Tehran says call shook truce hopes
Tehran has alleged that a phone call from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to US Vice President JD Vance interrupted a diplomatic opening that might have brought the Iran-Israel-US war closer to an end, adding...
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Congress strains surface in Davanagere test
Trouble is deepening within the Congress in Karnataka as the party leadership moves...
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China redraws a sensitive frontier
China has created a new county called Cenling in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous...
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Hooghly switch sharpens Bengal contest
Suresh Shaw, formerly a vice president of the BJP in Hooghly district, joined...
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By Nantoo Banerjee The country is experiencing a significant surge in commodity and transportation costs following geopolitical tensions in the Persian Gulf region and a weak Indian Rupee. Retail prices of daily essentials are rising rapidly. The prices of edible oils, pulses and packaged foods, including drinking water, have...
Industrial Unrest Begins In India, Spread In Several States Across Delhi-NCR
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the Union Government of India have slowly been rolling out provisions of new labour codes, towards their full implementation from April 1, 2026, an industrial unrest has just erupted today April 13, 2026 in Noida in Uttar Pradesh, and then spread in Delhi-National Capital...
Viktor Orban’s Defeat In Hungary Elections Is A Big Boost For EU Against Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty The big defeat of the Prime Minister Victor Orban in the national elections in Hungary held on Sunday is a big boost to the European Union in its protracted battle with the U.S. President Donald Trump over the future course of Europe. Orban who ruled Hungary...
After The Failure Of U.S.-Iran Peace Talks, The Task Is How To Hold Next Meeting
By Asad Mirza As expected, the United States and Iran failed to reach a peace deal after high-stakes talks in the Pakistani capital, with American Vice President JD Vance saying Tehran refused to accept Washington’s terms after 21 hours of talks in Islamabad. And Iran citing lack of American...
World Can’t Bear The Brunt Of Another Full Scale War In West Asia
By T N Ashok The collapse of high-stakes diplomacy over the weekend has pushed the Middle East to the edge of a far more dangerous phase—one where economic warfare, military brinkmanship, and global disruption are converging around a single chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz. What began as a tentative...
Madhya Pradesh Govt Is Facing Problems In Implementing UCC In The State
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Following in the footsteps of other BJP-ruled states, Madhya Pradesh is also planning to rollout its own version of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Chief minister Mohan Yadav has hinted that the new statute may be in place within the next six months. Uttarakhand is...
Attacks On Media & Journalists: Strangling The Freedom Of Expression
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: UNESCO Director-General, Khaled El-Enany, on last week while condemning the killing of journalist Juan David Gámez in Mexico said, “I condemn the killing of Juan David Gámez and call for a thorough investigation into his death. Violence against journalists is not only an affront...
Will The World Learn From Chambal?
By Rajagopal P.V. BHOPAL: At a time when many parts of the world are engulfed in war and conflict—whether in the form of military confrontations between nations or deepening ideological divisions within societies—talk of peace often appears idealistic. Yet history offers examples that reassure us that even in...
Election Commission Applies 19th Century Thinking To 21st Century Realities
By K Raveendran Election regulation in India is trapped in a contradiction that has become harder to defend with each passing cycle. The Election Commission continues to apply old assumptions about influence, persuasion and voter exposure to a media and political environment that has been transformed by technology, scale...
Strengthening Social Protection For All Types Of Workers Is Urgent
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a context of rapidly changing labour markets, a new report of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said that strengthening social protection for all type of workers have become urgent. Robust social protection systems are essential in helping people, societies and economies to navigate...
Who Will Benefit From The High Voter Turnout In Kerala?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Who will benefit from the high voter turnout in the Kerala Assembly election? That is the question uppermost in the minds of voters of Keralam. Both the fronts – the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) – are on...
Lights, Leaks, And Legends: The Weekend Indian Cinema Couldn’t Ignore
By T N Ashok A quietly powerful Telugu comeback, a Malayalam icon’s Ambani-sized hunger, and a stolen film that set an industry on fire — three stories that rewrote the week The curtain came up on Indian cinema this weekend like a Shaneil Deo slow burn — unhurried, layered,...
Clearing The Constitutional Fog On Women’s Reservation In Parliament
By Mohan V Katarki The reported decision to summon Parliament from April 16 to 18, 2026, has sparked intense debate on the manner of implementation of a historic and three-decade-old bipartisan demand for women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies to promote diversity and inclusivity in representative...
Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s 100 Days As New York Mayor Have Been Result-Driven
By Liza Featherstone NEW YORK: March Madness is over, spring is here, and Morrisania, a neighbourhood in the Bronx, is getting a resurfaced basketball court. The Lower East Side in Manhattan is getting a water fountain repaired, Sunset Park in Brooklyn is getting dispensers for dog poop bags, playground...
Chinese President Xi Jinping Launches Major Offensive On Taiwan Before May Summit With Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty After getting political and diplomatic advantage from the latest US-Iran ceasefire, China has started its preparation for hosting the U.S. President Donald Trump in its crucial summit in Beijing on May 14 and 15 this year. Earlier the summit was scheduled for March 31 and April...
U.S.-Iran Peace Talks Will Be Protracted One Facing Too Many Roadblocks
By Asad Mirza With no side caring for the other side’s core demands, the proposed two-week ceasefire in the Israel–US war against Iran, which started on April 8 appears to be facing big problems with neither party agreeing to the other party’s demands. Iran is ignoring the 15-point plan...
Bengal’s Last Mile: A Fish Tale, A Missing Voter, And Two National Leaders
By T N Ashok Let the record show that the fate of one of India’s most consequential state elections now rests, at least symbolically, on the humble rohu. Not on unemployment. Not on industrialization. Certainly not on the ₹75,000 crore in central government projects allegedly gathering dust in Mamata...
Nitish Kumar Seeks To Play Active Role In Bihar Politics Even After Resigning Cm Position
By Arun Srivastava On March 5, the day, Nitish Kumar filed his nomination for the Rajya Sabha in Patna, accompanied by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, he tweeted, “I seek to become a member of the Rajya Sabha in the elections being held this time. I want to assure...
