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Rahul Gandhi Has Got Tremendous Response From Dalits In His Bihar Visit

By Arun Srivastava Amit Shah’s direction to Nitish Kumar not to allow Rahul Gandhi to interact with the Dalit and OBC students at SC hostel in Darbhanga during the Congress leader’s visit to Bihar on Thursday, has proved to be counterproductive. Not only the dalit and OBC students, even...

May 17 · >

Former BJP Lok Sabha Member John Barla’s Switch To TMC Is A Big Jolt For Saffrons In North Bengal

By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: North Bengal has not been a happy hunting ground for All India Trinamool Congress even when it replaced CPI(M)-led Left Front government in 2011 and several years thereafter. The northern part of the state continued to be under BJP hegemony but the TMC inroads post...

May 17 · >

Baloch Rebels Expose Pakistan Army Vulnerability

By Manish Rai Fierce attacks by Baloch rebels have shaken the Pakistani Army, while it was predominantly occupied on the Indian front. Balochistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, saw six attacks on Pakistani forces in just one day. Pakistan mobilised its Army units from Balochistan and redeployed on the Eastern border...

May 17 · >

From Fire To Fizzle – President Trump Has To Take A U-Turn In His Global Tariff War

By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Renowned Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow was once asked if having a trade deficit is bad for any economy. He answered by saying he would always have a trade deficit with his barber and would always run a trade surplus with his students. Such is...

May 16 · >

Along With The Fight Against Cross-Border Terror, Govt Must Ensure Communal Harmony

By D. Raja The developments following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam (Jammu & Kashmir), which claimed the lives of 26 civilians including tourists, have brought to fore a number of pressing concerns: national security, civil liberties, democratic accountability, regional peace and imperialist overreach. In the aftermath of the...

May 16 · >

New CJI B R Gavai’s Comments On Waqf Act, 2025 Have Alarmed Hindutva Petitioners

By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court of India has deferred pleas against Waqf (Amendment) Act till May 20. Chief Justice of India BR Gavai did not waste time arguing. He said the top court will not permit anybody to challenge the 1995 Waqf Act, “Lets argue the petitions challenging...

May 16 · >

Centre Has To Take Proper Lessons From Latest Data On Covid 19 Deaths

By Dr Arun Mitra The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in India during the peak of COVID as reported by the Government of India were 3.3 lakh. As per the worldometers website (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) the number of death due to COVID till 12 May 2025 is 533570. According to...

May 16 · >

Revamped PLFS Too Does Not Show The Real Picture Of Joblessness In India

By Dr. Gyan Pathak After years of criticism, PM Narendra Modi led Government has finally released its first ever monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) on May 15, 2025 for the month of April 2025, as per the revamped PLFS. Though it saved the government from the allegation of...

May 16 · >

Rahul Tells Bihar Students To Demand Caste Census-Driven Rights

By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of Assembly polls in Bihar, the battle for votes of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) and the minority communities, especially Muslims, has increased manifold, with Congress having stepped up outreach to Dalit and backward class students. Meanwhile,...

May 16 · >

Jai Bhim Nagar Demolitions Contravenes The Fundamental Rights Under Indian Constitution

By Shivam Tyagi, Chanchal Agrawal On June 3, 2024, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced the demolition of Jai Bhim Nagar. Subsequently, on June 6, 2024, BMC officials, joined by bulldozers and numerous police personnel, commenced the demolition process, displacing approximately 600 families who had resided in the area...

May 16 · >

Summoning Of Special Session Of Parliament Is Imperative To Know Ceasefire Details

By P Sudhir People on both sides of the border were relieved. The four-day-long military engagement between India and Pakistan came to a close on the late afternoon of May 10. Despite this, gunshots were heard late in the night. But later, the DGMOs of both countries confirmed that...

May 15 · >

Indian Ministers Are Only Helping Internationalisation Of Kashmir Issue Through Loose Remarks

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Modi’s rightwing Hindu nationalist party, guided by its moral compass, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has limited time to wrest Pakistan Occupied Kashmir from Pakistan, only a billion years! A supercomputer simulation by researchers at Japan’s Tohoku University came to the conclusion that life on...

May 15 · >

Does Presidential Reference Contain ‘Substantial Questions Of Law’

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Mahadevan had earlier turned down the request of the Government of India to send the case relating to assent to bills by governors and president to a larger Constitution Bench on the ground that...

May 15 · >

Right Parties Leading In Opinion Polls On The Eve Of Portugal Elections On May 18

By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal, a very important member of the European Union with a strong economy, is going for national elections next Sunday, May 18 to elect its 230 member Parliament. The 2025 elections will be the third one in the last three years showing the fragility of the...

May 15 · >

The New Covid 19 Death Data Proves That The Centre Earlier Fudged The Figure

By Krishna Jha The new Covid death data, released recently by the government, reveals everything that confirms what was feared at the time of the pandemic – a massive mismanagement on the part of the government. The new data from the Civil Registration System (CRS), published on May 7,...

May 15 · >

The Tale Of Two Super Power Presidents Amidst Global War On Trade, Tariffs

By Nitya Chakraborty Soon after organizing a 90 day truce last week end at Geneva through three day intensive talks between top officials of the United States and China, President Donald Trump is on a three nation tour covering Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE to pursue his deal making...

May 14 · >

High Contrast In Stewardship Of Two Supreme Court Chief Justices

By K Raveendran Sweet and short: that aptly describes Chief Justice Sanjeev Khanna’s stewardship of the Supreme Court. In a time when judicial personalities often become larger than the institution, Justice Khanna offered a quiet, yet powerful contrast. His tenure followed that of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud, and...

May 14 · >

Indian Air Force Did A Magnificent Job In Damaging Pakistan’s Air Defence

By Sushil Kutty The Indian Air Force is drawing kudos from all flying quarters except from fly-by-night operators in the Pakistani media and Pakistani intelligentsia along with retired Pakistani diplomats and Pakistani generals, for laying waste nine Pakistan Air bases and downing hundreds of Turkiye drones, in the “4-Day...

May 14 · >
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