By Anjan Roy TORONTO: The supreme leader of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, has declared that he intends to reincarnate after his death and his council— the Gaden Phodrang Trust— is the only body on earth which can nominate the next Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama’s announcement from Dharamshala...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India (ECI) has turned totally undemocratic. Its order of June 24, 2025 for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Electoral Roll of Bihar is autocratic. It does not give enough time to the citizens to get themselves enrolled, but it has been...
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” even after revisions accommodating concerns of republican holdouts, impacts various spheres of economic activity in the country and people in ways that could be best described as being unfair to a certain class of citizens who end up...
By Sushil Kutty INDIA bloc leaders are disappointed after meeting with Election Commission officials with a specific complaint related to Bihar Voter Roll Revision, alleging that this could trigger “mass disenfranchisement” of Bihar’s poor from the electoral list. An INDIA bloc delegation met the Election Commission on July 2...
By A K Shrivastav The 243-member Bihar assembly is poll-bound, with elections likely in October-November this year. With 132 seats, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) having 78 and 45 seats respectively is in power. The opposition INDIA Alliance...
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Back channel and informal discussions seem to be making the Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs, who have a comfortable majority in the Manipur Assembly, optimistic about the state having a new ministry in place much before the expiry of the first six months of President’s...
By Rishabh Kachroo What does it mean for a democracy to entrust its citizens with the duty to cultivate “scientific temper”—even as it offers them little say in how science is governed? This quiet paradox lies buried in the folds of the Indian Constitution. There is no grand clause...
By Andrew Murray LONDON: More cuts are coming as British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s floundering government on Wednesday attempted to recover from his shattering defeat over targeting disabled benefits. Senior minister Pat McFadden warned that the decision forced on ministers to abandon £5 billion-worth of cuts “does have...
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s latest volley in the global economic battleground — a proposal to impose a 500 percent tariff on countries that do business with Russia — marks the continuation of a pattern that has come to define his trade diplomacy: bold, blustering declarations followed by...
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s three QUAD partners USA, Australia and Japan ignored on Tuesday Indian foreign minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s appeal ahead of the four nation QUAD foreign ministers meeting to understand and appreciate that India will exercise its right to defend its people against terrorism. Jaishankar did not...
By Arun Srivastava Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll is more treacherous having wider political and economic implication than the National Register of Citizens (NRC) which is a register maintained by the Indian government to record the names of genuine Indian citizens. NRC differentiates between citizens and those...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the approval of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, though after loss of the entire financial year 2024-25 and three months into the current financial year 2025-26, the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme announced in the Union Budget 2024-25 on July...
By Sushil Kutty It’s “so tempting to escalate” billionaire Elon Musk posted on his ‘X’ after President Donald Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ spoke its mind on peace-deals. And “escalating” is such a beautiful word, almost as much as Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, which is one bill Musk wants Congress to...
By Manish Rai The question of regime change in Iran has recently resurfaced after the killing of Iran’s top military commanders following the Israeli airstrikes. However, Israel’s short-term goal was to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities to severely diminish its weapons program. But the Israeli Prime Minister mentioned during his...
By Ramzy Baroud NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East.” Yet, his repeated assertions seem to clash with the unfolding reality on the ground. Netanyahu’s opportunistic relationship with language is now proving detrimental to his country. The...
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a tough task in improving India’s image as defender of the interests of Global South at the coming meeting of the BRICS at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on July 6 and 7 which he will be attending. The 17th BRICS...
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump first wanted to end birthright citizenship with an executive order issued on January 20, 2025, the day he assumed office for his 2nd nonconsecutive term as president. Again on June 20, 2025, he issued an EO for the Department of...