By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Shocked by humiliating defeat at Ghosi assembly by-polls early this month, an unnerved BJP high command is busy in making new road map to face INDIA in Uttar Pradesh to get maximum seats in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Before Ghosi by-polls, BJP was confident of...
By Ashis Biswas Among major tribal leaders in India’s Northeast region and influential civil rights organizations, the recent reference made by Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi in Parliament to the bombing of some areas in Mizoram in 1966 by the Indian Air Force, has revived old, bitter, divisive memories...
By Tirthankar Mitra One can enter into a civilized debate or a heated altercation about whether Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar should be remembered for his erudition or his everflowing kindness. It would not be out of place as his 203rd birth anniversary is being widely observed on September 26 but...
By Nitya Chakraborty After the passing of the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament in the special session last week, the think-tanks of the BJP aided, by veteran poll strategists, have been busy working out the best time suited to the party for holding the Lok Sabha elections, due in...
By Nantoo Banerjee Had Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau, father of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, been alive today, he would have probably been a little embarrassed, if not distressed, to see his beloved country has become a home of small migrant Sikh terrorist groups hopelessly engineering to separate the...
By Kalyani Shankar The ongoing massive diplomatic row has brought a sudden spotlight on the Canada-India relationship. Differences emerged between the two countries after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleged Indian involvement in killing a separatist Sikh activist, Nijjar. Outraged, New Delhi vehemently denied the claim and dismissed it...
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the front-runner though INDIA’s Rahul Gandhi could be ahead. Ask random Congress leaders and their faith in the Gandhi scion is unwavering. They are adamant Modi has slid behind Rahul Gandhi in people’s reckoning and that the Wayanad MP has left...
By Tirthankar Mitra Having built Trinamool Congress from the scratch and weeding out those who might question her style of functioning, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is long accustomed to having her ways. But a dilemma confronts her whether to be tagged with imploding...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As India is heading closer to the Lok Sabha election 2024, two sets of issues are being brought forward before the people of the country. BJP and AIMIM are harping on Hindu and Muslim communalism respectively, the former seems pushing the corruption issue against the...
By Subrata Majumder Notwithstanding political rift, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor lauded New Delhi declaration of G-20 a diplomatic triumph for India. It pushed India to the leadership for Global South, leveraging its political clout in the world. Eventually, induction of 55 members of AU (African Union) as permanent members...
By Satyaki Chakraborty In an event of huge political significance for Greece as also Europe, an outsider Stephanos Kasselakis, with no previous experience in the politics of Greece was elected as the President of the Syriza, the main leftwing opposition party in the Greece which ruled the country from...
By K Raveendran The planned expansion of the BRICS bloc, through the addition of new members Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Ethiopia and Argentina, will transform the grouping into a global leader in renewable energy in the coming decades. The six new members will join the...
By Harihar Swarup With the success of the G20 summit in Delhi, is Narendra Modi, making a mark globally as Jawaharlal Nehru did on the world stage after Independence? India’s first Prime Minister had carved out a niche for the country as the leader of the non-aligned movement even...
By Sushil Kutty After the high of the ‘Naari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam’, the BJP is battling getting a bad name because one of its Members of Parliament could not hold his tongue in the Lok Sabha and flung invectives like they are BJP’s lingua franca. BJP’s South Delhi MP...
By Arun Srivastava India’s denial of its involvement in the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada has bitterly strained the relation between two countries, but more importantly, it has failed to convince its strategic partner USA of its stated position on the issue. If what the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Era of Joblessness that begun with Prime Minister Narendra Modi assuming second term in 2019, has been worsening with pace of regular job creation substantially decreasing. Coupled with high prices and inflation, the situation pushed people in unprecedented economic distress that led rise in...
By Girish Linganna Prime Minister Narendra Modi is really hopeful about the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), which he introduced at the G20 summit in New Delhi recently. However, some people think that not all countries in this project see it as something against China’s Belt and Road Initiative....
By James M Dorsey It’s a no-brainer to suggest that we live in an increasingly polarised world. Geopolitics are polarised, so are societies. Polarisation marks the transition from a unipolar world dominated by the United States to a bipolar world with China, or more likely a tripolar world that...