View Articles

New Delhi: Riding on Manvir Singh's 75th minute goal, India opened its FIFA World Cup 2026 AFC qualifiers second round campaign with a 1-0 victory against hosts Kuwait at the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium in Kuwait City.

N Sankaraiah, a leading figure of the freedom struggle in the country and the communist movement in Tamil Nadu passed away on November 15 in Madurai. He was 101. An outstanding leader from his student days, Sankaraiah emerged as a versatile personality covering the fields of politics, society, economy, ideology and culture. His life was a model of what it meant to be a communist in both political and family life. He was born on July 15, 1922.

Prices of late have shown southward trends. Should that result in RBI loosening its anti-inflationary stance? There is a view that the Reserve Bank of India should now initiate the process of reversing its stand on inflation and start lowering the lending rates from sometime early next year.

The epoch-making events of November 1917 changed the course of humanity forever. The Revolution of 1917 had profound and far-reaching impact on world history. It not only marked the overthrow of the Czarist monarchy and the establishment of the Soviet Union, but it also ignited a wave of socialist and communist movements worldwide. The spread of revolutionary ideas inspired political and social change across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, leading to the emergence of new political ideologies and reshaping the global balance of power.

It took the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) many years to become the ruling party in Assam, not to mention Tripura, overcoming initial reservations among common people about its North Indian orientation. Having got past the finishing line however, the ruling party has left no stones unturned to ensure that its political supremacy remains unchallenged.

LUCKNOW: Irrespective of Samajwadi Party's claim to contest 65 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leadership is preparing to strengthen the party organisation to contest all the 80 seats. In the state since both the parties are members of INDIA alliance, preparations are underway to take up BJP in Lok Sabha polls, each in its own way.

India railways has just announced that it aims to achieve zero waiting list for confirmed tickets by 2027, but only after pictures of overcrowded platforms and trains across India surfaced last week in which several fell unconscious due to suffocation and at least one passenger died. Many passengers having confirmed tickets could not even board their trains. It is just like women singing songs to distressed children to induce them to sleep, or just giving lollipops to divert them from the real crises they suffer.

BHOPAL: Most of the newspaper reports after the noisy propaganda during election campaign came to an end indicate that there is neck to neck fight between BJP and Congress in Madhya Pradesh. BJP seems to have improved its position after whirlwind tour of the Prime Minister. Prime Minister has been addressing three public meetings every day for last almost one week. For Congress, massive road shows of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi have emboldened them to say that they are capturing 150 seats in the house of 230.. The polls in Madhya Pradesh are taking place on November 17.

Madhya Pradesh is a state ruled longest by the BJP after Gujarat. The BJP has ruled the state from 2002 till now with a one and a half year interruption of a Congress government (which was toppled through defections). During the assembly election campaign, union home minister, Amit Shah, has claimed that the BJP has turned Madhya Pradesh from a bimaru (sick) state to a bemisaal (incomparable) state in the last 18 years.

The Sarsanghchalak of the RSS, Mr. Mohan Bhagwat expressed in clear terms their ideological bitterness towards Marxism, the other day during his vijayadashmi address. There was nothing new in his statement because that hatred of the Hindutva forces towards the Marxists was clearly spelt by Golwalkar in his early writings itself. In every sphere of activity, the Parivar was adamant in being revengeful towards leftward thinking. The political forces committed to the Left ideology were regarded as the number one enemy by the right reactionary forces led by the RSS