Nagpur switch deepens Sena UBT strain
Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena suffered a fresh organisational blow in Nagpur after Nitin Tiwari, its city chief, joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena along with several local office-bearers. Tiwari was inducted in Mumbai in the...
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ATS widens Bhopal radicalisation network probe
Madhya Pradesh’s Anti-Terror Squad has arrested Mohammad Faraz, a coaching class teacher from...
in Happening Now Jun 16 ·Border standoff traps nine near Mankachar
Nine Bangladeshi citizens remained stranded in no-man’s land along the India-Bangladesh border in...
in Happening Now Jun 16 ·Airport screening strains Dhaka-New Delhi ties
Dhaka summoned New Delhi’s deputy high commissioner and chargé d’affaires on Monday after...
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By Asad Mirza The framework peace agreement between the United States and Iran has reduced the immediate risk of a wider regional war. Yet the accord leaves unresolved the central issues that have fuelled four decades of confrontation, making its long-term survival far from assured. The announcement of a...
U.S.-Iran Peace Deal Has Many Lessons For Indian Foreign Policy Makers
By R. Suryamurthy By the time President Donald Trump sits across the table to finalize what is being marketed as the first phase of an India-US trade agreement next month, New Delhi should have already absorbed the most important lesson from his administration’s recent foreign-policy success. That lesson has...
China-Myanmar Relations Reach Strategic Heights During Visit Of President Hlaing
By Satyaki Chakraborty China gave a big welcome on Tuesday June 16 to the visiting Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing by endorsing the political leadership of the junta chief turned President through rigged elections in April this year. Chinese President...
Major Oil Players Are Not Still Sure On Smooth Passage Through Hormuz
By Anjan Roy The preliminary announcement of a truce between United States and Iran is more a psychological boost than actual easing of the hardships arising from the conflict for the global economy, let alone the Indian. True, oil prices are showing some signs of softening, but experts feel...
Trump’s Iran Deal Details Show That The U.S. President Is No More A Winner
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Donald Trump gave to the world his part of a return gift on his 80th birthday, the Iran peace deal which majorly involves reopening of the strait of Hormuz for ships to pass through and a 60-day ceasefire during which both countries would...
Kolkata Has The Potential To Emerge As A Premier AI Data Centre In India
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Kolkata is emerging as eastern India’s data hub centre. And this is not announcement of a newly elected political leader but a claim based on 2025 report of Knight Frank India’s India Data Centre Market Update. India, according to it is poised to become a...
Disclosure Day Is A Welcome Film By Spielberg In These Darker Times
By Eileen Jones NEW YORK: There’s admittedly a little thrill of nostalgia involved in going to see Disclosure Day for those old enough to remember what it felt like to go see a big Steven Spielberg movie in June. It can be argued that with the colossal, groundbreaking success...
Can PM Narendra Modi Redeem India’s Status As Defender Of Global South At G7 Meet In France?
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be taking part in the outreach session of the 52nd meeting of G7 being held in Evans of France hosted by the French President Emanuel Macron. Already the main session started on Monday with the participation of the leaders of the...
Control Cooking Gas Prices To Shield Citizens From Distress
By Nantoo Banerjee It is disturbing to note that the government has chosen an easy option to raise the domestic cooking gas prices at will to benefit a handful of public sector oil companies at the cost of nearly 337-million active domestic LPG consumers. This is despite the fact...
U.S.-Iran Peace Deal To Be Signed On Friday At Geneva Is Welcome
By Asad Mirza The historic June 2026 US-Iran framework agreement marks a volatile culmination to over 100 days of devastating attrition, fundamentally shifting Middle Eastern security paradigms while altering India’s energy and strategic landscape. The announcement of the comprehensive Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in mid-June 2026—slated for a formal...
U.S. President Donald Trump Turns Eighty In Style Challenging Age
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: On the evening of his 80th birthday on June 14, while most men his age would be discussing grandchildren, medications and retirement plans, the most powerful man in the world was watching cage fighters batter one another inside an octagon erected on the...
Opposition India Bloc Has To Reinvent Itself To Take On BJP In Coming Polls
By Kalyani Shankar The INDIA bloc, representing a coalition of opposition parties, recently gathered in Delhi to reflect on their journey so far and to share hopes for the future. On June 8, during a meeting organised by the Congress party, 23 out of the original 27 members expressed...
The Mystery Behind The Rise And Rise Of Elon Musk, World’s First Trillionaire
By T N Ashok SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. On June 12, 2026, the company pulled off a blockbuster initial public offering, selling about 5% of its shares at $135 apiece and raising roughly $75 billion. That frenzy sent SpaceX’s market value soaring to around...
The ‘Great Settlement’ That Could Decide Price Of Iran War World Will Pay
By K Raveendran The promise of a ‘great settlement’ from President Trump has been enough to pull oil prices lower, calm equity markets and revive hopes that the Strait of Hormuz may return to normal traffic. Yet it shows how fragile the relief remains. A diplomatic opening can move...
India’s Credit System Is Failing The Businesses It Claims To Champion
By R. Suryamurthy India’s political class loves to talk about financial inclusion. Governments boast about hundreds of millions of bank accounts opened under Jan Dhan. Ministers celebrate record digital transactions. Banks advertise their expanding reach. Fintech companies promise to democratize credit. Every budget speech, economic survey and policy document...
Central BJP Has A Role In TMC Split But The Party’s Political Opportunism Paved The Way
By Sagarneel Sinha The rebellion within the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress, the erstwhile ruling party of West Bengal, has been the discussion of mainstream media for days now. The party has split in two ways — MLAs led by Ritabrata Banerjee and Lok Sabha MPs led by Kakoli Ghosh...
India Once Again Restricted Trade Union Delegates To Attend ILO Session
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India once again restricted Central Trade Union’s delegates to attend the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference (1-12 June 2026) organized by the International Laobur Organization (ILO) at Geneva, Switzerland. The country has been adopting this policy of restriction since 2018, and the ILO’s...
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Residents Are Fighting Islamabad For Protecting Rights
By Tirthankar Mitra A month ahead of scheduled local elections, peoples’ protests have erupted in the streets of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).At least, 15 persons have been killed after security forces fired on protestors at Rawalkot. The firing triggered fresh protests in several towns, including Khai Gala in PoK’s...
