Congress in Supreme Court to Defend Places of Worship Act
The Congress party has approached the Supreme Court, seeking to intervene in ongoing petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. The party emphasizes that the Act is crucial...
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Secularism, Socialism, and Nationalism Off in B’desh Statute
The Constitution Reform Commission of Bangladesh has submitted a report to interim government...
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SGPC Urges Punjab CM to Ban Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Emergency’
The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) has called upon Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann...
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ED Seizes Assets Worth Over ₹440 Cr from Former Kwality Promoters
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has provisionally attached assets totaling ₹442.85 crore in Delhi,...
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak January 16, 2025 was celebrated by Union Government of India as National Startup Day, which was followed by a boasting that India with more than 1.59 lakh startups has now firmly established itself as the third-largest startup ecosystem in the world. The claim was on...
Closure Of Hindenburg Research Body Must Be A Relief To The Adani Group
By Anjan Roy Controversial equity research firm, Hindenburg, has closed down, all of a sudden. Disbanding the operations, the firm’s founder and short-seller said that this “was only chapter of his life” not the only one. The news of Hindenburg closure immediately had a political twist in India. While,...
Akhilesh Yadav Wooing Hindu Voters In A Big Way On The Eve Of Milkipur Bypoll
By Sushil Kutty Samajwadi Party Supremo Akhilesh Yadav has discovered religion, specifically ‘Hinduism’. The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, with a nose for politics, took a ‘Ganga Snan’ and then took an oath to transform the Ayodhya Ram Mandir Complex into a top class wonder of the world when...
Rahul Says Fighting BJP, RSS Is To Defend Indian Constitution
By Rahil Nora Chopra During the inauguration of the new Congress headquarters in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi led the charge that the battle against the RSS-BJP was not just a political one. “The BJP and the RSS have captured every single institution of our country. We are now fighting the...
Alternative Trading And Currency Arrangement Is Possible To Fight U.S. Hegemony
By Prabhat Patnaik The imperialist countries led by the US have been imposing unilateral sanctions that do not have any backing from the United Nations against countries that dare to defy their diktat. According to one estimate almost one third of the countries of the world have been subject...
Indian Workers Are Facing Increased Workload, Prolonged Shifts In Changing Scenario
By Dr Bhalchandra Kango In capitalist economy, unemployment is one of the basic needs that keeps the worker always on the edge. The apprehension of job loss haunts all those in employment. And those unemployed keep in wait at the gate to replace those who dare challenge the system....
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal Is A Great News But The Follow Up Depends On Netanyahu
By Asad Mirza Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal; Israel, Qatar and the United States have said, after more than 460 days of a war that has devastated Gaza. Apparently, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, under intense American pressure had to convince a lot...
After The Ceasefire In Gaza, Pressure Must Grow To End The Occupation
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The ceasefire in Gaza, at least pausing a 15-month-long genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people waged by a depraved Israeli state, must be welcomed. If the ceasefire takes hold — always a doubt given Israel’s record in these matters — it offers some relief to...
Suman Ghosh’s Docu Journey With Aparna Sen Is An Objective Tribute To A Big Talent
By Tirthankar Mitra Ever since she faced the movie cameras in a tomboy’s role in Satyajit Ray’s Teen Kanya, in 1961,AparnaSen has been a head turner. Her unconventional beauty was heightened by her sex appeal through which her little grey cells brightly shone. No flash in the pan performer,...
Disruptor President-Elect Donald Trump Baffles Peaceniks And Liberals
By Nitya Chakraborty The announcement on Gaza between Israel and Hamas just five days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the President of USA on January 20 has baffled many leaders of the peace movement as also left liberal political analysts as to how to properly assess the...
Fast-Unto-Death By 112 Farmers At Khanauri Border Is Pathetic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Deteriorating health condition of the farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who has been fast-unto-death hunger strike since November 26, 2024, has become a matter of serious concern, since he has been willing to end his hunger strike if Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government agrees...
Bankrupt Economic Policies Of Modi Govt Have Led To More Suffering For People
By P. Sudhir The GDP growth figures being officially put out are suspect, given the fact that the calculation is based on an implicit inflation rate that is not even a fourth of that emerging from the Consumer Price Index (CPI). But despite such manipulated figures, the fact cannot...
Rahul Gandhi Has Given The Right Focus By Exposing Indore Speech Of Mohan Bhagwat
By Arun Srivastava Rahul Gandhi has come under severe attack from the saffron ecosystem for using the word “the state” while identifying the challenges and ideological threat the country and its people face today. Rahul is not a Marxist. But his remark “We are now fighting the BJP, the...
“Sangathan Srajan” Is A New Mantra For Rebuilding Congress In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: “Sangathan Srajan” Is the new mantra for Congress leaders and workers for building the organisation to face Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 2027.Although it is a big challenge for UP Congress leadership to achieve this task but AICC general Secretary incharge of UP Avinash Pande...
Rahul Gandhi Intensifies His Battle Against Sangh Parivar Over Bhagwat’s Remark
By Sushil Kutty Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, returned from wherever he was marking New Year from and promptly stirred the hornet’s nest, which is from where the BJP, RSS and the “Indian State” are forever in conflict with the Congress, the party which fought...
Global Economy To Weaken In 2025, Says 56 Per Cent Of Chief Economists
By Satyaki Chakraborty The global economy is set to face significant challenges in 2025, with 56% of chief economists surveyed expecting conditions to weaken, according to the latest Chief Economists Outlook from the World Economic Forum. Only 17% foresee an improvement, pointing to heightened uncertainty in key regions and...
President Biden’s Latest Relief To Cuba Is A Delayed Action But Welcome
By W. T. Whitney Jr. WASHINGTON DC: Only days before he will leave office, President Joe Biden on January. 14 finally removed Cuba from the U.S. list of “State Sponsors of Terrorism” (SSOT). Designating Cuba as a terrorist state has long been a part of the U.S. blockade against...
Mandate Against AAP Leaders Shows Centre Only Weighs Political Dividends Of Corruption
By K Raveendran The latest decision by the Modi government to grant sanction for prosecution of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia marks yet another chapter in the ongoing narrative of central agencies being leveraged for political ends. At its core, the move highlights a...
