India Holds Firm on Agriculture as US Trade Deadline Approaches
India has adopted a firmer stance on protecting its agricultural and dairy sectors as negotiators in Washington edge closer to a crucial July 9 deadline to avert a tariff escalation. The Indian delegation, led by Special...
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Putin Launches Mass Production of Mach‑10 Hypersonic Missiles
Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorised the serial production of the country’s advanced Oreshnik...
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Buddhist Control Bid at Bodh Gaya Thwarted by Supreme Court
The Supreme Court declined to hear a petition seeking exclusive management of the...
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Karnataka Congress Faces Unease Over Leadership Shift
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By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a tough task in improving India’s image as defender of the interests of Global South at the coming meeting of the BRICS at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on July 6 and 7 which he will be attending. The 17th BRICS...
Trump’s Order On Birthright Citizenship Is Meant To Make America White Again
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump first wanted to end birthright citizenship with an executive order issued on January 20, 2025, the day he assumed office for his 2nd nonconsecutive term as president. Again on June 20, 2025, he issued an EO for the Department of...
RSS Campaign To Delete Socialist And Secular From Preamble Of Constitution Must Be Defeated
By Krishna Jha Dattatreya Hosabale, the general secretary of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has proposed to remove the words “socialist” and “secular” from the Preamble of the Constitution. The Preamble comes under the basic structure along with the “Fundamental Rights”. Supreme Court has upheld the Preamble along with all the...
Ayatollah Shirazi Has Spoiled Iran’s Case More Issuing Fatwa Against Trump And Netanyahu
By Sushil Kutty All Iranian clerics are “top” and there are a number of them in Iran, not just Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has been ‘Supreme’ for decades. He succeeded Ayatollah Khomeini, the first who rose to political power, to the position of Supreme Leader. Now, there’s...
Social Disconnection Widespread In Digitally Connected World
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “In this age when the possibilities to connect are endless, more and more people are finding themselves isolated and lonely,” said Director of World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after the release of a new WHO report that found one in six people were...
Israel And Iran Have Set The Stage For The Next West Asian War In Near Future
By Arron Reza Merat NEW YORK: On June 5, a satellite photograph captured around forty aircraft on the tarmac of a US airfield inside the regional headquarters for the US Central Command (CENTCOM), some two hundred miles from Iran. A second photograph taken of the Al Udeid airfield on...
Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara Is The Presidential Nominee Of Chile’s Ruling Coalition For November Polls
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Voters in the presidential primary of the Unity for Chile (Unidadpor Chile) coalition have selected the Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara as their candidate to face off against the right-wing candidates José Antonio Kast and Evelyn Matthei in November’s general election in Chile. Presently Gabriel...
International Booker Prize Winner Banu Mushtaq Transcends Her Regional Roots
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work—and the first short story collection—to win the 2025 International Booker Prize, it marked more than a literary milestone. It represented a long-overdue recognition of India’s regional literatures and, more crucially, brought global attention to...
India Must Step Up Attack Drones Production For Its Defence
By Nantoo Banerjee The techniques of traditional warfare seem to be fast changing. Attack drones are increasingly playing a significant role in military aggression alongside missiles. The 12-day Israel-Iran war and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine battle showed how devastating the role of drones in modern wars is. In one of...
New Insights About Operation Sindoor Vindicate India’s Superb Precision Strike Capability
By Satyaki Chakraborty More than seven weeks have passed since India-Pakistan ceasefire took place on May 10 at 5 PM after four days of war. As more and more insights are being made available to the global defence experts relating to India’s performance in its Operation Sindoor, critical acclaim...
Indian Prime Minister’s Stand On Israeli Genocide In Gaza Is Pathetic
By P. Sudhir The events of the last fortnight have been dramatic – some might even call them cataclysmic. The sequence began with Israel’s surprise attacks on Iranian targets, particularly the nuclear enrichment and production sites at Natanz and Isfahan. The third and most crucial site, Fordow, remained untouched....
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal Has Got A Major Boost Through Bypoll Win
By Kalyani Shankar The Aam Aadmi Party is delighted after its recent win in the Gujarat and Punjab bye-elections. These victories in states indicate a shift in the Party’s fortunes. The AAP, once viewed as a Delhi-centric party ruling only in Delhi, has expanded over the years, gaining a...
Most Of The States Struggling With The Three Language Formula
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP’s rhetoric on Hindi Language politics has been acquiring higher note with passing of the day, so is the counter rhetoric in the non-Hindi speaking states, since their struggle with the implementation of the three languages formula under National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 faces fresh...
Utter Confusion Remains Over Exact Nature Of Damage To Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
By Asad Mirza It has been almost one week since US bombers conducted “Operation Midnight Hammer” against Iran and its nuclear development sites. However, it is still not clear whether Iran’s’ capabilities have been damaged; if yes, then to what extent? Further, it also puzzles one with Iran’s obsession...
BJP Decision On New President May Be Delayed Further Due To Modi-Bhagwat Tussle
By Arun Srivastava Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh will celebrate its centenary year in 2025 on Dussehra Day. In Hindu soliloquy attaining an age of one hundred years, “Jeevem Saradah Satamah” by an individual, is the most propitious achievement. In the case of RSS, as an organisation, this has got more...
Arvind Kejriwal Is Back In Delhi Politics With His Protest Against Slums Demolition
By Sushil Kutty The fiery ‘Mr Kejriwal’ was seen in Delhi after a gap of months. On June 29, Sunday, the AAP convener addressed a crowd of AAP workers at Delhi’s given protest venue Jantar Mantar. A few hundred slum dwellers whose “jhuggi-jhopri” have faced bulldozer-action under the vigil...
Defence Spending Hike Of NATO Members Means More Readiness For Future Wars
By Diane Abbott LONDON: At the recent NATO summit most member countries committed themselves to a target of spending 5 per cent of GDP on the military budget. This is more than we were spending during the Gulf war and much more than when this country was waging war...
MPs Step Up Pressure on Judicial Conduct Oversight
Lawmakers on Tuesday pressed the government for stronger mechanisms to enforce accountability within the judiciary, questioning official inertia in high‑profile cases involving senior judges and demanding stricter ethical guidelines. During a session of the parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, law and justice under the chairmanship of Brij Lal,...
