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World is engulfed by oil conundrum. OPEC is no more in hegemony to stir oil shock. The global political conflicts and bi-polarization led the world oil price shock slipped from the Arab clutches.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat taking out time to condemn the sordid incident of rape and murder of a woman medic, after two months of its happening, exposes his hypocrisy. What is also inexplicable is he had taken more than a year to speak on Manipur genocide and mass rape of the women there, but it took only two months for him to shed crocodile tear on the decay of the cultural ethics. No doubt Bhagwat, not even his biggest pracharak Narendra Modi, can only do it.

Haryana has delivered a historic verdict. Never before has any party come to power for three consecutive terms. Everyone, from ground reports to exit polls, predicted a massive majority for the Congress. How did the BJP managed to pull off such an impressive victory?

In a countermove to INDIA bloc’s caste census promise, the ruling Mahayuti in Maharashtra taking clue form BJP’s gain in Haryana has decided to take the OBC politics in the state to a new level on the eve of Vidhan Sabha elections likely to be announced soon. How much this decision will benefit the Mahayuti allies – BJP, Shiv Sena (Shinde) and NCP (Ajit Pawar)? Or Will INDIA bloc’s caste census promise still work for MVA allies – Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharad Pawar)? Answer to such questions lies in the future, but the moves and countermoves have just rekindled OBC politics in the state.

When Ratan Tata bought the sick and besieged Jaguar Land Rover —iconically JLR— the company had fished out the voucher for the purchase of a Jaguar car by his father, Naval Tata, in 1923.

People living outside Uttar Pradesh did not know that Jayaprakash Narayan, who countered Indira Gandhi’s authoritarian streak with mass appeal, has a place in Lucknow to remember him by – the Jayaprakash Narayan International Centre (JPNIC). But it remains an incomplete monument and certain shades of politicians are not welcome to the compound. Among them Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav, who is adept at scaling iron gates!

Constituents of INDIA bloc flexing muscles after Congress' Haryana defeat and blaming it for the audacity to contest solo, has not come as a surprise. Indian politicians, irrespective of their party affiliations, are known for resorting to this practice to prove their indispensability and reiterate the phrase “I have said so”.

The results of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections are of great significance. The victory of the National Conference-led alliance, winning 49 of the 90 seats, is a strong verdict against the Modi government and the BJP’s authoritarian steps to dismantle the state of J&K and deprive it of its special status. The people of the Valley have also foiled the BJP’s campaign to field proxies and encourage separatist elements to contest to divide the vote. The fact that the BJP could poll only 2.2 per cent of the votes cast in the Valley shows the total rejection of the Hindutva forces’ game-plan to destroy the identity of the Kashmiri people.

It may be shocking to know that about 10 per cent of children in India aged 6-10 are out of schools despite education is fundamental right, and out of pocket health expenditure of Indian rural households are just unaffordable to them since they need to spend Rs 4,129 yearly on hospitalisation and Rs 539 monthly, which they simply can’t afford. The report of the National Sample Survey 79th round conducted during July, 2022 – June, 2023 has also revealed some other shocking findings including of indebtedness and NEET (Not in Education, Employment and Training) status among youth.

After significant success in 2024 Lok Sabha elections, both the Congress and the Party leader Rahul Gandhi have been defeated in Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir, results of the polls of which were announced on October 8.. Congress could manage to win only six seats in Jammu and Kashmir. Congress had fielded 32 candidates for the JK elections, three in Kashmir and 29 in Jammu. The National Conference led by Farooq Abdullah contested 51 seats under a pre-poll alliance between the two INDIA bloc parties and won 41. In Jammu most of its prominent leaders lost the polls. Even Congress working president and former Deputy Chief Minister Tara Chand in Chhamb lost the elections.