Through the winter of 2025, all the news coming out from the Bharatiya Janata Party organisation was about the long-delayed election of a new party president. That season ended in the last week of December, when the BJP brass announced Bihar minister and five-time MLA Nitin Nabin would replace J.P. Nadda. According to party bylaws,…
Skillful, disciplined, upright and successful-Jasprit Bumrah fits the standard definition of a role model. And yet, his career imparts a lesson that is contrary to what you would normally teach a child: prepare well, study hard and there’s no subject you can’t ace. Yeah, right. Try telling that to top batsmen around the world who…
Foreign policy analysts and former diplomats share their assessments on the possible duration of the US-Israel war on Iran and how it may come to an end. Here, they outline competing scenarios and starkly different expectations for the conflict’s trajectory (left to right) Stephanie T. Williams, Dr Hasan Alhasan, Gaddam Dharmendra, Syed Akif Zaidi and…
For India, the escalating conflict in West Asia threatens a double economic blow. Disruptions in oil and gas supplies could drive up energy costs, while the livelihoods of millions of Indian migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries—the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait—may also come under strain, squeezing a key source…
ON February 28, West Bengal’s revised electoral roll was published after four bruising months of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Chief electoral officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal pegged the post-SIR electorate at 70.46 million, down 8.06 per cent from 76.64 million before the exercise began, after 6.18 million deletions…
Donald Trump is known to bet big, but the unfolding conflict in the Middle East, which saw the combined might of the American and Israeli armed forces rain down on Iran, may prove to be the US president’s most consequential geopolitical gamble. Their joint military strikes, which began on February 28, decapitated much of Iran’s…
Soon after the National Green Tribunal delivered its verdict clearing the Great Nicobar Project, Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav agreed to an email interview with India Today outlining its importance and what his ministry is doing to balance development with protecting the island’s fragile environment. Excerpts: Source link
By day, Galathea Bay, a crescent of sand in the wild frontier of Great Nicobar Island, is bathed in the shifting blues and emeralds of the Indian Ocean. Behind it rise dense tropical forests, alive with flora and fauna found nowhere else. Clear streams and waterfalls slice through the green, emptying themselves into mangrove-lined creeks…
She once towered over Bangladesh’s political landscape with near-unassailable authority. Today, Sheikh Hasina lives in political exile in New Delhi—a presence that has emerged as one of the most delicate fault lines in the recalibration of ties between the two neighbours under the newly elected government of Tarique Rahman. Source link
A photograph posted on Facebook on February 18 captured a quiet but telling moment. Shared by an old friend of Tarique Rahman, it carried a Bengali caption that translated loosely to “peace of the eyes”. In the image, Rahman—dressed in a crisp white shirt—sat inside the office of the prime minister of Bangladesh. For many…
