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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is attending the summit of the expanded BRICS block at Tatarstan city of Kazan in Russia on October 22 to 24 to be hosted by President Putin. This summit is of crucial importance for both the Indian PM as also the President Putin. Narendra Modi is attending it in a situation when he is facing diplomatic as well as political embarrassment at the hands of the western powers led by the USA over the government agency’s alleged involvement with the killing of a Canadian national in Canada and also with the assassination attempt on another in USA..He has to get out of it and he needs friendly help from non-western nations.

Centre is getting ready for an early roll out of the four labour codes while the joint platform of the 10 Central Trade Unions has threatened fresh nationwide agitation, including strike action, if the Union government goes ahead with its roll out plan. Union Ministry of Labour and Employment has been talking with the CTUs on early implementation of the labour codes, but differences still persist, because the joint platform of CTUs are sticking to their demand of repeal of the four labour codes.

The unveiling of the new statue of Lady Justice, with eyes wide open and a copy of the constitution in hand, has sparked animated debate across legal and public domains. Its design is a striking departure from traditional representations: the blindfold has been removed, and the sword has been replaced by the constitution. The symbolism is palpable, reflecting a shift towards transparency and a commitment to constitutional values. Yet, despite the powerful message this new imagery conveys, it does little to address the deeper, systemic issues plaguing India's judicial system.

Over 9 lakh acres of India is Waqf owned and “once Waqf, always Waqf” is the unwritten code, brought to India straight from Heaven. Hence, AIUDF Chief Badruddin Ajmal cannot be blamed for claiming land on which India’s new Parliament building stands as Waqf. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Sengol' can take a break! Now, if all the Waqf land all over India was a single unbroken landmass, a separate Waqf country could have been declared.

With less than a month left for holding of the assembly election in Jharkhand, the INDIA bloc is gearing up to frustrate any attempt by Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Amit Shah to repeat Haryana results in this tribals dominated state.

NEW YORK: When you’re on the enemies list of some of America’s biggest right-wing tech and media billionaires, you must be doing something right. That’s exactly where Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan finds herself these days.

The allegation by the Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau involving Indian diplomats of the high commission in the killing of the Sikh extremist Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, last year and also in the assassination attempt on another Sikh lawyer G S Pannun in USA, has created a storm in the global diplomatic community. India-Canadian ties have reached its lowest ebb with the expulsion of diplomats by both governments. What is more, the name of the Indian Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, has come up in the mails accessed by the Canadian authorities in the course of investigation.

In view of the recent Global Hunger Index 2024 and UN’s Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024, Narendra Modi government must not continue turning its blind eye to the serious level of hunger and poverty in the country, and the alarm sounded must not be shouted down referring its GDP without talking about the nature of its growth that has been sharply widening inequality.

Several international organisations are now engaged in the business of measuring what they call “poverty”. The World Bank has been in it for some time, but now we have a new measure of “Multidimensional Poverty” brought out by the UNDP and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). Neither of these measures however actually measures poverty; they typically end up “prettifying” neo-liberal capitalism. In fact according to the World Bank’s estimate, the proportion of the world’s population that lives in “extreme poverty” (that is, below a daily per capita expenditure of $1.90 at 2011 purchasing power parity exchange rate) has gone down from over 30 per cent in the late 1990s to less than 10 per cent in 2022, suggesting that under neo-liberal capitalism “millions have been lifted out of poverty”. Let us see why this much-quoted World Bank’s measure is conceptually flawed.

Bahraich is Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s big test. How does he handle the crisis will be his ticket to success or failure in the 10 bypolls, and within the party? So far, he seems to be doing 'ok'. Enforcing law & order at any cost and a “danga-free Uttar Pradesh” and the effects of Bahraich on the soon-to-be held 10 bypolls will extend up to 2027, when assembly elections are due.