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Mosque Demolition At Sambhal In Uttar Pradesh Is A Continuation Of RSS Game Plan
By Krishna Jha The right reaction had started raising its head in our country around the time when Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh came alive a century back with Hindutva as its signature. Using Hinduism for achieving its political objective remained the core of the RSS. So was its double-speak. In...
Chinese Model Of Crash Development Disturbing The Climate In Himalayas In Tibet
By Anjan Roy The Chinese authorities are behaving in an extremely insensitive manner and destroying the Himalayan ecology while at the same time putting people at the risk of a frozen death. A Chinese government mouthpiece had proudly announced that last year more than half a million people from...
Union Government Has Let The State Down: Kerala High Court
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala High Court has administered a stinging rebuff to the Union Government for its callous attitude to the victims of the Wayanad landslide disaster. In an unusually strong-worded judgment, the court has condemned the Union Government’s reluctance to waive loans taken by the people...
India’s Steel Production Capacity May Go Up To 790 Million Tonnes By 2070
By Kunal Bose To the common man not aware of challenges of technology and issues of funding, the progress in production and procurement of low emission steel worldwide will appear to be excruciatingly slow. The global demand for low emission steel now at a measly 4 to 8 million...
Narendra Modi’s Eulogy To RSS For Sacrifice In India’s Freedom Movement, Is Not True
By Dr. Ram Puniyani On the occasion of 100th year of foundation of RSS, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the ex-Pracharak of RSS, paid eulogies to the RSS. He said that RSS has sacrificed tremendously for the freedom of the country and in places like Chimur RSS organized a protest...
India’s Opposition To Trump Bid To Take Over Bagram Airbase Has Special Significance
By Nitya Chakraborty Just forty eight hours within the external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s candid statement that Trump has to respect red lines drawn by India at trade talks, Indian officials joining China, Russia, Taliban government of Afghanistan and even Pakistan denouncing President Trump’s bid to take over...
CJI’s Pardon For Insolent Lawyer Dilutes Gravity Of Offence To The Institution
By K Raveendran Chief Justice B. R. Gavai’s dignified composure in the face of open provocation inside the courtroom this week drew admiration from many, but it also reignited a deeper conversation about the sanctity of judicial institutions and the limits of personal magnanimity when institutional authority is under...
Continuing U.S. Govt Shutdown Starts Affecting Air Flights, Education
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The federal government entered its eighth of shutdown on Wednesday October 8, with no end in sight as Democrats and Republicans remain locked in a bitter standoff over health care subsidies and government funding. What began as a familiar partisan dispute has evolved...
Herbert Matthews Of NYT Was The First To Tell The World About Castro And Cuban Revolution
By Simon Hall NEW YORK: Whether covering international conflict in Ukraine or Gaza or reporting from the front lines of the culture wars, journalists are, we are frequently told, unreliable, biased, and motivated by partisan political agendas. It is a charge that has echoed for as long as journalists...
Two Years After Hamas-Israeli War, Can Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan Succeed?
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: As Israel marks the second anniversary of the October 7 2023 starting of Israel-Hamas war , the cruel arithmetic of war has produced a sobering equation: 1,200 Israeli lives lost in Hamas’s brutal assault have been answered with over 67,000 Palestinian deaths, most...
Pakistan Is The Dearest To Trump In Asia As Islamabad Exports Rare Earth Minerals
By Sushil Kutty Rare minerals included lots of ores, this was something we were taught in school and we learned about stone age, copper age and iron age, the last of which remains to this day the most basic of minerals, out of which was born steel and the...
Dr. Meghnad Saha – The Outstanding Scientist Who Fought For A Technology Driven Inclusive India
By Nitya Chakraborty Dr. Meghnad Saha who was born on October 6, 1993 and died prematurely in 1956 of heart attack while going to the Planning Commission office to immerse himself in the building of a new India, was not only a great astrophysicist, but was also a consistent...
Mahagathbandhan Rushes To Finalise Sharing Of Seats This Week Itself
By Arun Srivastava Apprehension that Narendra Modi would not provide a level playing ground to INDIA bloc in Bihar for winning the assembly elections has come true. Two latest developments that took place during last forty eight hours are testimony to the plan that Modi and his advisers have...
BSP Supremo Mayawati Aiming To Rejuvenate Party Through Lucknow Rally On October 9
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national President and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is looking forward to her party’s rejuvenation through mega rally on October 9 at state capital on the occasion of death anniversary of founder of the party and dalit thinker Kanshiram. Mayawati has set the...
The Bihar Gig Workers Law, 2025 Is A Bold Step Forward
By Saurabh Bhattacharjee, Madhulika T In late July, the Bihar Legislative Assembly passed the Bihar Platform Based Gig Workers (Registration, Social Security and Welfare) Act, 2025 (‘Bihar Act’) with little fanfare. The Bihar government is now the third state in the country, after Rajasthan and Karnataka, to officially notify...
EAM Jaishankar Is Right: Trump Has To Respect India’s Red Lines
By Nitya Chakraborty Indian foreign policy makers have at last showing some mature understanding of the geopolitics of the post-Trump.2 months if the external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s observations at the concluding session of Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Sunday, are any indication. The minister was...
RSS To Focus More On Youth Issues And Indian Culture To Attract Gen-Z To Its Fold
By Arun Srivastava Centenary celebration of RSS has many critical dimensions. While it witnessed a saffron effort to legalise and decriminalise and project the Hindu militant organisation RSS as an organisation truly committed to cultural revival, it also echoed the psychological and philosophical upheaval that Gen-Z triggered in Nepal,...
A Routine U.S. Budget Shutdown Has Turned Into A Major Political Battle
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The fifth day of the 2025 government shutdown dawned over a Washington gridlock in politics, drained of patience, and anxious about the future. What began as a routine budget standoff has now turned into a full-blown ideological battle between President Donald Trump’s populist...
