Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju introduced the Waqf Bill, 2024, in the Lok Sabha, proposing significant reforms to the Waqf Act of 1995. The bill aims to enhance transparency and inclusivity in the management...
Full storyThe Supreme Court has directed petitioners challenging the constitutionality of various provisions of...
in Happening Now Apr 2 ·Lawyers at the Calcutta High Court staged a protest on Tuesday, ceasing work...
in Happening Now Apr 2 ·Bangladesh has made an official request to China for an extension of its...
in Happening Now Apr 1 ·By Satyaki Chakraborty Communist Party of India (CPI) general secretary D. Raja gave a clarion call on Wednesday for the building of principled unity of all communists in India to act as the vanguard of the battle against the Narendra Modi government and the RSS-BJP led Sangh Parivar. Addressing...
By K Raveendran It is curious that Indians have learnt of New Delhi’s willingness to cut tariffs for American goods from President Donald Trump rather than an official statement from the Modi government. It is as though charmed by Trump’s personal warmth towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has...
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik President Trump inflicted 20 per cent tariffs on Chinese imports and 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods. Canada retaliated with 25 per cent tariffs on American exports worth US$ 20.7 billion. There is a possibility of expanding this retaliation to US$ 86.2...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has published a series of orders on April 1, 2025 allowing hike in essential medicines, other drugs, and medical equipment. Prices of essential drugs have been allowed to increase by 1.74 per cent in 2025, as against 0.005 per...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have decided to take several steps to streamline their organization. BJP has decided to launch “Gaon Chalo Basti Chalo Abhiyan (Let us go to villages and communities) from April 9 to April 12. April 6 is Party’s foundation day. On...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has, once again, blazed a new trail by deciding to constitute a commission for the elderly, the first of its kind in the country. In a path-breaking initiative, the State Assembly unanimously passed the Kerala State Elderly Commission Bill, 2025 aimed at protecting the...
By Nantoo Banerjee If in the United States, the world’s second largest federal democracy, the number of seats in the House of Representatives could remain capped at 435 since 1913, there is no reason to justify the latest delimitation exercise to freshly fix the number of seats and boundaries...
By Nitya Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (Marxist) begins its five day session of 24th Congress on April 2 at Madurai in Tamil Nadu. The 24th congress, held after every three years is expected to frame the road map of the party for the next three years...
By Kalyani Shankar Illegal immigration from India to the United States is emerging as a significant issue between the two countries. India has one of the highest numbers of illegal immigrants in the US, with an estimated 750,000 people. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the two countries have built...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak UN Geneva’s Beyond Lab’s movement around ‘Beyond GDP’ has many lessons for India, the country whose ruling establishment has recently created a hype around its GDP growth. Quoting the IMF data, the government said India’s economy has reached $4.3 trillion in 2025, which was $2.1...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Madurai City in Tamil Nadu is all set to host the CPI(M)’s 24th Party Congress on Wednesday, April 2. The historic city, which has witnessed many a struggle against casteism and exploitation of the poor and downtrodden, has literally turned red with thousands of party...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Another attempt to discredit Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his daughter Veena suffered a major setback when the Kerala High Court rejected pleas by Congress MLA Mathew Kuzhalnadan and late RTI activist Girish Babu for a probe against the CM. The duo had sought...
By Nitya Chakraborty The inevitable has happened. Narendra Modi government’s myopic policy on handling the interim government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus has led this important neighbour of India into Chinese lap. The Xi Jinping-Yunus meeting held in Beijing on March 28 gave its final seal of...
By K Raveendran For all those who prefer order to chaos and method to madness, Donald Trump remains an unending enigma. His entire political career seems to thrive on a disruption strategy that is difficult to anticipate, yet somehow calculated in its unpredictability. In the economic arena, where conventional...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Indian workers’ dream of getting decent job in 2024-25 under the Employment Linked Incentive Scheme, which was part of the Prime Minister’s Package for Employment and Skilling has completely shattered, since the Centre failed to even launch the scheme. At the fag end of the...
By Krishna Jha No matter what the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation may claim, the fact is India’s economy is falling apart. It is hit directly by incompetence and absence of a coherent strategy of the government. Over the past six months, a significant debate has emerged regarding...
By Sushil Kutty The Prime Minister’s job is fun. Take a gander at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Studio Ghibli pics. They are everywhere. From Social Media platforms to webpages of sundry outlets. Strangely mesmerizing pics of Prime Minister Modi released by the Government of India in public interest! Solid...
By Arun Srivastava The deliberations and discourses that took place at the three day Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), its highest decision-making body, provides an insight into the social and cultural scepticism that have come to afflict the organisation. RSS claims to be...