After the fall: Is it the end of the road for Cong, or the time to resurrect? (IANS Column: FairPoint)
By Deepika Bhan
The Assembly elections in the five states had one stunning outcome: the irretrievable downslide of the Congress. Sonia Gandhi and her two babies -- Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra -- need to comprehend the people's verdict and the moral of the story: It is the end of the road for them if they don't accept reality.
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General Opinion/Comment 01:06 PMGlobal cues and US Fed upcoming meeting hold key for market revival
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General Opinion/Comment 12:54 PMSentinels of the Deep: INS Karanj (Opinion)
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A black wall for Ukraine, and a black umbrella over Finland, Sweden
By Robinder Sachdev
The last 15 days have been intense in view of the Russia-Ukraine war, and related happenings. As an analyst, I have been a panelist on a few TV channels in India to discuss these developments. Sometimes even 10-12 hours every day. There is so much that could be discussed, analyzed, and speculated.
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'SuPoshan Sanginis': Sheroes changing the rural women's world (Opinion)
By Kavita Sardana
Men and women are often differentiated based on "gender role" and the tasks assigned to them. The question is who has defined these roles and assigns these tasks? And are they still valid? Are we confining our present potential just to uphold age-old societal constructs? Other biological and anatomical differences aside, both genders have one brain and one heart to function.
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INS Viraat: The Unfading Legacy
By Amruta Talawadekar & Janhavi Lokegaonkar
On March 6, 2017, Indias second aircraft carrier, the mighty INS Viraat, was decommissioned after 30 years of glorious service to the nation. This article is a tribute to this unique warship, which kept Indias shores safe and citizens protected during one of the most challenging times in our nations history.
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Saudi Arabia on path of reconciliation
By Asad Mirza
Saudi Arabia, it seems is ready to renounce its enmity with its old foes and ready to amend ties with both Iran and Israel.
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What India can learn from the Russia-Ukraine crisis (IANS Column: FairPoint)
By Deepika Bhan
As the US-EU combine came out with a slew of sanctions against Russia and big tech companies followed suit enthusiastically, the stark reality hit home. The West can use financial and social media platforms as weapons against any country that falls foul of it.
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Post war reconciliation, markets need to tackle other issues as well
By Arun Kejriwal
Markets were nervous and highly volatile on the back of global tensions between Ukraine and Russia. There has been an unprecedented rise in prices of crude and gas and many other commodities. Some of the Middle East countries are worried about food supplies as they import wheat from these two countries. They fear that they will run out of stock in the next two months if nothing is done.
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A test for positive non-alignment (Column: Spy's Eye)
By DC Pathak
In the post-Cold War years, geopolitics was marked by three noticeable trends -- a shift towards the economic combat as different from a military confrontation, recession of open warfare and the rise of proxy war as a phenomenon of the unipolar world order and a growing belief that there was scope for multipolarity in the new global environ.
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Zelensky & Putin: Can the world make a narrow escape? (Opinion)
By Nirendra Dev
New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) It takes two to tango. The proverb is seemingly a failed dictum today. The ongoing Ukraine-Russia conflict is at best due to the whim of one.
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Now, Kerala CPI-M more firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan's control
By Sanu V. George
Thiruvananthapuram, March 5 (IANS) As the curtains on the 23rd state CPI(M) party conference came down on Friday, with the party's resolve to create a "new" Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has once again stamped his "unquestioned" leadership in the state.
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PoJK inches towards social rebellion
By Amjad Ayub Mirza
It was a cold night with subzero temperature on March 2 when a police convoy arrived outside the office of Rawalakot Commissioner in Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK). More than two dozen political activists and members of Jammu Kashmir National Students Federation (JKNSF) had been observing a protest sit-in outside the gates of the Rawalakot Commission office building.
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Germany's military renaissance (Opinion)
By Asad Mirza
After a continuous barrage of criticism for overlooking the Russian aggression dubbed as itsnaivete, Germany has announced new military plans, which might change the regional and global geopolitics dimensions once again.
