On the night of 4 September, I returned from a candlelight march and was surfing various TV channels. I felt that the furore in Kolkata was on an increase. Nearly a month has elapsed since the heinous crime at R G Kar Hospital took place.
The pact between India and Singapore in the semiconductor sector, signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the country, is a strategic move with significant implications for both nations.
It is disconcerting that the Election Commission of India (ECI), the mainstay of free and fair elections, is suffering from a credibility crisis. On the one hand, the public trust in the ECI is dipping.
The recent electoral victory of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia underscores a troubling shift in Germany’s political landscape, reflecting growing unease about immigration and its effects on society.
The Buckingham Canal, an architectural marvel of the early 19th century, stretches 796 kilometers and once served as a lifeline for the region, linking the bustling city of Madras (now Chennai) with the port town of Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
The American elite are as nepotistic as their South Asian counterparts; at least as far as getting a head start in college education goes, thanks to the practice of legacy admissions in the country’s top universities.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said in its World Economic Outlook that the “global outlook is expected to decline this year to 3.6 per cent, down from 6.1 per cent in 2021”.
One struggles at times to make sense of the international support in some quarters for Vladimir Putin’s disastrous military endeavour, devastating in obvious ways not just for Ukraine but even for Russia.
As if this were not enough the growth of Hindu right-wing extremism, if it can be called that, spewing venom against the Muslims in particular and Christians to a lesser extent further aggravates the situation.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has certainly contributed to the increase in food prices and the worsening of global food security.
