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Islamophobic And Capitalist Diatribe Against Mamdani Underline His Challenge In November Polls
By Asad Mirza Zohran Mamdani’s candidature as the Democratic candidate for the New York City’s next mayor has surely ruffled feathers and has also exposed the Islamophobic and capitalist nature of the establishment, and its influence on the American society. Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the Democratic mayoral primary...
India’s Aluminium Producing Units To Invest US$ 5 Billion To Build 20gw Renewable Energy Capacity By 2030
By Kunal Bose India, the world’s second largest aluminium maker with production in 2024 rising marginally to 4.2m tonnes from 4.16m tonnes in the previous year, is already a big producer of hydropower with large new capacity periodically getting commissioned. But for logistical reasons that renewable energy is not...
BJP’s Woo-Christians Strategy Falls Flat In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s much-hyped political strategy to woo the Christian population in Kerala has fallen flat in the face of strong opposition from within the community. That the opportunistic strategy has not been to the liking of the community was clear from the very...
Centrism In Democratic Party Establishment Is Too Weak A Weapon Now To Fight Trump’s Actions
By Brandon Chew NEW YORK: The reaction from many to Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary has been hyperbolic to say the least. Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, has promised a 2% tax on the wealthiest 1% of New Yorkers, an...
How To Revisit The Human Angle In Data Driven Space Governance?
By Harsh Gour A recent academic paper in Acta Astronautica, “The protection of AI-based space systems from a data-driven governance perspective,” authored by Giovanni Tricco and eleven others attempts to tackle a complex and timely topic: how our existing legal frameworks must adapt to be more autonomous, when it...
Indian Trade Unions Need To Reform Themselves To Remain Relevant
By Nantoo Banerjee Trade unionism seems to have lost focus in India. It has failed to reform itself to keep pace with economic reforms and globalisation, and changing job scenarios. It is also facing the biggest leadership crisis. The poor public and industry response to the nationwide strike call...
Rahul Gandhi Has Emerged As An Effective Leader Of Opposition In Last One Year
By Kalyani Shankar Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) for one year now. In this role, he plays a significant part in India’s Parliament. He holds the government accountable and speaks for the people’s views. Although the LOP role is not in the...
Narendra Modi Government And Election Commission Working In Tandem
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All circumstanced and the manner in which the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Roll in Bihar is being carried out suggest that the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi and the Election Commission of India (ECI) are aligning together. BJP has been claiming...
Trump Faces Revolt From His Young MAGA Supporters Of Florida Over Epstein Files
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump faces a revolt from a MAGA base he created in Tampa in Florida. The ghost of the Jeffrey Epstein files and Clients list has come back to haunt him. The weekend was dominated by news of FBI number 02...
Election Commission Giving No Credence To Supreme Court Request For Accepting Aadhaar
By Arun Srivastava Apprehensions have come true. Supreme Court not staying further execution of SIR in Bihar and reluctant to direct the ECI to include Aadhaar, EPIC (Electoral Photo Identity Card) and the ration card as voter IDs has conjured it go ahead with its beseeched design to disenfranchise...
Who Is Responsible For The Proposed Hanging Of Nimisha Priya In Yemeni Jail?
By Sushil Kutty Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya has lost her tryst with life. There’s “nothing much India can do”, the Modi government told the Supreme Court of India on July 14 at the risk of one more “surrender” laid at the door of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It is...
China Ready To Meet Trump’s Tariff Threat Through Tech Driven Aluminium Production
By Kunal Bose China whose annual production of primary aluminium routinely well exceeds the metal’s combined output in the rest of the world has in place a comprehensive ‘Action Plan’ for the white metal covering 2025-27. But in order to support production, the country is required to import large...
BRICS 2025 Declaration Expressed Concern Over Growing Nuclear Threat And Conflict
By Dr Arun Mitra Several important developments have emerged from the recently concluded BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On July 6 and 7.Although U.S. President Donald Trump expressed strong displeasure over the summit — even calling it a conspiracy to end the dominance of the U.S. dollar....
Election Commission’s Constitutional Mandate Is Not All-Pervasive
By K Raveendran The most important takeaway from the Supreme Court’s stand on the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar’s electoral rolls is a reminder that while the Election Commission of India (ECI) has the constitutional authority to take all necessary steps to ensure free and fair elections, it...
Bhagwat Not In Mood To Spare Modi Sangh’s ‘Retirement At 75’ Policy
By Arun Srivastava One of the worst-kept secrets in Indian politics, the crack that has jolted the saffron ecosystem, that of the war of supremacy between RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which has been the source of an existential crisis for the Sangh Parivar, has...
Union Home Ministry Is Carrying A Witch Hunt Against Bengali Speaking Muslims
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has been struggling with the issues of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar for years. Most desirable solution is that the illegal immigrants should be sent back to their countries. It is the national perspective. There is nothing wrong in it. However, there are...
Mohan Bhagwat’s Suggestion On Retirement At 75 Will Have No Impact On Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat turning 75 is dogging Prime Minister Narendra Modi turning 75 except that if anybody’s dogging anybody, it is Prime Minister Modi who is younger than Bhagwat by a few days apart. But if anybody’s dogging anybody then it is Bhagwat for whom...
Trump’s Justice Department Plans To Denaturalise 20 Million Citizens
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to denaturalize citizens on grounds of fraud in acquiring citizenship, criminal acts or such background and hiding facts in filing papers has led to uncertainties of residency permanency in over 20 million naturalized citizens’, while legal...
