By Dr. Gyan Pathak With announcement of NDA and INDIA bloc’s candidates for byelections of all the 9 Vidhan Sabha Constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, one can now see the chief contestants arrayed in the electoral battlefield, and also make an assessment of their respective strengths and weaknesses, the success...
By Sushil Kutty Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is teetering from crisis to crisis. He survived a second no-confidence motion on October 1, the second in two days, and on October 25, Trudeau faced an internal challenge from his party MPs, 24 of whom have asked him to resign...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: BJP which claims to be a party with a difference is facing unexpected and unprecedented opposition over the selection of a candidate for the Budhni Assembly seat. The Budhni is facing a bypoll to be held on November 13.The Budhni bypoll was necessitated after...
By Rahil Nora Chopra After the Congress faced a shock loss in Haryana assembly polls and performed poorly on its own in Jammu and Kashmir elections, the discussions in the Congress for seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh by polls were managed by Avinash Pandey and Ajay Rai. The Congress...
By Krishna Jha Jawaharlal Nehru University plans to teach the “Concept of Akhand Bharat”. It does not end here. The process has been unleashed. More distortions would be brought through Vidya Bharati, an institution through which the RSS runs a massive network of schools across the country. And here...
By Tirthankar Mitra A slip of a girl when Aparna Dasgupta made her debut as a tomboy Mrinmoyee in Satyajit Ray’s Samapti in 1961 , the final part of Teen Konya, few had doubts that she will go far. But perhaps none had foreseen that she would carve out...
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The International Monetary Fund AGM in Washington had barely reflected on the efficacy of its austerity regime in reducing inflation before beginning to worry about the inevitable hike in global oil prices if Benjamin Netanyahu’s offensive is not stayed. Another global energy crisis is doubly...
By Nitya Chakraborty The one-hour meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 23 on the side lines of the BRICS summit at Kazan, has signalled a breakthrough in the bilateral relations between the two largest nations of Asia and the...
By P. Sudhir The Indian government announced on October 21 that an agreement was reached between India and China on patrolling arrangements along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). This is a welcome development that hopefully would lead to the normalisation of relations between the two neighbouring countries. The...
By Subrata Majumder An introspection of foreign direct investment flow in India reveals that FDI fell on the lowest ebb in 2023-24 within 5 years. This is despite the fact that country achieved one of the highest growth in the economy. It dropped to US$ 44,423 million in 2023-24,...
By Sushil Kutty Indian origin Black African-American Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris faces imminent defeat unless former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, in one of his crankier moments, pulls out from the race before November 5, which is not a possibility unless a fourth assassin doesn’t miss the...
By Arun Srivastava If winning the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand is crucial for the political survival of Narendra Modi, the electoral victory in these two states has wider connotation for the RSS, as it would reinvent the philosophical importance of its politics of Hindutva and reaching to...
By Tirthankar Mitra With less than three weeks to go before November 13 when six Assembly segments will witness by-elections in West Bengal, the principal Opposition outfit BJP does not seem to have got its act together yet though they are contesting in all six constituencies. It applies equally...
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Recently, the Indian government’s Department of Consumer Affairs announced that 1600 metric tons of onions procured by the National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India Ltd was shipped by the railway from Nashik to Delhi. The quantity of 42 BCN (Bogie Covered New) was enough to...
By W. T. Whitney Jr. and Emile Schepers NEW YORK: At the end of October, the United Nations General Assembly, for the 32nd consecutive year, will be voting on a resolution submitted by Cuba claiming “the necessity to put an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed...
डॉ. अरुण मित्रा शायद हम तब तक यह नहीं समझ पाये कि हमारे समाज में नैतिक संकट खतरनाक स्तर तक पहुँच गया है, जब तक कि हमने कोलकाता में एक युवा महिला डॉक्टर के साथ बलात्कार और जघन्य हत्या की खबर नहीं सुनी। पश्चिम बंगाल में जूनियर डॉक्टर मुख्य...
By K Raveendran Successive pronouncements by the Supreme Court have revealed a growing judicial sense against the potential for abuse in the draconian anti- money laundering laws. This has an important bearing on the pending petitions for the review of the apex courts verdict in the 2022 verdict...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak People of India’s National Capital Delhi rose to see the city covered is such a suffocating thick layer of smog that almost all weather-monitoring stations fell into red zone in the morning on October 23, 2024. With it more areas moved into severe level of...