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Prime Minister’s Manipur Visit Failed To Produce Any Concrete Result
By Dr. Arun Mitra Two years ago, we had travelled as a medical team to Manipur to assess the health status of the people. We visited Imphal, where the Meitei population is predominant, and Kangpokpi, largely inhabited by Kukis. What we saw was heartbreaking. Families displaced from their homes...
RSS Has Launched Massive Saffronisation Programme In Northeastern States
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Manipur on September 13 would always be remembered by the strife ravaged Manipur citizens as a political trip for party purposes.. A reluctant visitor, Modi has nothing to offer to the people of the state. His three-hour visit was more...
Sikh Truck Drivers Struggle With Fear And Stigma After Florida Crash
By T N Ashok NEW YORK / STOCKTON / CALIFORNIA: On a Sunday afternoon in Stockton, the prayer hall of a Sikh gurudwara hums not only with hymns but with the quiet murmur of truck drivers practicing English phrases. Men in turbans lean over sheets of paper filled with...
Kashmiri Apple Growers Are Struggling In Selling Their Fruits To Other States
By Sushil Kutty There’s a lot of talk about how Union Home Minister Amit Shah shook off Article 370 and Kashmir turned back towards becoming paradise on earth again. Wonderful, but it was a political game of one-upmanship and the Bharatiya Janata Party took on the mantle of being...
Queen Of Mystery Thrillers Agatha Christie Remains Timeless As She Steps Into Her 135th Year
By Tirthankar Mitra Agatha Christie, the timeless crime and detective storyteller turns 135 on September 15 Be it novels or short stories, the plots of the “Queen of Crime” outsmarted us all time and again.. A proud Britisher, she was born in 1890 and died in 1976 at the...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Neighbourhood First Slogan Has Failed In Last Five Years
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of Neighbourhood First programme since he took over power in 2014. In these eleven years of his rule, India has got isolated from most of the countries who are its neighbours and belong to the South Asian Association of...
New Delhi Has Both Opportunity And Vulnerability In Nepal Developments
By K Raveendran The commotion in Nepal has brought into sharp focus a generational shift in the country’s politics, one that has made the term Gen Z part of the mainstream political vocabulary rather than just a casual reference to youth culture in India and elsewhere in the subcontinent....
Centre Is Implementing Labour Codes Through Backdoor
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi has officially put on hold the implementation of the four controversial labour codes due to stiff resistance from the joint platform of the 10 Central Trade Unions, many provisions of the codes are being implemented across...
Narendra Modi’s Long Awaited Visit To Beleaguered Manipur May Not Lead To Truce
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in No-Modi land’, not that it’s anybody’s fault. It’s Modi who shunned Manipur like a fault, avoided the state like it would soil his shoes. Year 2023 is way back and the events of 2023 split the state wide open. The...
Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Has Opened Up Debate On Wider Issues Of American Values
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University has become far more than a criminal investigation—it is a prism refracting the fault lines of contemporary geopolitics. The 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, gunned down mid-speech by a bolt-action rifle, has posthumously...
The British Left Must Defeat The Far Right, Because Labour Certainly Won’t
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Big questions about Britain’s future hang over the working-class movement. They motivate thousands who will march against racism and fascism in London on Saturday, determined to show that far-right thug “Tommy Robinson” does not speak for the majority with his own anti-immigrant rally. They will...
The $4,700 Tax: How Trump Tariffs Are Crushing American Family Budgets
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Sarah Chen stares at her grocery receipt in disbelief. What used to cost her family of four $180 for a weekly shopping trip now rings up at $267. The Phoenix mother’s monthly grocery budget has ballooned by nearly $350 since the beginning of...
Retail Inflation Rises To 2.07% In August As Decline In Food Prices Slows
NEW DELHI: India’s retail-inflation rate, based on the consumer price index (CPI), recorded a slight uptick in August to 2.07 per cent from an eight-year low of 1.61 per cent in July owing to a low base effect and reduced deflation in food prices. The inflation data, released by...
India, EU Maximising Efforts To Finalise FTA Talks By Year End
NEW DELHI: India and the EU are now maximising their efforts to finalise negotiations for a proposed free trade agreement by the end of this year, with both sides stressing their commitment to a comprehensive and balanced pact to benefit businesses and consumers. The official team of India and...
Government Aims To Push 2 PSBs Among Top 20 Global Banks
NEW DELHI: In sync with the target of getting the ‘Developed Nation’ status by 2047, the government aims to ensure that at least two public sector banks figure in the list of World’s top 20 banks. As on date, State Bank of India is the only Indian bank in...
SEBI Eases IPO Dilution Rules, Extends MPS Timeline To Help Big Listings
MUMBAI: To encourage the listing of large companies, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Friday approved lowering the minimum dilution requirement for initial public offerings (IPOs) and extended timelines for achieving the minimum public shareholding (MPS). The regulator also approved changes to the anchor investor framework,...
Oil Imports From Russia Remain Resilient
NEW DELHI: India’s imports of Russian oil have remained resilient in September, with volumes in the first twelve days already surpassing the total imports recorded in August, as per an analysis of data provided by Kpler. The country imported 1.87 million barrels per day of Russian oil as of...
Time For Broader Left Unity In India To Combat Authoritarianism And Communalism
By D. Raja The coming to power of the BJP with an absolute majority in the 2014 general elections was not merely a routine transfer of power from one democratically elected government to another. It marked a qualitative shift in the very nature of our polity. The BJP is...
