By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Report on International Religious Freedom 2022, a Congressional-mandatory annual report by the US State Department has placed India in the group of countries where the governments have been freely targeting religious communities. Th...

By K Raveendran Contrary to what is considered to be the general perception, post-millennial Gen Z-ers, meaning those who are aged between eight and 23 years, are more likely than other generations to cite negative feelings about social media. They are al...

By Arun Srivastava Even before Hanuman’s ‘gada (mace)’ could smash and decimate Bajrang Dal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is gearing to strike a brutal assault on the Congress leaders and social activists. Contrary to the common belief that Modi will rest...

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi was slated to distribute appointment letters via video conferencing to 71,000 newly-inducted recruits on Tuesday, May 16. Less than a year short of the 2024 general elections, Modi is acutely aware he might not...

By Tirthankar Mitra It has been many summers since Mamata Banerjee floated Trinamool Congress in 1998, thus leaving the Congress a pale shadow of its former self in West Bengal, and no longer a political force to be reckoned with in the eastern state. How...

By Kalyani Shankar Could the United States also favour an Indian American for the top job in the 2024 polls? It is a million-dollar question. But it does not stop the American Indians from dreaming about it. The United Kingdom has chosen an Indian-origin...

By Ashis Biswas Although a Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP) government has been re-elected in Tripura winning a second term early this year, centre/state talks on the separate tribal statehood demand remain stalled. Despite earlier announcements made by t...

By Dr. Gyan Pathak Implementation of the four labour codes in the current financial year 2023-24 has well neigh been stalled. BJP’s debacle in Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election, the result of which came out on May 13, has changed the priorities of the party...

By Subrata Majumder Concerns loomed large on India’s neutral stand on Russian invasion of Ukraine for its separation from the US led global market and eventually backlash on its growth. In contrast, the situation took a reverse gear. India, not only susta...

By Tirthankar Mitra Window dressing is going places. It has travelled from the confines of the books of accounts to the ranks of the saffron brigade in West Bengal which have been allegedly inflated to impress the BJP top brass, according to sources in st...

Describing the Karnataka assembly poll results as a “ray of hope”, PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said she hopes that the rest of the country will also reject “communal politics” and vote for its development and prosperity. Mehbooba’s remarks came a...

By Ashis Biswas Union Home Minister Mr Amit Shah’s belated announcement assuring that no official decision would be made regarding a proposed alteration in the status of Meitei tribespeople in Manipur state without a comprehensive discussion among all con...

By Tirthankar Mitra Time was when hearts beat faster whenever Imran Khan charged in to bowl or looked the way the red ball moving at him as he raised his bat to send it to the ropes or outside the stadium. One does not recall too many occasions when the o...

By K Raveendran The Supreme Court has thwarted a move by market regulator SEBI to delay its investigation into the alleged manipulation of shares by the Adani group and issues that have been raised against the group in the wake of the Hindenburg report, w...

By K R Sudhaman The welcome development in Indian economy is that Inflation, riding on base effect, has moved below five per cent mark in April this year. But worrying factor is slowdown in Industrial and consumer goods production as IIP growth decelerate...