Delhi Trembles as Earthquake Shakes NCR and Haryana
Tremors jolted Delhi and surrounding areas of the National Capital Region early Wednesday morning following an earthquake centred in Jhajjar district of Haryana. Measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale, the quake struck at 9:04 am...
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BRICS Leaders Warn Resource Weaponisation Threatens Global Tech Order
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Lone Rafale Lost to High‑Altitude Failure, CEO Confirms
Dassault Aviation’s chairman and chief executive, Éric Trappier, has confirmed that one of...
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Gehlot Mixes Sarcasm with Support for Sharma
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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.India Witnesses Largest Ever General Strike Of Workers On July 9
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though on the eve of the workers’ all India general strike on July 9, 2025, Union Ministry of Labour, Government of India, tried to downplay the strike action by claiming that213 unions had informed of their staying away from the strike, India actually witnessed on...
Yet Another Instance Of Modi’s Friendship With Trump Turning Out As A Liability For India
By K Raveendran All theories of probabilities, intuition and a cursory glance at the balance sheets of past trade negotiations point in one direction: any trade deal between the United States and India under the Trump presidency is far more likely to tilt in favour of the US. This...
Bharat Bandh Called By Central Trade Unions Got Massive Response From People In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Reminiscent of the three-day Bihar bandh in 1974, observed at the call of Jayprakash Narayan, after fifty years, Bihar on July 9 witnessed unprecedented bandh in the form of Chakkabandh, at the call of INDIA bloc against the designs of the Election Commission to declare the...
Elon Musk May Have Left DOGE But Mass Federal Layoffs To Continue
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: Tech billionaire may have left DOGE, but his work was never discontinued. It got a shot in the arm as the US Supreme Court ruled that President Trump could resume mass federal layoffs for now. Musk parted company with Trump and launched a...
Xi’s BRICS No-Show: Strategic Shift Or Silent Warning?
By M A Hossain In the realm of global politics, symbolism matters almost as much as substance. President Xi Jinping of China has decided not to attend this year’s BRICS summit which will be held in Rio de Janeiro. This is the first time President Xi will not be...
The ‘Economy Of Genocide’ Report Exposes The Role Of Global Companies Behind War By Israel
By Ramzy Baroud LONDON: Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestine, stands as a testament to the notion of speaking truth to power. This “power” is not solely embodied by Israel or even the United States, but by an international...
Palestinians Have Been Given No Rights In Trump-Netanyahu Gaza Deal
By John Wojcik NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump were closer together on key issues more than ever at their White House meeting on Gaza this Monday, as the Israeli warmaker nominated the American warmaker for the Nobel Peace Prize. After the meeting, they...
Election Commission Violates Its Core Constitutional Responsibility, Acts Whimsically
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India’s order of June 24, 2025 for conducting Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Rolls in Bihar violates its core constitutional responsibility, and is contrary to the well-defined protocol and procedure, and hence whimsical. In the note explaining the process of annual revision/updation...
Dalits And Minorities Unite To Fight Back Disenfranchisement Bid In Bihar Polls
By Arun Srivastava Exactly sixty years ago, the Dalits and proletariats of Ekwari in Bhojpur of Bihar had fought a protracted armed struggle against the political hegemony of the feudal lords and upper caste goons for exercising their right to franchise; the rights to elect their representatives. Once again...
What Is Happening At India-US Trade Deal Talks? Indians Must Know
By Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump has been talking of a trade deal with India for quite some time. In the same breath as when he’s threatening to slap fresh tariffs on a number of countries. As many times as President Trump burps after polishing off a McDonald’s...
Elon Musk Has To Fight Hard To Make His New Party Relevant In U.S. Politics
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The United States is moving to a 3-party system as rest of the world of multiple political parties, in its 250th year of independence celebrations. US has two parties – the democrats who are called as socialists or liberals for favouring an egalitarian...
Eight Years On, The Structurally Flawed GST Has Failed To Achieve Its Goals
By Arun Kumar GST was launched on July 1, 2017 with the promise that it would transform the Indian economy. It was characterized as a second freedom since it would unify the nation. Eight years later, it is time to assess its performance. While the Prime Minister has lauded...
New Turn In Kerala Governor-Government Confrontation
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The standoff between Kerala Governor Rajendra Arlekar and the State Government over the display of the image of Bharat Mata carrying a saffron flag at functions attended by the former has taken a new turn with the State Cabinet urging him to ensure that only...
Guru Dutt Gave A New Dimension To Film Making By Using Music To Express Melancholy
By Tirthankar Mitra Talk of organising a retrospective of films of Guru Dutt, it will be welcomed. The audience would be all ears, at a proposal to make a show of films of Guru Dutt. And there is good reason for it as here was a man who turned...
India Needs To Raise Defence Spending Substantially
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe that India, the world’s fourth largest economy by gross domestic product (GDP) and a major military power, ranks below even the tiny states of Kuwait and Greece when it comes to defence spending as a percentage of GDP. Considering the tricky...
Modi Govt’s Latest Claim On Equality Based On World Bank Data Is Deceptive
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On July 5, 2025, the government of India published on Press Information Bureau’s website “India’s Story on Bridging Inequality”. The story had three key takeaways – India ranks fourth globally in income equality with a Gini score of 25.5; Extreme poverty dropped to 2.3 per...
Crisis In Karnataka Congress Over Chief Ministership Still Remains
By Kalyani Shankar The Karnataka Congress is facing challenges due to a power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar. Many in the party predict a potential change of guard. The growing speculation about Shivakumar replacing Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has created an atmosphere of uncertainty....
Joining Of Hands Of Thackeray Brothers In Maharashtra May Boost Marathi Identity
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra is easy to roil. Wake up and get set on your mark. Sprint or marathon, hurdles or steeplechase, ‘Hindi imposition’ is readymade to start a quick-fire row! It is also political vehicle for Raj Thackeray and his cousin Uddhav Thackeray, former Chief Minister who would...
