Gyanesh Kumar Appointed as CEC Amidst Opposition Dissent
In a decisive move, the selection committee led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has appointed Gyanesh Kumar as the new Chief Election Commissioner of India. This appointment comes despite objections from opposition leader Rahul Gandhi,...
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Maharashtra Initiative for Minority Pilgrimage Site Development
The Maharashtra government has announced a comprehensive development programme aimed at enhancing infrastructure...
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Supreme Court Limits Intervention Pleas in Places of Worship Act Challenge
The Supreme Court of India has expressed concern over the increasing number of...
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Tesla Embarks on Indian Talent Acquisition Following Modi-Musk Dialogue
Tesla Inc., the American electric vehicle giant, has initiated a recruitment drive in...
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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.Europe’s Moment Of Truth As U.S. President Donald Trump Distances From NATO
By Nitya Chakraborty Eighty years after the end of the Second World War in 1945, Europe, especially Western Europe is in disarray, as their transatlantic ally for eight decades, the United States, is refusing to guarantee the security of the European nations belonging to the NATO under the new...
India Needs Answer To Reliability Of Narendra Modi Government’s Data
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The data that PM Narendra Modi government has been churning out since 2014 have always been a suspect. Now, by no less a person than PM Narendra Modi’s own Economic Advisor has indicated that many of the data earlier produced even under the Modi regime...
Mohan Bhagwat Extremely Unhappy At BJP’s Present Organisational State In Bengal
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat returned to Nagpur a disappointed patriarch. His ten day mission to Bengal to find a “credible and charismatic face” who could throw Mamata Banerjee out of power and install a saffron government after 2026 state assembly polls, could not be accomplished. Known...
Narendra Modi’s Special Gesture To Amir Of Qatar Has Political Significance
By Sushil Kutty In a special gesture Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to the Indira Gandhi International Airport on Monday and received the Amir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani. And in another special gesture, because the Amir is extraordinarily tall, security personnel assigned...
Trump’s Unilateral Peace Plan For Ukraine Signals The Coming Of A Dictatorial Foreign Policy
By Asad Mirza The way the US President Donald Trump literally got enforced his one-man plan for the Gaza Ceasefire and the manner in which he is now trying to organise Peace Talks to get the Russia-Ukraine war ended, are pointers to the future of the American foreign policy....
Reactions To Influencer Ranveer Allahabadia’s Programme Are Bizarre
By Swarati Sabhapandit SOCIAL media influencer Ranveer Allahabadia’s question to a contestant on the online show ‘India’s Got Latent’ has attracted not only public outrage, but systematic response from various State authorities. By mid-February, the Maharashtra Cyber Department had filed a First Information Report (‘FIR’) against Allahabadia, comedian Samay...
British Prime Minister Is Staking Lives At Risk By Committing Troops To Ukraine
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The geopolitics of Europe are moving. The least we should demand of our elected representatives in Parliament is a frank discussion of that. We have been denied one. When Russia launched its illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Labour MPs who signed a Stop...
Government Stake Dilution In PSE Should Aim At Their Faster Growth
By Nantoo Banerjee The government disinvestment in India’s state-controlled enterprises is always welcome if it is aimed to make them professionally managed entities for faster growth. Unfortunately, the haphazard disinvestments in public sector enterprises (PSE) by the government seem to have only a single purpose — financing part of...
Student Body To Float New Political Party In Bangladesh By Month End
By Satyaki Chakraborty The anti-discrimination students body which pioneered the massive upsurge in Bangladesh last year leading to the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 and abdication of the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India, is set to float their new political party with specific...
Trump’s Unilateral Tariff Hike Is A Challenge To International Trade Order
By Kunal Bose The world, much to its disappointment, is seeing the United States of America, which is the world largest economy and mightiest military power, rapidly embracing raw, unrestrained capitalism under the newly inaugurated second-term Presidency of Donald John Trump abandoning all traces of egalitarianism. Induction of Tesla...
Andhra Pradesh CM N Chandrababu Naidu’s Two-Child Minimum Policy Is Puzzling
By Shanil Yakoob Almost a month to this day, on January 16, 2025, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu made a startling proposal. Individuals with fewer than two children, he suggested, should be disqualified from contesting local body elections. This announcement came just two months after his government...
Madhya Pradesh Government Holding Global Summit For Investing In The State
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Bhopal is decorating itself to accord warn welcome to over 100 big industrial magnets who will be in the capital city to attend Madhya Pradesh government sponsored Industrial Summit. The Summit will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 24. Nearly...
Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark The End Of The Post Second World War Order
By A. Dirk Moses NEW YORK: US president Donald Trump’s proposal to annex the Gaza Strip and transfer its two million Palestinian inhabitants to Egypt and Jordan has provoked a predictable outcry. Virtually all Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, oppose the idea. Human rights organizations and international lawyers...
Why Did The Prime Minister Lose His Cool When Asked A Question About Adani?
By Sushil Kutty The only time Prime Minister Narendra Modi lost his equilibrium at the joint press conference with President Donald Trump was when a journalist asked Modi if “Adani” had come up for discussion in the talks with President Trump. Visibly disturbed, Prime Minister told the journalist tersely...
Will Interim Govt In Bangladesh Soften Its Stance On India Following Trump-Modi Talks?
By Nitya Chakraborty The outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the U.S. President Donald Trump in White House on February 13 may have its impact on the interim government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Mohammad Yunus, who is in power since August 8, 2024 in the wake...
Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Has Modi’s India A Distant Second By Far
By K Raveendran The Indo-US joint declaration presents a striking imbalance, appearing more as a dictated statement than a mutually crafted agreement. The document is overwhelmingly skewed in favour of the United States, particularly in the domain of defence procurement, where it reads less like a diplomatic understanding and...
ILO Expert Committee Asks India To Amend Definition Of Wage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In pursuance of Equality of opportunity and treatment, an ILO Committee of Experts has asked India again to amend the definition of wage, ensure job evaluation, equal remuneration for the same job to male and female workers, and end discrimination on religious or caste basis...
Prince Karim Aga Khan Was A Beacon Of Hope For The World’s Poor
By Matein Khalid V.S. Naipaul once said that ancestral memories are like “trap doors to a bottomless past”. This was my first thought when I heard about the death of HH Prince Karim Aga Khan, the 49th Imam Zaman of Islam’s Ismaili sect and unquestionably the world leader who...
