Opposition protests stall motion against Speaker Birla
Parliamentary proceedings descended into disruption on Monday as the Lok Sabha failed to take up a resolution seeking the removal of Speaker Om Birla after repeated adjournments triggered by opposition protests demanding a debate on...
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Opposition bloc considers move to impeach CEC
Political tensions around the Election Commission have sharpened ahead of the next West...
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Pakistan imposes austerity to curb fuel demand
Pakistan has announced sweeping austerity measures designed to reduce fuel consumption and manage...
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Murmu event row deepens Delhi Kolkata tensions
Political friction between the Union government and the West Bengal administration intensified after...
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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.Oil Volatility Before Polls Exposes India’s Political Windfall Trap On Fuel Taxes
By R. Suryamurthy Few economic variables carry the political volatility of oil prices in India. When global crude rises, inflation anxieties spread quickly across households, transport costs ripple through supply chains, and governments scramble to contain the political fallout. Yet the latest oil shock — triggered by tensions involving...
LPG Shortage Has Started Affecting People Across Indian States, Cities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the government of India has assured that there are enough oil and gas resources in the country, and there is no reason for public to panic, hotels and eateries in several cities in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and elsewhere have shut down causing great...
The $75 Billion Paradox: India And The Global Arms Bazaar
By T N Ashok In the dusty archives of 1947 sits a photograph that serves as the moral conscience of a nation: Mahatma Gandhi, a man of “soul-force” and homespun cotton, walking toward an independence won without a single division of tanks. He famously argued that a nation’s strength...
Colombia’s Ruling Left Coalition Wins Maximum Seats In March 8 Elections To Congress
By Satyaki Chakraborty The ruling Left coalition in Colombia headed by the President Gustavo Petro recorded a significant victory in the national elections held on March 8 by getting maximum number of seats in the legislature. The polls held in the background of US President’s war in Iran and...
Himanta Sarma Is No More The Strong Leader He Was Before 2021 Polls
By Rabindra Nath Sinha Party hopping is on in full swing among the BJP and the Congress ranks in Assam where Assembly elections are due between March-end and mid-April latest and for which the Election Commission of India is expected to announce the schedule in a matter of days....
Nuancing Feminism In The Indian Bar To Make It More Gender Neutral
By Nandita Rao In December 2025, the Supreme Court of India, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant passed a historic decision, reserving thirty percent posts in all State Bar Councils for women. The Court passed these directions in a Public Interest Litigation, pointing out that the percentage...
Red Letter Day For People Of Kozhikode, Wayanad
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a Red Letter Day for the people of Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. Friday, March 6, 2026 saw the first controlled rock blast at the site of the proposed Anakkampoyil-Kalladi-Meppadi tunnel road project connecting Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. A long-standing dream of the people...
Iran War Is Likely To Hit Indian Economy Hard
By Nantoo Banerjee The all-out war in West Asia, involving the US-Israel combine and Iran and covering 10 countries in the region, is expected to have a big economic backlash on India. At stake are India’s $120-billion trade in this region, huge oil imports, overall balance of payments, inflow...
Nepal Electorate Give Unequivocal Verdict Against Instability, Old Faces, Corruption
By Nitya Chakraborty With the final results of the March 5 elections in Nepal, almost available, it is clear that the Gen Z supported Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is set to form the next government in this tiny Himalayan nation headed by the RSP leader Balendra Shah whose political...
Respect (Disrespect) To President Is New Electoral Narrative In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest controversy involving the President of India Draupadi Murmu is being shaped as a new electoral narrative in West Bengal, and the way it is being done shows that it is less about protocol itself and more about electoral narrative building ahead of the...
U.S. Defence Companies Are Making Fortunes As Iran War Escalates
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Strip away the flags. Silence the speeches. Turn off the generals with their grave faces and PowerPoint slides showing red arrows across sand-coloured maps. When the theatre clears, what remains is not a clash of civilisations, not a battle for freedom, not even...
Naming Mojtaba Khamenei As Supreme Leader Marks Continuity Of Iranian Leadership
By Asad Mirza Iran on Monday (March 9) named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as the supreme leader of Iran, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge. Iranian institutions and politicians, from the foreign ministry to lawmakers, issued statements expressing their allegiance to the country’s new...
Narendra Modi Has Politicised President’s Visit To Bengal To Help BJP
By Arun Srivastava Never before in the political history of India, the institution of President was used in such a blatant manner as was done on Saturday March 7, by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for ensuring the victory of the BJP at the Bengal assembly elections. What has...
Britain Is Drifting Into Donald Trump’s Iran War, That Has To Be Stopped
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The tens of thousands who marched against war with Iran on Saturday speak for the huge majority of the British public. That is clear from every opinion poll. It was clear on the BBC’s politics show Question Time, where presenter Fiona Bruce, asking for a...
Oil Shock Fears Mount As Gulf Conflict Impact Spreads Far And Wide
By K Raveendran Escalating hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran are rapidly transforming a regional confrontation into a global economic and geopolitical crisis, raising the spectre of what many analysts are beginning to describe as a Third Gulf War. Tehran’s early warning that Washington might possess the...
Women Workers Facing Double The Risks From Generative AI Than Men
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the world is celebrating the International Women’s Day on March 8, a new concern has emerged for women workforce. They are facing double the risks from Generative AI (Gen AI) compared to men, which an International Labour Organisation (ILO) research brief has just confirmed....
Iran War Threatens Growth, Jobs, And Fuel Prices Ahead Of Assembly Elections
By T N Ashok The Strait of Hormuz is ablaze, and India’s economic miracle is suddenly hostage to a war it did not script. What began as a regional clash between Iran and Israel has metastasized into India’s most acute economic crisis in a decade. For New Delhi, the...
Israel, US, Iran War Is An Economic Disaster For India
By Matein Khalid The geopolitical convulsion in Iran has led to panic buying in Brent crude as Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery Ras Tanura and Qatar’s LNG mega complex at Ras Laffan shut production even as tanker traffic in the Straits of Hormuz comes to a halt amid soaring war...
