By Kunal Bose One state may call it business summit and another investor meet. But the commonalities in the publicity campaign preceding such conclaves – some states do it annually and some others like West Bengal have opted for once in two years – are striking. States big and...
By Aritra Banerjee In a rare and powerful display of naval strength, India’s two major naval forces—the Western and Eastern Fleets—came together during the ongoing TROPEX-25 exercise. This marks a major shift in India’s approach to maritime security, showing that the country is prepared to respond to threats in...
By Manish Rai Turkey’s proxy groups like the Syrian National Army (SNA) which is also part of a coalition of Syrian opposition groups led by Hayat Taheer Al-Sham (HTS) have been attacking the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in North Syrian since December 2024. In particular, fierce fighting along...
Parvesh Verma, the BJP’s candidate in the New Delhi assembly constituency, filed a complaint with the anti-corruption bureau against Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of being involved in alleged corruption linked to the Delhi Sports University. Verma, the former BJP MP, will take on Arvind Kejriwal...
By Nitya Chakraborty What is happening to the proposed official visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India early this year? Is the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to the Russian President to visit India given at the BRICS summit at Kazan on October 22 still valid? Doubts...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The key narrative of the Economic Survey 2024-25is that India’s real GDP growth in the financial year 2025-26 is expected to be between 6.3 to 6.8 per cent, suggesting a sluggish economic condition for the country in the next financial year. Since India’s GDP growth...
By Anjan Roy The sudden emergence of a Chinese AI model has upset the settled world of Western AI industry. The Chinese had released its indigenously developed AI machine in the third week of January 2025. What followed thereafter is anarchy. Technology majors of America suffered market capitalisation loss...
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is sucking up to the gods ahead of his government’s second budget of his third term. The god he chose, but, of course, ‘Maa Lakshmi’, the goddess of wealth and prosperity. Somebody spoke of a ‘Hindu goddess’, which is ridiculous because monotheistic...
By Arun Srivastava There is no more ambiguity. The lid on the stampede tragedy at the Mahakumbh in which more than hundred pilgrims died according to unofficial reports, though the Uttar Pradesh government put the figure at thirty, has been taken off. At least three reasons are said to...
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: “Somewhat better in recent days” is what regular Manipur watchers say, perhaps, for the first time in 21 months since the outbreak of ethnic violence in the north-eastern state on May 3, 2023 between Meiteis and Kuki tribals. The reference is obviously to the...
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the assembly elections in Delhi moving towards a triangular electoral battle, the BJP, Congress and AAP have been locking horns head-on. Meanwhile, the AAP vs. Congress battle is also heating up. Congress MP and Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi...
By Carolin Amlinger Oliver Nachtwey WASHINGTON: In the history of modern states, no person has been able to convert their wealth into such global political influence. By buying Twitter, now rebadged X, Elon Musk has already hoisted himself into the US government. In doing so, he has made himself...
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik The Budget deals with allocating money towards areas where the government thinks it is essential to spend, and finding out ways such as taxes, to finance it. The government primarily requires money to spend on social infrastructure (such as schools, hospitals, water, sanitation, etc.), physical...
By Satyaki Chakraborty On the eve of the fourth anniversary of the military coup in Myanmar, the ruling junta has floated the proposal to hold the national elections to form a new government in the country which is witnessing civil war between the junta and the forces of democracy...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Delhi Vidhan Sabha Election enters its final phase, it turns ugliest in the electoral history of India, with allegation by Arvind Kejriwal whose party is ruling Delhi of ‘poisoning Yamuna water’ by BJP ruled Haryana. It is ugliest, since poisoning drinking water source has...
By Ashok Dhawale The draft “National Policy Framework on Agricultural Marketing (NPFAM)”, recently circulated by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare reveals the sinister intentions of the RSS-BJP-led union government. It is a conspiracy to sacrifice farmers’ interest and maximise corporate profits. The draft reveals that the...
By Krishna Jha On January 13 this year, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that the date of Ram temple consecration in Ayodhya was the day when the “true independence of Bharat” was established. It was one of the great myths that RSS has been trying to make us believe....
By Sushil Kutty “I’ve been looking for answers/I’ve been looking for clues/I couldn’t find it in the paper/Couldn’t find it in the news/Oh there’s poison in the water/Oh there are toxins in the air/Oh it’s got us fighting over nothing/Whoever’s up there doesn’t care….” These are lyrics of a...