Supreme Court halts money laundering trial against Soren
Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the criminal trial in a money laundering case against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, issuing notice to the Enforcement Directorate on his plea seeking to quash the proceedings. A Bench...
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Bombay High Court reserves order in Rahul Gandhi defamation plea
Bombay High Court on Tuesday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by...
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Court says protest case not terror
A Delhi court has held that Youth Congress president Uday Bhanu Chib is...
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Youth Congress president held over summit protest charges
New Delhi authorities arrested Uday Bhanu Chib, the national president of the Indian...
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By K Raveendran The political sparring between Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi has entered a sharper and more consequential phase, with the balance of advantage appearing to tilt towards the Leader of the Opposition after an unexpected judicial intervention in the United States cast doubt on the durability of...
Expression Of Dissent Is Branded Anti-India And Suppression As Nationalism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The ruling political party BJP and their supporters have been busy for the last five days branding an act of becoming ‘shirtless’ as a protest against PM Narendra Modi at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 on February 20 at Bharat Mandapam New Delhi, as...
Ukraine War Enters Its Fifth Year With Ceasefire Talks Yet Not Clinching
By Anjan Roy The Russian war in Ukraine has completed four years this week with the peace talks still showing no signs of an agreement. Meanwhile, the Russian economy has entered what is known, in the language of high-altitude mountaineering, as the “death zone”, while Ukraine is struggling to...
Insulating India’s Economy From West Asia’s Oil Shocks In The Event Of US-Iran War
By R. Suryamurthy The renewed escalation between the United States and Iran has once again exposed a persistent weakness in India’s macroeconomic strategy: despite two decades of repeated oil shocks, New Delhi continues to treat West Asian instability as an episodic risk rather than a structural constraint on growth,...
BJP’s ‘Mission 2026’: An Aggressive Operation In Bengal Before Polls
By Arun Srivastava Reminiscent of L K Advani’s rathyatra of 25 September 1990, seeking to capitalise on the massive protests across north India against the reservation bill, the national BJP leaders will take out a massive rath yatra on March 1, christened as “Parivartan” rathyatra across West Bengal with...
The Empty Throne: How Bollywood Lost Its Audience To Thriving OTT
By T N Ashok There is something painfully symbolic about a state-of-the-art multiplex in Hyderabad — Dolby Atmos ceiling, IMAX screen the size of a football field, carpet that cost more per square metre than most Indian families earn in a month — sitting two-thirds empty on a Friday...
Assault Or Diplomacy: Washington’s Mixed Signals To Teheran
By Syafruddin Arsyad As the United States naval forces assemble in the Gulf even as Washington acknowledges ongoing talks with Teheran, the U.S. appears to be pursuing a carefully calibrated but inherently risky strategy. By pairing visible military pressure with diplomatic outreach, Washington seeks to coerce Iran into concessions...
RSS Chief’s Call For Intensifying Ghar Wapasi Is Against Indian Constitution
By Dr. Ram Puniyani Choosing one’s religion is a social and legal right of citizens’ as per Indian Constitution. Still the organizations who do their politics under the cover of religion do not accept this. Dr. Mohan Bhagwat, the Sarsanghchalak of RSS keeps stating on one hand that all...
US-China Rivalry Suddenly Intensifies In Bangladesh As Tarique Takes Over As PM
By Nitya Chakraborty Only a week has passed since the BNP supremo Tarique Rahman has taken over as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh after the resounding victory of his party in the February 12 national elections. The 60 year old PM who is back to the country after an...
Narendra Modi’s Visit To Israel Beginning February 25 Is Badly Timed
By Dr Arun Mitra The news that the Prime Minister of India, is scheduled to visit Israel on 25 February is a matter of serious concern. This visit is taking place at a time when the war on Gaza has led to massive loss of life and humanitarian devastation....
Supreme Court, ECI And West Bengal Govt Trying To Restore Trust
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There has been overall trust deficit for quite some time in the matter of elections in India, and it has been worsening with passage of every day of the eve of the next round of state elections due in April-May. It is despite the fact...
Assam Assembly Polls: Congress-Led Combine Getting Its Act Together
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The Congress-led opposition, despite intra- and inter-party dissentions, is slowly but steadily getting its act together to unseat the BJP-led NDA coalition, which is in power for the second term in Assam, where elections for the 126-member Assembly are expected to be held between...
Trump’s Defeat In Supreme Court On Tariffs Has Now Turned From Legal Battle To Political
By Rohit Tripathi The now famous tariffs case, known as the Learning Resources case (named after the plaintiffs), is now in the books. The tumultuous second term of President Donald Trump anchored its economic renewal strategy on an unprecedented tariff strategy that was bound to find its way to...
Caste Based Smaller Groups Gear Up For Bargaining With BJP And SP Before Up Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh is witnessing intense fight by major political parties to win over caste based parties and various caste groups 11 months before crucial 2027 assembly polls. On the other hand the caste based parties and various groups are now asserting to bargain in term...
Just Released Nuremberg Film Is A Psychological Thriller On Hitler Aide Goering
By T N Ashok Eighty years after Hermann Goering smuggled cyanide past his guards and cheated the hangman, Hollywood has returned to Nuremberg — not to replay the verdict, but to probe the mind behind the crime. The 2025 film Nuremberg, directed with deliberate restraint and anchored by Russell...
India Should Adopt ‘Trustworthy’ AI Tools To Stay Safe And Transparent
By Nantoo Banerjee The global AI impact summit 2026 in Delhi, last week, couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time when the world continues to be somewhat skeptical about adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), its limitations and potential consequences. Thanks to the pioneering effort by firms such as...
How U.S. Deals With Dhaka And Delhi Are Redrawing The Region’s Economic Map
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Within the span of seventy-two hours in early February 2026, the United States signed two agreements that, taken together, may do more to reshape South Asian trade dynamics than anything since the formation of SAFTA. Even though following Supreme Court verdict nullifying Trump’s...
Indian Exporters Still Can Extract Benefits In U.S. Market In Some Key Industries
By Subrata Majumder Amid concern over Trump’s high tariff, a new ray of hope beckons for a new face of India’s export basket, which will yield higher value addition and manufacturing excellence. Hitherto, traditional industries were dominant in the export basket, prioritizing labour intensive industries and agricultural products, but...
