By Krishna Jha It is five years less than a century when on March 23, 1931, Bhagat Singh was martyred in his early youth. Bhagat Singh was among those few urban youth, who pursued the path of liberation from the colonial yoke with an openness for new ideas, and...
By Andre Pagliarini NEW YORK: “Here in South America, we present ourselves as a region of peace,” Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared last week as he hosted South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa, adding that “nobody here has an atomic bomb.” Normally the genial Lula might have...
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S.-Israel combo’s war against Iran entered its 20th day on March 19 with global diplomats monitoring closely the Chinese reaction to the continued decimation of Iran’s leadership and key installations by Trump and Netanyahu and also Tehran’s fierce retaliatory attacks against Israel as also the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Out of the election bound four states and one UT – Assam and Puducherry – are the only two, that are ruled by NDA, where BJP is very active in making the alliance stronger by trying to induct other political parties or their leaders into...
By Asad Mirza Apparently, Persian Gulf’s largest island – Qeshm has transformed from a tourist spot to its new sobriquet – the Missiles city of Iran. Qeshm with its labyrinthine salt caves and emerald mangrove forests in the Strait of Hormuz, offered tourists to have a peek at its...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The Iran war enters its third brutal phase, with top leaders assassinated by bombings including its intel chief by U.S.-Israel combo, thus fracturing its leadership and central command while citizens flee the country in panic creating an existential crisis for a nation that...
By T N Ashok There is something almost poetic about India’s Supreme Court being forced, in 2026, to sit nine judges deep and argue about what exactly constitutes an “industry.” Not because the question is trivial. Precisely because it is not. The definition they are wrestling with is nearly...
By Subrata Majumder Recently, Government of India tweaked Press Note 3, 2026 to open door for Chinese investment. It permitted Automatic Approval system for Chinese investment after closing down in 2000, owing to clash with China in Galwan valley, killing several Indian soldiers. Hitherto, Press Note 3, 2020 restricted...
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Count Etienne Davignon being ordered to stand trial over his alleged role in the murder of Congolese revolutionary Patrice Lumumba is a long overdue step towards justice — but far more than that. The fate of the first prime minister of post-colonial Congo — overthrown...
By K Raveendran Energy markets are entering a phase where the traditional assumptions underpinning pricing models are being fundamentally reshaped by the evolving nature of conflict, with the Iran war serving as a critical inflection point. For decades, oil prices have largely responded to state-driven variables such as production...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is mockery of election in West Bengal, that has begun in the right earnest after its announcement by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 15. The election will be held on a very faulty and incomplete electoral roll as the foundation of...
By R. Suryamurthy When India recalibrated its GST structure in September 2025, the promise was seductively simple—cut taxes, soften prices, revive demand. It was a proposition that carried both political appeal and economic logic, particularly in an economy where consumption had yet to regain durable momentum and household balance...
By T N Ashok The protracted war between Pakistan and Afghanistan entered a critical phase on Monday following the death of about 400 persons in a Kabul Hospital due to air strikes by Pakistan. Kabul immediately talked of severe retaliatory action. India also strongly condemned the barbaric attacks by...
By Arjavi Indraneesh Missile and drone strikes linked to the widening confrontation around Iran have forced Gulf governments to confront a reality long considered unlikely: the region’s economic hubs, energy infrastructure and aviation networks can no longer assume insulation from large-scale conflict. Airports, oil terminals and urban centres across...
By Anjan Roy Another key leader of Iran was assassinated in an Israeli raid on Tuesday, leaving the country even more deeper in a stormy sea with lost leadership. Ali Larijani, who was the head of national security of Iran, and was reportedly virtually leading the country since the...
By Nabanita Chakraborty Badal Sircar, a civil engineer turned dramatist, was born in Calcutta in 1925. He died in 2011 at the age of 86. His birth centenary celebrations have been observed nationally as he was the only writer of plays in Bengali in the second half of the...
By Harrison Stetler PARIS: This month’s local elections in France may not turn out to be such a debacle for the Left after all. A far cry from the nationalist and conservative wave that many had feared, left-wing candidates are reasonably well positioned to hold on to power, not...
By Marc Vandepitte NEW YORK: War is increasingly being fought less by humans and more by algorithms. In Iran, we see how artificial intelligence is driving the pace of destruction to an unprecedented speed, bringing with it a host of profound moral problems. New wars are rarely purely military;...