Courtroom Clash Over Waqf Law’s Secular Boundaries
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta asserted before the Supreme Court on Tuesday that waqf is inherently a secular concept, emphasising that the Waqf Act, 2025, does not impinge upon any essential religious practices of Muslims. This...
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Afghanistan’s Dam Projects Stir Water Disputes with Pakistan
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Israel plans to target Iran nuclear facilities
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Pakistan-China Ties Consolidate Further During Visit Of Deputy Pm Ishaq Dar
By Nitya Chakraborty The four day visit of the Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar to China ended on Wednesday May 21 with top Chinese leaders assuring Dar that ‘as an ironclad friend, China, as always, firmly support Pakistan in safeguarding its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, support...
Supreme Court Corrects A Fatefully Wrong Decision After A Decade’s Delay
By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s revocation of the 2002 provision allowing fresh law graduates to apply for civil judge posts marks the end of a deeply flawed and impractical policy that persisted for over two decades. While the phrase “better late than never” may feel appropriate on the...
Children’s Fundamental Right In Tamil Nadu Is Being Violated
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Children of Tamil Nadu are caught in the political crossfire between PM Narendra Modi led NDA government at the Centre and CM M K Stalin led INDIA bloc government in the state. Centre insists on implementation of the three-language formula under New Education Policy (NEP)...
Donald Trump Now Talking Of Golden Dome To Protect U.S. Citizen’s Security
By Sushil Kutty For a certified peacenik, with no appetite for war, United States President Donald Trump can confound. That’s because Trump’s ‘USA First’ potentially pits the United States against all and sundry other countries. President Trump’s threats and theatrics does not help. Witness the tariff wars he started...
How The State Administrations In India Have Been Harassing The Journalists?
By Krishna Jha It is about a report on 423 criminal cases registered against 427 scribes spread over 28 states and Union Territories of India. It has a database also that analyses information on 423 criminal cases, between 2012-2022. It seeks to bring light on the offences most used...
Donald Trump Passing The Buck To Pope Leo XIV For Conducting Ukraine War Peace Talks
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has virtually called off his peacemaking efforts with Ukraine and Russia to break their ongoing conflict after his two-hour talk on Monday with so-called buddy Russian President Vladimir Putin ended in a no entry zone. Now the Vatican has...
Congress Should Spoil BJP’s Game By Patching Up With Its Erudite MP Shashi Tharoor
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Government of India picked up Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to lead an “all-party” delegation Group-5 under Operation Sindoor, the Congress has been under great humiliation. First, because Congress had not sent Shashi Tharoor’s name to the government; Secondly, the government chose him...
Social Media Influencers Are Giving Sleepless Nights To Union Home Ministry
By Sushil Kutty Social Media spies are giving sleepless nights to not only intelligence agencies but also to private television channels with TRPs to consider. Hit hard by steadily increasing numbers of YouTubers, these television channels have latched on to YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra arrest on charges of espionage to...
BJP’s Tiranga Yatra Fails To Generate Nationalist Passion Among Hindus In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava Ideological fatigue and misperception of the issues that guide and help frame the strategies has been primarily responsible for BJP losing the initiative in Uttar Pradesh which was supposed to be the laboratory for its Hindutva alchemy. BJP’s modern ideologue had made Narendra Modi convinced that...
Shashi Tharoor Kicks Up Another Controversy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Courting controversies seems to have become second nature to senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha member from Kerala Shashi Tharoor. The latest controversy the four-time Thiruvananthapuram MP has kicked up is over his naming as one of the heads of Government delegations which will visit...
Manipur Kuki-Zos To Take Part Only In ‘Regular Political Dialogue’
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It may well be called the ‘Guwahati Resolution on Manipur not made public’. It all happened in Guwahati on last Friday, May 16 when several Kuki MLAs, senior functionaries of Kuki-Zo outfits and civil society organizations (CSOs) – in all over a dozen persons...
Mayawati Brings Her Nephew Akash Anand Again As BSP’s Number Two
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national President and former chief minister Mayawati once again brought back her nephew Akash Anand as national chief coordinator of the party. Much significance is being attached to high level meeting of party on May 18 when Mayawati created a new post of chief...
Pakistan’s Nuclear Threat To India Is Real
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be good that the latest armed conflict between India and Pakistan ended quickly before it could blow up into a full-scale war leading to massive destruction of life and property and economic disaster in both the countries – maybe more so in Pakistan than...
Three National Elections In Europe Send Mixed Political Signals
By Satyaki Chakraborty The results of the national elections held on Sunday May 18 in three countries of Europe-Portugal, Romania and Poland have given mixed signals about the political trends in the continent with Right forces consolidating in Portugal while the anti- Right combinations prevailed with narrow margins in...
Pope Leo XIV Is Expected To Bring Out Major Reforms In Vatican Favouring Marginalised
By Kalyani Shankar The world’s attention has been on the Vatican City in Rome for the past few days. The Catholics have made history with the election of Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old American cardinal of Spanish descent. He has taken over as the 267th occupant of the throne...
Composition Of All-Party Delegations Under Operation Sindoor Unsatisfactory
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s resolve against terrorism is not at all questionable, as the people of India, including the political parties, have already demonstrated it in the aftermath of Pahalgam terror attack since April 22, and after the launch of Operation Sindoor on May 7. Now, the ruling...
The Great Turn Around Of AIMIM Supremo Asaduddin Owaisi After Pahalgam Massacre
By Sushil Kutty Who doesn’t dislike AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi? You can count them on the fingers. Of a thousand and one hands! Asaduddin is not easy to like. Bangladeshi writer Tasleema Nasreen wouldn’t duck if she spots Asaduddin Owaisi across the road. She will run! There are folks...
Centre And The BJP Led State Administrations Are Yet To Take Steps Against Hate Campaign
By Ram Puniyani The killings of 26 tourists in Baisaran near Pahalgam were one of the worst tragedies in recent times. Baisaran is a lovely spot reachable only on horses or by walking in the uneven terrain. The killings left the whole nation in deep grief. While the terrorists...
