By Matein Khalid Trump’s vision of Gaza as a “riviera of the Middle East” at his press conference with Netanyahu, whose IDF warplanes, drones and tanks just butchered 45,000 Gazans is as deranged as it is surreal. Trump views Gaza as a New York real estate development opportunity as...
By Arun Srivastava Trump administration finally accomplished its threat and sent back 104 illegal Indian immigrants through its army aircraft which landed in Amritsar on Wednesday. US could not be faulted for deporting the illegal migrants. But it is the manner in which the entire exercise was executed is...
By Prabhat Patnaik No budget in post-independence India had been as openly cynical about the lives of the vast masses of the working people as the one presented on February 1, 2025. All pundits, from the finance minister downwards, agree that the strategy of the budget is to stimulate...
By Krishna Jha Immediately after the happy moments of celebrating our Constitution on January 26 for completing its 75 years, came the budget. The pointers were many but the darkest was the slowdown, continuing and worsening, since last year. The budget estimated a nominal GDP growth rate of 10.1...
By Anjan Roy Donald Trump, now used to roiling the world of politics and diplomacy on a daily basis, has turned his attention to strife-torn Gaza Strip. He now promises the US Imperialist Eagle to fly over the disputed area. The Trumpian proposal for Gaza however scarcely hide his...
By Francesca De Benedetti LONDON: Last month, the world’s richest man offered the leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) — a former member of the Hayek Society, a financial consultant, and still a staunch neoliberal — a global stage to say obscenities such as “Hitler was a...
By K Raveendran OPEC+ is once again at the centre of a global energy crisis as it grapples with a new challenge posed by President Donald Trump’s tariffs on major crude oil suppliers. The tariffs, which include a 10 percent levy on Canadian oil and 25 percent on US...
By Arun Srivastava BJP winning Delhi assembly elections held on Wednesday with massive RSS pracharak’s participation in the poll battle is entwined with the basic issue of RSS’s existence and accomplishing its mission of Hindu Rashtra, more than Narendra Modi using the victory to showcase his supremacy. It also...
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US planes destined for Punjab’s Amritsar landed on Wednesday noon with 205 undocumented Indians as part of President Donald Trump’s deportation plans as India confirmed their identities without comment and six more planes are due to land in the country shortly. Over 18,000...
By Sushil Kutty Did people vote for change in Delhi? The word reverberated the most in the New Delhi assembly constituency, which had the honour of being represented by AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal since before 2015. The former Delhi Chief Minister on the polling day on February 5 had...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman labelled MSMEs of India in her budget speech as the second engine in the growth story of India, boasted of significantly helping the sector under PM Narendra Modi led government, and announced several new schemes for them. However, in...
By Eklavya Vasudev In a move emblematic of his administration’s climate scepticism, President Trump signed the Executive Order Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements, signalling the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. While the procedural realities delay full disengagement until early 2026, the symbolic impact is immediate,...
By John Wojcik and Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Workers, unionized with AFGE and the Treasurers’ union, joined by their non-union colleagues, literally put their bodies on the line on Monday to block entrances into government buildings by operatives of Elon Musk who moved quickly to take over government servers in...
By Nitya Chakraborty The present euphoria among the BJP-led government ministers after the presentation of the 2025-26 budget in Parliament over the mega relief to the income tax payers of the country might be shared by the estimated one crore people in the country benefited due to the budget...
By T N Ashok In 2025-26 budget some strategic steps have been taken to stimulate India’s business environment including reforms to remove bottlenecks in key business areas, reducing minimum capital requirement, and simplifying the process of obtaining necessary licenses. But the focus of this eight budget presented by the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman talked big during her budget speech emphasizing “Agriculture as the first Engine” for India’s development journey announcing a slew of measures to spur agriculture growth and productivity benefitting the Annadata. However, farmers are not appeased. In contrast, they will be...
By Sushil Kutty February 5, when Delhi votes to elect a new assembly, a factor that will have a say, but has been pushed to the back-burner, will be ‘Batenge toh katenge’, just like it had counted in the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections. This, even after Prime Minister...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It is the same old story, infuriatingly repetitive year after year and Budget after Budget. Kerala continues to be at the receiving end of the Union Government’s callous neglect in the Budget. Kerala’s list of demands has been completely disregarded. The State’s hopes of securing...