Trump holds fire as Tehran pivots east
US President Donald Trump has halted a planned military strike on Iran, saying negotiations with Tehran had become “serious”, while warning that force could return swiftly if talks fail to produce an agreement. The decision...
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Cartoon row shadows Modi’s Norway visit
Norway’s largest newspaper has come under sharp criticism after a cartoon portraying Prime...
in Happening Now May 20 ·Bengal reworks OBC quota after court order
West Bengal’s BJP government has restored reservation benefits for 66 communities that were...
in Happening Now May 20 ·Mamata sharpens attack after Bengal rout
Mamata Banerjee has sought to rally Trinamool Congress legislators after the party’s heavy...
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By Nitya Chakraborty This is the season of high level summits. On May 14 and 15, U.S President Donald Trump visited Beijing and had ‘ fantastic’ talks, according to the U.S. President, Chinese media also went overboard explaining the great possibilities of China-US cooperation in political and economic spheres...
Congress In The Politically Sensitive And Emotionally Complicated Terrain
By Dr. Gyan Pathak History has again put the Congress in the politically very sensitive and emotionally complicated terrain. After the election result in Tamil Nadu, the Congress decided to support the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) led by Vijay. As chief minister of the state, Vijay on May 18,...
Supreme Court Ruling Forces Hard Reset On Stray Dog Policy
By K Raveendran Supreme Court’s endorsement of lawful euthanasia for rabid, incurably ill and demonstrably dangerous stray dogs marks a decisive shift in India’s long-running debate over public safety, animal welfare and the limits of sentiment in civic governance. The ruling does not license indiscriminate killing, nor does it...
Post-Poll Defeat, Trinamool Congress Gripped By Serious Organisational Crisis
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Time was when Trinamool Congress stood on firm organisational foundations all over West Bengal with each and everyone of its leaders and activists looking up to party supremo Mamata Banerjee for helming them to electoral triumph. But the days when none dared to question Banerjee’s...
Bengal Has Plenty Of Resources And Talent For Industrial Revival
By Anjan Roy KOLKATA: Now that a “double-engine sarkar” is in the driving seat in Bengal, strong expectations have been roused about a revival of a long-hibernating economy of the state. The background is that once, almost beyond the living memory of the newer generations, Bengal was in the...
Why Weakening Trade Unions Produces The Labour Unrest It Claims To Prevent?
By Purbasha Panda, Rongeet Poddar On April 13, 2026, a demonstration led by garment factory workers in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Noida turned into a violent protest leading to fraught public order in several areas of the city. There were reported incidents of stone pelting, clashes between...
What Is Behind India’s Education Minister’s Refusal To Reform NTA?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite several orders and recommendations of the Supreme Court and the Parliamentary Standing Committee, the Union Government did not structurally reform the National Testing Agency (NTA), and also did not take appropriate actions that helped the education mafia of the country to strengthen its grip...
Indian Stock Market Moves Not Just With Earnings But With Oil Prices Also
By T N Ashok India’s stock markets have seen panic before. They have survived wars, sanctions, pandemics, banking collapses and political earthquakes. But the latest selloff triggered by the Iran-linked oil shock has exposed something far deeper and more structural inside Asia’s third-largest economy: India’s extraordinary vulnerability to imported...
Trump, Tehran And The New Battle For Hormuz In The Ongoing War
By Asad Mirza The United States and Iran appear locked between diplomacy and military escalation as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz intensify. While President Donald Trump has temporarily postponed military action following pressure from Gulf allies, Tehran is simultaneously advancing new proposals on nuclear talks and unveiling a...
Audio Tape On Joe Biden Revives Tale Of U.S. Conspiracy In Removing Imran Khan
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: For years, Pakistan’s political class has lived inside a hall of mirrors — where conspiracy theories become national doctrine, where whispers from Rawalpindi travel faster than court judgments, and where the line between reality and manufactured narrative has almost entirely collapsed. Into that...
China Seeks To Collaborate With India In The Area Of Renewable Sector Energy
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a significant development in the sphere of India-China economic cooperation, China has offered its assistance to India in dealing its energy security challenge in the context of the present US war in Iran and crisis in oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. IN a...
Communism, Class Struggle, And The Challenges Of Our Time
By Dr Arun Mitra It is deeply painful to witness the defeat of Left and Democratic Front (LDF), the only government led by the communists in the state of Kerala. Even more distressing is the growing marginalisation of the voice that has consistently spoken for the downtrodden — the...
Fujimori And Sanchez Advance To Peru Presidential Elections Run Off On June 7
By Indrani Chakraborty Peru, a nation of Latin America will be holding Presidential face off polls on June 7 after the first round of polls held in April this year failed to give majority to any of the contesting candidates. Peruvian election authority announced finally that Keiko Fujimori with...
India Needs To Curb Oil Consumption
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s continuous hesitancy to curb the retail oil consumption pattern despite a worldwide surge in fuel prices is inexplicable, if not unacceptable. The government, the biggest benefactor of large domestic fuel use by way of imposition of levies close to 50 percent of the retail oil...
Indian Economy Facing Serious Inflationary Pressures Due To Iran War
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the April retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose only a little to 3.48 per cent from the March inflation 3.40, and year on year food inflation based on Consumer Food Price Index to 4.20 per cent from 3.87, which is still...
Selection Process Of Satheesan As The Chief Minister Is A Lesson For Congress High Command
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress Party faced major challenges within its ranks while choosing the Chief Minister of Kerala, a process that took 11 days and was crucial in settling disagreements among various party groups, demonstrating the importance of internal consensus for unity. VD Satheesan was chosen despite intense...
India’s First Seizure Of Jihadi Drug Captagon Is A Ominous Sign Of New Threat
By T N Ashok India’s first seizure of Captagon — the notorious “jihadi drug” of the Syrian conflict — is more than a sensational narcotics bust. It is a warning flare. Beneath the ₹182-crore seizure at Mundra Port and Delhi lies a far darker story: the merging of global...
West Bengal’s Earlier Experience Of A Double Engine Govt Was Not Good
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Amidst much kerfuffle, a “double engine” government has come to run West Bengal. After the 2026 assembly elections, this state which for nearly five decades has been the epicentre of Opposition politics is however no stranger to “double engine” government but it’s experience with it...
