By Indrani Chakraborty Exactly four years ago on July 5, 2021 Fr. Stan Swamy died in judicial custody due to medical negligence in what many objectively term as an ‘institutional killing.’ Recalling his life and legacy dedicated to the Dalit and Adivasi rights movements, fifteen friends, warped themselves in...
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Zarah Sultana’s announcement on co-leading the founding of a new party with Jeremy Corbyn will be welcomed across much of the left. It does not come out of the blue. Work to bring together a socialist election-fighting machine around the former Labour leader has proceeded...
NEW DELHI: India is poised to remain one of the fastest-growing economies globally over the coming years, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday, reaffirming the country’s commitment to inclusive, sustainable and innovation-led development across the Global South. Speaking at the 10th annual meeting of the board of governors...
NEW DELHI: India on Friday proposed imposing retaliatory duties under the WTO (World Trade Organisation) norms against the US over American tariffs on automobile sector in the name of safeguard measures. “The proposed suspension of concessions or other obligations would take the form of an increase in tariffs on...
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper seeking stakeholder views on the use and sale of foreign telecom service providers’ SIMs and eSIMs in India, specifically for integration into machine-to-machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are meant for export....
NEW DELHI: A broad trade deal between India and the US could give a big boost to India’s exports and manufacturing capacity, helping the country’s economy grow steadily in the long run, according to a new Bloomberg Economics report. The US, currently India’s largest export destination accounting for 19.3%...
NEW DELHI: The banking regulator is examining suggestions to further streamline credit bureau processes and reduce information asymmetry with lenders, a move aimed at addressing data inconsistency and transparency for customers, said people familiar with the development. “A technical working group has been formed by the RBI (Reserve Bank...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One decade has passed of the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), yet India is off the track in several of them which require intensified and focused interventions to achieve the targets by 2030. While notable progress has been made in several sectors, significant...
By Sushil Kutty July 4, big day for the United States, and President Donald Trump’s “signature piece of legislation”, his ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is on his desk in the ‘Oval’ for his sprawling signature. ‘BBB’ was passed on Thursday and includes trillions of dollars in tax and spending cuts....
By Prabhat Patnaik The Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy which broadly underlay the entire dirigiste period is now being intensely vilified, not just by the Modi crowd, but even by neoliberal elements within the Congress and outside. As neoliberalism gets deeper into crisis and as disillusionment with it becomes more pervasive, its...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: NDA partner Apna Dal (S) headed by Union Minister Anupriya Patel and her husband Asheesh Patel is heading for a split two years before assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh scheduled in 2027.On the occasion of birth anniversary of the founder of Apna Dal Dr Sonelal...
By Rahil Nora Chopra With organisational elections which have been completed in over a dozen states, there is a assured possibility that the BJP will announce the name of a consensus candidate as its next national president after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns from his foreign tour. As per...
By Dr. Ram Puniyani This June (2025), the country did observe the 50th year of the Emergency which was imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Lots have been written about this period when many democratic liberties stood suspended, thousands were jailed and the media was muzzled. This period is...
By Kurt Hackbarth MEXICO CITY: On Sunday, March 9, over 350,000 people crammed into Mexico City’s central square, the Zócalo, in repudiation of US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just days before, President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the reaching of an agreement which, under the cover of the United States–Mexico–Canada...
By Keith Barlow LONDON: July 2 marked the centenary of the birth of the Congolese independence leader, Patrice Emery Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and icon of the anti-colonial struggle in Africa. Alongside independence leaders like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana,...
By P. Sudhir The heart and soul of parliamentary democracy lie in the essential process of holding free and fair elections – a process that ensures a level playing field for all political parties. Owing to this feature, parliamentary democracy is often regarded as electoral democracy. It is not...
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: The supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, has declared that he intends to reincarnate after his death and his council— the Gaden Phodrang Trust— is the only body on earth which can nominate the next Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama’s announcement from Dharamshala...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India (ECI) has turned totally undemocratic. Its order of June 24, 2025 for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Electoral Roll of Bihar is autocratic. It does not give enough time to the citizens to get themselves enrolled, but it has been...