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By Girish Linganna The war on Gaza, which has been going on for nearly three months since ‘Operation Aqsa Deluge’, has revealed that the divisions that exist within the factions that sparked it will be the most prominent aspect of the scene when it is over, provided they continue...
By Jeremy Corbyn It seems strange to routinely wish everyone a happy new year while there is so much pain and suffering in the world. For many of us, Christmas was a time of celebration. For those enduring the horrors of war, the past week has been a time...
By Leonardo Clausi Giorgia Meloni, the former fascist and current prime minster of Italy, is a distant relative of the communist theorist Antonio Gramsci. On its face, this revelation, which Italian genealogists disclosed earlier this month, might seem like an interesting piece of trivia — funny but ultimately meaningless....
By Nitya Chakraborty The year 2023 has ended with two big wars and a few local conflicts including one in Myanmar bordering India. While the world was looking for the end of war in Ukraine during 2023, a new war with much severe death toll began in Gaza strip...
By Nantoo Banerjee The world is finally recognizing India’s economic strength and its fast-growing market size. Going by the overall development trend, the economy is capable of growing close to 10 percent annually over the next several years. In 2023-24, the economy may reach a growth rate of seven...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Congress is running against time on seat-sharing arrangement with India alliance partners, which is likely to be delayed further. A crucial meeting has been scheduled by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on January 4, in which presidents of its state units and the leaders of its...
By Arun Srivastava Chasing Nazi spokesperson Joseph Goebbel’s famous maxim that people tend to believe a lie as a biblical truth if it is insistently repeated for hundred times, the RSS and BJP’s ecosystem have launched a psychological war against Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar. Saffron vilification campaign launched...
By Tirthankar Mitra A model of the comic strip character Spiderman has been strategically placed before Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s Harish Chatterjee Street residence as part of Christmas and New Year decorations this year. It is lit up after dark and its limbs...
By Girish Linganna The year 2023 was a challenging one for Russia. It was marked by major events with mixed repercussions across multiple spheres. The war remained the most defining feature for Russia throughout the year. The two most crucial factors that Western sanctions were designed to influence must...
By Sushil Kutty There is a chance – a realistic one to deny Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party a general elections hat-trick and Modi his third prime ministerial term. All it requires is a leap of faith. Name ‘Behan’ Mayawati – the original ‘Dalit face’...
By Harihar Swarup The INDIA alliance meeting in Delhi is broadly an effort at political resuscitation. For three months, the opposition formation had virtually suspended such strategic level dialogue, as the Congress prioritised the assembly elections. Talk of crucial loss of momentum. INDIA’s leading partner Congress stands devastated after...
By Anjan Roy Economic forecasting is always hazardous. It is more so in the current scenario. There are always any number of uncertainties about the future. But currently these are multifarious. No one really knows, including the dramatis personae, what will happen in the next week, let alone in...
By K Raveendran It is election year for the Indian economy and the footnote to the robust economic performance would pinpoint the risks of freebies and subsidy politics impacting growth. The pressures are expected to pinch hard from mid-year onwards as the drivers of growth would shift gears down...
By Arun Srivastava The catchline “Phir Aayega Modi” of the saffron ecosystem needs correction. It portrays him as a visionary who will return to usher India to a new and affluent ecosphere — purely as a device to strengthen the perception that Modi is the only saviour. Therefore, people...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of Bank frauds in 2022-23 in India reached 13,576 as against just 4306 in 2013-14, and has even broken the record of the last year in only first six months of the current financial year 2023-24 when the fraud cases have already risen to...
By Girish Linganna The Indian defence manufacturing sector has advanced significantly, largely due to the government’s ‘Make in India’ policy and emphasis on self-sufficiency. But difficulties that can hinder development in 2024 need to be addressed. So like all significant nations, India has an Army, Navy and Air Force...
By Tirthankar Mitra Famous as the first ‘Showman’ of Indian cinema, had Raj Kapoor been alive today, he would have celebrated in grand style his turning 100 this month. Facing the movie cameras after putting on the grease-paint and an attire which was a take on that of the...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The central investigating agency, the enforcement Directorate (ED), which is on a rampage against the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala, suffered a highly embarrassing double defeat in the Kerala High Court. In the latest rebuff to the ED, the Kerala High...