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By Subrata Majumder According to a NITI Aayog survey report, Gujarat is failing in reduction of poverty despite emerging as the fastest growing state in industrialization. The ranking of Gujarat in poverty alleviation is even lower than West Bengal – one of the poorest states in the country. Gujarat...
By Girish Linganna Gawa, originating from a Mizo village in Myanmar close to the Indian border, escaped in December after her village was destroyed by fire. Now, as a mother of two, she is among the numerous individuals seeking shelter along the border, attempting to escape the intensifying civil...
By Manish Rai Last month the Taliban’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai while attending a public program said that there is an absence of an official border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. He further said that Afghanistan will never recognize the Durand Line as its official border with...
By Nitya Chakraborty The State Bank of India’s plea to the Supreme Court seeking extension of time till June 30 this year to disclose details of electoral bonds encashed by political parties instead of March 6 as ordered by the apex court is nothing but a sordid attempt by...
By Satyaki Chakraborty The seven day session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) of China began in Beijing on March 5 with the whole world, especially the international financial institutions like World Bank and IMF monitoring and analyzing every statement made by the Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang on...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union government led by PM Narendra Modi has come out with “Key Employment Unemployment Indicators” for 2023 just on the eve of Lok Sabha election 2024, to present a rosy picture on “declining unemployment” since 2021 in India. Media headlines declared unemployment rate declined to...
By Sushil Kutty No family for Narendra Modi’ sounds innocuous enough. So why is the BJP making a hue and cry over Lalu Prasad Yadav pointing this out at the March 3 Patna INDI-Alliance Maharally? Lalu’s comment spawned ‘Modi Ka Parivar’, which the BJP says will be Prime Minister...
By Girish Linganna Internet connectivity across large parts of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East has experienced interruptions due to damages to the undersea cables serving these regions. Hong Kong’s HGC Global Communications has reported that up to 25% of internet traffic in the affected regions has been disrupted....
By Tirthankar Mitra Shehbaz Sharif, on taking charge as prime minister of a new Pakistani dispensation has raked up the Kashmir issue even as he finds himself presiding over a precarious economy with the country’s situation worsened by sharp polarisation and a fraught security system. Pakistan in so many...
By Nantoo Banerjee Two ongoing devastating wars – one in Ukraine and the other in the Gaza strip – have so far killed and injured tens of thousands of civilians since last year. The Ukraine-Russia war started in February 2022. As of February 15, this year, the Office of...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil, as the president of G-20 has taken the move to place a proposal for the imposition of a global tax on super-rich in order to bring down the level of inequality between the rich and the poor in the current phase of the global economy....
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP’s first list of candidates for Lok Sabha election 2024 remarkably exudes higher level of regimentation of the party under Narendra Modi. Strength of any regimentation of a political establishment is measured by control of its high command over the organisation, on the basis of...
By Arun Srivastava It was a rally with a difference. More than being an electoral rally where the leaders usually seek votes, the first ever public rally of the INDIA bloc at Patna Gandhi Maidan on Sunday stirred the Dalits and proletariat to assert their rights and sent an...
By Girish Linganna Amid a growingly intricate security landscape, nations such as China and India, among others in Asia, are expanding their satellite networks to keep a close watch on military activities within the region. These reconnaissance satellites, positioned approximately 500 kilometres above the Earth, are capable of tracking...
By Sushil Kutty Top opposition leaders spoke at the INDIA Bloc’s ‘Jan Vishwas Maharally’ at Patna’s Gandhi Maidan on Sunday and removing Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power was the clarion call to a 10-lakh strong congregation. The galaxy of speakers included Tejashwi Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mallikarjun Kharge,...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The BJP has launched its election campaigns by announcing candidates for24 Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh. The party has yet to announce candidates for remaining five constituencies. These five seats include Chhindwara which has been the bastion of Congress since 1980. With only...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav After a pause of nearly a year, the quick-changing politics in the breathtakingly beautiful Himalayan country Nepal is once again at it. As per reports, the coalition government headed by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, more popularly known by his nickname “Prachanda,” will see its...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Government Employees and Trade Unions are up in arms against Modi government’s policies and preparing themselves for a more aggressive struggle in the coming weeks, including all Indian strike action from May 1 in the midst of Lok Sabha Election 2024. Election Commission of India...