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Punjab Govt Led By AAP Has Taken Major Measures To Improve Women Health
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Hindustan Times on its web portal reported an incident, on Oct 15, 2025, which makes everyone shudder and reflects how humanity has dipped into a deep well of poisonous inhuman water. “A 27-year-old woman was allegedly forced to give birth on the roadside in...
Hungarian Film Director Bela Tarr Inspired Many Young Film Makers In Europe
By Tirthankar Mitra Not known to be a filmmaker with a penchant for rainbow themes, Bela Tarr’s films stood apart for their unconventional method of direction and issues which stayed in the minds of the audience long after they have left the movie theatres. If the works of the...
Narendra Modi Has Lost His Moral Right To Lead 2026 BRICS Presidency
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s isolation from Global South on the issue of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is now complete. Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims himself as the leader of Global South. Both at the SCO summit and BRICS meeting last year, Modi was active in articulating the aspirations and...
Trump’s Onslaught On Venezuela Is Aimed At Looting Natural Resources Including Oil
By Asad Mirza During the past one year, perhaps no other man has garnered so much news headlines and space as the American President Donald Trump. This is not due to any of his humane policies or pro-people announcements, but based solely on his quirky and unpredictable executive orders...
U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela And Kidnapping Of President Is A Threat To Global South
By Dr Arun Mitra US aggression on Venezuela, kidnapping its elected President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on the cooked up charges of narcoterrorism reminds one of the familiar story of Lion and the Lamb. Similar excuse was given when the US attacked Iraq in 2003 that...
A Decade After 2014, Modi’s Farm Income Promise Looks Economically Hollow
By R. Suryamurthy By any reasonable political measure, the promise to double farmers’ incomes was one of Narendra Modi’s most consequential commitments. Announced with flourish in the early years of his first term, it sought to reframe India’s agrarian question—not as one of chronic distress to be periodically managed,...
Trump’s Venezuelan Invasion Facing Serious Roadblocks Leading To Uncertainty
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The unmarked aircraft that spirited Nicolás Maduro from Miraflores Palace three days ago was meant to close a chapter. Instead, it has opened a Pandora’s box of interventionist ambition that now stretches from the Arctic Circle to the Rio Grande. In the smoking...
State Help Is Helping Chinese Auto Industry To Dominate Overseas Market
By Kunal Bose Till not very long ago, people around the world loved to believe that bigness in volume of industrial and agricultural products was the only hallmark of China. But this is now disabused by a growing number of sectoral experts. More recently, Nvidia chairman Jensen Huang reminded...
Donald Trump Who Promised To End Wars In Poll Campaign, Goes To War
By Ben Burgis NEW YORK: In January 2023, J. D. Vance had just arrived in the Senate. One of the first things he did was to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination. His primary argument was that Trump, “started...
Remembering American Writer Jack London On His 150th Birth Anniversary
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Jack London’s journey as a socialist and a writer is a story of dramatic ascent and tragic decline. His socialism grew from lived experience: childhood poverty, hard labour in factories, and first-hand exposure to capitalism’s exploitative logic, crystallisedin1894 . He was born on January...
US President Trump Warns India Of Even Higher Tariffs Over Russia Oil
NEW DELHI: United States President Donald Trump has warned that Washington could raise further tariffs on Indian exports if New Delhi does not stop buying Russian oil, adding fresh uncertainty to efforts to strike a trade deal between the two countries. “They (India) wanted to make me happy, basically....
COAI Flags Gaps In Direct-To-Mobile (D2M) Broadcasting
NEW DELHI: As the government inches closer in its push towards Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) broadcasting, the telecom industry has raised concerns over the manner in which the technical tests for the technology are being conducted, warning that there are gaps in testing and stakeholder participation which could have long-term implications...
IDBI Bank Sale May Spill Over To Next Fiscal
NEW DELHI: The strategic disinvestment of IDBI Bank is likely to spill over to the next financial year as the necessary procedural and evaluation processes are still under way, sources said. This would mean that the government’s non-debt capital receipts in the current fiscal year may fall significantly short...
Slow Awarding To Bring Down Highway Constriction To Multi-Year Lows
NEW DELHI: The slowdown in new highway contracts by the centre for the past two years is expected to slow down the construction pace to in 2025-26 to the lowest since 2017-18, according to a report. The awarding activity by the central agencies has remained subdued for the past...
Draft Social Security Rules May Exclude Majority Of Gig Workers, Unions Warn
NEW DELHI: The draft rules on the Social Security Code, 2020, published on December 30, 2025, if adopted in its current form risk rendering most gig workers ineligible for social security benefits by setting participation thresholds far higher than actual work patterns in the sector, labour unions and worker...
U.S. Invasion Of Venezuela May Set The Process Of Trump’s Down Turn In November Mid Term
By Nitya Chakraborty The invasion of Venezuela by the United States on the early hours of January 3 along with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro and his wife marks a new phase in Donald Trump’s foreign policy which has been termed by The Guardian columnist as “naked imperialism”....
More New Airlines Are Bad News For Existing Small Domestic Carriers
By Nantoo Banerjee The civil aviation ministry’s much publicized issue of ‘no objection certificates’ to proposed three airlines – Shankh Air, AIhind Air and FlyExpress – apparently to break the near monopoly of IndiGo in the fast-expanding domestic aviation market shows, if anything, a lack of market perspective and...
The Great Indian Paradox – GDP Is Growing High But Rupee Is Sinking
By T N Ashok When India overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth-largest economy, policymakers celebrated a milestone that had been decades in the making. Official growth numbers showed an economy expanding at 6.5 to 7 percent, far outpacing a global slowdown stuck near 3 percent. Yet even as...
