Hormuz closure widens stakes of Gulf confrontation
Iran’s move to shut the Strait of Hormuz after fresh American strikes on its military targets has pushed the Gulf confrontation into a new and more dangerous phase, raising fears of an energy shock that...
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Duty waiver lifts ethanol fuel push
India has scrapped excise duty on petrol blended with 22% to 30% ethanol,...
in Happening Now Jun 11 ·Congress-TMC thaw talk grows after Delhi meetings
Speculation over a fresh Congress-Trinamool Congress understanding intensified after Abhishek Banerjee met Rahul...
in Happening Now Jun 11 ·Surat demolition row tests civic accountability
Surat’s Nasir Nagar demolition controversy has widened into a legal and administrative crisis...
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By T N Ashok By the time Narendra Modi crossed Jawaharlal Nehru’s record as India’s longest-serving elected Prime Minister in continuous office, the country’s political landscape had already begun to resemble a battlefield after a great storm. The old certainties have vanished. Alliances that appeared permanent are fraying. Regional...
Quashing Of FIR And ECIR Against Newsclick Is A Victory For Independent Media
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Delhi High Court’s quashing of Delhi Police’s FIR and the consequential Enforcement Directorate’s (ED’s) ECIR filed against online media outlet Newsclick and its Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha is a victory for media freedom, and also an expose as to how Police and Central investigating agencies under...
In The First One Month Of Rule In Bengal, BJP Has Exposed Its Anti-People Politics
By Dipankar Bhattacharya It has been just one month since a BJP government was sworn in for the first time in West Bengal. This one month has taught the people of West Bengal much more about the BJP than they could ever learn watching the party rule in other...
China Is Pitching For India Adapting To Market Demand And Industrial Synergy Of Both
By Satyaki Chakraborty In an unusual candour and straight talking, China has appealed to India to focus more on regional trade platforms in Asia and leverage the synergy of China and other countries for growth. Global Times, the official English daily of the Chinese Government has expressed its view...
BJP In Punjab Is Pitching For Communal Polarisation On Eve Of 2027 Assembly Polls
By Dr Arun Mitra As the Punjab Assembly elections draw closer, the political atmosphere in the state is changing rapidly. All political parties are formulating strategies to attract voters, and discussions on possible political alignments have also begun, though they remain at an early stage. The RSS-BJP government at...
Samajwadi Party Pitches For Total Alliance To Take On BJP In 2027 Assembly Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav wants INDIA alliance should collectively challenge BJP in Uttar Pradesh during 2027 assembly polls to dislodge the saffron party from power. During recent meeting of INDIA alliance Akhilesh Yadav made it clear to Congress and other partners of INDIA...
Rebuilding Mass Movement Against Racism In Britain Is Imperative Now
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Faced with a far right ever readier to terrorise the streets, the need to stand up in defence of black and immigrant communities is more urgent than ever. Horrific scenes in Belfast, where racists went house to house smashing down doors, evicting black residents and...
India’s Fiscal Shield Comes Into Focus As Hormuz Crisis Darkens Outlook
By K Raveendran Resolution of the US-Israel war with Iran now appears further away than at any point in the conflict, with the latest American strikes pushing global markets into a more unsettled phase. The US launch of retaliatory attacks on Iranian defence and radar systems after Washington accused...
Jawaharlal Nehru And Narendra Modi: Two Prime Ministers Belonging To Two Centuries
By T N Ashok As Narendra Modi overtakes Jawaharlal Nehru as India’s longest-serving Prime Minister to this day, the inevitable comparisons have begun. The period of tenure of Nehru is taken from his swearing in as the PM in 1952 after the holding of the first general elections in...
Modi Has Created A Milestone But Comparison With Nehru Is Erroneous
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The third term of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India began on June 9, 2024 and hence June 9, 2026 happened to be an occasion for the BJP to showcase him as the longest serving “elected prime minister” of India surpassing the first prime...
Can The Maverick TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee Survive The Present Crisis?
By T N Ashok The Trinamool Congress (TMC), once considered the most formidable regional political machine in India, is facing the gravest crisis in its 28-year history. What began as murmurs of dissatisfaction after the party’s stunning defeat in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections has rapidly evolved into...
TMC Collapse Gives Opportunity To Left And Congress To Occupy The Vacant Space In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The unprecedented collapse of the Trinamool Congress following the assembly election reverses in 2026 polls has given big opportunities to the Left Front led by the CPI(M) and the Congress to emerge as the opposition to the BJP dominated state government in Bengal. The CPI(M)...
New Technology Pioneers Are Building Infrastructure For Next Era Of AI
By Indrani Chakraborty The World Economic Forum on June 10 announced its 2026 Technology Pioneers cohort, recognizing 100 early-stage companies from 23 countries that are developing breakthrough technologies with the potential to transform industries and societies. The cohort reflects the growing geographic diversity of frontier innovation, with nine companies...
INDIA Bloc Reset Broader Consensus On National Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The INDIA bloc’s meet on June 8, 2026 in New Delhi has reset a broader consensus on national politics to take on the BJP despite its regional conflicts that surfaced with DMK keeping away from and AAP declaring that it was not part of it....
How Iran War Immensely Benefited Five Major Weapons Companies Of U.S.
By T N Ashok The most interesting story is not merely that U.S. defense contractors profited from the Iran war, but that financial markets began pricing in those profits even before the first missiles struck. Investors anticipated a long cycle of missile replenishment, drone procurement, air-defense expansion and fighter...
Deportation From India Of Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants Should Be Rule-Based
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: As tensions persist along the disturbed segments of the Indo-Bangladesh border running through the Northern and central districts of West Bengal, it seems an uneasy bilateral truce will prevail in the medium term. The process of the GOI-declared repatriation of illegal Bangladeshi settlers may run...
Defection Game By Elected Politicians Is A Regular Feature In Indian Politics
By T N Ashok Indian democracy is often described as the world’s largest political experiment. Increasingly, however, it resembles the world’s largest wildlife sanctuary for migratory politicians. Every election season, millions of voters queue up under a scorching sun, clutching voter slips and democratic hopes. They cast their ballots...
Ramchandra Guha Is Wrong In Saying Rahul Gandhi Helped Narendra Modi Staying In Power
By Dr. Ram Puniyani Historian Ramchandra Guha, in his article in digital news website Scroll, wrote: “Gandhi Family has helped Modi to consolidate his power”. This is a totally superficial analysis of the consolidation of the power of Narendra Modi-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the past over a decade....
