By Arun Kumar Shrivastav During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States, there’s hope for significant developments in defence, business, and technology cooperation between the two countries. The visit will be marked by discussions on sealing a big-armed drone deal, high-level meetings with CEOs of top American...
By James M Dorsey Saudi Arabia has turned LGBTQ rights into a litmus test for the limits of social reforms by sending mixed messages. In line with broad-based official and popular rejection of gender diversity and fluidity in the kingdom and across the Muslim World, the Saudi General Commission...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Emergence of cracks in ruling BJP-JJP alliance in Haryana, just 10 months ahead of Lok Sabha elections and 16 months ahead of Vidhan Sabha election in 2024, foretells an omen for PM Narendra Modi, the BJP that he leads, and his RSS Pracharak friend CM...
By Sushil Kutty After Telugu Desam Party Chief Chandrababu Naidu met Bharatiya Janata Party top-brass in Delhi a little over a week ago, there’s movement. The BJP appears to have thrown its weight behind the TDP and the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) helmed by Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy...
By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to return to India on June 18.Soon after his arrival, crucial decisions will be taken to kick-start a major overhaul in the party’s organisational structure. According to sources, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has already framed the groundwork and the...
By Anjan Roy China could just as well be contesting with the United States as the new super power, however internally it is facing serious problems with its younger generations turning away from traditional social norms. China has just witnessed fewest marriages in decades. The Chinese state has an...
By Prabhat Patnaik After Sri Lanka and Pakistan, Bangladesh has become the third country in our neighbourhood to become afflicted by a serious economic crisis. It has asked for a $4.5 billion loan from the IMF, apart from $1billion from the World Bank and $2.5-3billion from multilateral agencies and...
By Arun Srivastava In his decades long association with Narendra Modi, and especially as the second in command, during Modi’s nine year rule as the prime minister, Amit Shah has never faced any kind of spanner from the original BJP workers. They listened to him with awe and carried...
By Dr Arun Mitra The recent report on the state of annual assessment of the state of armaments, disarmament and international security released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on 12th June 2023 is startling. The report highlights that the ‘number of operational nuclear weapons has increased...
By Carlos Martinez Last Wednesday marked the second annual UK-US Friendship Day. Although this momentous occasion was met with near-universal indifference on both sides of the Atlantic, Rishi Sunak took the opportunity to celebrate by making his first official visit to the US as Prime Minister. The discussions didn’t...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With issuance of notification by the Central Law Commission of India on June 14, 2023 soliciting views from the public and recognized religious organisations on Uniform Civil Code, the divisive politics of BJP-RSS clan has risen its head again, as usual, ahead of Lok Sabha...
By Sushil Kutty One thing is getting certain and certain as we get closer and closer to the general elections 2024. That is, the BJP will go to any extent to win elections. Who can forget the 2019 elections on the heels of the Balakote airstrikes; which had at...
By Prakash Karat The BJP-led union government announced the minimum support prices (MSP) for the Kharif Season 2023-24 on June 7, 2023 claiming that “the move is to ensure remunerative prices to growers for their produce and to encourage crop diversification”. The MSP announced is neither fair nor remunerative;...
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting USA on a four day state visit beginning on June 21. He will discuss pending defence deals with the US President Joe Biden and the other senior policy makers during his visit including the summit with the US President on...
By Krishna Jha There had been tall promises made by the RSS-BJP government as early as in 2019 to offer online infrastructure and Internet connectivity through the ‘Digital India’ programme with a vision to transform the country into a digitally-empowered society with a rich knowledge economy. It was to...
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when scams galore including cash for teaching jobs, coal and cattle smuggling is dogging Trinamool Congress, it has been gifted a brownie point in the form of an alliance between Left and Indian Secular Front before the panchayat elections in West Bengal. The...
By Nick Cosburn June 3 won’t be a date that many in the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) will want to remember for very long. For months, the anti-migration hardliner Hans Peter Doskozil had launched attacks on the party’s sitting leader, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, before achieving his aim of...
By Sushil Kutty So a Sena advertisement claims Eknath Shinde is the first choice of the people of Maharashtra for Chief Minister and Devendra Fadnavis is nowhere in the picture. The Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister’s face didn’t show on the advertisements which did not forget Modi’s picture. Is this...