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Both The Congress Unit And RJD Are Taking Lessons From Delhi Assembly Poll Results

By Arun Srivastava The Congress’s rout once again in the assembly elections in Delhi has brought much worry to the central party leadership as it will have some reaction on the next state assembly polls scheduled in Bihar by the end of this year. One of the reasons is...

Feb 12 · >

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Should Take Up Birthright Citizenship Issue With Trump

By Sushil Kutty United States President Donald Trump has a pile of “vows”, one to get Gazans to vacate bombed-out Gaza for a Riviera in its place. Another to end birthright citizenship to children born to foreign workers in the USA. Trump is a hated figure in Gaza and...

Feb 12 · >

Immigrant Workers Including Indians Are Employed As Indentured Labour In Britain

By Elizabeth Short LONDON: Campaigners have demanded reform after a damning report laid bare shocking conditions facing migrant workers propping up Britain’s crumbling care system. Unison surveyed more than 3,000 people who came to Britain on health and care worker visas to tackle shortages in the sector. It found...

Feb 12 · >

Constitutional Crisis Deepens In U.S. As President Trump Sidetracks Courts

By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik WASHINGTON: In only one of an avalanche of unconstitutional, outrageous and crude executive orders this week, Donald Trump installed an 18-year-old who goes by his internet name “Big Balls” as Senior Adviser to the U.S. Department of State. That appointment followed his refusal...

Feb 12 · >

Why Modi Should Remember 1971 Indo-US Summit During His Coming Meeting With Trump

By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting the United States President Donald Trump in Washington on February 13. He is going straight to U.S. on a two-day visit after completing his engagement in France on Tuesday, including co-chairing the global AI summit along with the French...

Feb 11 · >

Draft Higher Education Commission Bill Removes State Control

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Draft Higher Education Commission Bill that seeks to create Higher Education Commission of India under the National Education Policy 2020 has been opposed by the department related parliamentary standing committee, stating that it would perpetuate many of the issues arising out of multiplicity of regulators...

Feb 11 · >

Will Parvesh Varma’s Luck Shine As Next Delhi CM After Defeating Arvind Kejriwal?

By Sushil Kutty Parvesh Sahib Singh Varma is the newly elected BJP MLA of New Delhi assembly constituency. He defeated AAP convener and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was also the sitting AAP MLA from the same assembly constituency. Varma’s electoral fight with Kejriwal was a tug...

Feb 11 · >

Why Ad Hoc Judges Risk Undermining The Indian Judiciary These Days?

By Shreya Bansal The Indian judiciary, much like a perpetually leaking roof, has for a long time attempted to patch up its structural deficiencies with quick fixes instead of comprehensive repairs. But instead of addressing the gaping wound of unfilled permanent judicial positions, the system has come up with...

Feb 11 · >

There Is No Cause For Being Panicky At Trump’s Decision On Hike In Tariffs

By Subrata Majumder Currently, USA is the prime trigger for India’s external economic growth. It is the biggest export destination of India. The trajectory of export growth is not sporadic. USA has been the biggest importer of Indian merchandise continuously for over a decade. Even during Donald Trump’s first...

Feb 11 · >

Mexico Shows How To Deal With Trump’s Bullying Tactics In A Dignified Manner

By David Raby MEXICO CITY: Earlier in the beginning of January, a firm, direct and principled stance by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, avoiding rhetoric and insults but refusing to give ground to threats, had persuaded the then US president-elect to back down and hold a respectful conversation with the...

Feb 11 · >

INDIA Bloc Has To Look Forward Taking Lessons From AAP Defeat In Delhi

By Nitya Chakraborty The victory of the BJP in the Delhi assembly elections defeating the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convincingly is certainly a jolt to the opposition INDIA bloc, but it does not mean the end of AAP, or the final tolls for the INDIA bloc, as some...

Feb 10 · >

India’s $5-Trillion-Economy Dream By 2025 Has Gone Awry

By Nantoo Banerjee With Indian Rupee (INR) dwindling almost daily against US Dollar (USD), it is good the Union Budget for 2025-26 has stopped repeating on making the Indian economy a $5-trillion GDP to become the world’s third largest by the end of this year or anytime too soon....

Feb 10 · >

Big Confusion In Modi Govt Over Strategy On Decent Job Creation

By Dr. Gyan Pathak In less than a week after the presentation of the Union Budget 2025-26, the Government of India led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had to announce two specific measures – first for the Decent Job Generation Employment Linked Initiative schemes and the second for the...

Feb 10 · >

Two Sangh Parivar Leaders Pitching To Control The Hindu Way Of Life

By Sushil Kutty The question looms, what to do with RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat and his subtle form of dictatorship? The RSS Chief with the glowing cheeks is not a pest. Far from being that, Bhagwat is a persistent scratch under the collar, somebody who wants Indians, especially the...

Feb 10 · >

Ecuador Going For Runoff Polls On April 13 To Elect Its President For Four Years

By Satyaki Chakraborty In the first Presidential elections in Latin America in the year 2025, , in Ecuador , the incumbent right wing president Daniel Noboa faced a close fight with his left wing opponent Luisa Gonzalez resulting in a runoff elections on April 13 to choose the President...

Feb 10 · >

The Leading Writer Amitav Ghosh’s Warning On Environment Has High Relevance For India

By Kunal Bose One doesn’t have to be empowered by knowledge of science to feel and see the deterioration of environment all round. The recent wildfires in California that once again destroyed properties worth in multiple of millions and caused untold miseries and the floods that periodically visit many...

Feb 10 · >

British Govt’s Internal Report On Security Mentions Hindutva As One Of Extremist Threats

By Asad Mirza A yet unpublished UK Home Office report has outlined eight key extremist threats facing the UK besides Hindutva. These threats further include Islamist extremism, extreme right-wing extremism, extreme misogyny, environmental extremism, left-wing extremism, anarchist and single-issue extremism, and conspiracy theories and violence. With the new Labour...

Feb 10 · >

Despite Setback In Delhi, AAP To Remain A Political Force Of Reckoning

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite political setback in Delhi Vidhan Sabha election and loss of power to BJP, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will remain a political force of reckoning. AAP’s huge voter support base is intact, and election result shows that the BJP could win by only about a...

Feb 8 · >
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