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BRS Supremo KCR Is Presiding Over The Decline Of His Party In Telangana
By Kalyani Shankar Why do political families believe they can hold onto power indefinitely? This is common in many one-man or one-woman parties, where leaders often engage in nepotism by appointing relatives to positions of authority. For example, the late Mulayam Singh Yadav, leader of the Samajwadi Party, had...
Share Of Child Mortality In India Was 8.2 Per Cent In 2023
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Death of children below the age of five in India is still a serious problem. The national average of percentage of deaths in the age-group 0-4 years to total deaths in India was 8.2% in 2023. Worst scenario was observed in Uttar Pradesh, where it...
China Opting For More Iron Ore Imports Die To Low Quality Of Its Own Ore
By Kunal Bose China, which has a share of over half the world steel production and at the same time accounts for nearly two-thirds of seaborne trade in iron ore by way of imports will unarguably have a major impact on price movements of the steelmaking ingredient in all...
Differing Approaches Of PUCL’s Report And Congress On Manipur Crisis Remain
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Responding to the points raised and concerns expressed over the findings of the Independent People’s Tribunal (IPT) on the Ongoing Ethnic Conflict in Manipur” by Inner Manipur constituency’s Congress Lok Sabha member Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has clarified...
Artificial Intelligence And Digital Rights Have To Be Intertwined
By Harsh Gour Artificial Intelligence now permeates daily life From the smartphone assistants many of us carry to credit scoring, healthcare imaging, and government services, technological high-end systems (pro-AI-driven) are becoming progressively foundational, invisible, and everywhere in our institutions and economy. AI is set to be deployed not just...
Latest Round Of GST Reforms Has Larger Perspective Other Than Tax Reforms
By Anjan Roy The GST reforms introduced by the GST council at its September 4 meeting is a mega budget for the entire country. It will be the determining factor for the budgets of the central government as well as those of the states. The goods and services tax,...
OPEC Tug Of War Between Price Management And Market Share Defence
By K Raveendran The oil market enters another crucial weekend with OPEC set to review its output policy against a backdrop of mounting uncertainty. The producers’ alliance has been carefully navigating the fine balance between supporting prices and defending market share, and the latest developments suggest that the pendulum...
Employment In Unincorporated Sector Fell By 2.1 Per Cent In Q1 Of 2025-26
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Labour market complexity in India is worsening. The quarterly bulletin of unincorporated non-agricultural sector enterprises for April-June 2025, that is the Quarter 1 of the current financial year 2025-26, has just revealed that the number of establishment rose by 1.1 per cent compared to January-March...
After SCO Meet, Trump Unleashes MAGA Department Of War Against Indians
By Sushil Kutty India has brought the worst out of United States President Donald Trump and his raucous MAGA supporters who have started a war of go thwarts India campaign and are gunning not only India and Indians in India but Indian-origin Americans across USA accusing them of taking...
Low New Job Generation In August Gives A Jolt To Trump’s Economy Push
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The latest U.S. jobs report—closely watched by economists, Wall Street, and the political establishment—has landed with a thud. For the first time since the pandemic era, the nation shed more jobs than it gained, raising troubling questions about the health of the labour...
Kunbi Caste Certificate Angers Sections Of Maharashtra Agitators
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Maratha reservation row has escalated, with OBC leaders threatening state-wide protests and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Minister Chhagan Bhujbal skipping the state Cabinet meeting and declaring that he would move court against the Maharashtra government’s decision to issue Kunbi caste certificates...
PUCL’s Tribunal Report On Manipur Angers Meiteis, Leaves Kuki-Zos Happy
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: The report of ‘The Independent People’s Tribunal (IPT) on the Ongoing Ethnic Conflict in Manipur’ released on August 20 by the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has become a bone of contention between the Meitei community in Manipur and PUCL, which...
Are Tribals Hindus’ Controversy Leads To BJP-Congress Fight In Madhya Pradesh
By L S Herdenia Two recent events have caused serious controversy in Madhya Pradesh. The first is the claim by Umang Singhar, leader of the opposition in the state assembly, that tribals are not Hindus. The other is the death of infants by rat bites. Umang made this claim...
Yunus’ Bangladesh: Where Speaking Truth Is Treated As Terrorism
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury For years, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was notorious for running one of the world’s largest prisons for journalists. Today, shockingly, Bangladesh has joined this shameful club under the unelected, military-backed rule of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus. Since the Islamist-backed coup of 2024 that brought...
Possibilities Of A Multipolar World For A Lasting Peace Are Emerging
By Dr Arun Mitra Unending armed conflicts are unfolding across various regions of the world. As a result the global security is perhaps facing a degree of uncertainty not witnessed since the Second World War. Crisis-ridden capitalist institutions may outwardly appear powerful and dominant, yet their inability to resolve...
Why Trump Is Showing Big Worry At China’s Victory Parade In Beijing On September 3?
By Nitya Chakraborty The panicky reaction of the US President Donald Trump soon after the Chinese President Xi Jinping’s victory day parade speech in Beijing on September 3 is an indication of the nervousness that has gripped the western nations including the USA at the gradual decline of the...
Has GST Council Become Latest Victim Of Erosion Of Constitutional Autonomy?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The manner in which GST Council has to decide the latest reform on goods and service taxes in India, has given an impression that it has become the latest victim to erosion of its constitutional autonomy. However, if this impression is true, it is a...
The $10 Billion Alliance: How Meta And Google Are Reshaping The AI Race
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Silicon Valley thrives on rivalries. Apple vs. Microsoft defined one era; Google vs. Facebook another. Yet in 2025, a startling twist has emerged: Meta Platforms and Google, two giants who have long battled for advertising dollars and digital dominance, are now partners in...
