By D Raja While launching a book on Mahatma Gandhi, anathema to the RSS since its inception, its chief Bhagwat said: “If someone is Hindu, he has to be patriotic, that will be his or her basic character and nature. At times you may have to awaken his...
By Prakash Karat The New Year has begun with a sobering reminder that the foreign policy of the Modi government is in shambles and its pro-US approach has landed the country in a strategic cul-de-sac. The outgoing ambassador of the United States, Kenneth Juster, has in a...
By K Raveendran Every citizen has the right to celebrate or observe the Republic Day, depending on one’s frame of mind and mood. There is no prescribed manner in which to this, although flag hoisting is a common event. As such, the protesting farmers have a right to...
By Arun Srivastava What will Supreme Court do now as the agitating farmers have outright refused to acknowledge the existence of the four-men committee set up by it to find a way out to the present impasse? Will the court pass an order making it obligatory for the...
By Ashis Biswas Thanks to recent improvements in road connectivity in the Northeast region, prospects for Indo-Bangla trade and business have brightened considerably. In recent months, Bangladesh companies began exporting liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) to Tripura, following an agreement signed between Indian and Bangladeshi Governments in 2015. Prime...
By W. T. Whitney Jr. In a stunning announcement on January 11, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the State Department was designating Cuba “a State Sponsor of Terrorism” for allegedly repeatedly “providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.” ...
By Anjan Roy The Supreme Court’s judgement on the farm laws sounded like a theatre of the absurd. For whom the bell rang. For the government? For the agitating farmers? For neither? By deferring the implementation of the farm laws with its judgment on Tuesday, the...
By Nitya Chakraborty Supreme Court of India these days are behaving in bizarre ways. After all the hearings on the petitions challenging the enactment of the three farm laws by the Narendra Modi Government in Parliament in a hurry during pandemic, the three member bench of the ...
By Sushil Kutty Guess what, the conservative lot in the United States of America, the “greatest nation the world has ever known”, is cursing its lot in the changed outlook since the January 6 “insurrection,” lamenting the hard times POTUS Donald Trump’s lot are getting at the...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Mrs Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee are confronting Yogi Adityanath Government on the issues of unemployment, malnutrition and atrocities on women. Under the direction of Priyanka Gandhi, UP Congress Committee has decided to reach out to masses to spread...