Government opens talks as CJP march swells
The government opened its first direct channel with the Cockroach Janta Party on Monday as thousands of its supporters gathered at Jantar Mantar for a planned march towards Parliament, marking a sharp escalation in the...
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AAP leaders join youth march amid police action
Senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Atishi joined thousands...
in Happening Now Jul 20 ·Lok Sabha shifts strengthen NDA’s parliamentary position
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has approved the merger of six Shiv Sena...
in Happening Now Jul 20 ·AAP leaders join youth march amid police action
Senior Aam Aadmi Party leaders Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh and Atishi joined thousands...
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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,...
Andy Burnham’s Long Journey From Manchester To 10, Downing Street
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers LONDON: British politics has once again demonstrated why it remains one of the most unpredictable democracies in the world. Barely two years after leading Labour to one of its biggest electoral victories in modern history, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is leaving 10 Downing Street as...
Donald Trump Is A Desperate Man Willing To Do Anything To Remain In Power
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON :Even before his 20-minute speech blaming his 2020 election loss on everyone but himself and his own administration, President Donald Trump’s primetime “election fraud” broadcast got some pretty bad reviews. Some pundits said his speech was primarily a justification for the demand he ended with—his...
Cricketing Legend Sir Garfield Sobers Was One Of The Greatest Sports Personalities
By T N Ashok Sir Garfield Sobers, 89, is no more. He died a week ahead of his 90th birthday. He was indisputably the world’s best left arm all-rounder batting left, bowling left fast/spin. His greatest cricketing achievement, the first to score a highest individual score of 365 not...
Decoding Sheikh Hasina’s Announcement On Returning To Dhaka In December
By Nitya Chakraborty Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s announcement last week to return to her country in December this year ending her exile in India, has created big interests in global diplomatic circles, apart from India and Bangladesh. In an interview to the Reuters, she said that she...
Iran’s Dual-Strait Strategy Redefines Global Trade And Maritime Response
By Asad Mirza Iran is constructing a dangerous dual-chokepoint architecture across the Middle East’s vital waterways. By coordinating Houthi rebels in Yemen and al-Shabab militants in Somalia, Tehran is tactically moving to dominate both sides of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, duplicating the strategic energy leverage it already holds over...
