By Sushil Kutty These are testing times for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The I.N.D.I.A of the combined Opposition is testing all Indians. How many of us know our Constitution – is it ‘Bharat that is India’ or ‘India that is Bharat’? Bet...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav For nearly a month now, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, just replaced , , has remained out of the public eye for a month The absence of Minister Qin has caused some rescheduling in diplomatic engagements. . Though former foreign minister Wang Yi n...
By Harihar Swarup Preeti Aghalayam, 49 just became first woman to head any IIT. She, is excited, about reaching out to the world, at the first overseas campus, in Zanzibar. We need women in STEM, we need diversity in research, we need young people to feel they...
By Nitya Chakraborty Nearly a week has passed since the holding of the Bengaluru conclave of the opposition parties which gave birth to the new front INDIA consisting of 26 anti-BJP parties. In the following days since July 18, the focus of both media and the BJP...
By Kalyani Shankar Why did the Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi consciously keep a low profile at the Opposition unity meeting in Bangalore or earlier in Patna? Insiders say that it was a calculated decision. Congress decided two things after the Party failed to...
By Gyan Pathak India is in election mode, and the Narendra Modi government takes special care of big companies that are not only helping the BJP through finance, especially through electoral bonds, but also through making favourable propaganda on behalf of the government. In the pre-election year 2022-23,...
By Sushil Kutty It will take a dozen oxen of 1000 horsepower each to drag Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Parliament and then, too, there is no guarantee the Prime Minister will make a statement on “Manipur”, the forbidden topic as far as the Prime Minister is concerned....
By Arun Srivastava Lying has acquired the character of political culture of the BJP. Certainly it has not come as a surprise. While the so-called conscience keeper of New India, the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, has not been alive to the ethics of truth, probity and transparency in...
By Dr. Soma Marla Successful launch of Chandrayan 3, the latest mission of Indian Space Research Organisation to moon, is a remarkable scientific endeavour. It took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikotain Andhra Pradesh state on the afternoon of July 14,2023. With the successful...
BY James M Dorsey For Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, religious reform has long been a question of when rather than if. Bin Salman’s potential embrace of religious, not just social and economic reform, could have far-reaching consequences for the role of religion in Saudi Arabia...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Spanish voters finally gave a big rebuff to the Far Right People’s Party(PP) and the fascist VOX by denying them majority in the 350 member house of national assembly elections to which were held on Sunday, July23. Despite all opinion poll predictions about the defeat...
By Nantoo Banerjee It can happen only in India when wholesale prices shoot up and retail prices drop sharply. Or, when consumer prices flare up, wholesale prices are deeply depressed. Ordinarily, they may look somewhat absurd, but are often seen as true by the data provided under India’s...
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Congress national leadership has a tough task ahead of it to make some of its West Bengal unit leaders cooperate with Trinamool Congress in 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Given earlier intra-party differences coupled with panchayat election clashes, the bonhomie between Trinamool Congress supremo...
By Sushil Kutty We can do without #ModiVsChandrachud, the entire lot of us bifurcated people of India. The fight is not imaginary and is not limited to social media alone. The perception that the CJI is waging an all-out war against the Prime Minister and is weighing...
By Dr.Gyan Pathak Several recent studies have claimed that India has made significant progress in reducing poverty during the decades leading up to the pandemic in 2020, however, a recent Staff Paper prepared in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the magnitude of the decline in poverty...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh BJP its main rival Samajwadi Party are busy in building up alliances with smaller parties and various caste groups to capture maximum seats for 2024 Lok Sabha polls from the state. UP sends 80 MP’s toLok Sabha BJP took the initiative...
By L S Herdenia As the dates of the Vidhan Sabha elections are approaching, both the BJP and Congress, the two major contenders have stepped up their propaganda. They are bringing their stalwarts to influence the voters in their favour. The Congress is using the charismatic personality...
By Girish Linganna Ethnic violence has thrown Manipur, India’s attractive state bordering Myanmar, into turmoil. Persistent clashes between the Meiteis and Kukis for over two months have left both feeling besieged. The neighboring villages of these communities appear to be particularly susceptible to attacks. A journalist from...