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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav’s announcement that his party will contest as part of INDIA alliance in 2027 assembly has boosted the morale of opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh. While addressing the office-bearers and leaders of Samajwadi Party minority cell at party headquarters Akhilesh...
India’s Platform Workers Deserve A New Lease On Their Social Security
By Gayatri Singh, Akhil Surya As new and myriad forms of employment come into play, it is essential that we critically rethink what a “traditional employer-employee relationship” means and analyse these forms by broadly interpreting an “employment relationship” under the existing labour laws. In India, the Industrial Disputes Act,...
Bank Rate Cut By RBI Will Have Little Impact On Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee With the country’s consumer price inflation rate hovering around 3.20 percent in the last two years, the Reserve Bank of India’s latest decision to cut the bank rate by 50 basis points, the third consecutive reduction since February this year, may be understandable. However, it seems...
Implementation Of 33 Per Cent Women Reservation To Take Place From 2029 Polls
By Kalyani Shankar The Modi government’s recent announcement of the Census date as March 2027, before the implementation of a 33 per cent quota for women in Parliament and State legislatures in 2029 polls, has been welcomed by women. This is not just a step but a monumental leap...
Backbreaking Price Rise For Poor Is Not Reflected In India’s Inflation Data
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a few days ago on June 12, 2025, the Union Government released its inflation data based on Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May, 2025, and said that the year-on-year headline inflation of the country declined to 2.82 per cent (provisional) over May, 2024. It...
Massive Protest Rallies Against Trump Overshadow His Birthday And Army Day Festivities
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump celebrated his 79th birthday in June 14, Saturday with much pomp and fanfare befitting only emperors and kings as Heavy tanks, armoured vehicles and thousands of soldiers showcasing all military eras marked the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army that...
Israel Has Degraded Iran’s Missile Infra And Neutralised Early Warning System
By Asad Mirza Iran and Israel continued their military strikes against each other for a fourth straight day (June 16). Last night, Iran targetted the northern Israeli port city of Haifa. As Israel’s defence system intercepted Iran’s ballistic missiles, two hypersonic missiles reportedly hit Haifa, causing several injuries, according...
Trump Not Unhappy At Israeli Missile Strikes Against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
By Sushil Kutty Another ‘war’ and we have balcony seats, some front row ones, and it doesn’t matter so long as you aren’t in danger of catching a missile, forget the odd ‘enemy drone’ which escaped the iron dome or the Iranian shield, which folks say works considerably less...
Can Zohran Mamdani Expand Democratic Socialist Base In American Politics?
By Bhaskar Sunkara NEW YORK: A little over a year ago, I organized a meeting in New York City between a visiting member of Congress and a handful of local activists from across the Left. Among those present was New York Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani wasn’t the most...
ANI’s De Facto Monopoly In Govt Media Work Is Dangerous To Democracy
By Avani Bansal Videos from the recent all party delegation to different countries on the India-Pakistan conflict had one thing in common – Asian News Agency’s (‘ANI’) logo. So a question naturally arises – can one news agency (ANI), which is a private company (unlike some others such as...
All Eyes On What Iran Does To Oil Traffic Through Strait Of Hormuz
By K Raveendran Israel’s strike against Iran has reignited a familiar tension in global energy markets, sending oil prices climbing into the mid-$70 per barrel range. The impact is not just visible in the numbers, but in the broader nervousness sweeping across energy trading floors and geopolitical circles alike....
Global Intervention Is Urgently Needed To Stop Israeli War Against Iran
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Israel’s illegal and unprovoked bombing of Iran, killing military leaders, scientists and numerous other civilians, puts us on the brink of catastrophic conflict. An attack on this scale would be treated as an act of war by any country. Nor is the Israeli strike a...
High Stakes Of Latest Agreement Between United States And China
By Dr Imran Khalid “We made a great deal with China. We’re very happy with it.” So declared President Donald Trump in his familiar tone of triumphant ambiguity on June 11, fresh off what was touted as a breakthrough agreement to restore a trade truce between the United States...
Trump’s Standing As A President Dips Overseas But Rises Among His MAGA Support Base
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, has virtually shaken the world with his aggressive domestic and foreign policies – anti immigration involving massive deportation of so-called aliens spending at least $100 billions of taxpayers’ money, it will cost $750 billion before...
Donald Trump Is Delivering An Iran War No One Wants In America
By Branko Marcetic NEW YORK: There are moments in a presidency of no turning back, decisions made and actions taken that are so consequential and far-reaching, they mark a fundamental turning point. George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, for example, poisoned Bush’s presidency and reshaped the Middle East for...
Death Of Two Air India Crew Members Of Manipur Has Imparted A Sense Of Solidarity
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It goes without saying that the messages of the two Manipur organizations condoling the death of two crew members from the state in the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on June 12, Thursday afternoon, is of immense sentimental value. But, in Manipur’s context,...
INDIA Bloc Parties Start Preparatory Work For Seat Sharing Talks In Bihar Polls
By Arun Srivastava Amidst the speculation making round the political circle that NDA leadership has nearly reached a consensus in the matter of seat sharing for the 2025 assembly election in Bihar by year end, comes the news that the coordination committee of Bihar unit of INDIA block has...
International Convention On Decent Work In Platform Economy Deferred
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Yet to be fully implemented resolution “the Transition from the Informal to the Formal Economy Recommendation, 2015 (No. 204)” adopted by the International Labour Conference (ILC) of the International Labour Organization (ILO) even after 10 years of its adoption, gets another resolution in its support...
