Quad Ministers Demand Justice for Pahalgam Massacre
Foreign ministers from the Quad—Australia, India, Japan and the United States—together issued a statement on 2 July condemning the April 22 massacre in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, where gunmen killed 26 civilians. The declaration, delivered...
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Court Directs Police, MPCB to Respond in Mosque Loudspeaker Dispute
Five mosques in Vikhroli have approached the Bombay High Court, arguing that Mumbai...
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Sparks Fly as Trump Seeks India Deal with Reduced Tariffs
US President Donald Trump has reaffirmed that a bilateral trade agreement with India...
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GST System Undermines Small Businesses, Rahul Gandhi Warns
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, serving as Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha,...
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By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s latest volley in the global economic battleground — a proposal to impose a 500 percent tariff on countries that do business with Russia — marks the continuation of a pattern that has come to define his trade diplomacy: bold, blustering declarations followed by...
QUAD Foreign Ministers Joint Statement Ignores Indian Position On Action Against Pakistan On Terror
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s three QUAD partners USA, Australia and Japan ignored on Tuesday Indian foreign minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s appeal ahead of the four nation QUAD foreign ministers meeting to understand and appreciate that India will exercise its right to defend its people against terrorism. Jaishankar did not...
Special Intensive Revision Is Turning Out To Be A Vote Bandi For Muslims And Dalits
By Arun Srivastava Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll is more treacherous having wider political and economic implication than the National Register of Citizens (NRC) which is a register maintained by the Indian government to record the names of genuine Indian citizens. NRC differentiates between citizens and those...
Centre’s Employment Linked Incentive Scheme Set To Start From August 1, 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the approval of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, though after loss of the entire financial year 2024-25 and three months into the current financial year 2025-26, the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme announced in the Union Budget 2024-25 on July...
World’s Most Powerful President Trump And Richest Person Elon Musk Are In An Ego Battle
By Sushil Kutty It’s “so tempting to escalate” billionaire Elon Musk posted on his ‘X’ after President Donald Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ spoke its mind on peace-deals. And “escalating” is such a beautiful word, almost as much as Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, which is one bill Musk wants Congress to...
Iran Is Not Syria, Nor Like Any Other Country In Middle East
By Manish Rai The question of regime change in Iran has recently resurfaced after the killing of Iran’s top military commanders following the Israeli airstrikes. However, Israel’s short-term goal was to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities to severely diminish its weapons program. But the Israeli Prime Minister mentioned during his...
‘New Middle East’ Under Israel Control Is Netanyahu’s Real Goal In The Region
By Ramzy Baroud NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East.” Yet, his repeated assertions seem to clash with the unfolding reality on the ground. Netanyahu’s opportunistic relationship with language is now proving detrimental to his country. The...
Narendra Modi Has The Big Task Of Refurbishing India’s Image In Global South At BRICS Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a tough task in improving India’s image as defender of the interests of Global South at the coming meeting of the BRICS at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on July 6 and 7 which he will be attending. The 17th BRICS...
Trump’s Order On Birthright Citizenship Is Meant To Make America White Again
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump first wanted to end birthright citizenship with an executive order issued on January 20, 2025, the day he assumed office for his 2nd nonconsecutive term as president. Again on June 20, 2025, he issued an EO for the Department of...
RSS Campaign To Delete Socialist And Secular From Preamble Of Constitution Must Be Defeated
By Krishna Jha Dattatreya Hosabale, the general secretary of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has proposed to remove the words “socialist” and “secular” from the Preamble of the Constitution. All the words in the Preamble constitute the core value of the Constitution. Supreme Court has upheld that the Parliament can amend...
Ayatollah Shirazi Has Spoiled Iran’s Case More Issuing Fatwa Against Trump And Netanyahu
By Sushil Kutty All Iranian clerics are “top” and there are a number of them in Iran, not just Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has been ‘Supreme’ for decades. He succeeded Ayatollah Khomeini, the first who rose to political power, to the position of Supreme Leader. Now, there’s...
Social Disconnection Widespread In Digitally Connected World
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “In this age when the possibilities to connect are endless, more and more people are finding themselves isolated and lonely,” said Director of World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after the release of a new WHO report that found one in six people were...
Israel And Iran Have Set The Stage For The Next West Asian War In Near Future
By Arron Reza Merat NEW YORK: On June 5, a satellite photograph captured around forty aircraft on the tarmac of a US airfield inside the regional headquarters for the US Central Command (CENTCOM), some two hundred miles from Iran. A second photograph taken of the Al Udeid airfield on...
Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara Is The Presidential Nominee Of Chile’s Ruling Coalition For November Polls
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Voters in the presidential primary of the Unity for Chile (Unidadpor Chile) coalition have selected the Communist Party’s Jeannette Jara as their candidate to face off against the right-wing candidates José Antonio Kast and Evelyn Matthei in November’s general election in Chile. Presently Gabriel...
International Booker Prize Winner Banu Mushtaq Transcends Her Regional Roots
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work—and the first short story collection—to win the 2025 International Booker Prize, it marked more than a literary milestone. It represented a long-overdue recognition of India’s regional literatures and, more crucially, brought global attention to...
India Must Step Up Attack Drones Production For Its Defence
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...
New Insights About Operation Sindoor Vindicate India’s Superb Precision Strike Capability
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...
Indian Prime Minister’s Stand On Israeli Genocide In Gaza Is Pathetic
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....
