A decade after Rahul Gandhi’s “Pay to PM” jibe during the demonetisation debate, Congress has revived the slogan in a fresh political attack over charges on high-value UPI merchant payments.Continue Reading
The US has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend next week’s UN General Assembly in New York, but isn’t the Trump administration preparing a reported $2.8 billion weapons package for Israel that includes 20,000 MK-84 bombs, 20,000 BLU-117 bombs and 20,000 penetrator warheads, according to Reuters reporting based on U.S. officials?Continue Reading
The West Bengal government, now led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, has ordered the closure of 252 unaided and unrecognised madrasas, commonly called khariji madrasas, after a statewide survey. September 17: Students and activists took to the streets of Kolkata, challenging the West Bengal government’s decision to shut down hundredsContinue Reading
Modi Turns 76: Birthday Diyas, Semiconductor Ambitions and a Political StormContinue Reading
Macklemore walked onto a stage at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on September 4 and 5 and said two words: “Free Palestine.” He performed Hind’s Hall, his protest song about Gaza, while footage from the conflict played behind himContinue Reading
India’s counterfeit-medicine crisis has taken a disturbing turn, with investigators in Bengaluru uncovering a suspected network that allegedly pushed fake cancer drugs and critical-care injections into more than 90 hospitals and clinics, and cases in Gujarat and other statesContinue Reading
In India, liberty is a constitutional promise. But in two very different criminal cases unfolding in the capital, the passage of time has become impossible to ignore.Continue Reading
A dramatic aircraft incident in Iran, a Houthi drone interception near Mecca and growing questions over the newly signed Saudi-Türkiye-Pakistan defence pact have put the region’s security environment under renewed scrutiny.Continue Reading
Political scientist Norman Finkelstein, the Jewish-American son of Holocaust survivors and one of Israel’s most outspoken academic critics, has reignited the global debate over Gaza after telling Tucker Carlson that “Israel has become a nation of child killers.”Continue Reading
INDUS WATER TREATY UNDER FRESH SCRUTINY AT UNContinue Reading
