By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Pakistan’s leading industrialist Mian Mohammed Mansha of the Nishant conglomerate which has $30 billion in assets has said that trade relations between India and Pakistan should resume. “I feel very passionately that we need to get our things sorted out with India. Now whatever the...
By Dr Nityananda Ghosh Eminent journalist P Sainath deserves praise for reminding all via Twitter of the 200th anniversary of Mirat-ul-Akhbar, the Persian newspaper founded and edited by Raja Rammohun Roy, on 12 April, 1822. Rammohun, Sainath rightly noted, wrote a “brilliant editorial protesting the death of Pratap Narayan...
By James M Dorsey Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spotlights seemingly widening differences between the United States and its closest Middle Eastern allies, sparking eulogies for an era of bygone American regional dominance. “America’s Middle East Friendships are Dying a Natural Death” predicted foreign policy analyst Steven A. Cook this...
By John Wojcik Charges and counter-charges about war crimes and genocide are being used by those on both sides of the war in Ukraine who are intent on minimizing diplomacy and emphasizing warfare. With the war raging and the suffering of Ukrainians continuing as they spoke this week, both...
Earning money from home is a common dream of many, but very few people actually ever set out to realise their ambitions. This is due to a variety of reasons, and the number of twists and turns life can take is something we have little control over. However, perhaps...
By Anjan Roy The sinking of the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea flotilla MOSKVA is a significant turning point in the Ukraine war and also a lesson for military planners across the world. Russia does not yield the point that Ukrainian missiles would have downed the ship and maintains...
By Harihar Swarup Two competing perspectives can be extracted from the ongoing drama in Pakistan. The first is the obvious one, of the continued fragility of democracy and its institutions that leads to periodic crises of the kind that unfolded over the past month. That no prime minister has...
By Prakash Karat Some political commentators have argued that the stand taken by the Modi government on the conflict in Ukraine shows that it is wrong to consider India a subordinate ally of the United States. The fact that India has abstained on resolutions in the United Nations condemning...
By Gyan Pathak March 2022 has given a clear indication of a deadly cocktail brewing in India with rising inflation, vanishing employment but falling unemployment rate, disappearing jobs from the non-agriculture sector, and the workforce losing jobs in non-agriculture sector returning to agriculture where unemployment is disguised under very...
By Sushil Kutty And we thought Congress President for 19 years, Sonia Gandhi, before Rahul Gandhi took charge, was a Congress party member. And the UPA Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh was also a Congress member. Ditto Rahul Gandhi. The reality is, all three enrolled as Congress...