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By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer WASHINGTON: The conflict between President Donald Trump’s administration and the Federal Reserve has moved from simmer to full boil. In a stunning escalation Monday morning, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a sweeping review of the Federal Reserve, questioning not just its recent decisions but...
An Era Has Come To A Close With The Passing Away Of V S Achuthanandan
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An epoch has come to a close with the passing away of Communist patriarch and former chief minister of Kerala, Velikkakathu Sankaran Achuthanandan. He was 101, and is survived by his wife Vasumathi, son VA Arun Kumar and daughter VV Asha. VS, as he is...
Mamata Banerjee Puts BJP On Backfoot In Bengal By Focusing On Bengali Identity
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Making a mix of emotions and facts, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee blew her poll bugle loud and clear from July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally. While calling upon her party activists to hit the ground running for the election campaign, she sounded a stern warning...
Israeli Genocide In Gaza Has Violated All Types Of International Laws
By Akansha Pillai, Akshat R.N The violence in Gaza has evoked a novel reaction from the U.N. specialists, who have clearly warned the Palestinians about the ‘annihilation’. As documented in the photos of dead bodies and funeral marches, the cost of human life has been deep. The crisis was...
Communist Stalwart V S Achuthanandan Played A Major Role In Shaping Kerala Politics
By Pinarayi Vijayan The life of Comrade VS Achuthanandan who passed away at the age of 101 on Monday is a remarkable chapter in the history of Kerala in general and the revolutionary movement here in particular. Comrade VS Achuthanandan was a symbol of a brilliant tradition of struggle,...
India’s Decision To Raise Oil Import From The US Is More Political Than Commercial
By Nantoo Banerjee President Trump’s trade and tariff tantrums seem to be strongly working on India. The country’s crude oil imports from the United States surged by 51 percent during the first half of the current year ignoring the very high cost of import, including shipping, and travel time...
Modi Govt Avoiding Discussion On Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor In Parliament
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even a naïve can perceive that the Union Government is playing a trick in respect to discussion on the Operation Sindoor and the ensuing events in the Parliament of India. They had given assurance in the all-party meeting on the eve of the Monsoon Session...
Bihar To Witness One Of The Bitterest Assembly Polls By Year End
By Kalyani Shankar The politics is heating up in Bihar with the Assembly elections scheduled at the end of the year. Regional and national parties are preparing for this and have begun the seat-sharing process early to avoid last-minute hitches. The election will be a fiercely competitive battle for...
The Muslim Electorate In Bihar On The Margins Before Assembly Polls
By Jiyaul Haque, Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui On June 24, the Election Commission of India announced a Special Intensive Revision (‘SIR’) of the Electoral Roll (‘ER’) in Bihar, just months ahead of the State Assembly elections. While such revisions are standard electoral procedures, the conditions attached to this one, particularly...
BRICS Bloc Has To Work Jointly To Emerge As Defender Of Global South
By Asad Mirza The recent BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, apart from raising concerns on the multilateral issues, was marred by dissensions within the grouping. It also faced the added threats from the American President Trump over BRICS’ plans to float a new global currency to...
U.S. Supreme Court Is Acting As A Collaborator In Trump’s MAGA Agenda
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The United States is witnessing a political transformation of seismic proportions. In the wake of Donald Trump’s return to power and an increasingly assertive conservative Supreme Court. Long -standing liberal institutions are being dismantled or radically altered. At the same time, the Democratic...
Gopalganj Violence Marks The First Organised Resistance Of Awami League
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In Bangladesh, the recent eruption of violence involving pro-government forces and opposition supporters of the currently banned Awami league (AL), at Gopalganj, reveals the failure of the country’s interim Government, to stamp its political authority among a bitterly divided population. The shocking outburst of public...
Rewriting Mughal History For Class Eight Students By RSS Inspired Ideologues
By Sushil Kutty Class 8 is when students look forward to Class 9. But today’s Class 8 is another lot. They will be told the Mughals were cruel, a bunch of uncivilized uncouth marauders who made mountains out of skulls of Hindus they defeated in surprise raids they made...
Wall Street Journal’s Ahmedabad Crash Report May Well Be A Plant
By K Raveendran The Wall Street Journal’s report on the Ahmedabad Air India crash has triggered a storm of controversy not only for what it suggests but also for what it deliberately avoids. The claim that the crash, which took 260 lives, may have been caused by the senior...
Hindutva Is Yet To Emerge As Core Issue In Bihar Despite BJP’s Bangladeshi Pitch
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the BJP has been raising its pitch on the issue of Bangladeshi Muslims infiltrators, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) has said that they have found illegal infiltrators name during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Electoral Roll, Hindutva is yet to...
Indian Govt Confident Of Maintaining Oil Supplies Despite Trump’s Sanction Threat
By Subrata Majumder US President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Russia to end war with Ukraine, or, face secondary sanction, embracing 100 percent tariff on countries purchasing oil and other goods, if no peace agreement is reached between Russia and Ukraine within 50 days. At present, over 90...
Communist Party Of India Urges Maoists To Leave Armed Struggle And Join National Mainstream
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) has called upon the Maoists as also other sections of armed rebels in the country to leave the path of armed struggle and join the mainstream of the communist movement. The Party’s call assumes special significance in the context of...
Differences On Next CM Choice May Prolong President’s Rule In Manipur For A Short Period
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Politically the Bharatiya Janata Party and administratively the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) are still trying hard to install a popular ministry in restive Manipur ; but circumstances seem to have forced them to be in a state of readiness to extend President’s...
