Kalpakkam milestone lifts thorium ambitions
Kalpakkam’s Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor has reached first criticality, marking a turning point in the country’s long-delayed nuclear strategy and advancing the second stage of the three-stage programme designed decades ago to turn limited uranium...
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Khera bail clash sharpens political fight
Congress leader Pawan Khera’s bid for pre-arrest protection in the Telangana High Court...
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Nitish steps into Parliament spotlight
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Easter pause tests trust in Ukraine war
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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...
Bengal Is Witnessing High Gear Digital Campaign By All Political Parties
By Tirthankar Mitra In the new millennium, digital space has emerged as a key war zone in the electoral battle. Digital campaigns have a definite edge as people are more likely to look at the screen of their mobile phones than stand and state at the graffiti thereby delaying...
As Nitish Becomes Rajya Sabha MP, All Eyes On New Government In Bihar
By Rahil Nora Chopra Bihar’s longest-serving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has taken oath as a Rajya Sabha MP, thus paving the path for a new government in the state, signalling a major and important transition in its political landscape. The formalities of appointing a new Chief Minister and forming...
Ceasefire Agreement Is Fragile But Islamabad Talks Must Be Used For Stable Peace
By Nitya Chakraborty All nations in the globe except perhaps Israel have welcomed the ceasefire agreement for two weeks between U.S. and Iran announced by President Donald Trump on April 7 evening US time and later endorsed by the Iranian government. The ceasefire is fragile – Israel has bombed...
US-Iran Ceasefire At The Last Minute Exposes The Vulnerability Of Trump
By Anjan Roy The American era has ended on April 7 night US time with the Trump administration toddling its way into a ceasefire agreement with Iran. The day before, American president Donald Trump had threatened to wipe out to extinction a civilisation — Iran’s. Most ironically, the day...
How India Is Writing Its Own Template For Women’s Political Power
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers When New Delhi announced cabinet approval this week for a fresh package of constitutional amendments to operationalise women’s reservation in Parliament, it did so quietly. The implications are anything but. On Thursday April 9, the Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared the 131st...
Constitutional Rights Of Voters Have Been Dispensed With In Bengal By Election Commission
By Nilotpal Basu For anyone who has avidly studied the Indian Constitution and the role of judiciary in the constitutional scheme to translate the spirit of the freedom struggle, what has come from the Supreme Court is shocking. One of the judges who was part of the three-member bench...
Congress In Bengal Is Yet To Launch Intensive Campaign For Assembly Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The two-phase Assembly election scheduled later this month is a battle to regain political relevance in West Bengal politics for both CPI(M) and Congress. Once arch political opponents who later became electoral allies, both the outfits failed to win in a single Assembly constituency in...
Kerala Witnesses Brisk Polling And Long Queues As LDF Fights UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Polling began on a brisk note in most of the 140 constituencies in the Kerala, which went to the polls on Thursday, April 9. Long queues, especially of women, were seen outside almost all polling booths across the State. By 3 p.m. most of districts...
Heavy Polling Raised The Stakes High For BJP In Assam And Puducherry
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Assam and Puducherry have recorded s heavy polling trend right from 7 AM on April 9, 2026 when voting started. Assam recorded a significant voter turnout of 59.63 per cent by 1 PM, while in Puducherry the polling percentage reached 56 per cent by that...
Haryana’s New Procurement Policy: To Ease Or To Tease The Farmers?
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Why are the Farmers agitating and sloganeering against the Haryana government and its administration? Why are they worried about procurement of their crop produce despite the government’s assurances? Why are the opposition parties of the state slamming the government and supporting the farmers? Why...
On The Occasion Of Birth Anniversary Of Ambedkar, The Fight Against RSS Is Relevant
By Dr. Ram Puniyani As we will celebrate Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth anniversary on 14th April (2026), it is also time to think as to what is the status of major teaching of Babasaheb about ‘annihilation of caste’. Caste-Varna system has been central to the practices of Hindu society, even...
Irrespective Of Two Week Ceasefire, Demand For Impeachment Of Trump Grows In U.S. Congress
By Asad Mirza It seems that President Trump’s Tuesday morning Truth Social post, which threatened “a whole civilisation will die tonight” and raised the spectre of nuclear war, has jolted the American lawmakers, and it has begun a chorus of calls either for Trump’s impeachment or for his removal...
Oil’s Relief Movement Due To Ceasefire Masks Deeper Market Risks
By K Raveendran Oil markets have responded to the Iran ceasefire in the way they often react to any pause in conflict near a critical supply artery: with visible relief, but not full conviction. Prices have pulled back sharply from their war-risk peaks as traders moved to price in...
West Bengal SIR An ‘Electoral Purge’, With 91 Lakh Excluded From Voting
By Arun Srivastava The rightist saffron ecosystem has launched a blitzkrieg on Mamata Banerjee in its bid to severely dent her political image on the eve of the West Bengal Assembly elections. In order to accomplish its objective of demolishing the West Bengal CM’s political career, the saffron brigade...
