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Unease Lies Beneath BJP’s Win Of All 15 Municipal Corporations In Gujarat
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has just won all 15 municipal corporations, 78 of the 84 municipalities, 33 of 34 district panchayats, and 220 of 260 taluka panchayats in Gujarat. No doubt, it is an impressive performance indicating its continued stronghold in the state, both in urban and rural...
Deadlock In U.S.-Iran Peace Talks May Continue As Both Fight For Strategic Advantage
By T N Ashok The war between the United States, Israel and Iran has entered a phase where strategy is no longer defined by battlefield advances but by economic endurance, political psychology and global spillover. What began with the February 28 strikes has evolved into a multi-layered confrontation in...
India’s Affluence Story Needs A Reality Check For Corrective Action
By R. Suryamurthy There is a certain seductive neatness to the story India now tells itself about wealth. It is a story of ascent—of rising incomes, expanding aspirations, and a confident class of consumers who no longer measure success in square feet or car segments, but in experiences, access...
Contours Of May Day Have Changed With New Challenges To Labour
By Nilotpal Basu May Day, the International Workers’ Day, is celebrated on May 1, to commemorate the working class movement’s struggle for an eight-hour workday, immortalised by the conflicts from the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago. It was established by an international federation in 1889, now recognised globally to...
Tribal Polls Setback Signals Trouble For The Ruling BJP In Tripura
By Sagarneel Sinha AGARTALA: Despite being the ruling party of the northeastern state of Tripura, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has once again failed to come to power in the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) with TIPRA Motha sweeping the elections, which were held recently. In the...
May Day 2026 Calls For New Challenges To Indian Working Class
By Krishna Jha As the new labour codes of the government threaten to take away many of the rights of the working masses, including that of the eight-hour working day, this May Day should act as a reminder of the struggle and strength of the workers across the world....
India-New Zealand FTA: Farmers’ Union Fears Adverse Impact
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: India and New Zealand signed FTA on April 27, 2026, which cheers the governments of both the countries, whereas the Indian farmers union is showing concerns over the pact, why so? Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in a tweet termed the FTA signing ceremony...
Lessons From 1936: Why France’s Popular Front Still Matters Today?
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Ninety years ago, fresh from their May Day marches, the people of France went to the polls and made history. The election of May 3, 1936—the decisive second round of legislative voting—delivered a sweeping victory to the Front Populaire, the Popular Front coalition of...
UAE Break From OPEC Reshapes Gulf Oil Politics
By K Raveendran Abu Dhabi’s decision to walk away from OPEC marks more than a dispute over barrels. It signals a recalibration of Gulf power, energy strategy and security alignments at a moment when the Iran war has exposed the limits of regional consensus. For decades, the UAE operated...
Despite Clashes, West Bengal Witnessed Record Voting Also In Phase-II
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Phase-II election in West Bengal began with small clashes, on April 29 and voters were seen tense across the 142 Legislative Assembly Constituencies under polling, yet the state witnessed heavy turnout of electors since early hours of voting that reached 61.11 per cent by 1...
Fresh Incidents Of Violence Pose A Challenge To New Manipur Ministry
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The current month has seen several incidents of ethnic violence in Manipur, after a few weeks’ respite in between, which gave rise to optimism that termination of President’s rule and restoration of a popular ministry in early February will augur well for the strife-torn...
May Day 2026 Will Be ‘Milestone Of Struggle’, Declares WFTU
By Cameron Harrison NEW YORK: As the world prepares to mark the 140th anniversary of the 1886 Chicago Haymarket Affair, including massive demonstrations and actions planned in the U.S. under the “Workers Over Billionaires” banner, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is calling on the international working class...
Technology Convergence Is Redefining Competitive Advantage Globally
By Indrani Chakraborty The next wave of competitive advantage will come not from individual breakthrough technologies but from the ability to combine and scale multiple technologies across entire operating systems, according to a World Economic Forum report released to on April 28. As artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced materials, spatial...
India’s Migrant Workers Are Paying The Price For Trump’s Iran War
By Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya The US onslaught on Iran, and the resultant closure of the Strait of Hormuz, are having a massive global impact, and the consequences for Indian migrant workers are just one example. In recent weeks, with prices soaring, businesses closing, and fuel reserves rapidly running out, many...
India’s March Factory Output At Series Peak Despite West Asia War
NEW DELHI: In a puzzling development amid concerns about the impact of the war in West Asia, India’s outgoing factory output metric, the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), hit a series high in March, even as year-on-year output growth eased to a five-month low of 4.1 per cent, down...
Google Kicks Off $15 Billion Project In ‘AI-Patnam’: Work Begins On 1 GW Centre
VISAKHAPATNAM: Around 30 kilometres from Visakhapatnam, the village of Tarluvada sits quietly amid the green stretches of the Eastern Ghats, flanked by paddy fields and mango orchards. On Tuesday, this agrarian landscape became the site of one of India’s most ambitious technology infrastructure announcements, as Google initiated work on...
UAE To Walk Out Of OPEC, OPEC+; India May Gain From Supply Shifts
NEW DELHI/DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday announced that it will exit both the 12-member Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and the broader 22-member Opec+ alliance, which includes Russia, marking one of the most significant fractures in the oil producers’ bloc in recent years. The decision...
Platform Economy Driving Restaurant Marketplace
NEW DELHI: For the better part of India’s food service history, a restaurant’s address was its destiny. Success was less a matter of culinary merit than a hostage of real estate. If you lacked the high-street frontage or the corner-plot visibility, you simply didn’t exist in the wider market....
