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By Sushil Kutty INDIA bloc leaders are disappointed after meeting with Election Commission officials with a specific complaint related to Bihar Voter Roll Revision, alleging that this could trigger “mass disenfranchisement” of Bihar’s poor from the electoral list. An INDIA bloc delegation met the Election Commission on July 2...
Young Leaders In Bihar Are Playing Crucial Role In Assembly Polls
By A K Shrivastav The 243-member Bihar assembly is poll-bound, with elections likely in October-November this year. With 132 seats, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Janata Dal (United) having 78 and 45 seats respectively is in power. The opposition INDIA Alliance...
Four Names In BJP Top Brass’ View For Manipur CM Post
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Back channel and informal discussions seem to be making the Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs, who have a comfortable majority in the Manipur Assembly, optimistic about the state having a new ministry in place much before the expiry of the first six months of President’s...
Indian Constitution Has A Vision For Cultivating Scientific Temper In Citizens
By Rishabh Kachroo What does it mean for a democracy to entrust its citizens with the duty to cultivate “scientific temper”—even as it offers them little say in how science is governed? This quiet paradox lies buried in the folds of the Indian Constitution. There is no grand clause...
Keir Starmer’s Government Left Floundering After Labour Rebellion
By Andrew Murray LONDON: More cuts are coming as British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s floundering government on Wednesday attempted to recover from his shattering defeat over targeting disabled benefits. Senior minister Pat McFadden warned that the decision forced on ministers to abandon £5 billion-worth of cuts “does have...
Trump’s Tariff Bombs Often Fail To Explode; Latest 500% May Also Fail To Fire
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s latest volley in the global economic battleground — a proposal to impose a 500 percent tariff on countries that do business with Russia — marks the continuation of a pattern that has come to define his trade diplomacy: bold, blustering declarations followed by...
QUAD Foreign Ministers Joint Statement Ignores Indian Position On Action Against Pakistan On Terror
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s three QUAD partners USA, Australia and Japan ignored on Tuesday Indian foreign minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s appeal ahead of the four nation QUAD foreign ministers meeting to understand and appreciate that India will exercise its right to defend its people against terrorism. Jaishankar did not...
Special Intensive Revision Is Turning Out To Be A Vote Bandi For Muslims And Dalits
By Arun Srivastava Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll is more treacherous having wider political and economic implication than the National Register of Citizens (NRC) which is a register maintained by the Indian government to record the names of genuine Indian citizens. NRC differentiates between citizens and those...
Centre’s Employment Linked Incentive Scheme Set To Start From August 1, 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the approval of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, though after loss of the entire financial year 2024-25 and three months into the current financial year 2025-26, the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme announced in the Union Budget 2024-25 on July...
World’s Most Powerful President Trump And Richest Person Elon Musk Are In An Ego Battle
By Sushil Kutty It’s “so tempting to escalate” billionaire Elon Musk posted on his ‘X’ after President Donald Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ spoke its mind on peace-deals. And “escalating” is such a beautiful word, almost as much as Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, which is one bill Musk wants Congress to...
Iran Is Not Syria, Nor Like Any Other Country In Middle East
By Manish Rai The question of regime change in Iran has recently resurfaced after the killing of Iran’s top military commanders following the Israeli airstrikes. However, Israel’s short-term goal was to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities to severely diminish its weapons program. But the Israeli Prime Minister mentioned during his...
‘New Middle East’ Under Israel Control Is Netanyahu’s Real Goal In The Region
By Ramzy Baroud NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East.” Yet, his repeated assertions seem to clash with the unfolding reality on the ground. Netanyahu’s opportunistic relationship with language is now proving detrimental to his country. The...
Narendra Modi Has The Big Task Of Refurbishing India’s Image In Global South At BRICS Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a tough task in improving India’s image as defender of the interests of Global South at the coming meeting of the BRICS at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on July 6 and 7 which he will be attending. The 17th BRICS...
Trump’s Order On Birthright Citizenship Is Meant To Make America White Again
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump first wanted to end birthright citizenship with an executive order issued on January 20, 2025, the day he assumed office for his 2nd nonconsecutive term as president. Again on June 20, 2025, he issued an EO for the Department of...
RSS Campaign To Delete Socialist And Secular From Preamble Of Constitution Must Be Defeated
By Krishna Jha Dattatreya Hosabale, the general secretary of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has proposed to remove the words “socialist” and “secular” from the Preamble of the Constitution. All the words in the Preamble constitute the core value of the Constitution. Supreme Court has upheld that the Parliament can amend...
Ayatollah Shirazi Has Spoiled Iran’s Case More Issuing Fatwa Against Trump And Netanyahu
By Sushil Kutty All Iranian clerics are “top” and there are a number of them in Iran, not just Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has been ‘Supreme’ for decades. He succeeded Ayatollah Khomeini, the first who rose to political power, to the position of Supreme Leader. Now, there’s...
Social Disconnection Widespread In Digitally Connected World
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “In this age when the possibilities to connect are endless, more and more people are finding themselves isolated and lonely,” said Director of World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after the release of a new WHO report that found one in six people were...
Israel And Iran Have Set The Stage For The Next West Asian War In Near Future
By Arron Reza Merat NEW YORK: On June 5, a satellite photograph captured around forty aircraft on the tarmac of a US airfield inside the regional headquarters for the US Central Command (CENTCOM), some two hundred miles from Iran. A second photograph taken of the Al Udeid airfield on...
