, slow, and estimated to cost as little as $20,000 apiece—have in a number of exchanges forced the United States...
Supreme Court Asking Calcutta HC To Set Up Appellate Tribunals For Disputed Voters Is Welcome
By Arun Srivastava It is not a tough proposition to decipher the reasons for Supreme Court asking Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul on March 10 to form special appellate tribunals with former high court judges to examine the appeals filed by those excluded from Bengal’s voter list...
Himanta’s Political Narrative Has Got A Jolt Just Before Elections In Assam
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The chief minister of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma’s political narrative has weakened just before the Legislative Assembly election to be held within few weeks from now in April-May, which he has tried to restore by dropping the name of Ex-President’s name from Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed...
New RSP Government Of Nepal Has Put Job Generation Task As Top Most Priority
By T N Ashok For decades, Nepal’s politics functioned like a wheel that never stopped spinning. Governments rose and collapsed. Coalitions formed and fractured. The same surnames recycled through the same ministries. Voters grew cynical, the young grew restless, and the country’s most ambitious citizens quietly packed their bags...
How Youth Revolt In Two South Asian Nations Gave Differing Results In Polls
By Asad Mirza During the last six months, there have been two political movements and subsequent elections in India’s immediate neighbourhood, which might have an impact on India’s regional aspirations and impact. These two movement and elections happened in Bangladesh and Nepal. Both were led by the young voters...
Oil Volatility Before Polls Exposes India’s Political Windfall Trap On Fuel Taxes
By R. Suryamurthy Few economic variables carry the political volatility of oil prices in India. When global crude rises, inflation anxieties spread quickly across households, transport costs ripple through supply chains, and governments scramble to contain the political fallout. Yet the latest oil shock — triggered by tensions involving...
