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World Organization Against Torture Flags India As “High Risk” Country
By Edgar Kaiser, Grace Anu Backia This year has proven to be a sobering one for the Indian police with several reports revealing their unconstitutional and torturous attitude. The Status of Policing in India report 2025 put forth an alarming data about the police officers’ stand on torture. As...
Latest PLFS Data For June 2025 Shows Worsening Labour Market
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s labour market has undergone deterioration in June 2025. Unemployment rate in current weekly status (CWS) for the person above the age of 15 years was shown in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of the government of India at 5.6 per cent, Labour Force...
Dark Clouds Hover Over The Future Of Electoral Democracy In India
By P. Sudhir ‘Foreigners Found on Bihar Rolls, Says EC; INDIA Questions Data’ – screamed the lead headline on the front page of a major national daily. It appeared to be simply unbelievable. The timeline for the Special Intensive Revision, as laid out by the Election Commission of India...
The Illusion Of Inclusion: What India’s Fintech Revolution Leaves Behind
By R. Suryamurthy India has long been celebrated as a global trailblazer in financial inclusion. From biometric identity systems to mobile-enabled digital payments, we’ve built infrastructure at a scale and speed that few countries can rival. According to the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021, 78 percent of Indian...
British PM Keir Starmer Plunges Labour Party Into Crisis As He Axes Four Rebels
By Andrew Murray LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suspended four left Labour MPs from the party whip on Tuesday night in a desperate attempt to restore his floundering and diminished authority. Brian Leishman, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Rachael Maskell and Chris Hinchcliffe will now sit as independent MPs. Left MP...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Balancing Of QUAD And SCO Summits In September Will Be A Tricky Task
By Nitya Chakraborty India-China bilateral relations have started showing cautious improvement with the signals from both the leaderships of the two biggest countries of Asia that they are keen to restore normal political and economic ties. Indian external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s meeting with the Chinese President Xi...
Trump Message To New Delhi As Trade Talks Progress: Bend Or Be Broken
By K Raveendran The Trump administration’s twin-pronged approach to force India into granting greater trade concessions marks a new and particularly aggressive phase in the ongoing trade talks. It combines the threat of punitive economic measures with geopolitical pressure, making the situation deeply precarious for New Delhi. At the...
India’s Crucial Oil Imports From Russia Can Now Be Hit By Widening Ukraine War
By Anjan Roy India will in all possibility face a new tariff from the United States of as high as 100% as Trump’s new policy to stop Russia’s Ukraine war. An economic tool, tariffs are now caught up in Donald Trump’s geo-economics. Countries buying oil from Russia are now...
India Ranks 99th In The UN SDG Index 2025, Not On Track On 15 Out Of 17 Targets
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Against the boasting of the ruling establishment of India led by PM Narendra Modi about its world ranking in wealth and equality fourth in each, the SDG Index 2025 of the United Nations ranks this country as 99th in the World, and is out of...
Grand Mufti Of India Musliyar Stops Execution Of Nimisha Priya For The Time Being
By Sushil Kutty Two stories hit the news cycle on July 16. Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya’s execution in Yemen, scheduled for July 16, has been postponed. And the newly released NCERT history book for Class 8 has nothing good to say about the ‘Delhi Sultanate’ and the ‘Mughal’. Both...
Trump’s 50-Day Ultimatum: Ukraine Ceasefire Or A New Trap?
By M A Hossain Donald Trump once campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. He promised to bring an end to the proxy war with Russia, leveraging his self-proclaimed ‘Dealmaking’ skills. Yet, halfway into July, what we see instead is a new escalation dressed up as...
On The Voter List Revision In Bihar, Has The ECI Forgotten Its Duty?
By Prakruthi Jain Bihar is gearing up for the State Assembly elections to be held in November 2025. The Election Commission of India’s (‘ECI’) move to revise the voter list at the eleventh hour raises serious concerns about the accessibility of participation in the upcoming polls for the ordinary...
Britain’s New Left Party’s Polling Data Is A Wake-Up Call For Ruling Labour
By Ben Chacko LONDON: If Keir Starmer’s stumbling government needed a further wake-up call, the latest opinion poll should provide it. It shows Labour’s support at a historic low of just 15 per cent. That is no more than the share secured by the as-yet unlaunched new party of...
Centre’s Contempt For Federalism Is Evident From Treatment By Police Of J&K Chief Minister
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One day after the “locking down” of the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah, his cabinet ministers, his party National Conference legislators, along with leader from the PDP, People’s Conference, and J&K Apni Party in their homes to prevent them from paying homage...
Assam’s BJP Chief Minister Has Launched A Communal Crusade In North East
By Krishna Jha There is little doubt the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is determined to turn Assam into a communally torn state. The state has been witnessing a systematic persecution of Muslims. Although the attack and harassment of minorities has become a...
Journalist Framed In Bihar For Exposing The Dubious Designs Of The ECI
By Arun Srivastava Election Commission of India, the constitutional body, will not tolerate any kind of rationale criticism of its erratic functioning and non-conforming approach to the constitutional provisions would not be tolerated by it. A strong message to this effect was conveyed to the journalists on Monday by...
Beleaguered Democratic Party Regrouping Again To Take On Trump In Local Elections
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Why are democrats in USA still sulking in the shadows whining and not gotten over the shock defeat of Ms. Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential elections when her rival Trump stole the democrats’ voter bases and not satiated them yet on their...
