By R. Suryamurthy For much of the last decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has benefited from one political advantage that few leaders enjoy – whenever one crisis emerged, another pillar of the economy remained strong enough to offset the damage. When demonetisation disrupted economic activity, global oil prices were...
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Left is having a bad time in Presidential elections in the Latin American countries. After losing Ecuador and Chile, the ruling Left coalition in Colombia faced a defeat in first round of Presidential polls in the country held on May 31. The ruling coalition nominee...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: In the absence of any dialogue between Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav on poll alliance against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party and Congress are making preparations in all the assembly seats for 2027 polls. Now nobody talks about INDIA alliance in UP, Akhilesh...
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: On one hand, in Haryana, even a sufficient number of its youth, passing out the Post Graduation, NET and PhD degrees from its own colleges and universities are not getting even the minimum qualifying marks to get through the Assistant Professor’s exams being conducted...
By T N Ashok The IPL 2026 season ended with a familiar image: Virat Kohli standing tall under the lights of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, bat raised, trophy secured, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru celebrating a second consecutive title. For a franchise that spent nearly two decades being...
By Nitya Chakraborty Facing the big possibility of China taking control of the new Junta government in Myanmar which took office last month, Indian policy makers are now very keen to give a big push to the India-Myanmar relations covering both economy and security aspects. Myanmar President U Min...
By K Raveendran The promise of India becoming the world’s third-largest economy has become one of the most persistent themes in the political messaging of the Modi government. It is projected as evidence of national resurgence, a sign that India is no longer waiting at the margins of global...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Navigating Change Through Inclusive Social Dialogue, the fourth item on the agenda of the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference scheduled to be held during June 1 – 12, 2026, has pointed out that the tripartite social dialogue in India has stopped since 2015,...
By Rabindra Nath Sinha May 30 marks the launch of SIR in strife-scarred Manipur, where Assembly elections ‘under normal circumstances’ are due between late February and mid-March 2027, SIR, therefore, is preparatory to constituting the 60 member-House in this north-eastern state, where ethnic conflict of alarming proportions on the...
By T N Ashok The Hindi film industry has always lived on nostalgia. Every generation rediscovers the songs, stars and stories of the one before it. In recent years, however, Bollywood has turned nostalgia into a business model. Old songs are remixed, recreated, repackaged and inserted into new films...
By Manish Rai The Republican People’s Party (CHP), the primary secular opposition party in Turkey, is presently embroiled in a significant political and democratic crisis as a result of an unprecedented court ruling on May 21, 2026, that invalidated the political party’s leadership election in 2023. The fragile democracy...
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The dimension of the threat from Artificial Intelligence to the human labour force is becoming more clearer as the AI enters its new stage of development. The first wave of artificial intelligence largely functioned like an assistant. It made workers write code faster, summarise documents,...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The last three months of 2026 have seen considerable inflationary pressure on Indian economy on account of fuel crisis triggered by the Iran war. All sectors of economy are reeling under the pressure. Unemployment is rising, real wages have declined, and living cost is rising...
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In West Bengal, new Chief Minister Mr. Suvendu Adhikari has certainly made an impressive beginning in galvanising/reviving the moribund state administration, which hardly properly functioned during the 15 year long tenure of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Credit for the visible improvement in the functioning of...
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Amid reports that Iran and the United States may soon reach a ceasefire agreement over the ongoing conflict, fresh tensions emerged on Tuesday following reports of U.S. strikes on missile launch sites and boats in southern Iran. Washington claimed the action was carried out in...
By Nilotpal Basu On the heels of the results of five assembly elections, Narendra Modi was overjoyed in celebration. He aggressively asserted that “this is not just an electoral shift, but a change in the people’s mindset”. Since the LDF had lost Kerala and BJP climbed to office in...
By Satyaki Chakraborty The global economic outlook has deteriorated sharply in recent weeks, according to the latest edition of the World Economic Forum’s Chief Economists’ Outlook released in Geneva on May 28. Nearly nine in ten chief economists surveyed expect global growth to weaken over the next 12 months,...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) organised statewide protest action against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s residences in Kannur and Thiruvananthapuram. The raids, which have touched off a wave anger in the LDF camp, were related to an alleged...