By Arun Srivastava It was a failed mission. Before embarking on his three-day mission to Bihar and Bengal beginning May 28, Narendra Modi had nursed the view that his mission Operation Sindoor, under which he had envisaged to offer Sindoor to every household, would arouse the nationalist passion of...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global Labour market outlook for 2025 is increasingly fragile. One the one hand, slower economic growth is expected to reduce global employment growth rate, and on the other unemployment rates in the countries with early 2025 data remain at historic low. Job vacancies are slightly...
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: National governments do not have feelings. They have only interests. It’s by following these interests that we can begin to understand why the world is as it is. One of the major interests is in securing the necessary resources — mineral or otherwise — to...
By Nitya Chakraborty West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee was right when she said on Thursday replying to the Prime Minister’s vicious attacks against her and her government that Narendra Modi was making use of the Operation Sindoor to achieve cheap political gains for the...
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Days of pressure from fellow Republicans, business executives, and even close friends had not moved Donald Trump. On April 2, 2025—his self-styled “Liberation Day”—the former President insisted: “MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.” Yet just over a week later, on April 10, Trump backtracked, announcing a...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Number of voices being made by several people in the helm of affairs simultaneously are creating Babel, a confusing noise, especially in respect of Pakistan. While Multi-party Joint Parliamentary delegations currently visiting various countries are at pain while explaining India’s position using a language of...
By Arun Srivastava Home Minister Amit Shah is in a ravishing mood for his achievement of killing CPI(Maoist) general secretary Nambala Keshav Rao alias Basavaraju along with some 30 odd Maoist cadres and leaders in the Narayanpur massacre on May 21. His claim that “it is a landmark achievement...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The war of attrition has begun on Trumps unilateral global tariffs on some 160 countries primarily China, Canada and Mexico as a three-judge bench of New York court blocked on Wednesday the measure saying the US President has no unilateral powers to impose...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Uttar Pradesh is gearing up as Imran Masood, the Congress MP from Saharanpur, has led a stir in political circles in Uttar Pradesh by stating that an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would benefit the Congress more than its...
By Sushil Kutty First Lalu Prasad Yadav and his eldest son Tej Pratap Yadav, also known as ‘Teju Bhaiya’, whose wayward ways irritated Lalu so much that he disowned the son and also threw him out of the Rashtriya Janata Dal for six years, which is the average time...
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Ethnic strife-scarred Manipur’s immediate past chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh, who has been lying low since his resignation from the post on February 9 is active again. On May 28 Biren met Governor Ajay Bhalla and submitted to him a 12 page-letter citing how...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keralites woke up on Saturday, May 24, 2025 to the horrifying news of a Liberian-flagged cargo ship, MSC Elsa 3, sinking just 27 km away from the State’s coast, spilling hazardous cargo of calcium carbide, diesel and furnace oil. The 184-metre-long container vessel had sailed...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: NDA alliance partner Apna Dal (S) is playing an aggressive dalit card to join the race with other parties to woo scheduled castes and scheduled tribes to strengthen the support base of the party in Uttar Pradesh. Union Minister Anupriya Patel appointed a dalit leader...
By P. Sudhir Yaqeen Hammad, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was shredded into pieces by an Israeli missile attack on her residence. Yaqeen has been aptly called the Anne Frank of Gaza. Like Anne, who kept a diary in an attic in a Holocaust-ravaged, Nazi-occupied neighbourhood, Yaqeen documented the horrors...
By Anjan Roy One hundred and thirty days have passed since Donald Trump took oath as the second time President of United States on January 20 this year. After arousing big expectations in the initial days, the hyperactive President is now gradually reconciling to the fact that he is...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Cracks have begun to emerge in the Trump-Musk relationship as the latter has shown his disappointment with President Donald Trump on the recent domestic policy endorsed by the Congress. He said in a TV interview that he was “disappointed” that it would increase...
By Sushil Kutty Congress party’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s roar is unlikely to pierce Congress eardrums. No, but fielding a former BJP uproot to take on Tharoor’s eloquence does speak of a bankruptcy of credible leaders in the grand old party. Does Tharoor give the impression of ‘irreplaceable’? You...
By Asad Mirza While there are reports of the dreaded Covid-19 making a reappearance in several countries, including India, the picture is not gloomy, as the world today, under the guidance of the latest WHO agreement on Covid-19 seems better equipped and coordinated to face the disease. In a...