Colombia has officially withdrawn its earlier statement expressing condolences to Pakistan over casualties from India’s Operation Sindoor, marking a significant diplomatic shift in favour of India’s stance on terrorism. This development follows a diplomatic intervention...
Full storyA political storm erupted on Friday after Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut alleged...
in Happening Now May 31 ·India’s active COVID-19 cases have surged to 2,710, with Kerala accounting for the...
in Happening Now May 31 ·The Trinamool Congress has strongly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party over reports suggesting...
in Happening Now May 31 ·By K Raveendran Brent crude oil futures continue to hover around the $65 per barrel mark, a level that reflects the push and pull of market forces clouded by a cocktail of geopolitical tensions, environmental disruptions, and strategic production decisions. As prices hold steady, the broader sentiment among traders...
By Manish Rai The Pakistani Army is fighting tooth and nail to push its false narrative that it emerged victorious in the recent military confrontation with India. Arch-rival India became the first country to strike 11 airbases of a nuclear-armed nation in a single operation. But despite this fact,...
By Sant Kumar Sharma On April 23, 2025, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), which was presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, decided to keep the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance. It bears mention here that the word abeyance is not used anywhere in the Treaty text....
By Hamza Shehryar LONDON: Two weeks ago, Pakistan and India were on the brink of all-out war. On May 7, India’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government launched air strikes across the Line of Control (LoC), targeting sites in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and as far inland as Bahawalpur, Punjab. Branded...
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Salman Khurshid has asked Pakistan to end terrorism. CPM’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas also voiced the same thought. Khurshid is Muslim and Brittas is Christian. Brittas stressed the point that he’s a Kerala Christian and that there are Christians and Hindus along with...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Elon Musk, the $250 million funder of Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2024 that brought the Republican maverick back into the White House for a 2nd non-consecutive term, bid adieu to the White House, leaving as a bruised administrator who could not achieve...
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In South Asia generally, the level of politics-related mass violence has been rising in recent times, causing concern among ruling parties/establishments in most countries. The lives of millions have been impacted negatively by such violence whether in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar — or India!...
By Arun Srivastava It was a failed mission. Before embarking on his three-day mission to Bihar and Bengal beginning May 28, Narendra Modi had nursed the view that his mission Operation Sindoor, under which he had envisaged to offer Sindoor to every household, would arouse the nationalist passion of...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global Labour market outlook for 2025 is increasingly fragile. One the one hand, slower economic growth is expected to reduce global employment growth rate, and on the other unemployment rates in the countries with early 2025 data remain at historic low. Job vacancies are slightly...
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: National governments do not have feelings. They have only interests. It’s by following these interests that we can begin to understand why the world is as it is. One of the major interests is in securing the necessary resources — mineral or otherwise — to...
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was right when she said on Thursday replying to the Prime Minister’s vicious attacks against her and her government that Narendra Modi was making use of the Operation Sindoor to achieve cheap political gains for the...
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Days of pressure from fellow Republicans, business executives, and even close friends had not moved Donald Trump. On April 2, 2025—his self-styled “Liberation Day”—the former President insisted: “MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.” Yet just over a week later, on April 10, Trump backtracked, announcing a...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of voices being made by several people in the helm of affairs simultaneously are creating Babel, a confusing noise, especially in respect of Pakistan. While Multi-party Joint Parliamentary delegations currently visiting various countries are at pain while explaining India’s position using a language of...
By Arun Srivastava Home Minister Amit Shah is in a ravishing mood for his achievement of killing CPI(Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju along with some 30 odd Maoist cadres and leaders in the Narayanpur massacre on May 21. His claim that “it is a landmark achievement...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The war of attrition has begun on Trumps unilateral global tariffs on some 160 countries primarily China, Canada and Mexico as a three-judge bench of New York court blocked on Wednesday the measure saying the US President has no unilateral powers to impose...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Uttar Pradesh is gearing up as Imran Masood, the Congress MP from Saharanpur, has led a stir in political circles in Uttar Pradesh by stating that an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would benefit the Congress more than its...
By Sushil Kutty First Lalu Prasad Yadav and his eldest son Tej Pratap Yadav, also known as ‘Teju Bhaiya’, whose wayward ways irritated Lalu so much that he disowned the son and also threw him out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for six years, which is the average time...
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Ethnic strife-scarred Manipur’s immediate past chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh, who has been lying low since his resignation from the post on February 9 is active again. On May 28 Biren met Governor Ajay Bhalla and submitted to him a 12 page-letter citing how...