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By Subrata Majumder World is engulfed by oil conundrum. OPEC is no more in hegemony to stir oil shock. The global political conflicts and bi-polarization led the world oil price shock slipped from the Arab clutches. With the breakdown of Israel-Iran war, threats loomed large on oil price hike....
Israel-Iran Confrontation May Widen The War Theatre In West Asia
By Asad Mirza Just a week before the first anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, Israel was rattled by a barrage of missiles fired by Iran. This came in retaliation of the Israeli assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and a key ally of...
ASEAN Summit Calls For Peace Talks To End Hostilities In Myanmar
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav At the recently concluded annual ASEAN Summit, member nations called for “an immediate cessation” of violence and the creation of “a conducive environment for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and inclusive national dialogue.” The conflict between Myanmar’s military government and armed rebel groups, whose size...
NATO Begins Its Two Week Nuclear War Exercises In North Sea On October 14
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: Peace campaigners have slammed NATO’s dangerous nuclear war games which began on October 14 in the North Sea. Dubbed Steadfast Noon, the exercise will run for two weeks. Led by Belgium and the Netherlands, it uses eight military bases and will involve 2,000 personnel and...
Shunned By Biden Administration, Awami League Lobbying With Donald Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. Presidential elections on November 5 have assumed unusual significance in the shaping up of the future of Bangladesh which is presently ruled by an interim government headed by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus. In the last two weeks, hectic activities were on in...
Mahayuti Takes OBC Politics In Maharashtra To A New Level
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a countermove to INDIA bloc’s caste census promise, the ruling Mahayuti in Maharashtra taking clue form BJP’s gain in Haryana has decided to take the OBC politics in the state to a new level on the eve of Vidhan Sabha elections likely to be...
Ratan Tata Led From The Front To Make Tata Brand Global
By Anjan Roy When Ratan Tata bought the sick and besieged Jaguar Land Rover —iconically JLR— the company had fished out the voucher for the purchase of a Jaguar car by his father, Naval Tata, in 1923. European automobile industry bigwigs had then expressed their doubts about an Indian...
Akhilesh Yadav Reminds Nitish Kumar Of Ideals Of Five Decades Old JP Movement
By Sushil Kutty People living outside Uttar Pradesh did not know that Jayaprakash Narayan, who countered Indira Gandhi’s authoritarian streak with mass appeal, has a place in Lucknow to remember him by – the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC). But it remains an incomplete monument and certain shades of...
Andhra CM Naidu Follows Rahul Gandhi’s Suit, Bats For Caste Census
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is advocating for a nationwide caste census to address the exclusion of approximately 90 per cent of the population from the system. He argues that this census is essential for effective policymaking, as it will...
Just Not Congress, Other India Partners Also Have To Take Lessons From Haryana Results
By Arun Srivastava Constituents of INDIA bloc flexing muscles after Congress’ Haryana defeat and blaming it for the audacity to contest solo, has not come as a surprise. Indian politicians, irrespective of their party affiliations, are known for resorting to this practice to prove their indispensability and reiterate the...
Split In Bolivia’s Ruling Socialist Movement Enthuses Right Wingers In Latin America
By W. T. Whitney Jr. NEW YORK: Beginning on September 17, marchers proceeded north for 118 miles from Caracollo in Oruro department to La Paz, Bolivia’s capital city, arriving there on September . 24. Numbering from 5,000 to 15,000 – estimates vary – they were supporting former President Evo...
Results of Two Assembly Polls Underline Need For Consistent Fight By INDIA Bloc Against BJP
By P. Sudhir The results of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections are of great significance. The victory of the National Conference-led alliance, winning 49 of the 90 seats, is a strong verdict against the Modi government and the BJP’s authoritarian steps to dismantle the state of J&K and...
Its Shocking, 10 Per Cent Children Aged 6-10 Are Out Of School In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It may be shocking to know that about 10 per cent of children in India aged 6-10 are out of schools, and out of pocket health expenditure of Indian rural households are just unaffordable to them since they need to spend Rs 4,129 yearly on...
Rahul Gandhi Has To Take Right Lessons From Haryana Poll Debacle
By Sushil Kutty The swing goes high in the air, and then scrapes bottom. That’s the Congress! Rahul Gandhi should step out of his bungalow and take a reckoning. The Congress isn’t in the best of sorts in any of the directions, East, West, North, South. The Congress lost...
Assembly Results Show That The Congress Needs Allies To Win In Elections
By Arun Srivastava After significant success in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, both the Congress and the Party leader Rahul Gandhi have been defeated in Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir, results of the polls of which were announced on October 8.. Congress could manage to win only six seats in...
RSS Is Working On Its Goal Of Hindu Rashtra Through The Working Of Modi Govt
By Krishna Jha When Mohan Bhagwat said early this month that the primary aim of RSS in its centenary year 2025 would be to build a disciplined and strong Hindu society, he was merely echoing an idea which has long reverberated through the communal rhetoric of the Hindu right....
Congress In Backfoot In Uttar Pradesh After Its Setback In Haryana Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The manner in which Samajwadi Party announced six candidates for Uttar Pradesh Assembly by-elections speaks for the confidence of former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. Since the announcement of these six candidates was unilaterally done by Samajwadi Party the day after the Haryana polls results were...
Even At 82, Superstar Amitabh Bachchan Is A Big Craze In Indian Film Industry
By Tirthankar Mitra Amitabh Bachchan who is still a craze even after his 55 years journey in Hindi film industry will be step to 82 on October 11. Tall, dark and sans the conventional good looks of some of his predecessors and contemporaries hailing from the wheat fields of...
