DURING the anti-colonial struggle, many activists in India got attracted to socialism by virtue of the fact that while the capitalist world was reeling under the Great Depression and mass unemployment ...

JUSTICE B Sudarshan Reddy is on the target of BJP after becoming the Vice Presidential candidate from India Block. He is being accused of being responsible for the Maoist violence in Chhattisgarh, ...

GAZA is at a flashpoint – a moment of reckoning when history convulses for the Palestinian people, yet equally charged with ...

FLOODING due to heavy rainfall in major urban centres, which used to be witnessed once in a while, has of late become commonplace, occurring almost annually. Citizens may have thought the situation ...

The references in the LOCF draft syllabus also include books authored by BJP and RSS leaders, along with works by other right ...

A striking feature of this ongoing flood disaster is that all predictions and weather forecasts were available, yet no action was taken to prepare for the inevitable. This glaring failure of the ...

SINCE June 2025, Himachal Pradesh has been facing one of the worst natural disasters in its history. Continuous heavy rainfall has triggered devastating flash floods and massive landslides across the ...

For nearly three decades – beginning with the Vajpayee government, to the Manmohan Singh government and then with ...

The central government led by the BJP has failed in dealing with this huge disaster. CPI (M) demands that it be declared a national calamity. Relief and rehabilitation measures must be undertaken on a ...

As scientists working collectively for humanity, we urgently call upon all governments, and all relevant international institutions around the world, to exert all available means so there is a halt to ...

DONALD Trump’s foreign policy has left commentators in a real tizzy. His markedly differing positions with regard to Ukraine and Gaza, in the first case apparently pursuing peace, and in the second ...

WE observe a strange phenomenon everyday, so strange that its strangeness goes generally unnoticed. Government spokespersons from the prime minister downwards go on repeating ad nauseam that India is ...