US President Signals Major Trade Pact with India on the Horizon
US President Donald Trump disclosed at a White House event on 26 June that, following the signing of a trade deal with China, he is now turning attention to a “very big” agreement with India....
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Tata Sons Launches ₹500 Crore Trust to Support AI‑171 Victims’ Families
Tata Sons has pledged ₹500 crore to establish the AI171 Trust, a welfare...
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India’s Solidarity Earns Tehran’s Gratitude
Tehran has expressed profound appreciation to the Indian public, civil society and political...
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India Upholds IWT Suspension and Eyes Revival of Tulbul Barrage
Union Jal Shakti Minister C.R. Paatil reaffirmed Delhi’s steadfast position on pausing the Indus...
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By Nitya Chakraborty The Rambo of the global diplomacy Donald Trump joined the NATO summit at Hague on June 24-25 with a triumphant smile after organizing the ceasefire between Israel and Iran in their 12 day war and strongly imparting the signal that no one matters in the world...
State Government Finances Witnessed Deterioration In 2024-25
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Consolidated state government finances as per the data for provisional accounts witnessed deterioration in 2024-25. The consolidated Gross Fiscal Deficit (GFD) to gross state domestic product (GFD-GSDP) ratio of states rose in 2024-25 owing to a shortfall in tax revenue and lower grants from the...
Continuing Israeli Killings Of Ailing Hungry Palestinians In Gaza Is Worst Humanitarian Tragedy
By Asad Mirza While the continuing Israel-Iran missile war captivated the global attention, innocent and unarmed Palestinians are being killed in Gaza. Reportedly, 450 Palestinians have been killed near Aid Centres or Food Centres being run by an American relief organisation. But the so-called Islamic countries and even India,...
72 Years Have Passed Since Moncada Attack By Fidel Castro On July 26
By Krishna Jha Fulgencio Batista was the ruler dictator in Cuba from 1952 to 1959. Under him, Cuba became a safe haven for all kinds of crimes and corruption. After coming to power, in 1952 in a coup d’etat, among the first things that Batista did was he destroyed...
Supreme Court Ruling On Maternity Benefit As Fundamental Right Is A Big Step
By Rohit Mani Tiwari On May 23, while delivering a historic judgment in K Umadevi v. State of Tamil Nadu (2025), the Supreme Court unequivocally declared that ‘leave and benefit due to maternity situation of a woman’ are fundamental rights. The Court linked several previous cases, international conventions, treaties,...
In Zohran Mamdani’s Win In Mayoral Primary, Socialism Beat The Status Quo In New York
By Nick French NEW YORK: Political lightning struck New York City last night. Against all expectations, thirty-three-year-old democratic socialist and third-term state assemblyman Zohran Mamdani took a commanding lead in the first round of ranked-choice votes against former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, the primary’s front-runner. By the end...
Beware Of Narendra Modi Government’s Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Government of India led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is observing June 25, 2025, as the first Savmidhan Hatya Diwas (the Day of Killing the Constitution of India), to remember the day of proclamation of emergency at midnight of June 25, 1975 in the...
Ceasefire Was The Only Option Available To Iran, Israel And United States
By K Raveendran Ever since Israel and the United States jointly launched strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, de-escalation began to shape the contours of strategic discourse in West Asia. What was initially presented as a bold and surgical operation against Iran’s suspected nuclear infrastructure quickly unfolded into something far...
Zohran Mamdani’s Win In New York Primary Mayoral Election Is A Game Changer In U.S. Politics
By Satyaki Chakraborty It was not a coincidence that the 33 year old Indian origin Muslim Zohran Mamdani’s convincing win in the primary elections of the Democratic Party for the post of New York Mayor took place on June 24 the same day Donald Trump announced his Israel-Iran ceasefire...
Iran’s Cleric Head Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Is In Complete Control Of The Regime
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: Amidst a sudden declaration of ceasefire between Israel and Iran by the US president Donald Trump, the abiding mystery about Iran as of now is the complete absence of the country’s so-called supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since the US raids began and ended, there...
Proposal Of A Trilateral Bloc Of China, Pakistan, Bangladesh Creates Confusion In Dhaka
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Despite running the administration for almost eleven months virtually unchallenged, the interim Government in Bangladesh has not been able to achieve functional cohesion or departmental coordination even on major matters of policy. The most recent example is a controversy within the administration over the proposed...
Maharashtra Govt Decision On Military Training For Primary Students Is Not Proper
By Dr Arun Mitra The Maharashtra government’s decision to introduce military training to the students from class 1 to class 5 is absurd, dangerous and against the basic tenets of education. The state Education Minister, Dada Bhuse said the idea to provide military training to children from Class one...
Israel-Iran Ceasefire Has Given A Chance To Keir Starmer To Change His Foreign Policy
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The ceasefire between Iran and Israel, hanging by a thread as it is, is welcome. It pauses a cycle of escalation that threatened to engulf the whole region in war. However, it solves little in itself. For one thing, Israel has unilaterally broken two ceasefires...
Nilambur Bypoll Result Throws Up A Disturbing Trend In Kerala Politics
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The result of the Nilambur by-election has thrown up an extremely dangerous trend in Kerala politics, which must cause grave concern among the secular parties. The victory of the Congress candidate Aryadan Shoukat is being widely ascribed to the solid support it has received —...
Israel-Iran Ceasefire After 12 Days Of War Is A Big Relief To The World
By Nitya Chakraborty The most unpredictable President in the history of the United States Donald Trump has done it again. At a time when the world was expecting fierce retaliation by the US missiles after Iran’s attacks on US bases in Qatar in the early hours of Monday, President...
AAP Is Back With A Bang With Bypoll Results In Gujarat And Punjab
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is back with a bang by winning 2 of the 5 bypolls, just after four and half a month of the setback it had received in Delhi Vidhan Sabha election held on February 5, 2025. BJP had thrown AAP out of...
India Has Tactfully Tackled The Challenges To Economy From Russia-Ukraine War
By Subrata Majumder Concerns loomed large on India’s double standard for its neutral stand on Ukraine – Russia war and sanction on Russia. Analysts apprehended India’s isolation from global geopolitical influence and global market, which could slow down its growth. Nevertheless, outsmarting all the apprehensions, India underpinned a smooth...
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s Sycophancy Of Prime Minister Crossing All Limits
By Sushil Kutty Flamboyant Congress MP Shashi Tharoor and “dynamic” Prime Minister Narendra Modi — a mutual fan club with Tharoor losing no chance to present Prime Minister Modi with accolades and bouquets, beholden to the Indian Prime Minister for the trust placed on him to defend India on...
