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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...
NDA’s VP Candidate CP Radhakrishnan May Help BJP In Its Southern Conquest
By Sushil Kutty As is his wont, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made one of his standard Smart Alec comments when holding forth on the BJP/NDA vice-presidential candidate, CP Radhakrishnan. Apparently, ‘CP’ and Modi are long-standing friends with Radhakrishnan’s deadly devotion to public service, the clincher in CPR’s favour. Modi...
Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra In Bihar Assumes Massive Character On Fourth Day
By Arun Srivastava PATNA:“Voter Adhikar Yatra” by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and supported by the INDIA Bloc entered its fourth day in Bihar with massive participation by the common people, especially the poor and women in the march. For the Bihar people, the yatra is not merely an...
Central Ministry Pits Savarkar Above Mahatma Gandhi In Its Independence Day Post
By Krishna Jha On August 15, amidst the celebrations of the Independence Day, petroleum ministry in the social media came out with a surprise post, against the basic fabric of our freedom struggle. VD Savarkar, who consciously kept himself away from the freedom struggle, was shown placed above Gandhiji,...
After A 47 Day Gap, Israel-Iran Confrontation Has Come To The Fore Again
By Asad Mirza It has been only 47 days since the Iran-Israel war ended. The peace in the Middle East is only 47 days old. But barely after a month-and-a-half, the possibility of reignition of a new war has increased once again. The situation is tense again after the...
A Red Carpet For Putin In Alaska, No Clear Roadmap For Peace
By M A Hossain Anchorage, Alaska, is not the first place one thinks of when imagining global diplomacy. Yet, on a brisk day in Macomb, Michigan, Americans and the world were reminded that great power politics often thrives in unexpected places. There, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President...
Prospects Of Ukraine Peace Deal Brighten After Trump-Zelensky Meeting
By Nitya Chakraborty The prospects of arriving at a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia to end the nearly three and half year old war have brightened after the Monday meeting of President Donald Trump with the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in the presence of...
Like Donald Trump, General Asim Munir Weaves A New Theory Every Day On Four Day War
By Sushil Kutty Pakistan is on a wing and a prayer, hoping against hope that spilling disinformation and spreading misinformation about India and against India with ‘Field Marshal’ Gen. Asim Munir doing his best to push United States President Donald Trump’s single-point agenda, pocket the Nobel Peace Prize against...
