Bengaluru's IT and ITES workers clash with police during protest as union accuses Congress government of protecting corporate interests
Despite rising female labour force participation, 61% of Indian women work in informal sectors like domestic help and construction, facing low pay, hazards, and legal exclusion.
By wielding Bruce Riedel’s JFK’s Forgotten Crisis against Nehru, Modi may have handed his critics a powerful argument—one that questions his own strategic moves in the global arena.
The Delhi Assembly election 2025 is taking place under the shadows of the 2020 polls and reminding the minorities of some of the traumatic events of that year.
With Donald Trump sweeping the 2024 US Presidential Elections, what's now left of the 'left' in the American polity outside the neo-liberal democrat ecosystem?
The Delhi Assembly election 2025 is taking place under the shadows of the 2020 polls and reminding the minorities of some of the traumatic events of that year.
What helps the Uttar Pradesh government, which has a low per-capita income and a troubled, jobless economy, to spend on extravaganza like the Deep Diwali festival held in Ayodhya recently?
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed at an election rally in Jharkhand, that he is poor, owns no property and doesn't even have a bicycle. But is this true? What does data say?
What does Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Islamophobic hate-mongering imply? Is he losing confidence on his "Modi Ki Guarantee" narrative? Or is it an exhibition of his frustration?
The CAA 2019 has always been a political trap for the refugees and a dilemma for the BJP. Now Shantanu Thakur's "slip of the tongue" exposed the hollowness of Modi's much-hyped citizenship law once more.
In the wake of India’s Interim Budget 2024-25, questions arise: Is it a budget of business as usual or a political gambit? With a cautious conservatism characterising the budget, we delve into the numbers, the narratives, and the nuances.
What's behind the BJP's victory in the 2023 assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan? Beyond numbers, lies a complicated web of political and organisational factors.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra is reportedly under fire from the BJP for questioning Adani in the Parliament. But the BJP's actions exposed it once more.
What does the CPI(M) want in West Bengal? It's not clear from the party's recent actions whether it's concerned about defeating the BJP at all.
What do Ramesh Bidhuri's anti-Muslim slurs targeting BSP's Danish Ali hint at? Is this going to be the template that the BJP will use in 2024?
Bengaluru's IT and ITES workers clash with police during protest as union accuses Congress government of protecting corporate interests
The BJP has restarted another deceitful campaign regarding the citizenship of Matuas with an eye on the forthcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
On the allegations of minority persecution in India, S Jaishankar claimed in the US that there is none as the minorities get ration in India.
While Modi denied the allegations of minority persecution in India under his government, the BJP took it upon itself to prove him wrong.
The acquittal of the 67 Naroda Gam massacre accused, which took place in February 2002, will bolster the BJP's prospects and weaken its opponents.
West Bengal suffered once more due to violence triggered by Ram Navami rallies organised by the Hindutva-incensed organisations in Howrah.
Nellie massacre took place 40 years ago and doesn't appeal the mainstream Bengali conscience, but it set the precedence for gory atrocities in India, which helped the perpetrators of future pogroms.
The fake news on communal violence in Howrah helped the BJP in polarising Hindus using Islamophobia in West Bengal. But what's the truth?
The Modi regime may have managed the outrage in the Gulf over vile remarks on Muhammad the Prophet, it wants to prolong the issue in India.
Despite rising female labour force participation, 61% of Indian women work in informal sectors like domestic help and construction, facing low pay, hazards, and legal exclusion.
The GEAC's recommendation for GM mustard cultivation has stirred a hornet's rest, bringing even the RSS's farmers' wing against the BJP.
The celebration of International Women's Day 2022 with the theme 'break the bias' mocks Indian women who reel under patriarchy's juggernaut.
The Karnataka hijab row has been used by the BJP-RSS to deny Muslim women right to education, while the Opposition fell in the "hijab" trap.
Why the raising of the women's legal age of marriage by the Modi regime isn't going to solve the "underage" marriage issue but complicate it further?
Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu won the Miss Universe pageant, which was marred in controversy over its normalisation of Zionist terrorism in Palestine.
National Family Health Survey shows that around 75% of women in three Indian states support domestic violence by their male partners.
Autumn in Bengal has been stereotyped as per the romanticised version peddled by poets and authors for ages, ignoring the crisis it brings.
Bengaluru's IT and ITES workers clash with police during protest as union accuses Congress government of protecting corporate interests
Finally, the Rules of the CAA 2019 saw the light of the day (or night, technically). But as this publication predicted four years ago, it won't benefit the Bengali Hindu refugees but throw them under the bus.
The BJP has restarted another deceitful campaign regarding the citizenship of Matuas with an eye on the forthcoming 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Activist Anish Khan's murder in Howrah district of West Bengal has posed a threat to Mamata Bandopadhyay-led TMC as students have hit the streets.
While Lakhimpur Kheri massacre accused Ashish Mishra and Muslim genocide advocate Yati Narsinghanand can get bail, activists rot behind bars.
Ashish Mishra's bail in the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre case has shocked many and created a furore amid the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Modi asserted that focus on rights made India weak in the last 75 years and asked people to focus on duties. Why this claim is sheer fascist?
The unbridled systematic attacks on RTI activists is not just jeopardising their lives but also threatening India's democracy and freedom
The proposed electoral reforms of the Modi government are merely a smokescreen before starting the NPR-based NRC to disenfranchise the poor.
With Donald Trump sweeping the 2024 US Presidential Elections, what's now left of the 'left' in the American polity outside the neo-liberal democrat ecosystem?
Iran's April 14th attack on Israel was its first direct strike and the maiden one from another country for Tel Aviv after the Arab-Israel war.
Amid a global recession, the "India Out" campaign, which aims economic self-sufficiency by boycotting neighbouring India's commodities, has gained momentum in Bangladesh, especially after the controversial general elections.
South Africa wins a legal battle against Israel at the ICJ, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. While the court lacks enforcement power, the ruling exposes the plight of Palestinians and challenges biased narratives. Can this be a turning point for accountability?
The recent Israel-Palestine crisis is restructuring the 2020 Abraham Accords, which had implications for oil pipeline routes and defence deals, but now seems to be disintegrating as we see the Gulf engaging in a multifaceted diplomatic venture.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE strategically navigate the Russia-Ukraine conflict, aiming to bolster their soft power influence. These Gulf states' increasing aid, mediation, and trade efforts showcase their commitment to multipolarity and growing influence on the world stage.
The Palestinian resistance stunned the world with its strategic offensive campaign. Is this the beginning of the end of Zionist hegemony?
What's the reason behind Henry Kissinger's China visit in 2023? Why did the 100-year-old make his 100th trip overcoming all difficulties?
Did the West just dig its own grave in the Middle East and in the Global South by supporting the Zionist Israeli attack on Palestine?
While the Congress defeated the BJP in Karnataka, the threat of Hindutva fascism still looms large over the state, which only the left can combat.
It's Eid; and beneath the typical happy photos, the pain, agony and tears of Indian Muslims, especially of West Bengal will remain hidden.
On Lenin's 152nd birth anniversary revisiting his views on religion in the context of the working class's struggle. It's important even now.
The recent surge in anti-Muslim violence during Ram Navami celebrations across different states exhibit Modified India's disastrous journey.
The BJP's victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022 despite the strong anti-incumbency wave shows the decadence of the opposition.
While Modi celebrated the Goa Liberation Day, he and the BJP remained mum on the new liberation struggle that has unfolded in the state.
Why the anti-CAA 2019 movement failed to gain anything unlike the farmers' movement? What went wrong with the anti-CAA-NRC protests?
Lin Biao, Mao Zedong's designated successor, mysteriously died on September 13th 1971. But why? Did he die while fleeing after failing in a coup or was killed?
The history of the human society is one of pandemics as well. Deadly pandemics like COVID-19 striked human beings since centuries and reshaped the society.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's jibe on students pursuing medical education in Ukraine is unfounded as it lacks facts regarding the issue.
The students’ agitation against RRB NTPC results reached a peak in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. What had sparked this agitation? What's its goal?
For 500 days, schools are closed in India. How has this closure of schools affected the children? Either their learning is disrupted or dropouts have increased.
Modi has donned the attire of a student and parenting counsellor in the new edition of "Pariksha Pe Charcha". But who is benefitting from it?
The National Education Policy 2020 aims at turning education into a robot-making system for big corporate houses. This must be resisted by the students.
The PMeVidya online education programme is launched by the Modi regime for school students. But which class of students can avail online education in India?
Yogi Adityanath's ad in The Indian Express using a Kolkata flyover's photo to show Uttar Pradesh's development stirred a controversy after the paper apologised.
Danish Siddiqui's killing in Afghanistan raises uncomfortable questions regarding the practice of "embedded" journalism that jeopardises journalists' security.
When India was reeling under the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment and conflict with China, the Modi regime was planning to muzzle the press.
Any attack on journalists is a threat to the functioning of a democracy. But in Modi's India, attacking and imprisoning journalists is a norm.
The row over Paranjoy Guha Thakurta’s articles on Adani Group continues as a Gujarat court issued an arrest warrant against him recently.
A fake news in the west that says Russian President Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s disease is republished without verification by Indian media
Arnab Goswami's arrest on charges of abetment to suicide isn't an attack on "press freedom" and it's not something to be happy of either.
Bajaj and Parle's boycott of toxic news channels can't stop hate-mongering as the servile corporate-owned media survives on spewing venom.
Recently, Indian mainstream media outlets like Zee News and Times Now published a story showing a video of a few soldiers of