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By Green Nigel Donald Trump’s summit with leaders of mineral-rich African nations this week marks a dramatic escalation in the global race for rare and critical minerals — a shift that carries major consequences for investors. The US president’s move to recast relations as “aid to trade” highlights a...
Chin Refugees Fleeing From Myanmar Create Security Risk In Mizoram Border
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Mizoram has received a flood of Chin refugees. It is a reminder that India’s eastern borders can no longer be left to the whims of foreign instability. Intense clashes between two armed groups namely People’s Defence Forces (PDF) and Chin National Defence Forces (CNDF) in...
Indian Foreign Policy Under Narendra Modi Is In Shambles
By Prakash Karat The infamy that the Narendra Modi government’s foreign policy has earned in the recent period, is something that cannot be understated. On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution moved by Spain calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution...
ECI Has To Follow The Procedure, Cannot Have Intent To Exclude Electors
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The crux of the observations and suggestions made by the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Roll in Bihar is that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has to follow the well laid procedure under the law, and...
Donald Trump, Brazilian President Lula, Jair Bolsonaro And Trade War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Just when you thought booming guns went into silence on the tariffs front in the wake of controversies over ending birthright citizenship and stripping citizenship for certain categories of residents, the war on tariffs has come back center stage with the new steep...
Even After Supreme Court Bench Comments, Bihar Dalits And Muslims Are Apprehensive
By Arun Srivastava Supreme Court of India while allowing the Election Commission to continue with the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar electoral rolls, suggested to include three documents Aadhaar, EC voter ID, and ration card for inclusion of the names in the voters’ list. The SC did not issue...
Capitalist Countries Are Rolling Back Spending On Welfare Programmes
By Prabhat Patnaik Immediately after the war when capitalism had faced a serious existential crisis, it had adopted a dual strategy to cope with it. First, it whipped up the “red scare” which was absolutely without any justification, in order to terrorise the domestic working class into acquiescing with...
Congress High Command To Decide On Karnataka CM Issue Only After Bihar Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Karnataka Congress is seeing challenges amidst power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar. However, Siddaramaiah announced that there is no vacancy for the CM’s post. To support his claim, he said that DK Sivakumar who is an claimant...
Can India Emerge As The Trusted Leader Of Global South Like Earlier Years?
By Nitya Chakraborty The 17th BRICS summit held in Brazil on July 6 and 7 has helped in partially restoring the image of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the defender of the interests of Global South against the increasing attacks on the political and economic interests of...
Big Success Of All India Strike By Workers Is A Wake Up Call For Modi Govt
By P. Sudhir Crores of working people hit the streets in the historic strike on July 9. Originally scheduled earlier, the strike had to be postponed by nearly a month and a half following the dastardly attack on innocent civilian tourists in Pahalgam. Yet, the spirit of resistance against...
ECI Steps Beyond Its Constitutional Power In Determining Citizenship
By Dr. Gyan Pathak During the hearing of the bunch of petitions on Thursday July 10, 2025 challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI’s) order of June 24, 2025 for conducting Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls in Bihar, the Supreme Court said that citizenship is an issue...
Expenditure Capacity Of Indian Households Is Shrinking In Recent Years
By Krishna Jha Industrial growth, the stock market and the rupee have already been sinking. Now more and more reports show a constant fall in Indian households’ rapidly shrinking expenditure capacity. According to the latest data released by the National Accounts Statistics, Indians have significantly reduced their spending on...
Election Commission’s Special Revision Of Electoral Rolls Has Led To Both Fear And Confusion
By Sushil Kutty Election officials have been on the SIR job for months, the entire 2024, in fact, and into 2025. The ‘job’ included deleting the names from the voters’ list of people who had passed away. This could be done only when informed by a close relative. What...
Trump’s Continuous Shifting Of Eco-Political Positions Flummox World Leaders
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: The US President Donald Trump has flummoxed political leaders all over the world including his buddies as also leaders of Russia, India, China and Israel by constantly shifting his political stance day to day. The unpredictable nature of a man who keeps shifting...
Why The RSS Is Against Inclusion Of Secular And Socialist In Indian Constitution
By Dr. Ram Puniyani The RSS General Secretary, Dattatreya Hosabale, second in the RSS leadership hierarchy, on the eve of imposition of Emergency in 1975; stated that it was during the emergency that words Secularism and socialism were inserted in the preamble of Indian Constitution. And that these words...
India Witnesses Largest Ever General Strike Of Workers On July 9
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though on the eve of the workers’ all India general strike on July 9, 2025, Union Ministry of Labour, Government of India, tried to downplay the strike action by claiming that213 unions had informed of their staying away from the strike, India actually witnessed on...
Yet Another Instance Of Modi’s Friendship With Trump Turning Out As A Liability For India
By K Raveendran All theories of probabilities, intuition and a cursory glance at the balance sheets of past trade negotiations point in one direction: any trade deal between the United States and India under the Trump presidency is far more likely to tilt in favour of the US. This...
Bharat Bandh Called By Central Trade Unions Got Massive Response From People In Bihar
By Arun Srivastava Reminiscent of the three-day Bihar bandh in 1974, observed at the call of Jayprakash Narayan, after fifty years, Bihar on July 9 witnessed unprecedented bandh in the form of Chakkabandh, at the call of INDIA bloc against the designs of the Election Commission to declare the...
