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Centre And BJP Govt Of Bengal Should Not Rush With Deportation Of Bangladeshis
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In West Bengal, new Chief Minister Mr. Suvendu Adhikari has certainly made an impressive beginning in galvanising/reviving the moribund state administration, which hardly properly functioned during the 15 year long tenure of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Credit for the visible improvement in the functioning of...
From Oil To Solar: Why The World Can’t Afford To Wait On Clean Energy
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Amid reports that Iran and the United States may soon reach a ceasefire agreement over the ongoing conflict, fresh tensions emerged on Tuesday following reports of U.S. strikes on missile launch sites and boats in southern Iran. Washington claimed the action was carried out in...
In Adani-US Govt Deal, Criminality Has Been Financialised Through Transaction
By Nilotpal Basu On the heels of the results of five assembly elections, Narendra Modi was overjoyed in celebration. He aggressively asserted that “this is not just an electoral shift, but a change in the people’s mindset”. Since the LDF had lost Kerala and BJP climbed to office in...
Global Economic Growth Pace Depends On Both Geopolitical Headwinds And AI Boost
By Satyaki Chakraborty The global economic outlook has deteriorated sharply in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists’ Outlook released in Geneva on May 28. Nearly nine in ten chief economists surveyed expect global growth to weaken over the next 12 months,...
Statewide Protests Against Raids On Pinarayi’s Residences
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) organised statewide protest action against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s residences in Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram. The raids, which have touched off a wave anger in the LDF camp, were related to an alleged...
Arms Race Is Becoming An Existential Threat To Global Peace And Stability
By Dr Arun Mitra The failure of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), held at the UN Headquarters in New York from 27 April to 22 May 2026, is deeply disappointing. Despite the fact that a vast majority of participating delegations strongly advocated complete nuclear disarmament,...
CPI(M) Making Efforts For A Turnaround In Bengal Politics Following TMC Washout
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The CPI(M) is in the backfoot with lone legislator from Domkal, Murshidabad Md. Mostafizur Rahman representing it in state Assembly. But the once redoubtable party is still trying to reclaim its footprint in West Bengal with the young faces and veterans joining forces charting out...
From Dusty Grounds To IPL Glory, Many Young Players Of Diverse Background Have Come Up
By T N Ashok There was a time when Indian cricket moved at the rhythm of five-day Test matches — white uniforms, red balls, patient batting, and slow-burning legends. Then came coloured clothing and One-Day Internationals, followed by the explosion of white-ball T20 cricket that changed everything forever. Stadiums...
Siddaramaiah, Longest Serving Karnataka CM, Resigns
By Rahil Nora Chopra Siddaramaiah, who happens to be the longest-serving Chief Minister of Karnataka, has resigned and paved the way for his bête noire, DK Shivakumar. While the Congress will need to handle the fallout very delicately, the party high command will need to take the Siddaramaiah loyalists...
Bollywood Has Represented Indian Classical Dance Form Over Decades
By T.N. Ashok The controversy erupted in seconds. Actress Ananya Panday’s dance sequence in her latest film — all electronic bass lines, abbreviated silk, and a Bharatanatyam mudra executed with the precision of a TikTok tutorial — detonated across Indian social media with the force of a cultural grenade....
Supreme Court Bench Has To Give More Clarity To Their Views On Aravalli Hills
By Krishna Jha The entire origin and development of living world has led to the emergence of complicated natural environment of which human beings are part and parcel. Environment and society are inter-related and inter-dependent. Society has come to rely on the natural environment for its existence. Any destruction...
China Tightens Hold Over India’s Key Imports For New-Age Production
NEW DELHI: India is seeking to diversify its sourcing network for new-age manufacturing for which it has set ambitious targets. But China’s grip over India’s clean-energy and advanced manufacturing supply chain is only getting stronger. The northern neighbour controls more than 84% of India’s lithium-ion battery imports, 78% of...
India Among 30+ Nations Working To Build Non-China Supply Chain For Critical Minerals
NEW DELHI: India, along with more than 30 countries, is working to build an alternative supply chain for critical minerals used in electric vehicles, smartphones and defence equipment, as governments seek to reduce heavy dependence on China after Beijing tightened exports of key minerals, sources said. “India, along with...
Global Growth To Weaken, India Stands Out With Strongest Growth Prospect: WEF Survey
NEW DELHI: Chief economists across the world expect the global economic growth to weaken over the next one year, but India stands out as a geography with the strongest growth expectations, a new WEF survey showed on Thursday. In its latest Chief Economists’ Outlook, the World Economic Forum (WEF)...
India May Soon Get Plastic Currency Notes As RBI Revives Decade-Old Plan
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revived the idea of printing polymer banknotes for circulation to meet the surge in demand for currency notes in the last few years. According to multiple sources aware of the development, the issue of introducing polymer or plastic notes was discussed in...
Steps To Boost Foreign Capital Inflows Likely In A Week
NEW DELHI: The Centre is expected to announce a slew of measures within a week to boost foreign capital inflows and stem outflows, in a move that will help support the rupee and make it easier to finance a widening current account deficit. While the exact details are still...
Supreme Court Upholds SIR Of Electoral Rolls, But Concerns Remain
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Supreme Court of India on May 27, 2026 upheld the legality of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar and elsewhere and emphasized that this exercise is constitutionally connected to “free and fair polls”. The judgment strongly underlined the purity and...
Dynamic International Crude Markets And India’s One-Way ‘Market Forces’
By K. Raveendran Motorists are facing the familiar squeeze of higher pump prices at a time when global crude markets remain volatile but not one-directional. Four increases in 11 days have revived the old grievance that oil companies in India move swiftly when crude rises but rarely show the...
