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KOLKATA: Strife-torn Manipur, which remains under heightened security, has in recent times been witness to a political drama of sorts when 21 MLAs of the ruling NDA side led by the Bharatiya Janata Party sent a memorandum to Union home minister Amit Shah urging him to facilitate restoration of a popular ministry in the state which is under President’s rule since February 13 with the Assembly under suspended animation.

Bollywood, which is the other name of Hindi language film industry has for too long depended on big stars and formula cinema. But all this is now going kaput as one too many big budget Hindi movies are finding viewers thinning out fast soon after their release, leaving producers and financiers high and dry. Well, there is one Aamir Khan who says he doesn’t get paid if his film draws a blank at box office. This is because he works on profit-sharing basis. If you take a count of Hindi film releases in the last five years, you will find featuring a big star is no guarantee of a film’s commercial success. On the contrary, small budget films based on interesting stories and hemmed in by good actors find patronisation by the public. Let’s talk about the stars.

Reports from across the border suggest that Pakistan is already suffering a fuel crisis, with petrol pumps having been ordered closed for the time being. An analysis of the emerging energy scenario in the wake of the ongoing conflict suggests the beginning of a serious crisis for Pakistan, while India is relatively in a far better position to handle any situation.

NEW YORK: The escalating conflict between India and Pakistan is offering the world a glimpse of how Chinese military hardware is scaling up against western military hardware including from ground to air power as China has been the main supplier of military equipment to Pakistan whereas India outsources its military equipment from Russia and the West including USA, UK and France.

Reports that the internet service providers have blocked the website ‘The Wire’ at the instance of the union ministry of the Information & Broadcasting signal the Centre’s wrong priority in crippling the independent media while allowing the national TV channels going jingoist and spreading fake news to divide the nation.

It is like the 'Crusades'. New Pope Leo XIV will know. He grew up in Chicago, Al Capone's headquarters, just like the GHQ in Rawalpindi, Pak army Chief Gen. Asim Munir's lair. Does Gen. Munir fancy himself Saladin? If so, who is King Richard the Lionheart, Prime Minister Narendra Modi?

Display of India’s capacity to strike and defend in country’s war against terror, which unfortunately conceived by Pakistan’s ruling establishment as war against that country, has brightened the scope of employment opportunities in and accelerated growth of defence manufacturing sector of India.

The global economy now finds itself in an era of uneasy transition—between the liberal order of the past and the fragmented, transactional world of the present. In this fraught environment, the meeting between China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng and U.S. officials in Switzerland (May 9–12) carries implications that stretch far beyond the immediate issue of tariffs. This is no longer just a squabble over trade imbalances. It is a broader test of strategic maturity: Can the United States manage competition without veering into destructive confrontation? And can China engage in reform without viewing every concession as capitulation?

CHICAGO: As America, especially the United States and Chicago celebrated the elect of an American pope, the newly elected pontiff Leo XIV, former Cardinal Robert Prevost , celebrated his first Mass at the Sistine Chapel, a day after being chosen on the second day of the conclave.

New Delhi: The Communist Party of India (CPI) has condemned the Government of India’s arbitrary blocking of The Wire’s website — a move that violates press freedom, freedom of expression, and the people’s right to information.