Opposition targets Speaker over floor access dispute
Opposition parties are preparing to move a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, escalating a confrontation over the conduct of proceedings after claims that the Leader of the Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, was denied...
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Dubey’s charge sparks Lok Sabha uproar
A sharp political clash erupted after Bharatiya Janata Party parliamentarian Nishikant Dubey accused...
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PMO bars Lok Sabha questions on relief funds
New Delhi: Parliamentary questions and related proceedings on the PM CARES Fund, the...
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Adani power dues dispute sharpens Bangladesh election stakes
Bangladesh’s power sector has been thrust into political and economic focus after the...
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court of India ordered extension of time for objections in West Bengal SIR by a week from Feb 14, which in the notified date for publication of the final electoral roll for the state. It has pointed out problem with the “software” that...
Indo-US Interim Trade Deal: More A Capitulation Than A Strategic Win For India
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When India and the United States announced an interim trade framework in early February 2026, the declaration was terse — a few paragraphs and a handful of bullet points in a framework rather than a full legal text. But beneath that brevity lay...
Continuous Disruption Of Lok Sabha Is A Bad Omen For A Functioning Democracy
By Kalyani Shankar Communication between the Modi government and the Opposition has broken down, as evidenced by the turbulent proceedings in Parliament last week. There have been no back-channel negotiations to resolve the paralysis. The protests intensified on Monday, when Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla announced that the Leader...
Under The Latest Indo-U.S. Trade Deal, Chinese Imports Importance For India Have Gone Up
By Subrata Majumder US President Donald Trump’s tariff relaxation on India, in lieu of India’s less imports of oil from Russia, gives a new outlook to India- China trade relation. USA’s reduction of reciprocal tariff to 18 percent from 25 percent and withdrawal of penalty tariff of 25 percent...
In Bengal, State BJP Leaders Are Still Failing To Combat TMC In Poll Campaign
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Defeating Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress by BJP in West Bengal is easier said than done even as BJP leaders are speaking of government formation after the assembly elections in April/May this year. Having failed to sweep successive Lok Sabha and Bidhan Sabha elections despite...
India’s Urban Housing Crisis: When Mumbai Costs More Than Manhattan
By T N Ashok By the time you finish reading this sentence, another middle-class Indian family has abandoned the dream of owning a home. Across India’s sprawling cities—from Mumbai’s glass towers to the expanding edges of Pune and Hyderabad—homeownership has shifted from aspiration to impossibility for millions of salaried...
Newly Developed Plastic Set To Replace Microplastics In Indian Market
By Asad Mirza Microplastics have infiltrated our food supply. Now, a Japanese research team has developed a breakthrough plastic that fully dissolves in seawater within hours—pointing toward cleaner and safer packaging. Microplastics represent an escalating challenge worldwide. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, an estimated 2.7 million tons...
India Have Reasons To Be Happy At Big U.S. Switch On The Status Of Kashmir
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: For seven decades, American diplomats danced around Kashmir with the precision of tightrope walkers, carefully avoiding any gesture that might suggest the United States had chosen sides in South Asia’s most intractable territorial dispute. Maps were scrubbed of political meaning. Statements were lawyered...
Energy Is Pivot In $500 Billion Indo-U.S. Interim Trade Agreement
By K Raveendran The joint declaration accompanying the Indo-US trade agreement, where the first item on the expansive $500 billion agenda is energy and the lifting of additional tariffs is explicitly tied to India curtailing its purchases of Russian crude, crystallises a shift that had been quietly unfolding in...
Some Tariff Relief For India: Strategic Gains Including Tariff For U.S.
By R. Suryamurthy The India–United States Interim Trade Agreement has been unveiled as a diplomatic breakthrough and marketed domestically as evidence of India’s growing economic heft. In reality, it marks a decisive shift in how trade, security, and sovereignty are being re-ordered in India’s engagement with Washington. The agreement...
February 7 All India Strike Disrupted App Based Delivery And Transport Services
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All India strike of app based transport workers on February 7 has disrupted transport services in major cities of India like Delhi Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Kolkata. Delivery and transport services have also impacted many other cities across the country. This is the second strike...
Trade Unions And Activists Flay CJI’s Remarks On Domestic Workers Rights
By Ayush Kumar Certain comments from a Supreme Court bench led by Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) Surya Kant, made on January 29, 2026, has faced widespread condemnation by trade unions and activists. The bench dismissed a Public Interest Litigation filed by ten domestic workers’ unions seeking statutory recognition...
Mandelson, Trump And The Plutocracy: Why The Rule Of Rich Should End?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is trying to contain the Mandelson-Epstein scandal to Peter Mandelson. Some Labour MPs hope to contain it by sacrificing Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney. Others rightly say Starmer himself must go. But even that isn’t nearly enough. The horrific...
Supreme Court’s Refusal To Hear Direct Cash Transfer To Voters Case Is Flawed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court’s refusal to entertain a petition challenging the direct cash transfer to voters while Model Code of Conduct (MCC) for election was in operation, the Election Commission of India’s turning blind eye to the violation of MCC in this way, and deploying beneficiaries...
Trump May Use India-US Trade Agreement To Delink India From Global South
By Dr. Arun Mitra When the Seed Bill was introduced, followed by the Electricity Bill, and the subsequent budget made no reference to the agricultural sector, it had already become apparent what kind of India–US trade agreement was being shaped. Although the Government of India has not yet disclosed...
Trump Is Gasping In His Own Trap In Iran As He Fails To Deal With Self Created Crisis
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Donald Trump likes to project the image of a man who creates crises in order to dominate them. In Iran, that theory is collapsing in real time. What was meant to be a demonstration of American willpower has instead become a case study...
Budget 2026-27 Has Adversely Hit The Agriculture Sector And Rural People
By Prabhat Patnaik Since even the highest bourgeois oracle, the IMF, has cast doubts on the veracity of India’s GDP estimates, the precise budget figures based on the assumptions of a certain level, and growth rate, in nominal GDP, mean very little; in fact, the current budget, while announcing...
Anatomy Of Kerala HC’s Clean Chit To Sit In Gold Theft Probe
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Opposition parties in Kerala, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) once again got it in the neck from the Kerala High Court in the Sabarimala gold theft case. In a ruling which has come as a big relief...
