Colombia Reverses Stance, Aligns with India on Anti-Terror Position
Colombia has officially withdrawn its earlier statement expressing condolences to Pakistan over casualties from India’s Operation Sindoor, marking a significant diplomatic shift in favour of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...
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Raut’s BJP-Terrorist Remark Sparks Political Firestorm
A political storm erupted on Friday after Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut alleged...
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Kerala Leads as India’s COVID-19 Cases Climb Past 2,700
India’s active COVID-19 cases have surged to 2,710, with Kerala accounting for the...
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TMC Condemns BJP’s Sindoor Campaign
The Trinamool Congress has strongly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party over reports suggesting...
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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...
Pakistan Army: Unmatched Expertise In Art Of Deception
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,...
Why Indus Water Treaty In Abeyance Is A Serious Existential Threat To Pakistan?
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....
Pakistan’s Military Is Making Use Of War Fever With India To Boost Its Power
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...
The Curious Case Of Malabari Muslims Cheering Modi-Hater Shahid Afridi In Dubai
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...
The Trajectory Of Unique Relationship Between Donald Trump And Elon Musk
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...
Most Of South Asian Economies Facing Problems Due To Political Turmoil
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!...
Narendra Modi’s Bihar Visit Outcome Belies Expectation Of State BJP Leadership
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...
Unemployment Rates In Early 2025 Remain At Historic Low
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...
Narendra Modi Government Has Bolstered Its Relations With Israel At The Cost Of Palestine
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...
Mamata Is Right – PM Is Using Operation Sindoor To Further BJP’s Interests
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...
Can Donald Trump Stick To His Tariff War After Getting Big Jolt From Court?
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...
Varying Indian Voices Against Pakistan Will Have Its Toll
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...
CPI(Maoist) Leaders Alleging That Sick Basavaraju Was Picked Up And Killed In Fake Encounter
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...
China, Canada, Mexico Eagerly Waiting For New York Court Verdict On Trump’s Tariff War
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...
Congress Lok Sabha Mp Imran Masood Lobbies For Alliance With BSP In Up Assembly Polls
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...
The ‘Father-Son’ Rivalry Is A Normal Feature In Many Political Parties In India
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...
Ex-Manipur CM Biren Singh Active Again, Lobbying On For Popular Ministry
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...
