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LONDON: “The centrists in Labour are worried that an authentically left-wing rival party could emerge.”Thus the usually interesting Telegraph columnist Sherelle Jacobs, apparently channelling the apprehensions of Downing Street. Have the centrists — generous term by now — anything to be worried about? “Yes” would be the simple answer, not necessarily the longer one. As previously argued here, the Starmer government has exposed more of Labour’s left flank faster than any Labour government in history.

Narendra Modi has been heading the Indian government as the Prime Minister since 2014. He has made so far many observations about the delicate India-China relations in the last nearly eleven years, but his observations on this issue made to the American journalist cum researcher Lex Fridman in his podcast released on Sunday stand out as the most mature statement made by the Prime Minister till now on how to improve relations with China.

‘The planned visit of a six-member team of Supreme Court judges to Manipur this weekend to provide legal and humanitarian support to the victims of the ongoing violence sets a new precedent. Coordinated by the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA), the visit marks a rare instance of the Supreme Court directly engaging with a conflict zone, underlining the gravity of the situation in Manipur. Historically, the Supreme Court has been hesitant to intervene directly in such crises, preferring instead to direct subordinate courts or commissions to handle sensitive issues on the ground. This unprecedented step reflects both the severity of the situation in Manipur and the growing recognition that institutional intervention is necessary to restore order and uphold constitutional principles.

When Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi was accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government during Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha on March 18, 2025 of systematically undermining MGNREGA scheme, she was speaking an irrefutable truth. PM Modi, in fact, does not strengthen this only employment guarantee scheme in India, but has been weakening it and merely keeping it alive to show it as living monument of “Congress’s failure”.

WASHINGTON: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Sunday declined to rule out the possibility of recession hitting the US economy shortly. "There are no guarantees" when it comes to a potential recession hitting the United States. "Like who would have predicted COVID?"

Pakistan is urgently seeking financial and other help from Russia and China, even as it faces a double-edged threat to its own territorial security from the Balochistan Liberation Army and Afghanistan-based Talibans.

NASA astronaut, Indian-American Sunita Williams, smiled and waved on returning to Earth from somewhere in Space where she was stranded for 286 days. No, Sunita Williams didn't stop in Space to gaze at the sky all around her but because she didn't have control of the circumstances, which is not always the situation in Space. Sunita's extended stay was necessitated due to problems developing in the Boeing Starliner capsule that took her to Space.

“Revolution is the inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is the birthright of all. The labour is the real sustainer of the society. …To the altar of this revolution, we have brought our youth as incense, for no sacrifice is too great for so magnificent a cause. We are content, we await the advent of revolution…” These were the words of Bhagat Singh when he was scattering all over the leaflet that had everything he wanted to communicate to those in power throwing a bomb in the assembly hall, not to hurt anyone, it was just a demonstrative act. It was against the anti-labour Trade Dispute Bill. In his trial in the court, Bhagat Singh had told the court that the revolution for him was not the cult of bomb and pistol, but a total change of society culminating in the overthrow of both foreign and Indian capitalism under the dictatorship of proletariat.

LONDON: Words wilt in the face of the fresh murderous horrors being unleashed on the people of Gaza by the depraved state of Israel once more. Cynically breaking a ceasefire agreement it had itself signed up to, Netanyahu and his cohorts massacred more than four hundred Palestinians today.

Indrajit Gupta, the dedicated Communist leader of India in the last century and an outstanding Parliamentarian dominated the country’s trade union movement and the Left movement for the last sixty years of the 20th century. He belonged to that generation of leaders from undivided Bengal whose sense of patriotism and deep anguish at being ruled by the British led them to search for new path of securing freedom both political and economic. Many of them belonging to the English educated aristocratic families of Bengal were attracted to Marxism-Leninism during their student life in Britain during 1930s and 1940s.