Bengaluru Police Bosses Face Action for Stampede Lapses
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has suspended Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda and four other senior officers following a deadly stampede at M Chinnaswamy Stadium that claimed 11 lives and injured 47. The incident occurred during...
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Khurshid Backs Rahul in ‘Surrender’ Remark Controversy
Senior Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid has publicly endorsed...
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Pro-Khalistan Slogans During Operation Blue Star Anniversary
Chants of “Khalistan Zindabad” reverberated through the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar as...
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Trump and Musk’s Alliance Implodes Amid Public Feud
A once-formidable alliance between President Donald Trump and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has...
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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.RBI’s Latest Monetary Policy Exudes Over Confidence And High Optimism
By Anjan Roy The new governor of the Reserve Bank, Sanjay Malhotra, has taken to monetary policy formulation and the world of finance like fish to water. Within a short period of his taking over, Malhotra has got into his charge with a refreshing confidence. RBI’s monetary policy, announced...
President Donald Trump Finally Gives Up His Initial Musk As A Global Peace Maker
By Indrani Chakraborty U.S. President Donald Trump has finally given up his initial musk as the global peace maker after taking over presidency on January 20 this year. After 135 days of acting as a fake peace maker, under his direction, the United States vetoed a United Nations Security...
Prime Minister’s Boasting About India Being Fourth Largest Economy Has Many Gaps
By D Raja India is being paraded on global and national platforms as the world’s fourth-largest economy. With a nominal GDP of nearly 3.9 trillion dollars, the government claims it has scripted an economic miracle. The Prime Minister thunders from every stage about India’s rise under his watch, and...
Big Beautiful Break-Up Between Trump And Musk Has All The Thrills Of A Hollywood Film
By Sushil Kutty The headlines are topping the Trump-Musk fallout. The best was “I hate my X”, straight out of a divorce playbook and so true of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the two are like a divorced couple carrying the thrill and bitterness of divorce into the public...
Strategically Delayed Central Census Raises Several Concerns
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a day after announcement of the Census 2027, the Union Ministry of Home said on June 5, that the census was put off due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its “aftershock”. How can the Centre say this when it went on conducting many other...
Chirag’s Aggressive Pitch For Bihar Top Job Rattles Allies, RJD Alike
By Rahil Nora Chopra Political activity in Bihar is intensifying, with Union Minister for Food Processing Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) readies to flex its muscle and likely to stake claim in at least 35 to 40 seats in the forthcoming Bihar assembly elections due in October-November...
Veteran Congress Leader Sankar Malakar’s Defection To TMC Is A Big Boost For Ruling Party
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Electoral prospects of Trinamool Congress seem brighter in north Bengal post veteran Congress leader Sankar Malakar switching loyalty to the ruling dispensation. For such a decision has been taken after weighing the pros and cons as desertion of this veteran leader is certainly an indication...
As The US Economy Wobbles, European Union Targets Dollar Supremacy
By Nick Wright LONDON: The damage Donald Trump has done to the architecture of imperial power is not an accidental feature of an unusually repugnant personality. It has its roots in the real, material conditions of the recurrent crisis in the accumulation of capital and in the projection of...
How Post Operation Sindoor Modi Doctrine Stifling India’s Diplomatic Outreach?
By Nitya Chakraborty 26 days have passed since the temporary truce in the limited four day war between India and Pakistan taking effect on May 10 this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of his three point doctrine since then, the most important of which is no...
Parliament, Not Propaganda, Must Lead India’s Response To Kashmir Attacks
By P. Sudhir ‘NOT blood: But Sindoor Flows Through My Veins’ – these exact words by Prime Minister Modi defined his signature style in launching the post-Sindoor campaign blitzkrieg. What else could he or his government have done in response to the grave challenges the country was faced with....
Elon Musk’s Vicious Attack Against Trump’s Economic Policies Has Stunned MAGA Supporters
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The differences between US President Donald Trump and his first buddy tech billionaire Elon Musk, who sunk $288 million of his personal fortunes to get the mercurial Trump re-elected, has now exploded in the public domain with a spat. The bitter attack by...
Little Known BIS Is An Important Cog In The Wheel Of Global Finance Now
By Anjan Roy If you happen to have transferred money from your bank account to another, you would in possibility have used the RTGS system. This is known but little is known about the RTGS platform and its evolution. The RealTime Gross Settlement mechanism was primarily developed by the...
How The Attack By Nazis On Soviet Union On June 22, 1941 Changed The Course Of Second World War?
By Krishna Jha It was June 22, 1941, when the Nazi forces started attacking the Soviet Union. It was a strategy to shift the burden of war and resolve the inter-imperialist conflicts at the cost of Soviet Union. Imperialism was keen to decide the eternal contradiction that always evolved...
Slum Dwellers In Delhi Are Having A Harrowing Time With Continuing Demolitions
By Sushil Kutty Delhi these days is synonymous with demolitions, thanks to Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who is a zealot when it comes to following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diktats hook, line and sinker! And Rekha Gupta, while bulldozing and razing ugly slums to the ground, is also...
Renewed Race For Gulf-India Aviation Sector Trophy As Stakes Increase Further
By K Raveendran Strong signs of undercurrents are emerging in the aviation space between India and the Gulf. There is renewed tussle over landing rights — the coveted permissions that determine which airlines get to fly where, how often, and with how many seats. For years, this battleground has...
India Keen To Conclude Interim Trade Deal With USA By July 9 This Year
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: India will be one of the earliest countries to clinch a mega trade deal with the United States under the watchful eye of the latter’s president Donald Trump, who is happy and cautious, as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and his counterpart Piyush Goyal work...
U.S. Pressuring India To Drastically Reduce Imports From Russia In Trade Talks
By Anjan Roy India’s purchase of Russian arms and weaponry gets “under the skin of America”. This is an irritant in Indo-US relations, according to Howard Lutnik, US commerce secretary. That aside, India was a great country with diverse assets, particularly its talented people capable of achieving break-throughs in...
South Korea’s New President May Bring Some Changes In Foreign Policy
By Satyaki Chakraborty Lee Jae Myung of majority Liberal Democratic Party was sworn in as the new President of South Korea after the National Election Commission declared him as the winner with 48.8 per cent of the votes polled in the presidential elections held on June 3. Lee’s main...
