By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala high Court’s expression of satisfaction with the investigation being conducted by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the Sabarimala gold theft case constitutes a major setback to the combined Opposition in the State. The Opposition has been launching a vituperative campaign to discredit...
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Hindustan Times on its web portal reported an incident, on Oct 15, 2025, which makes everyone shudder and reflects how humanity has dipped into a deep well of poisonous inhuman water. “A 27-year-old woman was allegedly forced to give birth on the roadside in...
By Tirthankar Mitra Not known to be a filmmaker with a penchant for rainbow themes, Bela Tarr’s films stood apart for their unconventional method of direction and issues which stayed in the minds of the audience long after they have left the movie theatres. If the works of the...
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s isolation from Global South on the issue of Trump’s invasion of Venezuela is now complete. Prime Minister Narendra Modi claims himself as the leader of Global South. Both at the SCO summit and BRICS meeting last year, Modi was active in articulating the aspirations and...
By Asad Mirza During the past one year, perhaps no other man has garnered so much news headlines and space as the American President Donald Trump. This is not due to any of his humane policies or pro-people announcements, but based solely on his quirky and unpredictable executive orders...
By Dr Arun Mitra US aggression on Venezuela, kidnapping its elected President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores on the cooked up charges of narcoterrorism reminds one of the familiar story of Lion and the Lamb. Similar excuse was given when the US attacked Iraq in 2003 that...
By R. Suryamurthy By any reasonable political measure, the promise to double farmers’ incomes was one of Narendra Modi’s most consequential commitments. Announced with flourish in the early years of his first term, it sought to reframe India’s agrarian question—not as one of chronic distress to be periodically managed,...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The unmarked aircraft that spirited Nicolás Maduro from Miraflores Palace three days ago was meant to close a chapter. Instead, it has opened a Pandora’s box of interventionist ambition that now stretches from the Arctic Circle to the Rio Grande. In the smoking...
By Kunal Bose Till not very long ago, people around the world loved to believe that bigness in volume of industrial and agricultural products was the only hallmark of China. But this is now disabused by a growing number of sectoral experts. More recently, Nvidia chairman Jensen Huang reminded...
By Ben Burgis NEW YORK: In January 2023, J. D. Vance had just arrived in the Senate. One of the first things he did was to pen an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal endorsing Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination. His primary argument was that Trump, “started...
By Jenny Farrell NEW YORK: Jack London’s journey as a socialist and a writer is a story of dramatic ascent and tragic decline. His socialism grew from lived experience: childhood poverty, hard labour in factories, and first-hand exposure to capitalism’s exploitative logic, crystallisedin1894 . He was born on January...
By Nitya Chakraborty The invasion of Venezuela by the United States on the early hours of January 3 along with the kidnapping of President Nicholas Maduro and his wife marks a new phase in Donald Trump’s foreign policy which has been termed by The Guardian columnist as “naked imperialism”....
By Nantoo Banerjee The civil aviation ministry’s much publicized issue of ‘no objection certificates’ to proposed three airlines – Shankh Air, AIhind Air and FlyExpress – apparently to break the near monopoly of IndiGo in the fast-expanding domestic aviation market shows, if anything, a lack of market perspective and...
By T N Ashok When India overtook Britain to become the world’s fifth-largest economy, policymakers celebrated a milestone that had been decades in the making. Official growth numbers showed an economy expanding at 6.5 to 7 percent, far outpacing a global slowdown stuck near 3 percent. Yet even as...
By Tanishka Shah More than twelve years after an incident at Maruti Plant in Manesar, which led to the death of an HR manager, the dismissal of over five hundred workers and numerous arrests, on November 7, 2025, Gurugram’s Industrial Tribunal-cum-Labour Court issued a judgment denying reinstatement to a...
By Branko Marcetic NEW YORK: Any hope that Donald Trump would be an “antiwar” president went out the window almost as soon as he won the 2024 election, when he filled his administration with a coterie of warmongers. After a year in which Trump backed Israel’s war with Iran,...
By Nitya Chakraborty In the neighbouring Bangladesh, the political developments take unpredictable course many times, but the latest alliance between the NCP, the party of the students body which led the July Revolution and the fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami, has shocked the progressive forces who supported the uprising that led to...
By Satyaki Chakraborty In a repeat of George Bush’s Iraq invasion in 2003 on the basis of fake allegations, Donald Trump ordered invasion of Venezuela on early morning of January 3 beginning the New Year 2026 with the implementation of his National security strategy announced last month. Trump claimed...