Lok Sabha sends FCRA changes to joint panel
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday referred the Foreign Contribution Amendment Bill, 2026, to a 31-member joint committee of Parliament, delaying further consideration of contentious changes governing foreign-funded organisations amid sustained Opposition protests. Minister of State...
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Five killed as landslide hits Mumbai neighbourhood
Five people were killed after a rain-triggered landslide struck a densely populated neighbourhood...
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Kejriwal attacks BJP over mislabelled Punjab drug video
Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal has accused BJP leaders of spreading...
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Students take to roads over school access failures
Hundreds of schoolchildren in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh have taken their grievances...
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Parliament Is Losing The Argument To The Smartphone
By K Raveendran Another session of Parliament has closed with an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu. Repeated adjournments, slogan-shouting, demonstrations inside and outside the chambers and legislation moving through amid uproar have again raised the question of whether Parliament is performing the function for which representative democracy created it....
China’s Ice Silk Road: Why Being First Through The Arctic Matters?
By Asad Mirza Melting ice and a burning Middle East have handed China a new trade lane – and a head start. As Beijing turns the Northern Sea Route into a working shipping business, it is quietly redrawing the map of who controls global commerce, leaving India and others...
Youth Unemployment And NEET Rates Are Rising
By Gyan Pathak There is rocky road ahead for Youth to decent work. Youth unemployment and NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) rates are on the rise. The progress seen in youth employment since the COVID-19 pandemic has come to an abrupt halt. This reversal of fortunes is...
The Great Ankara Escape: How Trump Vanished Into A Catering Truck
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers By the time the cameras saw Donald Trump climbing the steps of Air Force One at Ankara, the most important part of his journey had already become a deception. The president was about to disappear — literally into a catering container — and leave Turkey...
Tukaram Mundhe – Maharashtra FDI Commissioner Who Cares Only For Rule Book
By T N Ashok The Maharashtra FDA commissioner has become the state’s most visible enforcement officer, raiding restaurants, seizing adulterated food and taking on a major pharmaceutical company. But the Bombay High Court has now delivered a warning of its own: having the power to act is one thing;...
The Ruling BJP Is Slowly Losing The Narrative Before 2029 Lok Sabha Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha After 12 years of being in power, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slowly losing the narrative. The recent student and youth protests in Jantar Mantar along with solidarity protests in different parts of the country and also in social...
Beyond Incentives: Why India’s MSMEs Need Stronger Ecosystems?
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik The protesters at Jantar Mantar, whose protest is now over for the time being, had good reason to be angry. The NEET paper leaks are one symptom; the deeper problem is youth unemployment. Young and educated Indians account for a significant share of the unemployed,...
Nepal Prime Minister’s First Outreach With Indian Envoy Is Encouraging
By Satyaki Chakraborty Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Monday August 10 started his foreign envoys outreach with a meeting with Indian ambassador Naveen Srivastava. He met later during the day, the Chinese ambassador also, but his first choice of Indian envoy signals a positive development in the area...
Islamabad Finding Itself Clueless To Deal With Continuing Agitation In PoK
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers Something unusual is happening on the other side of the Line of Control. For decades, Pakistan has presented Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as the unfinished business of Partition and India as the country responsible for denying Kashmiris their right to self-determination. Islamabad has repeatedly invoked the United...
Despite Disruptions, Parliament Monsoon Session Has Already Passed Six Important Bills
By T N Ashok The Monsoon Session of Parliament has been politically turbulent, frequently disrupted and, at times, short on the prolonged debates that legislation of consequence deserves. Yet beneath the noise, Parliament has been quietly rewriting some of the rules that govern everyday India — from competitive examinations...
Congress, Samajwadi Party To Start Dialogue For Alliance In 2027 Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Congress leadership has initiated within party discussion for an alliance with Samajwadi Party to defeat BJP and dislodge Yogi Adityanath government in 2027 assembly polls. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge convened the meeting to discuss the issue with Rahul Gandhi, AICC UP incharge Rajendra Kumar Gautam,...
Low Conviction Rate Under SC/ST Act In India Is A Matter Of Concern
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), India has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a Class 4 student was assaulted and subjected to casteist slurs by a teacher at a Government Primary School in Ukawal village, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh on...
Burnham Has Identified The Problem – But He Needs To Tackle Its Causes
By Ben Chacko LONDON: At a point when trust in politicians is at an all-time low, Andy Burnham’s “cost-of-living” tour is an astute move. The sense that politicians promise much but deliver little is woven into the understanding of the British people because it is true. So Burnham is...
India’s 2027 Census Will Help Redraw Parliamentary Boundaries
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s eighth post-Independence census of 2027, coming after a gap of almost 16 years, assumes a great importance in the country’s political system as it will lift the long-standing freeze on redrawing Parliamentary boundaries. The census report will provide the official population data required under Article...
India Can Meet Partially Trump’s Tariff Hike Challenge Through More Chinese Investment
By Subrata Majumder Battered by President Donald Trump’s high tariff, China resorted to Look East policy with a new investment linked trade strategy to increase resilience to USA’s tariff woos. China’s direct export to USA plummeted due to US high tariff. It declined by 29.7 percent in 2025 –...
Sangh Parivar As A Whole Has Geared For Generation Z Outreach In A Big Way
By T N Ashok There is something almost cinematic about the Bharatiya Janata Party’s sudden discovery of India’s youth. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has spent years addressing young Indians as the engines of Viksit Bharat, has now begun speaking to them in the language of Instagram reels, selfies,...
BJP-SAD Electoral Alliance In Punjab A Distinct Possibility For 2027 Polls
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers The SAD-BJP thaw is more interesting than a routine parliamentary numbers game. The immediate trigger is delimitation and women’s reservation, but the larger question is whether two estranged political partners are quietly testing the waters for a reunion before the 2027 Punjab Assembly election. The...
Catholic Bodies Seek Withdrawal Of The FCRA Bill 2026
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 is back in the centrestage with the Union Government bent upon going ahead with it in the current session itself and the Opposition and Catholic organisations bent on preventing the Government from proceeding with it. Reports have it...
