By Sushil Kutty Like one newspaper wrote, he’s now a national security ‘threat’. The threat in single quote-unquote, which makes it double the threat, our man Sonam Wangchuk in Ladakh, who has just started his languishing phase in life in Jodhpur, where he has been incarcerated in jail and...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The final electoral roll of Bihar after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was published on September 30, 2025 after over a three months of exercise since it was announced by the Election Commission of India on June 24, but the controversy surrounding the SIR refuses...
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury For decades, the Muslim Brotherhood has loomed large in the Western imagination, often described as the ideological mothership of global Islamism. To many policymakers in Washington, London, or Brussels, the name alone has become shorthand for a wide spectrum of Islamist activity. Yet, this...
By Cruz Bonlarron Martínez NEW YORK: The US Department of State published a tweet on Friday night stating its plans to revoke the visa of Colombian president Gustavo Petro due to his “reckless and incendiary actions” on his visit to New York City during the United Nations General Assembly....
By Anjan Roy Donald Trump’s high fees for H1B visas are a serious headache for India, not just for the sake of its impact on India’s IT sector and services exports to USA. This is a huge worry for the overall security environment and strategic- diplomatic scenario for India....
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump’s 20-point proposal for peace in Gaza has been accepted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Trump’s let it be known to the shady Hamas leadership, whatever is left of it, to agree to the plan or perish. Israel will have “our full...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As against forest cover target of 33 per cent of country’s geographical area needed for maintain ecological balance, increase in India’s forest cover is moving very slowly. Recorded forest area (RFA) during the last decade (2013-2023) has only slightly increased from 23.48 per cent to...
By Kunal Bose Newspaper interview pieces are generally on predictable lines and very little of substance generally emerges from the discourse. This is specially the case when the interviewees hold sensitive offices in business and finance. They are not expected to say things that will offend the powers that...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: With less than 24 hours remaining before a potential government shutdown, the nation’s capital finds itself trapped in a political vise that threatens to squeeze the life out of federal operations and fundamentally reshape the American bureaucracy. The standoff centres on a familiar...
By Corey Robin NEW YORK: Reading this New York Times report on Eric Adams’s dropping out of the race — where Adams is described, with no sense of irony, as “politically moderate” and is quoted as warning against Zohran Mamdani’s desire to “destroy the very system we built together...
NEW DELHI: Despite a favourable base effect, growth in the industrial production moderated to 4 per cent in August from an upwardly revised figure of 4.3 per cent in July, on the back of a slowdown in the manufacturing sector growth, according to the data released by National Statistics...
NEW DELHI: Global rating Moody’s on Monday affirmed India’s long-term local and foreign-currency issuer ratings and the local-currency senior unsecured rating at ‘Baa3’ with a ‘stable’ outlook on the back of robust economic growth and sound external position. The rating agency also affirmed India’s other short-term local-currency rating at...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) is developing an early warning system (EWS) to identify companies at the risk of insolvency, a move that will facilitate preemptive action to avert industrial sickness. The system, which will help detect defaults prior to their occurrence, will be designed in...
MUMBAI: Tata Capital is set to launch India’s largest ever initial public offering (IPO) by a non-banking financial company (NBFC), valuing the Tata group firm at ₹1.38 trillion. This will make the company India’s fifth-most-valued NBFC after Bajaj Finance (₹6.12 trillion), Bajaj Finserv (₹3.2 trillion), Jio Financial Services (₹1.87...
NEW DELHI: Decades of incremental policy reforms by India to attract investments by Big Oil haven’t yielded the intended outcome. National hydrocarbon production has stagnated over recent decades, and import dependence for oil has remained the most obvious macroeconomic vulnerability for the country. Thankfully, this has of late led...
By Nitya Chakraborty In Nepal, following the tumultuous developments on September 8, 9 and 10 as a result of Generation Z uprising, the 2.9 crore nation is crawling back to normalcy . Under the leadership of interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki, the new administration is making sincere efforts to...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The nationalism of the ruling establishment of India has been reduced to jingoism, and touched a new low on Sunday night at Dubai. Under the direction of the Government of India, Indian team refused to take the Asia Cup 2025 trophy from Asia Cup Cricket...
By Kalyani Shankar American President Donald Trump has set his sights on winning the Nobel Prize. His desire to become a Nobel Laureate has been a topic of discussion for nearly a decade, although he has yet to achieve this ambition. His recent speech at the United Nations, where...