2025

On lune 4, 1984, Indian Army launched an assault on Harminder Sahib in Amritsar, imposing state wide curfew with no newspaper allowed to publish, or newsmen to venture out of their homes. I was an Indian Express reporter in Chandigarh then. Apart from Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, much-decorated PVSM, AVSM Major General. Shubeg Singh, who had joined forces with the Sikh militants out of pique for being implicated on trumped up charges in false cases and discharged at the fag-end of his (…)

How they have become arsenal for the majoritarian Hindutva forces to convert the sovereign, independent, secular, socialist republic into a Hindu Rashtra.
[ 25 th June 2025 happened to be the fiftieth year of the internal emergency imposed by the then Indira Gandhi regime. Much has changed during all these years but till date we are still far away from a balanced review of that period.
What really prompted Indira Gandhi to declare emergency , whether drive for personal power was the key (…)

We are witnessing escalating onslaught on the Islamic countries after Donald Trump came to power in America. In the ongoing brutal attacks by Israel on the Palestinian people in the Gaza strip, Trump threatened that the US could

Bunker Roy, who turns 80 today on 30 June, 2025 has been among the most creative and inspiring personalities of voluntary organizations all over the world. During the last six decades he has contributed so much innovative development work that it is adequate for several lifetimes, and several of the ideas he took forward became trend-setters for important development initiatives.
After education in the Doon School and St Stephens college (and in addition becoming a squash champion), Bunker (…)

Director Kiran Rao

US senate has just passed the "One Big, Beautiful Bill" . Inflation Reduction Act and end to tax credits in the bill may potentially slash incentives to programs for solar, wind, Electrical Vehicles. Environmentalists and climate experts say, the bill kills clean energy projects in United States and possibly a big blow to energy transition to rescue the over heated planet. This bill comes at a time when the earth has recently crossed 1.5 degrees Celsius, a warning threshold above (…)

The United States and Pakistan are akin to lovers whose relationship is always in doubt.
Drawn by differing self-interests, the two countries have had a patron-client affinity right from the early 1950s because Pakistan was willing to play a role which Jawaharlal Nehru

Let UN Charter Be The Statement On Restoring Peace And Harmony World Wide
by P. Sudhir
June 30, 2025
The events of the last fortnight have been dramatic

Communist Party of India Central Office New Delhi
July 1, 2025
Press Release
The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued today (July 1, 2025) the following statement:
The Communist Party of India is deeply shocked and saddened by the devastating incident at the Sigachi Industries unit in Sangareddy district, Telangana. With at least 45 workers reported dead, many injured, and several still missing, this stands as the most tragic industrial disaster in the history (…)