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By Tirthankar Mitra The conviction of former Pakistani prime minister, Imran Khan Niazi together with his erstwhile Cabinet colleague Shah Mehmood Qureshi seems to be following a pattern quite familiar in the country of their birth. The decision of the court announced almost on the eve of the general...
By Harihar Swarup Last week was the birth centenary of Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur whose relentless pursuit of social justice created a positive impact on the lives of crores of people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Bharat Ratna award to him coinciding with his birth centenary. Modi said...
By James M Dorsey Qatari mediation in the Gaza war threatens to become a double-edged sword. Demonstrators gathered this week at Qatari diplomatic missions in Washington, New York, and Ottawa to express frustration with the Gulf state’s failure to achieve an Israeli-Hamas agreement on a second round of prisoner...
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: This time Democratic senator Bernie Sanders is pulling no punches. The carnage the Israeli military has inflicted upon civilians in Gaza is so appalling that he wants to cut off all U.S. military aid to Israel—offensive and defensive. And that stand flies directly in the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the Presidential address in the Parliament is supposed to summarise the government’s achievements and intentions followed by meaningful debate, in which opposition raises points of concern, the Prime Minister is expected to address them during his reply to the ‘Motion of Thanks’. However, in...
By Sushil Kutty Was the manner in which the Chandigarh mayoral election conducted a symptom or the disease itself, a crooked system at play? The country’s top court has spoken – the previous week’s mayoral poll in the Union Territory was openly tampered with by a seemingly biased Presiding...
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s lurid boast on the floor of Parliament that he would be the prime minister for the third time and his party would alone win 370 seats deserves attention. The question is why is he so confident? Are RSS and BJP leaders busy hacking the...
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee is announcing her intent of going alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she seems to have overlooked that the company of Congress can help her regain some constituencies in north Bengal. The outfit she founded after...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A 55-year-old teacher, Paresh Doshi, filed an FIR against himself after his wife lost her life in a car crash caused by an attempt to save a stray dog. Paresh Doshi and his wife Amita were returning from the Ambaji Temple in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have intensified their campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. While the BJP held a series of meetings to formulate strategy for various issues connected with the elections, the Congress has decided to line-up equal mix of youths and veterans for...
By Dr Arun Mitra No one believed when Copernicus proposed that the Sun was the centre of the solar system and the Earth and other planets revolved around it or when Galileo proposed the principle of the pendulum and the law of falling bodies. They were demonised and persecuted...
By Girish Linganna Mounting stress in the Red Sea—the direct trade route for ships travelling from Asia to Europe—has hit India’s exports of marine products and also high-quality rice to buyers in the United States, Middle East and Europe as prices have skyrocketed. This very serious bottleneck that has...
By Harrison Stetler After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension of aid for Ukraine’s war effort. The deal emerged from a meeting of the European Council in Brussels this Thursday, where European Union (EU)...
By Devasis Chattopadhyay In times when technology is constantly redefining reality as we know it, it is often hard to tell what’s real and what isn’t. So why troll Poonam Pandey for using social media to fake her death; popular FM radio channel Fever for faking its closure; and...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to believe in the 21st century that some small groups of Yemeni Houthi pirates on the Red Sea can bring a $1-trillion-plus annual global trade using the sea route almost to a halt, forcing shipowners and shippers divert the trade through a several...
By Kalyani Shankar The convincing victory of the JMM-Congress coalition in Jharkhand assembly on February 5 amidst allegations about BJP’s poaching reports, is a big boost to the INDIA bloc in the present political atmosphere in the country. Chief Minister Champai Soren has now the tough task to run...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite all sorts of statements against Congress and its leader Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party and the leader has got significant response by people during Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra so far. It makes PM Narendra Modi’s concerns worse, since Congress candidates would be offering closer...
By Sushil Kutty MLAs and MPs are placed such that they can make tonnes of money by shifting allegiance, the money credited to their bank accounts, like nowadays when the focus is on Jharkhand and Bihar MLAs fleeing BJP depredations with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi minister...