By K Raveendran Supreme Court’s endorsement of lawful euthanasia for rabid, incurably ill and demonstrably dangerous stray dogs marks a decisive shift in India’s long-running debate over public safety, animal welfare and the limits of sentiment in civic governance. The ruling does not license indiscriminate killing, nor does it...
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Time was when Trinamool Congress stood on firm organisational foundations all over West Bengal with each and everyone of its leaders and activists looking up to party supremo Mamata Banerjee for helming them to electoral triumph. But the days when none dared to question Banerjee’s...
By Anjan Roy KOLKATA: Now that a “double-engine sarkar” is in the driving seat in Bengal, strong expectations have been roused about a revival of a long-hibernating economy of the state. The background is that once, almost beyond the living memory of the newer generations, Bengal was in the...
By Purbasha Panda, Rongeet Poddar On April 13, 2026, a demonstration led by garment factory workers in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Noida turned into a violent protest leading to fraught public order in several areas of the city. There were reported incidents of stone pelting, clashes between...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite several orders and recommendations of the Supreme Court and the Parliamentary Standing Committee, the Union Government did not structurally reform the National Testing Agency (NTA), and also did not take appropriate actions that helped the education mafia of the country to strengthen its grip...
By T N Ashok India’s stock markets have seen panic before. They have survived wars, sanctions, pandemics, banking collapses and political earthquakes. But the latest selloff triggered by the Iran-linked oil shock has exposed something far deeper and more structural inside Asia’s third-largest economy: India’s extraordinary vulnerability to imported...
By Asad Mirza The United States and Iran appear locked between diplomacy and military escalation as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz intensify. While President Donald Trump has temporarily postponed military action following pressure from Gulf allies, Tehran is simultaneously advancing new proposals on nuclear talks and unveiling a...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: For years, Pakistan’s political class has lived inside a hall of mirrors — where conspiracy theories become national doctrine, where whispers from Rawalpindi travel faster than court judgments, and where the line between reality and manufactured narrative has almost entirely collapsed. Into that...
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a significant development in the sphere of India-China economic cooperation, China has offered its assistance to India in dealing its energy security challenge in the context of the present US war in Iran and crisis in oil shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. IN a...
By Dr Arun Mitra It is deeply painful to witness the defeat of Left and Democratic Front (LDF), the only government led by the communists in the state of Kerala. Even more distressing is the growing marginalisation of the voice that has consistently spoken for the downtrodden — the...
By Indrani Chakraborty Peru, a nation of Latin America will be holding Presidential face off polls on June 7 after the first round of polls held in April this year failed to give majority to any of the contesting candidates. Peruvian election authority announced finally that Keiko Fujimori with...
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s continuous hesitancy to curb the retail oil consumption pattern despite a worldwide surge in fuel prices is inexplicable, if not unacceptable. The government, the biggest benefactor of large domestic fuel use by way of imposition of levies close to 50 percent of the retail oil...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the April retail inflation based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose only a little to 3.48 per cent from the March inflation 3.40, and year on year food inflation based on Consumer Food Price Index to 4.20 per cent from 3.87, which is still...
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress Party faced major challenges within its ranks while choosing the Chief Minister of Kerala, a process that took 11 days and was crucial in settling disagreements among various party groups, demonstrating the importance of internal consensus for unity. VD Satheesan was chosen despite intense...
By T N Ashok India’s first seizure of Captagon — the notorious “jihadi drug” of the Syrian conflict — is more than a sensational narcotics bust. It is a warning flare. Beneath the ₹182-crore seizure at Mundra Port and Delhi lies a far darker story: the merging of global...
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Amidst much kerfuffle, a “double engine” government has come to run West Bengal. After the 2026 assembly elections, this state which for nearly five decades has been the epicentre of Opposition politics is however no stranger to “double engine” government but it’s experience with it...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The island that the world refuses to recognise as a country has once again been reminded of a brutal geopolitical truth: in the contest between the United States and China, Taiwan is indispensable — but still expendable. When President Donald Trump emerged from...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Free travel for women in Kerala State Road Tran sport Corporation (KSRTC) buses from June 15 and a 3000-rupee hike for ASHA workers. These are the first decisions announced by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan after the first Cabinet meeting of the newly-installed UDF Government...