At a time when Donald Trump is openly flaunting a dangerously transactional worldview—boasting of expanding American strategic footprints and even hinting at places like Cuba as potential future targets—the global order appears to be slipping into an era reminiscent of old-style power projection. This is no longer about alliances or stability; it increasingly resembles a…
Kolkata: The Election Commission on Sunday transferred officers-in-charge and inspectors-in-charge of 173 police stations across West Bengal, including 31 under Kolkata Police, as part of measures to ensure free and fair Assembly elections, officials said. Officers posted in key constituencies such as Bhabanipur in Kolkata and Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district were included in the…
Moscow: Moscow is apprehensive that the US could try to take control of a key Afghan Base amid its escalating military conflict with Iran, a senior Russian diplomat has said. Speaking in an interview with the government news agency RIA Novosti on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy on Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that…
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Foreign Minister on Sunday indicated the prospect of potential talks between the US and Iran to de-escalate the ongoing war, underlining that both countries have expressed their “confidence” in Islamabad to facilitate their talks. Ishaq Dar made these remarks while addressing the media after holding the quadrilateral consultations with his counterparts from Saudi…
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday released its first list of 284 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls, fielding former state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Baharampur and ex-TMC MP Mausam Noor from Malatipur. The Congress, which is going solo in the polls for the 294 assembly seats in the state, announced…
Our Sports Dek As this e-paper continues to report on alleged irregularities within the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), signs of growing frustration among certain stakeholders are beginning to surface. Some individuals, expressing dissatisfaction over what they perceive as inaction, have pointed to the lack of visible progress from the High Court-appointed Supervisory Committee led by…
India’s opposition to incorporating the China-backed Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) Agreement into the framework of the World Trade Organization is neither obstructionist nor regressive—as some critics lazily claim. It is, in fact, a calibrated, strategic, and principled stand rooted in protecting policy sovereignty, preserving multilateral balance, and resisting the creeping normalization of backdoor rule-making…
Actor-turned-politician Joseph Vijay says he wants to bring clean politics and not misuse public funds. A noble promise. One hopes he will begin by ensuring that his own political strategy does not impose avoidable costs on the public exchequer. Contesting from two constituencies has become the political equivalent of an insurance policy. It is rarely…
Upadhyayula Lakshman Rao In the hymns of the Rigveda composed in the Tristubh metre, the sage Savya Angirasa praises and invokes the mighty deity, Indra. These hymns present Indra not merely as a warrior god but as a cosmic force sustaining order, knowledge, rain, prosperity, and the moral balance between opposing powers. The narrative of…
In the great assembly of the Kurus, before the gathered elders and in the presence of his blind father, Duryodhana spoke with hardened resolve. He declared that he would not yield even a needle’s breadth of land to the sons of Pandu, no matter what fate might bring. Knowing well that Krishna was coming to…
