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 inv...

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 Maharash...

By Arun Srivastava The election for Jharkhand state assembly scheduled to be held in December this year is going to big challenge for the RSS, especially its chief Mohan Bhagwat. A win for BJP would help refurbish the image of Narendra Modi and boost his...

By P. Sudhir The situation in Assam has steadily deteriorated due to growing tensions between communities and certain incidents being used to divide people on communal and chauvinistic lines. The chief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, and the BJP-led govern...

By Satyaki Chakraborty Massive global protests in the last four days of September in all the major cities of the world including New York, Washington, London, Paris, Berlin and finally Tel Aviv against Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s rigid atti...

By Sushil Kutty The Maharashtra assembly polls are slated later this year along with Jharkhand. Also the bypolls in 10 UP assembly seats, which will put Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to test, are due. The thing to watch, however, is whether...

By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The US Presidential election is scheduled for 5 November 2024 while the Canadian elections to elect a new Prime Minister is expected to take place in October 2025. After Kamala Harris became Democratic Party nominee for the Presid...

By Arun Srivastava The RSS leadership has imparted a new dimension to its protracted battle against Prime Minister Narendra Modi by extending support to caste census at the three day conclave of RSS organisations that ended in Kerala on September 2. With...

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Farmers have been demanding legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP), but the Centre has announced 7 new big schemes for farm sector worth Rs14,000 crore on September 2. Modi government said that the schemes intended for farmers...

By K Raveendran The drop in crude oil prices below the $75 per barrel threshold has raised significant concerns within the oil market, particularly for the OPEC+ cartel, which has been striving to maintain prices near the desired $100 mark. The decline, i...

By Sushil Kutty Lynching over the ‘gaumata’ is back in currency and poll-bound Haryana is where it has returned with a vengeance. In one incident, a Class 12 student was mistaken for a cow-smuggler and shot dead by a group of gau-rakshaks. In another inci...

By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Akal Takht’s declaring Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal a ‘tankhaiya’ on August 30 is most likely to reset the Punjab politics in general and Sikh politics in particular. In the tumultuous history of Punjab, t...

By K Raveendran The squabble between Rahul Gandhi and Union minister Kiren Rijiju over the lack of representation of backward classes and tribals in beauty pageants has accorded a bit of glamour to the debate surrounding castes. Rahul’s remark, might seem...

    By Sushil Kutty   So India is a “big country” with a “big influence” on the Russian economy and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants India and Indians to “change their attitude” towards Russia. For then, there will be peace as Russian Preside...

  By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANTHAPURAM: The release of the Hema Committee report on the problems plaguing the Malayalam film industry has exposed its ugly underbelly. It is a gory tale of sexual exploitation, illegal bans, discrimination, drug and alcohol a...