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Can Europe Provide A Third Way Outside The Domination Of Donald Trump?
By Prabhat Patnaik With the Trump administration adopting brutally repressive measures not just against immigrants but even against US citizens, a tendency has emerged within American liberal circles to look towards Europe for providing a “third way”, a “model” different from both China and the US, the two major...
Congress High Command Smoothens Rough Edges Over DMK Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress high command has taken direct control of the brewing discord within the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu. While formal negotiations are scheduled to begin on February 22, public remarks by Congress leaders have already set off debate over whether the...
Christianity And Islam Share The Fasting Month In 2026 After A Gap Of 33 Years
By Asad Mirza Two largest religions of the world, i.e. Christianity and Islam started their most important period of fasting in a year on the same day this year. This rare convergence comes after a gap of 33 years. The Islamic month of Ramadan and Christianity’s 40-day period of...
Restarting Bullock Cart Races In Rural Olympics Is A Welcome Move
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Ultimately after a long wait for 13 years, the ban on bullock cart races has been quashed by the Punjab government. Bullock cart races were halted during the tenure of previous governments in Rural Olympics. Addressing a gathering during the Kila Raipur Sports Rural...
India Positions Itself As The AI World’s Third Pole Under PM Modi’s Active Leadership
By T N Ashok At the center of Bharat Mandapam, the chiselled, lotus-shaped convention complex that has become the theatre for India’s global ambitions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood for a “family photo” that looked less like a diplomatic formality and more like a merger of Silicon Valley and...
Bengal BJP Leaders Looking For March 15 Rally Of PM Modi For Poll Boost
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Optics rather than cohesive groundwork to build up an efficient poll machinery marks the activities of West Bengal unit of BJP in the run up to the Assembly elections in April/May this year.. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed meeting on March 15 at Brigade Parade...
Epstein Files Reveal A Saga Of Systematic Crimes By The Super Rich In Neoliberal Era
By Nilotpal Basu Since the release of the Epstein Files by the US Department of Justice on January 30, outrage has been unleashed across the United States and Europe. But the revelations, which include more than 30 lakh e-mail exchanges, over a lakh of photographs and above a thousand...
Great Punjabi Sufi Poet Bulleh Shah Was A Rebel Against Caste, Orthodoxy
By Krishna Jha “Break down the mosque, break down the temple, break down everything that can be broken, but do not break a human heart, for that is where God resides.” That was Bulleh Shah, relevant even after so many years. One of Punjab’s greatest Sufi poets, he makes...
Asia-Pacific To Miss 88 Per Cent Of The Sustainable Development Goals By 2030
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia-Pacific region will miss 103 of 117 measurable targets – or 88 per cent – across the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by world leaders in 2015, a new report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has...
Kerala Moves SC Against HC Order On ‘Nava Kerala’ Survey
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government has moved the Supreme Court against an order of the Kerala High Court quashing a Government Order (GO), issued in October 25, to conduct a door-to-door survey titled ‘Nava Kerala Citizen Response Programme’. The programme was aimed at reaching out to the...
The American Left Owes A Lot To The Contribution Of Jesse Jackson
By Peter Dreier NEW YORK: One of the most famous photographs of Martin Luther King Jr shows him standing on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, with three of his top aides — Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, and Jesse Jackson. The next night (April 4, 1968)...
Trump’s Second Tenure Has Led To Vertically Splitting The U.S. Society
By Ramzy Baroud NEW YORK: A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 per cent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one of its most decisive midterm elections ever. Gallup, however, was stating the obvious. It is a surprise...
Mending Fences With Bangladesh: Modi Has Taken The Right Move But The Task Is Too Tough
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken the right move in sending a personal message to the new Prime Minister of Bangladesh Tarique Rahman by stating that “your victory is a testimony to the trust and confidence reposed by the people of Bangladesh in your leadership and...
An Artificial Intelligence Summit Organised Most Unintelligently
By K Raveendran Grand declarations, glittering participation and a stage crowded with policymakers, entrepreneurs and technologists were meant to signal India’s arrival as a decisive force in artificial intelligence. Instead, the India AI Impact Summit has come to symbolise something far less flattering: a troubling gap between ambition and...
BJP’s Stakes Are Very High In Assam, Resorts To No Hold Barred Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Assam is the only state out of the five scheduled for election in April-May, where BJP led NDA is in power, while in the other four – West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry – it hopes to increase its presence, to a significant level...
India France Bilaterals And Macron-Modi Bonhomie Have Special Significance
By T N Ashok The optics of French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to India for a 4th official in quick time are unmistakable. When he landed in Mumbai a warm embrace from PM Modi welcomed him reestablishing the bonhomie enjoyed between them. Narendra Modi, and Emanuel Macron, had a...
Jesse Jackson’s Death Is A Big Loss To Current Movement In U.S. For Protecting Human Rights
By Tirthankar Mitra A lifelong crusader at home and abroad for the rights of the economically challenged and unrepresented Jesse Jackson is no more. His was a voice respected in US whose citizen he was and far beyond the contours of American borders. For the issues he championed were...
Women And Children Welfare Schemes In Madhya Pradesh Yielding Results
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: An economic survey is often regarded as a mirror of a state’s socio-economic condition. It does not merely present figures on growth rates, investment, and production; it also reflects the state’s vision and the direction in which it seeks to move its future. Alongside agriculture,...
