By Arun Kumar Shrivastav A day ago, an American travel influencer named Tara Katims was criticised for taking a Dharavi slum tour in Mumbai and posting a video about it. Some people felt that turning poverty into tourism was disrespectful. Even though Katims explained that the tour guide was...
By James M Dorsey A just-published Palestinian public opinion survey offers pointers for what a successful transition from the devastating Gaza war to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have to entail. The survey’s pointers take on added significance as the United States, Europe and Arab states seek...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Disruption of the ability of the opposition to run political campaigns has been well pronounced since January 1, 2024 to March 22, which can even be seen in the political advertising through Google. No national political party other than the BJP is among the top...
By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday took back from the Supreme Court his appeal against his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate. The top court was poised to hear the plea when Kejriwal’s lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi declared the decision, which Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta said was...
By Prabhat Patnaik The other day the chief executive officer of NITI Aayog made a fantastic claim, that the poverty ratio in India had fallen below 5 per cent according to the 2022-23 consumption expenditure survey data. His claim was based on the fact that the per capita consumption...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Unexpected and dramatic developments marked the politics of Madhya Pradesh in the past few days. They included minor rift in the state cabinet. difference in the Congress over the selection of candidate for Lok Sabha poll and continued defection from the Congress, According to...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The seat-sharing between RJD, Congress, three Left parties – Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) –in Bihar has been finalised and will be declared within a day or two. The RJD held seat-sharing discussions with...
By Sanjay Roy According to official sources, India’s unemployment rate in the past five years turned out to be one of the highest in the post-independence period. For decades before the current regime the average open unemployment rate used to be within the range of 2-3 per cent. In...
By Girish Linganna On Tuesday evening, Israel verified that a cruise missile launched by the Houthi group had hit an area close to Eilat, a city in the southern part of the country. This event marks the first instance of the group’s missile penetrating Israeli air defense systems. The...
By John Bachtell NEW YORK: Once upon a time, if a presidential candidate predicted a “bloodbath” if they lost, called for terminating the Constitution, or was a serial rapist, insurrectionist, liar, and fraudster, they would have been termed a dangerous crook.. But when Donald Trump says such things, the...