Iran has extended an offer to mediate between India and Pakistan following a deadly terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir, which claimed 26 lives. The attack, attributed to Pakistan-based militants, has intensified diplomatic and...
Full storyThe Indian Air Force has initiated Exercise Aakraman, a comprehensive operational drill in...
in Happening Now Apr 26 ·President Donald Trump has asserted that he engaged in direct communication with Chinese...
in Happening Now Apr 26 ·Pakistani troops initiated small-arms fire on Indian military positions along the Line of...
in Happening Now Apr 26 ·By K Raveendran U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s declaration that India could be the first to finalise a trade deal with the United States after President Trump embarked on his reckless trade war against the world signals a strategic point. The proposed agreement offers India an escape hatch from...
By Sushil Kutty “Always prepared, ever vigilant”, ‘ADGPI – Indian Army’ posted this assertion on ‘X’. Pakistan and India have declared ‘War’ and United States President Donald Trump says it’s up to India and Pakistan to deal with it, “they’re close and Kashmir has been between them for 1500...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Close to 60 per cent people have reported that they were “struggling” with a further 12 per cent described themselves “suffering”. For billions across the globe, the struggle is either for finding work, or if they have jobs, they are struggling under fear of losing...
By Dr Imran Khalid President Donald Trump’s erratic dance with tariffs continues to confound not just global markets but even his own team. On April 22, in a move that underscored the White House’s habitual policy incoherence, Trump declared that the “very high” tariffs on Chinese goods would soon...
By Prof G Mohan Gopal The recent trenchant villification of the Supreme Court and the judiciary by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar and BJP MP Nishikant Dubey is in reality an attack against the Constitution and its fundamental principles and values. When the Vice President and Mr. Dubey reject judicial...
By Ben Chacko LONDON: With the conclusion of the second round of talks between the representatives of the US and the Islamic Republic of Iran and an agreement to continue the talks, it can be stated that this course has thus far been able to prevent the current tensions...
By Romain Chauvet NEW YORK: Since its founding in 1961, Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) has never formed a federal government. But through a mix of policy advocacy, union alliances, and grassroots organizing, it has helped shape Canada’s political landscape — pushing issues like worker’s rights, strong public services,...
By Nitya Chakraborty Three days have passed since the savage terrorist attack at Pahalgam resulting in the death of 26 people, mostly tourists. The communal tenor of the massacre shocked the Indian people. There was unequivocal demand from the people supported by all sections of the political parties that...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It is perhaps the worst of time. In an act of terror at Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, 26 people were killed, the worst in the last 25 years since 2000. The world called it ‘An Act of Terror’. Prima facie evidence of Pakistan’s involvement...
By Sushil Kutty Barack Obama once said “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” The other day an ex-Pentagon official hit out at terror-sponsor Pakistan and likened Pakistan to a pig, alluding that no amount of lipstick will make a difference to Pakistan’s image!...
By Prabhat Patnaik International students on US campuses are at present a terrified lot: they can be abducted, sent to some detention centre hundreds of miles from where they live, kept there for any length of time, and then deported abroad. And all this can happen to them not...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political scenario of Maharashtra witnessed an interesting change as estranged cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray indicated a possible reconciliation ahead of the crucial BMC elections. In its editorial on Monday, Sena (UBT)’s mouthpiece Saamana said the two leaders (Uddhav and Raj) should take evaluative...
By Irfan Engineer, Neha Dabhade, Mithila Raut In 2024, as in previous years, communal violence has persisted in the form of structural violence, embedded within the legal and institutional framework of the state. Structural violence, as conceptualized by Johan Galtung, refers to systematic inequalities and injustices that are institutionalized...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: How democracy can be subverted is the finding of a survey conducted by a leading news paper of the state. The survey revealed that vested interest, who described as “Dabang” are controlled many panchayat without contesting election. This Dabang pays a fixed sum to...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Vietnam has shown how a well calibrated trade diplomacy can be conducted in the year 2025 amidst the ongoing tariff war between the two biggest economic and military powers of the world USA and China. Both countries are having best trade relations with this South East...
By P. Sudhir BJP leaders and the Vice President of India, Jagdeep Dhankhar, have launched vicious attacks on the Supreme Court. These attacks have come in the wake of the Supreme Court judgment on the Tamil Nadu Governor’s unconstitutional role in withholding bills passed by the state legislature and...
By Arun Srivastava From asserting “all is well” on the floor of Lok Sabha only on March 7, the Modi government has had to order “keeping in abeyance the Indus Water Treaty of 1960”, declare the defence advisers in the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi as persona non...
By Ram Puniyani One of the greatest tragedies of South Asia has been the emergence of ‘Two Nation Theory’, which opposed the Anti Colonial Indian National movement. It was a great help to British colonialists to rule over this vast land. It led to the formation of Pakistan on...