By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: With the resumption of bulk rail dispatch of goods/cargo from India to Bangladesh, the interim government has succeeded in restoring major supply chains to some areas, bringing much needed financial relief to people already hit by massive inflation. As Chief adviser to the current ruling...
By Krishna Jha In its report, published for 2024, September, the International Labour Organisation has come out with its new findings on the share of labour going down in the production process. It is a signal for the unfolding of a new world with the advent of scientific technological...
By Harihar Swarup Former Chief Minister Bhupender Singh Hooda , who is sure to contest in coming Haryana Assembly elections on October 5 , is known for the sobriquet “Ganga Putra” after a narrow escape from death in 2003 when his car was swept away by the flooded Ganga...
By Tirthankar Mitra A book launch is not the ideal platform to make a foreign policy announcement. Yet external affairs minister, S Jaishankar chose the occasion to announce that the era of uninterrupted dialogue with Pakistan is over. Jaishankar’s take has dual interpretations. His comment is a pointer to...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It is an open secret, but never admitted, that political parties in power often get some candidates contest elections to effect division in opposition votes to facilitate easy win for their own candidates. The “election strategy of the proxy” in Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing...
By Subrata Majumder Narendra Modi Government is going hot with China on diplomacy through remarks by the external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar, but at the same time, the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is soft on the issue of allowing Chinese investment in India. The economic survey of 2023-24...
By Sushil Kutty Will somebody tell Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi that ‘Devta’ is ‘God’ in many Indian languages and that is the only “true transparency” that he should see through? Rahul Gandhi is on a tour of the USA and some of his utterances...
By Kunal Bose China, which is by far the world’s largest importer of iron ore required to run the BF-BOF segment of its giant steelmaking industry presents analysts with the riddle surrounding continuing arrivals of the raw material at Chinese ports in high volumes in the face of steel...
By Satyaki Chakraborty President Emanuel Macron has landed France in a serious political crisis by appointing the conservative leader of a small right party Michel Barnier as the new Prime Minister after rejecting the candidature of the largest group of the national assembly Lucie Castets. President Macron took the...
By Lakshmi Devi In the past month, there have been several decisions in which the Supreme Court of India has emphasised the right to life and liberty of undertrial prisoners. The court reiterated in several cases that “bail is the rule and jail is an exception”. One notable instance...
By Asad Mirza Pope Francis arrived in Muslim-majority Indonesia on Tuesday last week , kicking off a four-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific, the longest and farthest of the 87-year-old’s papacy. The head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics touched down in the capital, Jakarta, for a three-day visit devoted...
By Kurt Hackbarth Following its landslide victory in Mexico’s presidential elections, the MORENA coalition is wasting no time in getting to work. Even before president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum takes office on October 1, the new Congress is taking up a package of constitutional amendments proposed by outgoing president Andrés Manuel...
By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh Interim Head Dr. Muhammad Yunus has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for talks in New York in the last week of September when both of them will be attending the session of United Nations general assembly .So far, there has been no response from...
By Nantoo Banerjee The oil price decontrol — at first, the retail prices of petrol by the Manmohan Singh-led government in 2010 and, thereafter, diesel prices by the Narendra Modi-led government in 2015 – to link the local retail market prices with global price trends seems to be meant...
By Kalyani Shankar Who will emerge victorious in Haryana’s upcoming assembly polls? Will the ruling BJP retain the state, or will the resurgent Congress seize the opportunity to win? The nation is watching as the results of the impending polls in Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Jammu, and Kashmir will shape these...
By Sushil Kutty A big chunk of Texans now know that Rahul Gandhi is “not a Pappu”. On the contrary, Rahul Gandhi is “highly intelligent and highly educated.” And, as far as Rahul Gandhi is concerned, there is no BJP and RSS ‘Mohabbat Ka Dukaan’ franchise. Indian Overseas Congress...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: An aggressive Akhilesh Yadav is taking head on with chief minister Yogi Adityanath and his government in Uttar Pradesh on the issue of poor governance of BJP government in the state. On every issue of corruption, deterioration in law and order, hate mongers, insecurity in...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The carping critics of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government – the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – have ended up with egg on their faces, and are desperately running for cover to hide their acute embarrassment! The proximate...