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German Coalition Led By Friedrich Merz Arouses War Mentality Once Again
By Satyaki Chakraborty After a gap of 80 years since the fall of fascism in 1945, Germany is once again agog with the militarization of the society in the name of fighting against the possible aggression by Russia. The ground has been laid by the continuing war in Ukraine....
Indian Researchers Bring Out New Findings On Cosmic Puzzle Alakananda
By Tirthankar Mitra India’s scientific community has quietly handed the world an intriguing cosmic puzzle. It is called Alakananda after the ancient Himalayan river, but it’s significance runs far deeper than its poetic name. Alakananda is one third the size of a Milky Way containing roughly 19 billion stars....
How A Seventy-Year-Old Presidential Order Still Shapes Dalit Life After Conversion
By Khalil ur Rehaman Earlier this week, the Allahabad High Court ordered a statewide inquiry into Christian converts retaining Scheduled Caste (‘SC’) status, calling such retention a “fraud on the Constitution.” The High Court relied on the Andhra Pradesh High Court’s decision in Akkala Rama Reddy v State of...
A Rational Approach To Immigration Policy Is Needed For Britain
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Britain’s incoherent, counterproductive and needlessly cruel border control policy has resulted in a spiralling increase in death and violence. The one thing it has failed to do is deter small boat arrivals. The Humans for Rights Network has assembled a compelling collection of reports from...
TRAI, DoT At Loggerheads Over Charges For Satcom Spectrum
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai and the department of telecom (DoT) are at loggerheads over fixation of satcom spectrum charges for the companies and other critical matters at a time when satcom players, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink and Sunil Mittal’s Bharti group-backed Eutelsat OneWeb wait for regulatory clarity...
IMF Gives Green Signal To $1.2 Billion Tranche To Pakistan; Cites ‘Macroeconomic Stability’
WASHINGTON: IMF on Monday approved a disbursement of around $1.2 billion to Pakistan, lifting the country’s total inflows under the Extended Fund Facility and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility to roughly $3.3 billion. The IMF Executive Board cleared the payment during its meeting in Washington, citing the country’s efforts...
India, EU Hold ‘Intensive Talks’ On FTA With Year-End Deadline In Sight
NEW DELHI: The European Union (EU) Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic-led delegation on Monday started two days of “intensive talks” with the Indian team led by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to give a push to the negotiations on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The idea is to reach...
Insurance Industry’s Premium Growth Tops 20% For The First Time In FY26
MUMBAI: Both the life and non-life insurance segment posted over 20 per cent premium growth in November for the first time in this financial year (FY26), supported by the reduction in goods and services tax (GST) on premiums from 18 per cent to zero and a favourable base effect....
New Labour Codes Only Enslave Workers, They Should Be Repealed
NEW DELHI: Around five years after passing the four labour codes subsuming 29 existing labour laws in 2019-20, the government of India notified them for implementation on November 21, 2025. The Prime Minister and various other ministers of the government have been engaged in deceptive propaganda claiming that they...
India Must Clip IndiGo’s Wings To Protect Fast-Growing Domestic Aviation Market
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s domestic civil aviation market, the world’s third largest after the United States and China, nearly collapsed last week as its major private airline, IndiGo, boasting nearly 70 percent of traffic share, suddenly cancelled hundreds of flights on the ground of pilot shortages after it failed...
PM Narendra Modi’s Rhetoric On Vande Mataram Is Misleading
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India wanted to celebrate the 150th year of India’s National Song “Vande Mataram” for its admirable role in the Freedom Movement of India, but PM Narendra Modi’s rhetoric in the Parliament of India using the history of its evolution as a national song turned the...
Beyond Diplomacy: Economic Reality Of India-Russia’s $100 Billion Target
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik The world watched as Mr Vladimir Putin visited India. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was particularly excited as the two countries signed deals spreading across defense, trade, healthcare, civil nuclear energy, and labour cooperation. How much of this bonhomie will translate into trade figures, particularly...
It Was A Win-Win Situation For Both India And Russia After Delhi Summit
By T N Ashok At a moment when Moscow is staring at a fresh barrage of Western sanctions on its energy giants, when NATO is threatening secondary measures against countries buying discounted Russian crude, and when Europe is again pushing an unpalatable ceasefire formula for Ukraine, President Vladimir V....
Local Body Polls: Air Of Cool Confidence In LDF Camp
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the first phase of the campaign for the local bodies elections in Kerala having come to an end, the stage is set for a no-holds-barred battle for supremacy. The polls are scheduled to be held on December 9 and December 11. The CPI(M)-led Left...
India’s Solar Revolution Is Built On Shaky Foundations – Cracks Are Showing
By R. Suryamurthy India loves grand narratives. And few stories have been told with as much pride in recent years as the tale of its solar revolution — the deserts filling with gleaming panels, the megawatt counters spinning upward, the country marching toward a greener future. With 116 gigawatts...
Cocomi Memo Urges PM To Reject Kuki Claims To Jurisdiction Over Hills
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Actions and reactions, depending upon the situation that keeps on evolving, distinguish the narrative of the ethnic conflict in Manipur. The ministry of home affairs (MHA) held meetings on November 6 and 7 with the representatives of United People’s Front (UPF) and Kuki National...
Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party Faces An Identity Crisis In The New Century
By Kenji Hasegawa TOKYO: Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is easily the most successful political party in the developed capitalist world. While other long-standing parties of government have gone into crisis and decline, from the Italian Christian Democrats to Ireland’s Fianna Fáil, the LDP has retained its position at...
Modi-Putin Summit Reinforces India’s Geopolitical Identity Amidst Headwinds
By Nitya Chakraborty The India-Russia joint statement issued on December 5 after two days of talks between President Vladimir Putin and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is more a vindication of India’s renewed exercise of its geopolitical status defying the pressure from the USA and the other western...
