By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In the Northeast, where ethnic differences divide the people especially during elections ,often leading to fierce outbreaks of violence, certain steps taken by the Asom Sahitya Sabha in recent times seeking to bring different communities closer, are indeed praiseworthy. It is also appropriate for the...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is veteran leader Mohd. Azam Khan, who was recently released on bail after being in jail for 23 months, indispensable for Samajwadi Party and its president former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav?. Ever since Mohd. Azam Khan who had been a Muslim face of Samajwadi Party...
By Vijay K. Tiwari, Bhanu Pratap Recent political turmoil in Asia has been marked by larger legal uncertainty. Images of violence, protests, and arson have evoked a sense of awe, amazement, and panic. Upheavals in South Asia, first in Bangladesh and then in Nepal must be critically understood from...
By K Raveendran Oil prices fell to their lowest level in five months on Tuesday, continuing a slide that has gathered pace over the past several weeks. The benchmark Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude futures have both dipped significantly, erasing much of the year’s earlier gains. In stark...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Zohran Mamdani, the leftwing Democratic Party candidate for New York City mayor position, the election for which is scheduled for November 4 is creating waves in NYC by holding huge meetings in many areas of the financial capital of USA covering youth, students, the workers as...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Martin Sheen, who spent years portraying an idealized American president on “The West Wing,” recently castigated Donald Trump as the “biggest nothing in the world,” he articulated a tension that has animated American popular culture for decades: the gap between the leaders...
By Krishna Jha The bell tolls for all those who while treating the living world step beyond. To cross the limits means getting over to barbarity. But consequences come in same measures. No one is spared. Nuremberg Trials are the live examples of the same. October 18 this year...
By Harsh Gour Beyond systemic issues, there is a human cost to misusing AI in law. Many lawyers worry that treating AI as an oracle will erode their own legal reasoning. If an AI can quickly draft a petition or a plaint or summarize a case, will younger lawyers...
By Nitya Chakraborty On October 10, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the Peace prize for the year 2025 to the Venezuelan right wing politician Maria Corina Machado who has been working for the last few years for the removal of the President Nicholas Maduro from his office. The White...
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Over the last two months, social media has been active with both President Trump and Prime Minister Modi hailing each other as ‘friends’, yet the stalemate in US-India trade continues. Despite this exogenous tariff shock, the Indian economy has remained resilient with GDP growth of...
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: On October 13, Monday, President Donald Trump stood in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt—a city deliberately chosen for its historical role as a venue for Middle Eastern peace negotiations—and signed what his administration has branded the “Trump Peace Agreement.” Alongside him stood more than two...
By Girish Linganna In the heart of Pyongyang, under the bright lights of Kim Il Sung Square, North Korea unveiled what it calls “the world’s most powerful nuclear weapon” — the Hwasong-20 intercontinental ballistic missile. The timing was no accident. As U.S. warplanes and aircraft carriers patrolled nearby waters,...
By Arun Srivastava The framing of corruption charges by the Delhi High Court against the three members of Lalu Yadav Family, Lalu, Rabri Devi and their son Tejashvi on the eve of the crucial assembly elections in Bihar, has stunned even the detractors of their party RJD as Tejashvi...
By Tirthankar Mitra Given a closely contested poll battle in the two phase election in Bihar next month, results of 52 constituencies can make or break the prospects of INDIA and NDA alliances. The Bihar polls are likely to be a closely run electoral race as Opposition did well...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics endangering millions of lives and straining heath systems. Even common infections are becoming harder, sometimes impossible to treat. India has much to worry, because very large number of resistant infections have been reported from...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Yet another attempt by a frustrated opposition to discredit Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Government has failed dismally. The latest exercise undertaken by the Congress and the BJP relates to a so-called summons by the Enforcement Directorate(ED) to the Chief Minister’s son, Vivek...
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little to be excited about the recent inauguration of predominantly mountainous Arunachal Pradesh’s first commercial coal mine at Namchik-Namphuk in the Changlang district jointly by Union Coal & Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy and Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu, marking the state’s first coal...
By Kalyani Shankar The U.S. visa crisis has particularly impacted international students, including those from India. There are growing concerns about the future of their education in the US. Approximately 1.1 million international students are studying in the US. The recent crackdown on international students, has intensified, with its...