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No-Confidence Motion Looms Over Om Birla as 60-Nation Outreach Plan Triggers Political Buzz

As a no-confidence motion against Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla looms, his decision to constitute Parliamentary Friendship Groups with over 60 countries sparks murmurs in political corridors over timing, transparency and... By Renu Mittal

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Black Money: No Data Available...

From telling the gullible masses that ₹15-20 lakh would be deposited in the bank accounts of the poor once the black mon...

Budget 2025: Joblessness and Unemploymen...

India’s finance minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman presented her 8th budget since 2020, and this time around announce...

Tablighi Jamaat : 1000 years of revenge...

Two contradictions are evident. Through April and May this year, the government vilified T...

By Vivek Mukherji and Sadia Rehman
WINDS OF CHANGE...

ADVERTISING : The name itself conjures up exciting images. Passion. Glamour. Celebrities. ...

By Gopinath Menon
THE ECONOMIC ROULETTE WHEEL...

THE wheel spins, swings, and sweeps in a frenzied manner. The economic ball jumps, bobs, a...

By Alam Srinivas
SYSTEMS FAILURE, SITUATION CRITICAL...

ONE of most quoted allegories of incompetence for a person holding high office is that Ner...

By Vivek Mukherji
COSMIC DANCE, WORLDLY TRANCE...

Faith, Lies & Tall Tales The COVID-19 disease is caused by the SARS-CoV2 virus. It spr...

By Alam Srinivas and Vivek Mukherji
SELLING FAMILY SILVER...

Faced with an existential challenge of continuing to shoulder the humungous exercise of op...

By Srinand Jha

Governance

The Great Labour Reset: Hire, Fire, and Forget !

For over seventy years, India’s labour laws have promised security but delivered it to barely ten pe... By Saurabh Prakash

When protection becomes a product, the insured bec…

When Parliament passed the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025—with Rah... By Anil Tyagi

Digital evolution must remain human-centric: Anton…

For India, with its diversity of conditions and multiple layers of development, the validity of this... By Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad

State Scan

Bikram Majithia —Can he reinvent himself?

For Bikram Majithia, the battle is no longer merely legal or organisat...

The Power Behind the Curtain: Punjab Politics and the Ris...

Punjab politics celebrates the crowd-puller, but it survives on the op...

Punjab’s political terrain remains resistant to the BJP

In Punjab’s political discourse, few assumptions circulate as casually...

Global Scan

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Triggers Anxiety Among Indian Immigrants in the U.S.

Indian immigrants in the U.S.—from H-1B workers to green card applicants and undocumented families—are facing the brunt of the sweeping Trump legislation, One Big Beautiful Bill, which has no beauty for them but has set off waves of anxiety. The…

By TN ASHOK

Politics

Arvind Kejriwal, a former IRS officer, has risen like a phoenix in the political scenario
AAP’s Rural Sweep: A Pro-Incumbency High…
AAP secured around 218 of 347 Zila Parishad zones (about 63%) and over 1,500 of 2,838 Block Samiti z...

By Prof Harjeshwar Singh

Venu’s magic minus the audience
Tongues are wagging inside the Congress party that if it wants to win the Kerala Assembly elections,...

By Renu Mittal

Rahul Gandhi’s Caste Gamble Is Not Strat…
The cracks are unmistakable. The party’s timeless mantra— “Na jaat pe, na paat pe; mohar lagegi haat...

By Renu Mittal

Hemant Soren Govt in Jharkhand on the Br…
Another blow to the already declining national standing of the Congress Party in 2025 is about to co...

By Renu Mittal

Partition of India: Sardar Patel sensed,…
Patel felt that the nation Could survive without a Crown (Kashmir) but not without its Belly (Hydera...

By David Devadas

Trump’s Second Term: A Nation Split on S…
Much like his first term, US President Donald Trump, after 10 months in office, has proved in his se...

By TN ASHOK

Bric A Brac

Sindoor Diplomacy: After Flying Drones, ...

Right from the beginning, the so-called war against terror, a.k.a. Pakistan was ...

By Alam Srinivas and Anil Tyagi
Shankar Duo: Father-Son Diplomacy...

One of the Shankar duos, the powerful, charismatic, and diplomat father, who fee...

By Team
Kingmaker needs flesh...

It is quite intriguing to observe how politicians become Cabinet Ministers and C...

By Team
Dharavi Goldmine...

Dharavi. The moment one hears the name, a picture of ghastly slums and the den o...

By Team
CPM : Let Mamta be defeated first !...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is in a fix as only 10 months are lef...

By Team
Finally, BJP needs media...

NDA 3 or Modi 2.0 has completed one year but the BJP leadership feels it has not...

By Team

By The Way

No Women, No Kids. That’s the rules!

This is a riddle that not more than 0.001% of those with an IQ of 160-and-plus can figure out. The reason is that it requires intricate, in-depth, insightful, intelligent, and possibly insidious knowledge and interpretations about national politics in several…

By Alam Srinivas and Anil Tyagi