By Girish Linganna Russia has taken special steps to deliver the powerful S-400 system to Indian Air Force dismissing all allegations by the western sources that the supply will be inordinately delayed.. In line with the country’s initiatives to strengthen its air defence capabilities, the Indian government and Indian...
By Tirthankar Mitra Vietnam’s name was part of a slogan of a radical Left political outfit in Kolkata in the late ’60s and early ’70s.But the nation which was embattled with mighty America has now turned over a new leaf. It is making a steady progress towards prosperity whose...
By Girish Linganna The anticipated docking of a Chinese scientific vessel in the Maldives this week has heightened tensions among Beijing, Delhi, and Malé. The ship Xiang Yang Hong 3 is officially visiting the Maldives to change its crew and stock up on supplies, which is a completely harmless...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak From Mughalsarai in the East to Ghaziabad in the West, Uttar Pradesh presents an unprecedented political puzzle. Hindu communal posturing of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath since January 22 opening of Ram Temple at Ayodhya has caused a sudden rise of...
By Arun Srivastava West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee seems to be in a pickle. As per political grapevine, nearly 14 more ministers, legislators and senior leaders of her Trinamool Congress are in the waiting list of Narendra Modi-led pre-poll vendetta, to be arrested by the ED over the...
By K Raveendran Despite the steady growth of the electric vehicles worldwide, the awareness that it is well-nigh impossible to replace over a billion combustion cars with EVs in the foreseeable future is increasing. This is leading to calls for ‘more realism and less ideology in energy policy’. Many...
By Ashis Biswas Suddenly it’s raining thousands of jobs for unemployed youths and not just in Russia/ Ukraine war zones or in Israel/West Asia: Germany and Croatia are also on a major hiring spree. The good news for South Asia is that these countries are looking to recruit substantially...
By Tirthankar Mitra The conviction of former Pakistani prime minister, Imran Khan Niazi together with his erstwhile Cabinet colleague Shah Mehmood Qureshi seems to be following a pattern quite familiar in the country of their birth. The decision of the court announced almost on the eve of the general...
By Harihar Swarup Last week was the birth centenary of Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur whose relentless pursuit of social justice created a positive impact on the lives of crores of people. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the Bharat Ratna award to him coinciding with his birth centenary. Modi said...
By James M Dorsey Qatari mediation in the Gaza war threatens to become a double-edged sword. Demonstrators gathered this week at Qatari diplomatic missions in Washington, New York, and Ottawa to express frustration with the Gulf state’s failure to achieve an Israeli-Hamas agreement on a second round of prisoner...
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: This time Democratic senator Bernie Sanders is pulling no punches. The carnage the Israeli military has inflicted upon civilians in Gaza is so appalling that he wants to cut off all U.S. military aid to Israel—offensive and defensive. And that stand flies directly in the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Since the Presidential address in the Parliament is supposed to summarise the government’s achievements and intentions followed by meaningful debate, in which opposition raises points of concern, the Prime Minister is expected to address them during his reply to the ‘Motion of Thanks’. However, in...
By Sushil Kutty Was the manner in which the Chandigarh mayoral election conducted a symptom or the disease itself, a crooked system at play? The country’s top court has spoken – the previous week’s mayoral poll in the Union Territory was openly tampered with by a seemingly biased Presiding...
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi’s lurid boast on the floor of Parliament that he would be the prime minister for the third time and his party would alone win 370 seats deserves attention. The question is why is he so confident? Are RSS and BJP leaders busy hacking the...
By Tirthankar Mitra At a time when Trinamool Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee is announcing her intent of going alone in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, she seems to have overlooked that the company of Congress can help her regain some constituencies in north Bengal. The outfit she founded after...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A 55-year-old teacher, Paresh Doshi, filed an FIR against himself after his wife lost her life in a car crash caused by an attempt to save a stray dog. Paresh Doshi and his wife Amita were returning from the Ambaji Temple in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both BJP and Congress have intensified their campaign for the Lok Sabha elections. While the BJP held a series of meetings to formulate strategy for various issues connected with the elections, the Congress has decided to line-up equal mix of youths and veterans for...
By Dr Arun Mitra No one believed when Copernicus proposed that the Sun was the centre of the solar system and the Earth and other planets revolved around it or when Galileo proposed the principle of the pendulum and the law of falling bodies. They were demonised and persecuted...