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Sabarimala Gold Theft Case Takes A Decisive Turn In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The Sabarimala gold panels theft case, which has triggered a political storm, has taken a crucial turn with the arrest of two persons. They are the prime accused, Unnikrishna Potti and Murari babu, a Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB)official. More arrests are likely as...
Hearing On Challenges To The 2023 Election Commission Act Is Crucial
By Akhil Yadav & Aditya Pratap Singh THE SUPREME COURT IS SET TO ADJUDICATE, on November 11, the petitions challenging the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners Act, 2023, the law that has kept the Chief Justice of India (‘CJI’) out of the committee that appoints Election Commissioners. These writs...
Latest Trump Sanction On Russian Oil Companies Gives Escape Route To India
By K Raveendran The market seems to have already done its arithmetic on the new US sanctions on two major Russian oil companies, Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil, gauging the immediate and medium-term consequences for energy supply lines stretching from Moscow to Mumbai. In a matter of hours,...
Exercise Begins For Pan-India SIR With Focus On Election-Bound States
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday October 24 informed the Madras High Court that it would commence “in a week or so” a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu as part of the nationwide exercise....
Historic Reconciliation At Last Between Rome And Canterbury
By TN Ashok The sight of a British sovereign kneeling beside a pontiff marks the end of one of Christianity’s longest estrangements Beneath the celestial frescoes of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, where God’s finger reaches toward Adam across five centuries of plaster and paint, King Charles III and Pope...
Assam Nagarik Sanmilan Warns Zubeen’s Demise Can’t Remain A Mystery
Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: In Assam too, like in Manipur, citizens’ outfits, which are more popular under the generic description of civil society organizations, are increasing playing an important role in creating public awareness and demanding justice from the authorities on issues over which...
Bihar BJP Fields Popular Singer Maithili Thakur In Huge Campaign
By Tirthankar Mitra Never losing an opportunity of describing itself as “a party with a difference”, BJP leadership in Bihar has travelled the same path as the political outfits it seeks to distance itself from after it fielded Maithili Thakur at Alinagar Assembly seat. Thus, it...
Political Delicacies
Rahil Nora Chopra BIHAR POLLS: TEJASHWI’S CM NOMINATION QUELLS INDIA BLOC RUMBLES The ongoing confusion in the Mahagathbandhan alliance appear to have settled down after Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav was declared as the chief ministerial face of the India Bloc alliance in Bihar on...
Trump Tirade Against Colombia’s Petro Meant To Scare All Left Regimes
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Donald Trump upends Marx’s famous observation on history repeating itself. If his first term was farce, his second looks more like tragedy. Trump’s second administration is more serious than his first in its assault on democratic rights in the United States, as well as...
75 Years On, India’s Silence On Preventive Detention Echoes Loudly
By Swarati Sabhapandit In his dissenting opinion in Liversidge vs. Anderson (1942), Lord Atkin valiantly said, “In England, amidst clash of arms, the laws are not silent. They may be changed but they speak the same language in war as in peace. It is always been one of the pillars...
Sangh’s Nationalist Line Restrains Modi From Early Deal With Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty The twist and turns in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dealing with the overtures to him from the US President Donald Trump in the last three weeks speak eloquently of the tussle that is going on at the highest level of the BJP leadership and the...
Tejashwi Takes Centre-stage As INDIA Bloc’s CM Face In Bihar Elections
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Political campaigns in all 243 seats have begun in right earnest after the end of the withdrawal of nominations on October 23, 2025 for the 122 constituencies going to poll in the second phase. RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav has entered the centre stage with...
Caste-Driven Assaults On Dalits Getting More Vicious By The Day
By P Sudhir The Ekalavya episode in Mahabharata is widely known. But it is sought to be embedded in the narrative of valour of Pandavas and their shining tales of struggle for justice. Dronacharya’s extreme act of cruelty on Ekalavya’s incessant effort to accomplish mastery over martial prowess...
Gorkhaland Issue Back On Table With New Interlocutor On Board
Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: As 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal are inching closer, the divisive Gorkhaland issue has been stoked by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. It has appointed former deputy National Security Adviser (NSA) Pankaj Kumar Singh as an interlocutor to decide whether the Bengal hills...
Shiromani Akali Dal Looks At More Panthic Support For 2027 Polls
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: After tasting a win to govern the state in 2007 and 2012 assembly elections in Punjab, Badal family led Shiromani Akali Dal, had to face a shameful defeat in the later Assembly and Lok Sabha elections continuously. In 2017 assembly elections, it had...
US Sanctions Embargo-Dodging Russian National Oil Cos: Lukoil, Rosneft
By TN Ashok NEW YORK: On Wednesday October 22, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft PJSC and Lukoil PJSC, and a range of their subsidiaries. The move is explicitly linked to the war in Ukraine: the Treasury states...
Karnataka HC Not Staying SIC Order Unsettles Constitutional Guarantee
By Syed Raiyyan On October 15, Karnataka High Court refused to stay an order of the Karnataka State Information Commissioner (‘SIC’) blacklisting a person from making further requests for information under the Right to Information (‘RTI’) Act . While doing so, it emphasised that it will not permit the Act...
Lokpal’s BMW Fixation Is Outright Corruption, If Not Vulgar
K Raveendran The very idea of a Lokpal riding in a BMW, reeks of irony so strong that it almost feels like satire. The institution that stands as the sentinel of public probity, the watchdog against corruption, has managed to draw ridicule upon itself by its desire...
