Global Diplomatic Campaign to Spotlight Pak Role in Pahalgam
A coordinated diplomatic initiative is underway as New Delhi dispatches multi-party parliamentary delegations to key global capitals to present evidence of Pakistan’s alleged involvement in the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives. The outreach,...
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BJP Seizes on Chidambaram’s INDIA Bloc Doubts
Senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram’s candid remarks questioning the cohesion of the opposition’s...
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IndiGo Faces Scrutiny Over Turkish Airlines Alliance
India’s largest airline, IndiGo, is under mounting pressure to reconsider its partnership with...
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Apple’s India Expansion Unfazed by Trump’s Manufacturing Rebuke
Apple Inc. remains steadfast in its commitment to expanding manufacturing and retail operations...
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By K Raveendran Donald Trump’s Gulf tour has marked a defining chapter in his post-presidential brand of deal diplomacy, delivering a staggering $2 trillion in agreements that stretch across Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. This campaign stands in sharp contrast to the flagging results of his...
Big Setback For President Trump As Moody’s Downgrades U.S. Economy
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: It’s the turn of the United States government to face a sovereign rating being downgraded by the Moody’s from its top AAA rating – Moody’s keeps downgrading the ratings of many developing countries including India. Moody’s Ratings cut the United States’ sovereign credit...
INDIA Bloc Constituents Have To Be Pro-Active To Meet BJP Challenge Amidst India-Pak Tensions
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has said that neither INDIA bloc, nor Congress has any future. Such a wishful statement of BJP has come out after senior Congress leader P Chidambaram’s opinion that he did not see INDIA bloc is intact, and was uncertain whether it would remain intact....
Arresting Gujarat Samachar Owner For Non Official View In His Daily, Is Ominous
By Sushil Kutty If you can’t shut ‘em up, then shut them up! That’s the current day maxim in Modi-India. ‘Shut ‘em up’ is stifling the voice, spoken and written. ‘Shut them up’ is locking up the offending party behind bars, turning him from free bird to jailbird! The...
Rahul Gandhi Has Got Tremendous Response From Dalits In His Bihar Visit
By Arun Srivastava Amit Shah’s direction to Nitish Kumar not to allow Rahul Gandhi to interact with the Dalit and OBC students at SC hostel in Darbhanga during the Congress leader’s visit to Bihar on Thursday, has proved to be counterproductive. Not only the dalit and OBC students, even...
Former BJP Lok Sabha Member John Barla’s Switch To TMC Is A Big Jolt For Saffrons In North Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: North Bengal has not been a happy hunting ground for All India Trinamool Congress even when it replaced CPI(M)-led Left Front government in 2011 and several years thereafter. The northern part of the state continued to be under BJP hegemony but the TMC inroads post...
Baloch Rebels Expose Pakistan Army Vulnerability
By Manish Rai Fierce attacks by Baloch rebels have shaken the Pakistani Army, while it was predominantly occupied on the Indian front. Balochistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, saw six attacks on Pakistani forces in just one day. Pakistan mobilised its Army units from Balochistan and redeployed on the Eastern border...
From Fire To Fizzle – President Trump Has To Take A U-Turn In His Global Tariff War
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Renowned Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow was once asked if having a trade deficit is bad for any economy. He answered by saying he would always have a trade deficit with his barber and would always run a trade surplus with his students. Such is...
Along With The Fight Against Cross-Border Terror, Govt Must Ensure Communal Harmony
By D. Raja The developments following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam (Jammu & Kashmir), which claimed the lives of 26 civilians including tourists, have brought to fore a number of pressing concerns: national security, civil liberties, democratic accountability, regional peace and imperialist overreach. In the aftermath of the...
New CJI B R Gavai’s Comments On Waqf Act, 2025 Have Alarmed Hindutva Petitioners
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court of India has deferred pleas against Waqf (Amendment) Act till May 20. Chief Justice of India BR Gavai did not waste time arguing. He said the top court will not permit anybody to challenge the 1995 Waqf Act, “Lets argue the petitions challenging...
Centre Has To Take Proper Lessons From Latest Data On Covid 19 Deaths
By Dr Arun Mitra The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in India during the peak of COVID as reported by the Government of India were 3.3 lakh. As per the worldometers website (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) the number of death due to COVID till 12 May 2025 is 533570. According to...
Revamped PLFS Too Does Not Show The Real Picture Of Joblessness In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After years of criticism, PM Narendra Modi led Government has finally released its first ever monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) on May 15, 2025 for the month of April 2025, as per the revamped PLFS. Though it saved the government from the allegation of...
Rahul Tells Bihar Students To Demand Caste Census-Driven Rights
By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of Assembly polls in Bihar, the battle for votes of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) and the minority communities, especially Muslims, has increased manifold, with Congress having stepped up outreach to Dalit and backward class students. Meanwhile,...
Jai Bhim Nagar Demolitions Contravenes The Fundamental Rights Under Indian Constitution
By Shivam Tyagi, Chanchal Agrawal On June 3, 2024, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced the demolition of Jai Bhim Nagar. Subsequently, on June 6, 2024, BMC officials, joined by bulldozers and numerous police personnel, commenced the demolition process, displacing approximately 600 families who had resided in the area...
Summoning Of Special Session Of Parliament Is Imperative To Know Ceasefire Details
By P Sudhir People on both sides of the border were relieved. The four-day-long military engagement between India and Pakistan came to a close on the late afternoon of May 10. Despite this, gunshots were heard late in the night. But later, the DGMOs of both countries confirmed that...
Indian Ministers Are Only Helping Internationalisation Of Kashmir Issue Through Loose Remarks
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Modi’s rightwing Hindu nationalist party, guided by its moral compass, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has limited time to wrest Pakistan Occupied Kashmir from Pakistan, only a billion years! A supercomputer simulation by researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University came to the conclusion that life on...
Does Presidential Reference Contain ‘Substantial Questions Of Law’
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Mahadevan had earlier turned down the request of the Government of India to send the case relating to assent to bills by governors and president to a larger Constitution Bench on the ground that...
Right Parties Leading In Opinion Polls On The Eve Of Portugal Elections On May 18
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal, a very important member of the European Union with a strong economy, is going for national elections next Sunday, May 18 to elect its 230 member Parliament. The 2025 elections will be the third one in the last three years showing the fragility of the...
