A powerful Shiite religious decree from Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi has designated US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “enemies of God,” urging Muslims worldwide to unite and confront both...
Full storyIndia’s move on 23 April 2025 to place the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty...
in Happening Now Jun 30 ·India’s defence attache to Indonesia, Captain Shiv Kumar, stated at a Jakarta seminar...
in Happening Now Jun 30 ·AAP’s Political Affairs Committee has imposed a five‑year suspension on Kunwar Vijay Pratap...
in Happening Now Jun 30 ·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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
By K Raveendran When Chief Justice B R Gavai stated the other day that the Constitution is supreme and all arms of governance come under it, it may have seemed like a routine assertion at a felicitation event in his hometown, but in India’s current political atmosphere, it was...
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: Everyone understands the force of power and more so, China. While China has agreed to lift curbs on exports of one of the most sought out mineral currently, rare earths, to US, it is increasingly throttling similar exports to India. Trade, economic issues and geo-politics...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak World celebrated Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) day on June 27, 2025. The celebrations have acquired a special significance this year since the world has a great task to create 600 million jobs needed by 2030 to absorb the growing global workforce. MSMEs employs...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The US Supreme Court has curbed national injunctions on President Trump’s effort to end automatic birthright citizenship. The full bench of the apex court ruled 6-3 in a majority ruling that lower courts did not have the right to grant stays or injunctions...
By A K Shrivastav The time of private currency seems to have arrived. Nearly a dozen tech companies and traditional financial institutions globally have announced their intentions to launch stablecoins. While these companies have their own business ecosystem where their stablecoins can be used, they also target people in...
By Sushil Kutty With Donald Trump at the helm of the United States, wars have become a joke. They finish quickly as lightning. India’s war with Pakistan lasted all of 4 days. The Iran-Israel war was over in 12 days. Gaza is a different take. But in India-Pakistan and...
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: There is no let-up in ministry-making efforts on the part of BJP MLAs, who by themselves have a comfortable majority in the 60-member Manipur Assembly. Senior BJP MLAs, such as, Govindas and Biswajit are holding parleys with their supporters and other stakeholders. Speaker Satyabrata...
By Swarati Sabhapandit Ever since the notion of political community has entered the lexicon of human civilisation, scholars from different walks of time and space have interpreted this phenomenon. The idea of a ‘political community’ can take various forms, depending on how power is structured between the rulers and...