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By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomatic woes are mounting as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed visit to India on December 5 and 6 is approaching. US President Donald Trump is determined to ensure substantial reduction in Indian imports of Russian oil by November and this has been...
Unemployment Rate In India Worsened Again In September 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in India worsened again in September 2025. Sharpest rise registered in youth unemployment which stood at 15 per cent in Current Weekly Status (CWS) for the age group 15-29 years, while it was 5.2 per cent for the age group 15 years and...
Narendra Modi’s Advice To Farmers To Grow More Export Oriented Cash Crops Is Ominous
By Prabhat Patnaik On October 11 in New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian farmers to grow more “export oriented crops”. This amounted to saying that Indian farmers should move away from growing foodgrains, and the country should import foodgrains instead. This is precisely the advice that institutions...
How The US-China Trade War Has Shifted From Chips In The First Stage To Rare Earths Now
By Prabir Purkayastha The decoupling of the world’s major economies is now gathering pace. The US, which had appeared to have reached a tariff truce with China earlier, recently ramped up its export controls targeting China’s semiconductor industry with its September 29, 2025, notification, “Expansion of End-User Controls To...
The Electricity Bill 2025 Exposes India’s Tension Between Markets And Mandates
By R. Suryamurthy Electricity reforms in India have always been as political as they are technical. The latest Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, unveiled by the Ministry of Power, is no exception. Framed as a “modernisation milestone,” the bill seeks to revive India’s financially crippled power sector through cost-reflective...
Bihar Polls: JD(U), BJP Seat-Sharing Equally, CM Nitish To Lead Again
By Rahil Nora Chopra Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar kicked off his election campaign for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from Darbhanga and Samastipur, reminding people of the conditions that existed in the state before he came to power in 2005. Meanwhile, Union home minister Amit Shah, who was...
Bihar Poll Campaign Now Marked By Poetic Battles Between Rivals
By Tirthankar Mitra With the Bihar Assembly elections campaign gathering momentum, the heat and dust of the canvassing for votes and candidate nomination has thrown up an unexpected element -poetry. And heartbreak is finding expression in verses cutting across the political divide. And it has little in common with...
Chinese Battle With Australian Companies Over Iron Ore Import Prices Continues
By Kunal Bose For many years till around 2010, Japan, which then led the global steel industry in terms of production and more importantly technology (which unarguably is still the case) was setting the benchmark price of iron ore for the year following negotiations with miners. It would go...
Hurling Of Shoe At CJI Gavai By An Advocate Is A Result Of Right Wing Politics
By Ram Puniyani Advocate Rakesh Kishore hurled his shoe on Chief Justice of India, B R Gavai early this month. The background was that while giving his verdict on a PIL filed by the advocate asking for restoration of Lord Vishnu idol’s head, in one of the temples in...
Why The Government Schools In Haryana Are At The Brink Of Closure?
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: While defining education, Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Nation, states that education is more comprehensive than that of the literal meaning. He says, “By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body mind and spirit. Literacy is not...
A House Built On Sand: The Fault Lines In Trump’s 20 Point Gaza Peace Plan
By Girish Linganna The prisoner-hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas has been completed successfully, and many are calling it a major victory for peace. Twenty Israeli hostages returned home in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, aid started flowing back into Gaza, and guns fell silent after months of...
BJP’s Love For LJP(RV) Hurts All The Other NDA Allies, May Impact Outcome
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the seat sharing process progressed for the Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, the overconfident BJP leadership fell in love with LJP(RV), one of its allies in the NDA. It has been resented by three of the five NDA allies – the JD(U), RLM, and HAM....
SIR Exercise Initiated By ECI Has Degenerated Into A Tool To Destroy Constitution
By P. Sudhir Shocking as it may sound, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) initiated in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), when seen contextually, would actually unravel graver implications which have now come out in the open. When the process was initiated on June 25, within a...
India’s Blue Frontier: Can New Delhi Match China’s Deep-Sea Power Play?
By R. Suryamurthy China has already expanded its presence in the Indian Ocean — not just with warships and ports, but also with fishing nets. Its distant-water fleets, armed with state subsidies, GPS-linked trawlers and floating processing units, now sweep across the Indo-Pacific, harvesting tuna, squid and coral reef...
New Bengal BJP President Failing To Constitute His New State Committee Before Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Forming a new state committee of West Bengal unit of BJP has run into trouble as there are few takers for its membership. Several saffron camp leaders, once eager for a berth in the state committee are now dropping broad hints for their preference to...
Sahitya Sabha Of Assam Taking Steps To Bring Different Communities Closer
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In the Northeast, where ethnic differences divide the people especially during elections ,often leading to fierce outbreaks of violence, certain steps taken by the Asom Sahitya Sabha in recent times seeking to bring different communities closer, are indeed praiseworthy. It is also appropriate for the...
Mohd. Azam Khan Looking For An Important Role In 2027 Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is veteran leader Mohd. Azam Khan, who was recently released on bail after being in jail for 23 months, indispensable for Samajwadi Party and its president former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav?. Ever since Mohd. Azam Khan who had been a Muslim face of Samajwadi Party...
Recent Political Upheavals In South Asia Have Constitutional Issues
By Vijay K. Tiwari, Bhanu Pratap Recent political turmoil in Asia has been marked by larger legal uncertainty. Images of violence, protests, and arson have evoked a sense of awe, amazement, and panic. Upheavals in South Asia, first in Bangladesh and then in Nepal must be critically understood from...
