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NEW DELHI: The Nobel Prize has a remarkable Indian story. It begins with a poet who carried Bengali literature to the world, passes through scientists who transformed our understanding of light, stars and the machinery of life, embraces economists who investigated poverty, and now reaches a distinguished jurist of Tamil ancestry whose career has been devoted to international justice and human rights.

Even as employment among the graduate-level or higher education have registered about 21 million increased in the last one year, share of working graduates in the labour market of India fell to 5 years low in September 2026 with fall in Labour for Participation to 52.26 per cent. Moreover, adding to this mystery is the drop of 30 lakh graduates who have stopped actively searching for a job.

LUCKNOW: The confrontation at the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) headquarters in Lucknow on Sunday October 11 should be read as more than a clash between party workers. Outgoing UPCC president Ajai Rai is not happy the manner in which he was removed from the post he held since 2023. He led the party in 2024 Lok Sabha polls when party improve the tally and won six MPs.

LONDON: The over 200,000 people who demonstrated in London on Saturday, on the 37th national march for Palestine, show that the issue has not gone away, despite Ed Miliband’s admission that: “You were right.”

Hundreds of protesters ultimately were able to reach near Jantan Mantar on October 10 to protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar despite the Union Government’s unprecedentedly locking off the venue and the entire Central Delhi, heavy deployment of police force in entire Delhi, internet shut down, erecting blockades across Delhi and its borders, preventing their movement by disrupting all means of transportation like Trains to Delhi, Metro Trains, and road transport, and even spreading stripes of nails on certain roads.

India’s electoral democracy has reached a critical juncture where judicial intervention can no longer remain confined to procedural scrutiny and expressions of concern. The mounting controversy surrounding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, the unprecedented scale of voter deletions under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), and the government’s increasingly coercive response to public protests have created a constitutional crisis that demands an extraordinary response. The Supreme Court, having permitted the controversial exercise to proceed under judicial supervision, now carries a particular responsibility to ensure that its authority has not inadvertently facilitated the erosion of the fundamental right to vote.

The unprecedented security arrangements in Delhi, which have virtually turned the capital into a cantonment, are reminiscent of the British Raj, when colonial rulers resorted to brute force to suppress popular movements and crush dissent. The arrests of leaders and activists of CJP, AISF, SFI and AISA, along with students and youth, not only in Delhi but across the country in large number, lay bare the Modi government’s growing panic and insecurity.

WASHINGTON: Three weeks before November 3, American voters are not waiting for Election Day. In the states reporting, they are returning ballots at a pace well ahead of the last midterm, and the partisan lean of those ballots favours Democrats. Whether that lead survives contact with Election Day is the proposition both parties are staking hundreds of millions of dollars on.

Much to the surprise of many informed watchers of Indian business’s triumphant entry into highly competitive economies, the announcement by President Donald Trump himself of Essar Group to herald the building of the largest ever steel plant in the United States found scant coverage in our media, including the business newspapers. Mercifully, The Times of India was an exception whose prolific and perspicacious Washington based correspondent Chidanand Rajghatta did full justice to the breakthrough development in the US steel industry involving an Indian group by penning over a thousand words on the story.

NEW YORK: Navi Pillay did not pick up the phone. When the Norwegian Nobel Committee called on Friday, the 85-year-old South African jurist was at a conference of human rights lawyers in Nuremberg, and the committee's chair, Jørgen Watne Frydnes, could only announce her the winner of the 2026 Peace Prize and plead from the Oslo podium that she answer the next Norwegian number.