By Arun Srivastava At the end of Mary Shelley’s iconic novel, the Frankenstein’s monster had finished in the same place where it started. Its creator, the scientist Victor Frankenstein, died wishing that he could destroy the alien he created. What was most unfortunate was that he did not learn...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav After shaking the foundation of traditional finance and making central banks give a war cry, the cryptocurrency world faces one of its most critical moments as it moves forward nonchalantly. With over a trillion dollars in market cap and the bitcoin keeping in the range...
By Girish Linganna At a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing on Monday, June 19, 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stated that the world required a stable US-China relationship and that the two countries should handle ties responsibly, according to state broadcaster China Central...
By K Raveendran Yet another study has brought out the miserable conditions being suffered by workers and employees are in the wake of the current global financial squeeze. Employees are increasingly feeling cash-strapped as a cooling economy and inflationary challenges continue to impact workforce wallets, says the PwC 2023...
By Tony Ademiluyi Lifesite News did a recent report on a leaked video that showed the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak mocking the idea that gender-confused men are biological women. Pro-LGBTQ Website, Pink News blasted the Indian-originated Prime Minister as dehumanizing the transgender community for his subtle criticism of...
By Kalyani Shankar Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP are reassessing their 2024 Lok Sabha poll strategy to perform a hat trick. As the Opposition parties try to build a united platform against the BJP, it has become necessary for BJP to begin negotiations with its erstwhile allies...
By Nantoo Banerjee It may be to the credit of the Indian National Congress and of Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao, who served as the country’s ninth prime minister from 1991 to 1996, for taking the initiative to pass the Constitution Amendment (73rd and 74th) Acts. The 73rd Amendment empowered...
By Arun Srivastava History repeats. And this time it has repeated itself in Manipur. India’s northeastern state is ablaze, and only four days back the house of Union minister R K Ranjan Singh was burnt to ashes in full view of the security forces and state police. More than...
By Sushil Kutty The politics in the Ramayana is over after a few turns of the pages. Machinations of the ‘second wife’ which conspired to send Lord Rama into exile with wife Sita and brother Lakshmana in tow; thereby setting the stage for the most celebrated kidnap-cum-rescue dramas of...
By Ashis Biswas During the past few weeks, Narendra Modi Government’s decisions and peace-promoting initiatives relating to the Manipur ethnic riots have only rekindled old controversies, instead of helping to defuse the volatile situation. Worse, most communities whether tribal or non tribal, now seem sceptical of the centre’s intentions...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Deaths linked to heatwave conditions or exacerbated by it causing about 100 deaths within a span of few days in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar must be taken as wake-up call for India, for it requires urgently putting in place the heat action plan for health...
By Arun Srivastava In the past too Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had experimented with several types of coalitions, in 2017 aligning with Congress and in 2019 luring the BSP of Mayawati, but none of the coalitions to defeat the BJP worked. Once again he has floated the idea...
By Subrata Majumder Arguments, debates and surprises spun on Russia circumventing the fall out of US led western sanctions and hoping for a bounce back in the economy. About 37 countries have imposed sanctions on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian economy shrank by 2.1...
By K R Sudhaman In a country, where corruption is rampant, one question that is often asked: is the public grievances redress mechanism effective. India may claim to be the largest democracy in the world with widespread freedom to question the authority when they go wrong. In reality, does...
By Nick French He’s a political outsider running on a progressive platform who narrowly won a mayoral election against a well-connected, business-friendly, Republican-backed Democrat. His opponents are in hysterics. And now that he’s in office, he’ll have to face down a hostile political establishment, which will likely try to...
By Ashis Biswas From Manipur, the continuing ethnic strife far from being controlled, has currently impacted the political situation in neighbouring Assam: State Chief Minister Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma, regardless of his assiduously nurtured image as the region’s political strong man, is suddenly under acute pressure to explain his...
By Harihar Swarup It was clear from the get-go when NCP chief Sharad Pawar decided to resign as the President a month ago. The three-day drama that saw Pawar take back his resignation as a gesture of deference to the party members now seems aimed at a predictable outcome...
By Sushil Kutty Is Prime Minister Narendra Modi being kept in the dark on the Manipur killings? As it is, his countrymen have no idea of whether he reads newspapers. If he had, he would have squared off with at least one press conference in the nine barren years...