By Satyaki Chakraborty The world of diplomacy is going through uncertain times as the West Asian war is yet to end even after 48 days beginning with the attack by USA and Israel on Iran on February 28. President Trump has been bruised diplomatically, Iran has been battered in...
By K R Sudhaman CHENNAI: As the scorching April sun beats down on Tamil Nadu, the political temperature is rising just as fiercely. On April 23, the state heads to the polls in what promises to be one of the most unpredictable assembly elections in recent memory. The traditional...
By Nilotpal Basu Slogan mongering and inventing fake narratives has been the main forte of Narendra Modi and his government. An extremely severe and obnoxious example is its latest act. The convening of the two day special session of Parliament is a glaring example of that very same trait....
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Be it the parched plains of Durgapur or the cool hills of Darjeeling, ongoing election campaign in West Bengal is swaying to the beat of song and dance. And if it is Billy Joel’s 1977 song “Trading a Chevvy for a Cadillac”, it is rap...
By Indrani Chakraborty As the growth strategies that powered the global economy over the past three decades lose relevance, a new World Economic Forum report released on April 15 calls for a renewed blueprint to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by AI, geostrategic competition, rising debt and inequality,...
By Nitya Chakraborty President Donald Trump as usual has been talking in conflicting voices on his immediate stand on Iran war. The U.S. President ordered naval blockade of Iranian ports after the failure of the Islamabad peace talks on Sunday but on Tuesday, he indicated that another round of...
By K Raveendran Financial markets are often accused of being cold, shortsighted and morally indifferent, yet they do possess one quality that political systems frequently lack in moments of conflict: an ability to strip away theatre and price only what appears durable. That seems to be what has happened...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the three-day Special Session of the Parliament of India – from April 16 to April 18, 2026 – approaches, it has become crystal clear that the Constitutional (131st Amendment) Bill 2026, which seeks to implement 33 per cent of the Lok Sabha and the...
By Arun Srivastava Samrat Choudhary becoming the chief minister of Bihar is not only the dream coming home for BJP, it will help the BJP to redefine social justice politics in India by shifting the focus from traditional identity-based mobilization to a model based on Hindutva, Samrasta (social harmony)...
By Satyaki Chakraborty With only six months left for the crucial midterm elections in United States in November this year, a large number of Left wing Democrats belonging to the group of Bernie Sanders have entered the contests for primaries in June this year to be able to formally...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India (ECI) has caused miscarriage of democracy in West Bengal, which is rejoiced by the Union Government of India led by PM Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP clan, lamented by millions of voters whose names were deleted from the electoral roll under Special...
By R. Suryamurthy A below-normal monsoon after nearly eleven years is not merely a meteorological deviation. It is an economic stress test, and a politically consequential one, for a government that has anchored its narrative in macroeconomic stability, inflation control, and calibrated welfare support. The India Meteorological Department’s projection...
By Dr Arun Mitra As the temperature around the globe is rising, melting of glaciers, ever increasing typhoons, irregular & untimely rains leading to increase in sea level effecting our day to day life, the climate change has entered to climate crisis and now climate chaos. Hasan Abdullah author...
By Guy Laron NEW YORK: On the morning of February 23, 2026, Benjamin Netanyahu called Donald Trump from Jerusalem with intelligence that would change the course of their war on Iran. Senior Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, were scheduled to gather at a compound in Tehran...
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The mood of the BJP rank and file in West Bengal is certainly upbeat after the electoral rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah in the recent days, barely eight days before the first phase of polling scheduled n April...
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: In recent days, the steps taken by the central government to promote Piped Natural Gas (PNG) have sparked a fresh debate. Reports from several places suggest that LPG consumers are being issued notices to shift to PNG within 90 days, failing which their LPG connections...
By Nantoo Banerjee The country is experiencing a significant surge in commodity and transportation costs following geopolitical tensions in the Persian Gulf region and a weak Indian Rupee. Retail prices of daily essentials are rising rapidly. The prices of edible oils, pulses and packaged foods, including drinking water, have...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the Union Government of India have slowly been rolling out provisions of new labour codes, towards their full implementation from April 1, 2026, an industrial unrest has just erupted today April 13, 2026 in Noida in Uttar Pradesh, and then spread in Delhi-National Capital...