- Sunday, February 23, 2025
Shubham Ghosh THE tussle over the question of leading the contemporary world order came to the fore once again on Sunday (13), when China said that the days when a “small” group of countries took decisions about the future of the world are long gone. Beijing’s cautionary words came as…
THE Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has recently joined hands with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for the 2022 Punjab Assembly elections and both parties described the move as “historic”. This is not the first time that the two outfits have come together to fight an election. In the 1996 Lok…
WITH problems multiplying for India’s century-old Congress party, senior leader and Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal has said that the party must bring widespread reforms across all levels of its organisation to prove that it is still a viable political alternative to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sibal has…
Shubham Ghosh INDIA'S ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has come up with flying colours every time the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has gone to polls since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. In the 2017 state and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP benefited in India’s most crucial political…
Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with two other contributors for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly set up by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its Xinxiang region. Rajagopalan, who is BuzzFeed…
Shubham Ghosh THEY both are promising economies and with mammoth populations on either side of the border, these two neighbours can aspire to be world beaters in decades to come. But in reality, India and China have been more at odds than in unity. From border to political to geostrategic,…
Shubham Ghosh THE UK government has decided to raise the minimum legal age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales marking a victory of campaigners eyeing the revision. Currently, 16- and 17-year-olds can marry with parental consent and charity bodies have warned that this loophole is being exploited to…
Shubham Ghosh THE Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday (12) entered an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for the Punjab Assembly elections next year. SAD president and Member of Parliament Sukhbir Singh Badal announced the tie-up at a press conference and called it a “new day in politics…
Shubham Ghosh THE Trans-Atlantic solidarity is at its best again. At the time when US President Joe Biden is touring the UK to attend the G7 and Nato summits, the two old allies have agreed to script a new partnership to deal with future threats in the health sector. The…
Shubham Ghosh INDIA on Friday (11) gave medical equipment, including ventilators and ambulances, worth over Rs 18 crore ($2.45 million) to the Nepali Army as a gesture of solidarity with the neighbouring country in times of the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. Vinay Mohan Kwatra, the Indian ambassador to the Himalayan…
