By T N Ashok An invitation from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the funeral ceremonies of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has placed New Delhi in a delicate diplomatic position at a time when West Asia is emerging from one of its...
By Nilotpal Basu Economics and finance tend to manifest in the political process. However, what we are witnessing right now is an extraordinary level of convergence in the contemporary landscape. A deeper exploration reveals that this is more than a mere coincidence. For quite some time now there has...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a clever U-turn on the low alcohol tax rate issue, Kerala Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan has tossed the ball into the United Democratic Front (UDF)’s court for a final decision on the matter. The Chief Minister wilted under pressure mounted by not only...
By T N Ashok The modern airliner is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Hundreds of strangers are packed into a pressurized metal tube and transported safely across continents at nearly 900 kilometers an hour. The system works because of one fundamental principle: discipline. When that discipline breaks down at...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Against a backdrop of evolving geoeconomic realities and exponential innovation, the World Economic Forum brought together more than 1,800 global leaders from business, government, civil society, international organizations and academia for the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2026 in Dalian, China which ended on...
By Ashis Biswas Despite a Russian commitment not to recruit Nepali youths to fight in its war against Ukraine, not much official information about the condition of those still engaged in the battle zone is available yet. Nepalese authorities have been strongly urging upon Russia to stop using young...
By Harsh Gour The Supreme Court of India’s Draft Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Courts, 2026 (‘Draft Regulations’) are based on five principles: human primacy, transparency, accountability, data protection, and judicial independence. These principles visibly translate through the Draft Regulations in the general principles which deal with...
By K Raveendran The new FCRA rules may look like an administrative tightening of India’s foreign funding regime, but their political effect is likely to be far larger than their legal wording suggests. On paper, the framework is simple: organisations receiving foreign donations must be more precise about what...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Democratic socialist and other progressives swept the election to the primaries in New York and Washington as the results were available on Tuesday night. Three congressional candidates endorsed by the democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani won defeating the other candidates endorsed by the Democratic Party establishment....
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: In Madhya Pradesh politics, controversies have surfaced from time to time that have raised questions over the relationship between power and property. Recently, a detailed investigation report by the national daily Indian Express claimed that the family of Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav, his close...
By R. Suryamurthy When China hauled India before the World Trade Organization (WTO) over New Delhi’s solar manufacturing incentives and tariffs on information technology products, Beijing presented itself as a guardian of free trade, a defender of multilateral rules, and a victim of protectionism. Yet the complaint may ultimately...
By Anjan Roy Any discussion on a state budget must take into account the current fiscal regime of the country as a whole. For the introduction of the GST system and setting up GST Council meant the states’ giving up their right to tax their main source of revenue,...
By Dr. Arun Mitra A fire at a coaching centre in Lucknow left several students injured. Earlier, in Kota, which has now become a major coaching hub, reports of student suicides have surfaced year after year. These are extremely tragic and heartbreaking incidents that require serious reflection by society...
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Socialists both inside and outside the Labour Party need to be intervening to help shape the political atmosphere around the impending change in government. It now seems certain that former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will become the next Prime Minister, most likely without a contest....
By Nitya Chakraborty The opposition INDIA bloc which completed its three years on June 23 is passing through a critical period when the very foundation of this alliance, the strong regional parties, are shattered by defections and splits backed by the ruling party BJP. Mamata Banerjee who gave the...
By Arun Srivastava British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s exit was forced by a massive mutiny, spearheaded by the leftist and Marxist factions within his Labour Party as his tenure was defined by a decisive shift to the political right and the systematic abandoning of the party’s socialist base....
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: State capitalism, socialist market economy, New Economic Policy—whatever term supporters or critics of the Cuban Revolution want to use, it’s clear that the emergency reforms being proposed in the island nation under seize by the U.S. through economic blockade, will bring major changes to...
By T N Ashok For decades, Bollywood operated on a simple formula. Cast a superstar, spend lavishly on songs and action sequences, release the film across thousands of screens, and wait for the cash registers to ring. The bigger the budget, the bigger the expected success. That formula is...