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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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.India’s Diplomatic Isolation Was Firmly Evident At The SCO Meet In Qingdao In China
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s total diplomatic isolation was in show in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)’s defence ministers meet in Qingdao city in China on June 25 and 26 when a joint statement was prepared calling upon the members to jointly fight terror but there was no mention of...
Introduction Of New Norms For Voters In Bihar Signals NRC On The Cards
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election in Bihar is to be held before its Vidhan Sabha expires on November 22, 2025. All political parties are preparing for the great electoral battle. Bihar has been a very high-stake electoral battle for the PM Narendra Modi and the BJP, and this time...
India-US Trade Talks Reach Crucial Stage As U.S. Seeks Larger Access To Farm Goods Sector
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: As has been agreed earlier, a trade team of India is currently visiting the United States to work out details of the agreement on commerce between the two countries before the deadline of July 9 when the so-called reciprocal tariffs come into force. . Trump...
Democratic Party Leaders Have To Learn Right Lessons From Zohran Mamdani’s Win
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular success at the democratic primary for the New York mayoral election was symptomatic of the people’s frustration over the establishment, the government, which failed to deliver. This is the lesson Democratic Party has to learn to resurrect itself well before...
Indian Authorities Are Still Deporting Bengali Speaking Muslims To Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Bangladesh is seriously concerned over the lack of official response from Narendra Modi Government regarding the latter’s drive to deport suspected ‘illegal’ Bangladeshi settlers from Indian territory. Authorities representing the interim Bangladeshi government headed by Dr. M. Yunus, Chief Adviser, have already written to India...
Chirag Paswan Stuns Nitish By Throwing Hat In Bihar State Poll Ring
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Bihar is intensifying due to Lok Janshakti Party boss Chirag Paswan’s decision to contest the Bihar election this year, despite already being an MP and a union minister. However, this move does not seem to have gone down well with Janata...
Kanpur CMO Suspension Exposes Confrontation Within Uttar Pradesh BJP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The suspension of Kanpur CMO Hari Dutt Nemi has exposed the large scale corruption and infighting in Uttar Pradesh unit of BJP at the very high level. The open confrontation between the district magistrate of Kanpur Jitendra Bahadur Singh IAS and CMO Hari Dutt Nemi...
NATO Is Now A Global Alliance, Not The Original Bloc Of North Atlantic Nations
By Sevim Dagdelen LONDON: At the NATO summit in The Hague on June 24 and 25, heads of state and government decided on the most significant assault on the European welfare state since World War II. US President Donald Trump gives the orders, and Europe follows like lemmings. NATO...
NATO Summit At Hague Shows Once Again Europe Has Surrendered To Trump
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...
