Trump warning shadows Iran talks in Switzerland
US President Donald Trump’s warning to Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz injected fresh volatility into a fragile diplomatic track on Monday as officials from the United States and Iran met in Switzerland for talks...
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Tharoor’s Kashmir comments widen Congress fault lines
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has drawn sharp criticism from within his party after...
in Happening Now Jun 22 ·Court warrant puts Prakash Raj in voter row
A Bengaluru magistrate court has issued a non-bailable warrant against actor Prakash Raj...
in Happening Now Jun 22 ·Ayodhya donation probe deepens temple trust scrutiny
Ayodhya’s Ram temple donation controversy widened on Monday after Mahant Dharmadas Baba condemned...
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By Nantoo Banerjee It is surprising that the government took over three months’ time to issue a directive to Indian shipping companies to restrict operation through conflict-stricken waters in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz following lethal US attacks on a foreign vessel causing the death of three...
Defections And Splits In Regional Parties Are Harming The Democratic Process
By Kalyani Shankar The Indian Opposition is facing considerable political challenges due to ongoing conflicts within its parties. This complex political landscape, where party switching and defections have become common, is understandably worrying for many. Such actions can erode trust, weaken accountability, and put our democratic stability at risk....
Pro-Trump Lawyer Espriella Wins Colombia Presidential Polls By A Narrow Margin
By Nitya Chakraborty Pro-Trump far right billionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella won the Presidential elections run off on Sunday defeating the candidate of the ruling Left coalition Ivan Cepeda by a narrow margin. Espriella got 49.66 per cent of the votes while Cepeda got 48.7 per cent. The...
Modi Declaring June 20 As Paschimbanga Divas Is A Travesty Of History
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 20 at Tarkeshwar near Kolkata spun a fresh yarn, promising to create a “New Bengal” (Viksit Bangla), as he christened the day “Paschimbanga Divas” (West Bengal Day), since it was on this day that BJP/RSS icon Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who...
Modi Govt’s Delimitation Proposal Has Many Political Fault Lines
By T N Ashok Few issues in contemporary Indian politics carry consequences as profound as the impending delimitation exercise. While elections dominate headlines every few months, delimitation has the potential to alter the balance of political power for decades. It is not merely about drawing constituency boundaries. It is...
Mamata’s Woes Mount As HDFC Bank Freezes TMC Party’s Deposits
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: It is political theatre of absurd in Bengal as the former Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo is witnessing the desertions of TMC leaders close to her and reports coming in from the districts of the state of the closure of the party offices or...
India Is Now Emerging More As Arms Manufacturer Than An Importer
By T N Ashok When Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India must “build arms and not just buy them,” he is articulating perhaps the most important shift in Indian defence policy since economic liberalization in 1991. The statement is not merely about weapons. It is about sovereignty, technology, strategic...
Kerala Budget Puts A Premium On Privatisation
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A budget that proclaims from the housetop out and out privatization for all the problems plaguing Kerala. That is the best description for the maiden budget presented last week by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan who is also the Finance Minister. To put it in...
Ayatollah Khamenei’s Killing Has Temporarily Bridged Shia-Sunni Divide In Muslim World
By Asad Mirza The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in February 2026 has produced an irony as profound as it is unexpected – the killing of the world’s most prominent Shia leader by a US-Israeli strike has, at least momentarily, dissolved sectarian walls that decades of theological dispute and...
BJP Top Brass’s Three-Year Plan To Achieve ‘One-Party, One-Nation’ Goal
By Arun Srivastava The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) strategy of fracturing regional parties serves as a quaternary-track political manoeuvre designed to secure long-term constitutional dominance, dismantle the opposition architecture INDIA bloc, give a shape to its long cherished desire to create Bharat free of active opposition and finally, consolidating...
NTA’s Mock Drill Deepens The Crisis Of Trust Around NEET
By K Raveendran There can hardly be a sharper symbol of institutional drift than the National Testing Agency conducting a mock drill a day before the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. What should have been an assurance mechanism has instead become an admission of fragility. A mock drill is meant to...
Birthday Celebrations Of Indian Politicians Mirror The Latest Popular Trends
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers When Rahul Gandhi turned 56 this week, the celebrations were almost startling in their simplicity. There was a cake. There were party workers. There were photographs. His sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, posted a warm social media message calling him her “darling brother.” The day passed...
Israel Is Trying To Derail The Peace Process In West Asia Through US-Iran Deal
By Asad Mirza A fragile diplomatic breakthrough between Washington and Tehran has collided head-on with Israeli military aggression in Lebanon, casting a long shadow over what could have been the most consequential peace settlement in the Middle East in a generation. In the arc of modern Middle Eastern diplomacy,...
Narendra Modi-Trump Meeting At G7 Conclave Brought No Cheers To India
By Dr Arun Mitra After nearly 15 months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited as a special guest to attend the G7 meeting, since India is not a member of this group. During the event, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump held a brief conversation. The...
BJP And Its Allies Are Spreading Rumours About Split In Uttar Pradesh SP
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is BJP trying to divert the attention from the alleged loot of donations at Ram Temple at Ayodhya and spreading news about possible split in Samajwadi Party.? At a time when entire nation is watching developments in Ayodhya about great loot of the donations BJP...
The Angel, The Killer And The Tough Cookie – That Is How Trump Sees Modi
By T N Ashok By the standards of modern diplomacy, it was an unusual encounter. There were no bear hugs. No back-slapping theatrics. No clasped hands held aloft for the cameras as though two victorious prizefighters had just emerged from Madison Square Garden. The famous Trump-Modi choreography, perfected over...
The Twists And Turns In Rahul Gandhi’s 22 Year Old Political Journey
By T N Ashok On a humid June morning in India’s capital, the birthday wishes began arriving before sunrise. Students posted videos on Instagram. Party workers unfurled banners across small towns. Political allies issued carefully worded messages of solidarity. Critics, never far behind, reminded the nation of his electoral...
Indian IT Faces A Harder Reset As Accenture Signal Sharpens A.I. And Demand Risks
By K Raveendran Indian technology companies are entering a more difficult phase as the market reaction to Accenture’s weaker revenue outlook exposes deeper concerns about the sector’s growth model. The sell-off that erased about Rs 1.35 lakh crore in market value from Indian IT majors was not merely a...
