When all leaders of the world are capitulating before Trump, Mark Carney, the Prime Minister of Canada, has shown spine and delivered a speech in Davos on 20th January, 2026 that would go down in ...

January of 2026 too is over, bringing us a high-voltage PR exercise in place of the regular commentary on the much-anticipated Republic Day parade. Listening, I felt as if the cornices of the ...

The COP30 conference of the parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which met in Belém, Brazil last December concluded on a disappointing note. The conference had several key ...

Rather, it was the silent arithmetic of survival: how many hours one must work to feed a family, how many days one can go without speaking up before disrespect becomes unbearable, how much dignity can ...

Pakistan has warned the United Nations (UN) that India’s decision to put the Indus Waters Treaty on hold has sparked an “unprecedented crisis” for its water security and could threaten regional ...

Keywords: Environment, Ecologist, People, Gadgil Report, Western Ghats, Kerala People’s Scientist Madhav Gadgil, one of India’s distinguished ecologists, public intellectuals, and a staunch advocate ...

Sri Lanka’s main negotiator with the LTTE says a deeply flawed Norway-sponsored peace process, the Tamil Tiger’s intransigence and a bitterly divided political class were to blame for the failure of ...

Caste census has been a consistent demand of the Socialist parties of different hues and OBC organisations in the country ever since the rise of the Mandal movement. The scholarly debate on caste ...

Kazi Nazrul Islam, the revered poet of Bengalis around the globe must be sulking in his grave at the disregard and insult meted out to his famous poem " (Mora eki brinte duti kusum), meaning "two ...

The SHANTI Act, 2025 overrides the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 to the extent of inconsistency, thereby becoming the umbrella law governing civil ...

The Enforcement Directorate’s sudden hyperactivity in West Bengal, even before the formal campaign for the 2026 Assembly elections has begun, exposes yet again how ...