By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The White Paper tabled in the Kerala Assembly by the VD Satheesan-led United Democratic Front (UDF) Government proclaims from the housetop as it were that the former Left Democratic Front (LDF) alone is to blame for Kerala’s economic woes. Ironically, the White Paper itself is...
By W. T. Whitney, Jr. NEW YORK: For more than two months, Bolivian Indigenous and working people have been protesting the repressive measures imposed by the government of conservative President Rodrigo Paz, in office since Nov. 8, 2025. Since he took office, it has been one attack after another...
By Ahlam Chemlali LONDON: In 1895, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary that the penniless population of Palestine must be “spirited across the border,” discreetly and circumspectly. In 1948, that vision became policy. With the Nakba, approximately 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced, their land absorbed by the newly declared...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After a series of political setbacks since Lok Sabha Election 2024, the meet of the INDIA bloc scheduled to be held at the Constitution Club in New Delhi on June 8 is a significant development, especially when one of its allies DMK has announced to...
By T N Ashok In India’s high-stakes corporate world, timing is everything. Sometimes it creates billionaires. Sometimes it destroys them. And occasionally, it raises questions that refuse to go away. The latest controversy involving mining billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Group, the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) searches under the Foreign Exchange...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEWYORK: For nearly four months, President Donald Trump has projected confidence that America could sustain a military confrontation with Iran while simultaneously negotiating peace from a position of strength. This week, however, the strongest challenge to that assumption did not come from Tehran, Moscow, Beijing,...
By Tirthankar Mitra Trinamool Congress has split. The handiwork of the BJP is discernible in wrecking the outfit to which it was once allied and later turned a bitter political adversary. Inarguably the most significant indication in this regard was accepting Mamata Banerjee as the leader of splinter group...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Trinamool Congress is struggling with its biggest-ever internal crisis, with 58 MLAs wresting control of the party’s legislature wing, electing Ritabrata Banerjee as their leader and attaining recognition from the Assembly Speaker, while reaffirming Mamata Banerjee as the party’s leader. The move is being...
By Krishna Jha The recent trend of growth in trade and economic exchange between India and China is a welcome development, particularly in the context of the deepening Hormuz Crisis consequent upon the US imperialist aggression against Iran and its bullying tactics against other countries. The US began arm-twisting...
By Harman Singh When the country was struggling for independence, the world was grappling with World War II. The people of Bengal were suffering from the tragedy of famine. During that period, on May 25, 1943, writers and artists from various states and princely kingdoms came together in Mumbai...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The preliminary version of the OECD Outlook released on June 3, 2026 has projected the real GDP of India to grow by 6.3% during the FY 2026-27, which is a sharp decline from the robust growth rate of 7.8 per cent year-on-year in the quarter...
By Nilotpal Basu The Supreme Court’s order in connection with petitions against Election Commission’s SIR orders in Bihar states that “the commission is empowered in the exercise of its constitutional mandate to undertake a limited enquiry into citizenship for the purpose of satisfying itself as to eligibility for inclusion...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Three weeks are too short a period to evaluate the performance of a newly-elected Government. But the period throws up significant straws in the wind which show the direction in which the Government intends to move. And there are clear indications that the VD Satheesan-led...
By T N Ashok In India, where film stars command a level of public trust that often exceeds that enjoyed by politicians, doctors and even religious leaders, a familiar question has resurfaced: how much responsibility should celebrities bear for the products they endorse? The latest controversy centres on actor...
By Indrani Chakraborty Geoeconomic fragmentation imposing an annual cost of $213–$307 billion on the global economy, according to a new World Economic Forum report release on June 4. Driven by geopolitical tensions, economic security concerns and shifting trade relationships across major economies, fragmentation accelerated through 2025 and 2026 and...
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON DC: As President Donald Trump’s planned taxpayer-paid birthday bash June 14 concert collapsed, activists—led by labour, the No Kings movement, and 50501—stepped up plans for events opposing his agenda this week. One organization, Seven Days In June, got a jump on others. It is sponsoring...
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: Raul Castro was born on June 3 in the small Cuban village of Biran in Holguin Province in 1931. If there was ever a time when we needed to celebrate the life and contribution of this heroic revolutionary it is today. Castro, Cuba’s former president,...
By K Raveendran Public anger has a strange way of finding symbols. Sometimes it gathers around a saintly figure in a white cap, sometimes around an unlikely political label that sounds almost like a joke until it begins to speak for a generation. The overwhelming response from Gen Z...