Raut alleges cash push to split Sena MPs
Mumbai, June 17 — Shiv Sena accused rivals of trying to engineer a fresh breakaway in its parliamentary ranks, with Sanjay Raut alleging that lawmakers were being offered cash advances and flown by private aircraft...
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Religious site actions widen Uttar Pradesh land row
Several religious structures across Uttar Pradesh came under administrative action on Tuesday, putting...
in Happening Now Jun 17 ·Lebanon clause clouds US-Iran truce deal
Iran’s demand for Israeli forces to leave Lebanon has thrown the emerging US-Iran...
in Happening Now Jun 17 ·Muhammed renews call on contested mosques
Former Archaeological Survey of India Regional Director K. K. Muhammed has urged Muslim...
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By K Raveendran The US-Iran deal marks a genuine easing of one of the most dangerous geopolitical shocks to hit the energy market, but it should not be mistaken for a reset button. The immediate risk of a military breakdown has declined, and that matters for every stakeholder: Washington,...
Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman’s China Visit Next Week Has Big Significance For India
By Satyaki Chakraborty Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is visiting China on a three day visit beginning June 23, the outcome of which is expected to be of big importance to Bangladesh having special consequences on the relationship with the neighbouring India also. Bangladesh PM will be visiting Malaysia...
Why The Modi–Trump Chemistry Suddenly Looked Different At The G7 Meet?
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: For nearly a decade, the choreography was familiar. There would be an embrace. The broad smiles. The carefully staged bonhomie. The public declarations of friendship. Cameras would capture the optics before diplomats discussed the substance. Yet at this year’s G7 summit on June...
Hollywood Director Christopher Nolan’s Visit To Mumbai In July Is A Great Event For Film Lovers
By T N Ashok For more than two decades, Christopher Nolan has remained cinema’s most elusive magician—a filmmaker who transforms philosophy into spectacle, science into emotion, and blockbuster entertainment into intellectual inquiry. This July, the Oscar-winning director will bring that rare cinematic mystique to India when he arrives in...
Lebanon Must Get Out Of The Clutches Of Hezbollah
By Manish Rai Lebanon is once again facing a crucial moment. In March 2026, Hezbollah launched missiles into Israel, thereby opening a new front of the war, following the outbreak of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran and the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The fragile political,...
Warfare Or Welfare Is The Trillion-Dollar Question To Nations In 2026
By Jon Trickett LONDON: Right now in Britain we are seeing a well-organised campaign to increase military expenditure. The argument goes that we should spend less on public services so that we can spend more on weapons. But if we take a wider look at the militarisation taking place...
Joy In The Struggle: The Life Of Bea Lumpkin, 1918-2026
By Jenny Carson NEW YORK: Beatrice Shapiro Lumpkin came roaring into the world on August 3, 1918, and she went out of it just after midnight on June 14, 2026, hailed by labour and progressive leaders around the country as a “matriarch of the movement.” Dying just weeks shy...
Can The US-Iran Peace Deal End Decades Of Hostility In West Asia?
By Asad Mirza The framework peace agreement between the United States and Iran has reduced the immediate risk of a wider regional war. Yet the accord leaves unresolved the central issues that have fuelled four decades of confrontation, making its long-term survival far from assured. The announcement of a...
U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Has Many Lessons For Indian Foreign Policy Makers
By R. Suryamurthy By the time President Donald Trump sits across the table to finalize what is being marketed as the first phase of an India-US trade agreement next month, New Delhi should have already absorbed the most important lesson from his administration’s recent foreign-policy success. That lesson has...
China-Myanmar Relations Reach Strategic Heights During Visit Of President Hlaing
By Satyaki Chakraborty China gave a big welcome on Tuesday June 16 to the visiting Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by endorsing the political leadership of the junta chief turned President through rigged elections in April this year. Chinese President...
Major Oil Players Are Not Still Sure On Smooth Passage Through Hormuz
By Anjan Roy The preliminary announcement of a truce between United States and Iran is more a psychological boost than actual easing of the hardships arising from the conflict for the global economy, let alone the Indian. True, oil prices are showing some signs of softening, but experts feel...
Trump’s Iran Deal Details Show That The U.S. President Is No More A Winner
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Donald Trump gave to the world his part of a return gift on his 80th birthday, the Iran peace deal which majorly involves reopening of the strait of Hormuz for ships to pass through and a 60-day ceasefire during which both countries would...
Kolkata Has The Potential To Emerge As A Premier AI Data Centre In India
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Kolkata is emerging as eastern India’s data hub centre. And this is not announcement of a newly elected political leader but a claim based on 2025 report of Knight Frank India’s India Data Centre Market Update. India, according to it is poised to become a...
Disclosure Day Is A Welcome Film By Spielberg In These Darker Times
By Eileen Jones NEW YORK: There’s admittedly a little thrill of nostalgia involved in going to see Disclosure Day for those old enough to remember what it felt like to go see a big Steven Spielberg movie in June. It can be argued that with the colossal, groundbreaking success...
Can PM Narendra Modi Redeem India’s Status As Defender Of Global South At G7 Meet In France?
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be taking part in the outreach session of the 52nd meeting of G7 being held in Evans of France hosted by the French President Emanuel Macron. Already the main session started on Monday with the participation of the leaders of the...
Control Cooking Gas Prices To Shield Citizens From Distress
By Nantoo Banerjee It is disturbing to note that the government has chosen an easy option to raise the domestic cooking gas prices at will to benefit a handful of public sector oil companies at the cost of nearly 337-million active domestic LPG consumers. This is despite the fact...
U.S.-Iran Peace Deal To Be Signed On Friday At Geneva Is Welcome
By Asad Mirza The historic June 2026 US-Iran framework agreement marks a volatile culmination to over 100 days of devastating attrition, fundamentally shifting Middle Eastern security paradigms while altering India’s energy and strategic landscape. The announcement of the comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in mid-June 2026—slated for a formal...
U.S. President Donald Trump Turns Eighty In Style Challenging Age
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: On the evening of his 80th birthday on June 14, while most men his age would be discussing grandchildren, medications and retirement plans, the most powerful man in the world was watching cage fighters batter one another inside an octagon erected on the...
