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By Dr. Gyan Pathak As far as outcome is concerned, the month-long Monsoon Session of the Parliament of India that concluded on August 21, 2025, can be termed as near washout. Nevertheless, the symptoms it manifested signalled India’s great struggle ahead. The opposition battled for saving the Constitution and...
India’s Aviation Dream Is Built On A Fragile Safety Net And Compromised Regulator
By R. Suryamurthy The Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad this June, killing 241 people, should have been a line in the sand. A Boeing 787 — the pride of modern aviation — falling out of the sky seconds after take-off was not just a technical failure. It...
Narendra Modi’s Proposed GST Concessions Are Not Growth Oriented
By Prabhat Patnaik Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech was expectedly full of blatant untruths. He talked for instance of the great strides that India had made in the manufacturing sector during the years of BJP rule, while the reality is a drastic fall over the last ten years in...
US Tariff Policy Has No Definite Framework – Varies From Country To Country
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: For years, transatlantic economic ties have been both a bedrock of Western prosperity and a source of simmering disputes. The newly announced US–EU Framework Agreement on trade, unveiled in August 2025 after months of behind-the-scenes negotiations and public tariff threats, marks a critical...
Supreme Court’s Refurbished Order On Stray Dogs Of Delhi Is A Welcome Compromise
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court has modified its dog-order of August 11 and “dog-lovers” are beyond relief, except that the order doesn’t meet everybody’s expectations. The best thing about the order is that dog-lovers have been told not to feed strays on the streets and roads, in the...
INDIA Bloc Picks Strong VP Candidate In Retd Justice B Sudershan Reddy
By Rahil Nora Chopra The opposition INDIA bloc has chosen former Supreme Court judge, Justice B Sudershan Reddy, as its combined candidate for the September 9 Vice Presidential elections, which it termed an ideological battle against the BJP-led NDA, which has nominated Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan. Former SC Judge...
The 130th Constitution Amendment Bill Is Aimed At Pushing India To One Party Rule
By Arun Srivastava The bill to remove a prime minister, chief minister or any other minister in jail for 30 days, without conviction is awell-designed plot to accomplish the RSS-BJP mission of pushing India to one nation-one party rule. This is one of the alternate choices like the SIR...
Budapest Is Discussed As The Next Venue For Putin-Zelensky Summit
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill met off the coast of Newfoundland in 1941 to sign the Atlantic Charter, they did more than draft a document. They staged a symbolic alignment of values that set the tone for the Allied victory in...
Election Commission’s Partial Position Has Been Exposed In The Last Few Weeks
By P. Sudhir This was waiting to happen. The tumultuous events of the last fortnight have brought into sharp focus a concerted assault on democracy – an assault unfolding at multiple levels. At the most basic, the very foundation of democracy and of the representative government – the constitutional...
Nikki Haley Plays Spoilsport With Trump, Uses Her Big China Card
By Sushil Kutty Everybody is looking to benefit from the India-United States standoff. The Trump-Modi rift has also caught the fancy of Indian-American and Trump’s “Republican colleague” Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s United Nation’s ambassador till they parted ways and Haley took off for a presidential run on her...
BJP High Command Unnerved By Caste Based Meetings In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP high command is unnerved by the caste based meetings held recently being considered direct threat to Hindutva philosophy of the saffron brigade. The meetings by powerful Thakur community followed by kurmi and lodh backwards and brahmins in near future have made it clear they...
How NCERT Modules On India’s Partition Are Full Of Distortions Of History
By Ram Puniyani NCERT, which prepares the school texts for the CBSE Board, is on a speedy journey to change the school texts and supplementary reading materials. Mostly it is modifying and changing the contents to suit the agenda of the ruling party. BJP is pursuing the agenda of...
US Corporates Are Speedily Pitching For AI Driven Growth To Compete
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The American corporate landscape in mid-2025 presents a complex tapestry of resilience, adaptation, and cautious optimism, shaped by a confluence of post-pandemic adjustments, geopolitical tensions, technological breakthroughs, and evolving market dynamics. As businesses navigate through an intricate maze of challenges and opportunities, the...
Peace In Ukraine And The World Requires U.S.-Russia Ties Normalization
By John Wojcik and C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Ever since last Friday, the news has been dominated by around-the-clock coverage of, first, the Alaska summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and, then, of the White House meeting of Trump, European Union leaders, and President Volodymyr Zelensky of...
How To Take Forward The Latest Improvement In India-China Bilateral Relations?
By Nitya Chakraborty India-China political relations have started improving giving all the indications that the leaderships of the two countries with the largest population in the world, are ready for building stable relationship after an uneasy period of five years since the Galwan killings on the border in 2020...
Contest For Vice President Is A Symbolic Fight To Protect Constitutional Values
By Dr. Gyan Pathak NDA’s candidate C P Radhakrishnan has filed his nomination papers for the election of Vice President of India on August 20, 2025. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flanked by Radhakrishnan and senior NDA leaders handed over four sets of nomination papers to Rajya Sabha Secretary General...
A Law Too Far: Why Automatic Removal Of Jailed Ministers Could Backfire
By K Raveendran The government’s proposal to automatically remove ministers who spend more than a month in jail on serious charges may look like a corrective to an extraordinary spectacle—Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attempting to run his government from behind bars. But what appears as a moral stand...
Decoding The Two High Level Summits Aimed To End Three And Half Year Old Ukraine War
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: The past six days have witnessed unprecedented diplomatic activity as President Donald Trump orchestrated two pivotal meetings aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The August 15 Trump-Putin summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, followed by Monday’s White House meeting with...
