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The announcements of Musk's SpaceX-Starlink's tie-up with Jio Reliance (Jio is a trademark of Reliance Industries) and Bharti Airtel, the two dominant players, raise a number of questions. The two key questions are: i) Will it mean a greater monopolization in telecom services? ii) Will satellite spectrum be given to Starlink without auction? It also raises questions about whether such satellite spectrum, a country's critical resource, should be given out for commercial operations in this way.

“Sangh Saranam Gachchami”. Yes, after a long eleven years’ of insolence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the RSS headquarters at Nagpur on March 30 for meeting the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and paying his obeisance. In recent months Modi has been trying to send the message across the country and especially to the saffron ecosystem that he was a committed karyakarta (cadres) of RSS and had enormous respect for Bhagwat, but his authoritarian style of governance failed to make RSS leadership change their perception towards him.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is confused. Confusing 'glorification' with 'irrelevant' and vice versa, leaving everybody in the Sangh Parivar confused. RSS' top spokesperson Sunil Ambedkar couldn't clearly enunciate who are the glorifiers of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb or why "glorification of Aurangzeb" is "irrelevant" to present times?

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”.

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.

LUCKNOW: The BJP in Uttar Pradesh is facing tough time to maintain caste balance in the selection of district presidents and state president to make the organisation strong enough to face state Assembly polls in 2027 and panchayat polls.

One lakh Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) connecting around 13 crore small and marginal farmers are getting big boost to be ultimately transformed under the new Union Ministry of Cooperation created in July 2021, though the performance of the ministry has been dismal so far, and there were huge gaps in the budget allocations and the actual expenditures.

Sidelined by the Trump 2.0 administration and rebuffed by India, Bangladesh interim government is exploring all avenues to rejuvenate the country’s ailing economy by expanding its trade and investment relationship with Pakistan and China. The objective is to reduce the dependence on India in major areas where the outsourcing is possible from these two friendly countries.