Rahul and Priyanka released after Delhi protest
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were released on Tuesday, hours after police detained them during a sit-in outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official residence...
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Bihar schools receive compulsory colour education
Bihar’s government has discovered that learning outcomes improve dramatically once school walls are...
in Happening Now Jul 21 ·Modi orders maximum punishment for minimum exam security
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has demanded the strictest possible punishment for those behind...
in Happening Now Jul 21 ·Madhya Pradesh moves to standardise private lives
BHOPAL — The Madhya Pradesh government has introduced a Uniform Civil Code Bill...
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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Parliament Adjourned For The Second Day On Police Brutality Unleashed On Students
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Both Houses – Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha – of the Parliament of India adjourned for the second day of the Monsoon Session on July 21 amid protests by the opposition seeking discussion on the police “brutality unleashed” on students during their “March to Parliament”...
E20 Is Not India’s Problem, The Way It Was Imposed Is The Real Issue
By R. Suryamurthy India’s nationwide rollout of E20 petrol has become one of the rare public policy initiatives where both the government and its critics can claim to be right. The government is correct in arguing that ethanol blending strengthens India’s energy security, reduces dependence on imported crude oil,...
Global Cement Growth Focus Shifts To Africa, Middle East In 2026
By Kunal Bose Global cement demand for the current year once again presents a kaleidoscopic picture of healthy rates of growth in uses of the binding agent in the Middle East, Africa and India but a fairly long unbroken period of demand compression in China. Europe, though not in...
NAACP Opens Convention With Call For Mass Mobilization To Defeat Trump
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik CHICAGO: For decades, the NAACP has gone to court and combed the halls of Congress, defending and expanding voting rights for African-Americans. In its 117 years of existence, it has never been one to leave lobbying and pressure on elected officials to the...
Why Burnham Replacing Starmer Opens Opportunities For The Left
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Media attacks on Andy Burnham as a ticket back to the 1970s followed hot on his Labour leadership acceptance speech on Friday. “Burnham to drag us back to the 1970s” made the Mail front page, while over at the Independent Blairite holdover John Rentoul lamented...
Opposition Parties Rock Parliament In Support Of Fasting Sonam And CJP Protest March
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The issues of irregularities in examinations in India and the theft of donations in Ram Temple at Ayodhya rocked the parliament on the first day of the Monsoon Session on July 20 and that led to adjournment of both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha...
Assam Is Leading India’s Meteoric Economic Transformation
By Nantoo Banerjee It is extremely encouraging to note that Assam is shaking off its historical “economic laggard” label to become one of India’s fastest-growing state economies. Assam’s economy is projected to grow at a nominal rate of over 17 percent in the current financial year, as against 6.6...
To Join Or Not To Join NDA: The Big Dilemma Facing Sharad Pawar Led NCP
By Kalyani Shankar As the Monsoon session of Parliament began on July 20,SharadPawar, the leader of the NCP, faces internal conflicts within his party. There could be political changes first in Maharashtra, and then the merged NCP could ally with the BJP. Pawar is known as a political survivor...
China Establishes Dominance In AI Application Through Open Source Model
By Satyaki Chakraborty The four day World Conference on Artificial Intelligence which concluded in Shanghai on July 20 has established dominance of China in AI application as also in AI governance as large number of countries responded to the Chinese model of open source AI application thereby expanding scope...
Will India, As BRICS Chair, Stand Up To The Proposed Us 100% Tariff On Oil Purchases?
By Dr Arun Mitra On 14 July 2026, a bipartisan group of US senators unveiled a revised Russia sanctions bill that proposes punitive tariffs on the largest buyers of Russian energy, including India, the second-largest importer of Russian crude. The legislation, originally championed by the late Senator Lindsey Graham...
Nomination Of TMC Deserters For Rajya Sabha Polls Angers Veteran Bengal BJP Leaders
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The goal of the national leadership of BJP to attain majority in Rajya Sabha to enable it to pass Bills is eroding its credibility in West Bengal at a time when the first saffron state government is firmly in the saddle. Things have gone from...
British Labour Leader Andy Burnham Becomes Prime Minister Amidst High Expectations
By Asad Mirza Andy Burnham entered Downing Street on July 20, 2026, without winning a general election. He inherits a stagnant economy, a fractured Labour Party, and an anxious relationship with Washington, Beijing and Brussels alike. History suggests unelected prime ministers can govern effectively – but only if they...
Naseeruddin Shah At 76 Is The Conscience Of Mainstream Bollywood Cinema
By T N Ashok While wishing acting legend Naseeruddin Shah a Happy Birthday on turning 76 and looking so young, we celebrate his cinematic career with this article by mentioning that as JRD TATA in the OTT serial TITAN the Story, he looked, walked, talked like the legend JRD...
CJP Movement Has Become Big Enough, Can’t Be Suppressed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Cockroach Janata Party movement was reported in a section of media as one of the reasons for abrupt removal of Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golcha on Friday July 17, 2026, who was replaced by Anurag Kumar. A day after, in the early hours of Saturday...
Hormuz Conflict Not A Distant Crisis For Indian Economy
By K Raveendran The expanding war around Iran has moved beyond the stage at which India can regard it as a dangerous but geographically contained conflict. The latest military deployments, repeated waves of American strikes and Iran’s threats of larger retaliation point towards a prolonged contest whose economic consequences...
India’s Digital Commerce Gets A Unified Voice With Setting Up Of ECCI
By T N Ashok India’s digital commerce industry has reached an inflection point. What began barely two decades ago with a handful of online bookstores and travel portals has today grown into a multi-layered ecosystem worth hundreds of billions of dollars, touching almost every aspect of daily life—from shopping...
Growing Congress Resentment Over Kerala Cm’s Arbitrary Functioning
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: There is no denying it. The opposition to the Chief Minister V D Satheesan’s style of functioning is gathering momentum within the Congress itself. The latest party leader to take exception to Satheesan’s arbitrary decision-making is the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) spokesperson V. R....
Fencing At Manipur Stretch Of India-Myanmar Border
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Fencing of the India-Myanmar border in trouble-torn Manipur remains a tough job for the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) as the task is not merely of demarcating the boundaries but also of thwarting the recurring challenges that the Indian security agencies face from insurgent movement,...
