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Russia’s Planned N-Arms Deployment In Belarus
By Girish Linganna US President Joe Biden, on Tuesday, March 28, came down heavily on a Russian plan to deploy nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus, terming it “dangerous” talk. Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced last week that Russia planned to deploy in the neighbouring state tactical, small-yield N-arms...
India Losing Its Influence In Sri Lanka Too, After Bhutan And Nepal
By Ashis Biswas During the tenure of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government, India’s diplomatic influence and outreach have noticeably declined within its immediate South Asian neighbourhood. After the wake-up call on the Doklam stand-off from Bhutan, now comes news that temples and ancient cultural/traditional holy sites...
Communal Violence In Bihar And Bengal On Ramnavami Has A Planned Design
By Arun Srivastava It was not a coincidence instead a well-designed subterfuge to polarise the Hindu voters just a year ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha election. While on April 1, the day people usually celebrate the Fools’ Day, Narendra Modi cracked a vicious and spiteful joke in Bhopal,...
Samajwadi Party And BSP Fighting Each Other In Uttar Pradesh Over Poaching
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are engaged in a big fight over poaching of each other’s core voters to enlarge the vote share to face local bodies polls and later on 2024 Lok Sabha polls. There is realisation in Samajwadi Party that with the...
India’s Declining Donkey Population Is Facing An Existential Crisis
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s donkeys are facing existential crisis. Their population has suffered about 90 per cent drop in the last three decades, and a drastic 61 per cent between 2012 and 2019. Concerns have repeatedly been raised, however, no comprehensive conservation programme has yet been initiated by...
Terrorist angle in attack in bogey of running train in Kerala
Three people were killed and many suffered burn injuries after an unidentified person poured petrol on co-passengers and set them afire inside the D-1 coach of the Alapuzha-Kannur Express around 9.50 pm on Sunday after the train left Kozhikode railway station. Police has police recovered the assailant’s visuals recovered...
It May Be Time For RBI To Decouple From Policies Set By U.S. Federal Reserve
By K Raveendran With the US Federal Reserve set to continue raising interest rates to combat record inflation rates, the highest in 40 years, there are calls that the Reserve Bank of India deviate from its traditional policy of mirroring the US interest rate hikes. The RBI has effected...
Congress Is Steadily Finding More Allies Despite Some Differences
By Harihar Swarup As we head into another massive electoral season, starting with Karnataka assembly polls on May 10 and ending with the Lok Sabha 12 months later; two parallel political processes are at work. These processes will play out in the coming months as the main actors figure...
Rahul’s Conviction Has Boosted Congress Prospects In Karnataka Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Chanakya of BJP, Amit Shah has come out with the implicit advice to Rahul Gandhi to go to a higher court and challenge the verdict of the Surat court. This unsolicited advice coming from the iron man of the BJP has given rise to numerous conjecture...
Workers Unable To Live A Life Of Dignity Without Social Security
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The recently held Annual Development Partners meeting of the ILO’s Global Flagship Programme on Building Social Protection Floors for all has reiterated that the human right to social security is still not a reality for more than 4 billion people of the world who are...
Trump Has That Uncanny Power To Turn A Crisis Into A Big Opportunity
By Sushil Kutty Former United States President Donald Trump was to travel to New York from Florida following his indictment and the “charges in a sealed cover”. More than three years ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had famously said ‘Abki Baar Trump Sarkar’ which fell through notoriously and resulted...
Unleashing Of An Iranian Tiger: Politics Over Tourist Attractions
By James M Dorsey A Gulf investor with an analytical and artistic bent, Ali al-Salim pinpointed the long-term challenges Saudi Arabia faces as it re-establishes relations with Iran. While most analysts focused on the immediate reduction of regional tensions and the possible opening for an end to the eight-year-long...
Trump Won’t Be Defeated In 2024 Polls Through Indictments Alone
By Ben Beckett On Thursday, Donald Trump was indicted in Manhattan. The charges related to the funding of a nondisclosure agreement he signed with the adult performer Stormy Daniels regarding an extramarital affair he had with her. It would be great if the charges derailed Trump, but as the...
World Is Keenly Watching What Narendra Modi Is Doing In ‘Mother Of Democracy’
By Sushil Kutty After the United States dived in, it was the turn of Germany to wade in. Rahul Gandhi’s “disqualified MP” status is bothering both democracies. What Rahul Gandhi’s London remarks could not do, his disqualification from the Lok Sabha did, make both countries sit up and react....
Global South Is Looking To India To Find Ways To Deal With Debt Crisis
By K R Sudhaman Global debt and recession are two major challenges afflicting many parts of the World, particularly the global south. India, which heads G 20 this year, has a great responsibility to work with member countries to find a solution to these problems. In this connection, India’s...
Relief For Kerala Chief Minister In CMRDF Case
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The verdict of Lok Ayukta Justice Cyriac Joseph in the case of alleged misappropriation of the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund (CMRDF) during Pinarayi Vijayan Government’s previous term from 2016 to 2021 has come as a big relief to the Chief Minister. Any adverse verdict...
Latest Collapse Of US And European Banks Is A Part Of Continuing Crisis Of Capitalism
By Dr. Soma Marla Recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has further led to the fall of Signature bank, Credit Suisse and now a major European German Credit Douche bank. This banking crisis has resulted from US Treasury’s recent interest rate hike. Cracks are appearing in US banking...
Congress To Hold Nationwide Protests Against Rahul’s Disqualification
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress has hit the streets. With a bang, the grand old party has announced a series of protest programmes as well as launched Jai Bharat Satyagraha, a massive Opposition action to register dissent against the disqualification of former Congress president Rahul Gandhi from the...
