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Over the past decade, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reshaped the country's foreign policy by moving away from the traditional concept of nonalignment, which kept India from taking clear sides in global affairs. Instead, he has adopted a more flexible approach called "multi-alignment", where India engages with multiple countries based on its own interests rather than following a fixed ideology. This strategy allows India to maintain strong ties with different global powers, cooperate on various issues like trade, security, and technology, and make independent decisions that benefit the nation. By doing so, India has positioned itself as a key player on the world stage while safeguarding its own strategic and economic priorities.

Saffron ecosystem, especially the BJP leadership always strives to turn a Hindu festival into a political controversy. Every dispute adds to its membership and helps widen its support base. This time too they have succeeded in their move to politicize Maha Kumbh Mela. Notwithstanding stampede and death of large number of pilgrims in this year’s Kumbh Mela, which sullied image of the BJP government of UP and even slayed its political and administrative credibility, the saffron ecosystem has vivified its religious face.

Why did the $21 million USAID largesse fail to bring about the desired regime-change in India, replace Prime Minister Narendra Modi and seat in his place a more acceptable face? This should be US President Donald Trump’s query because the dollars belonged to Americans and President Trump and DOGE's presumptuous head Elon Musk have to trace and return to the American people their hard-earned dollars.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The convulsions in the Congress over party MP Shashi Tharoor’s fulsome praise of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government for the staggering growth in the start-up sector and its remarkable feat of emerging as the top state in the country in ease of business has exposed the double standards practised by the grand old party.

Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the White House on February 13 was meant to illustrate how close Modi was to his friend, Donald Trump, and to bask over the photo-op that it presented. Instead, what Modi’s short visit to Washington underlined was the subaltern status that India has been reduced to under Modi’s watch.

One need not be obtuse to realize there’s a growing rift between Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and the Chief Minister he replaced — Eknath Shinde, who also happens to be Maharashtra’s current Deputy Chief Minister and a man with a penchant for bucking sitting chief ministers like, for example, Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray.

Under late capitalism, there is an assault on the working people that is reminiscent of early capitalism and this assault is worldwide, not just in the third world but in the advanced capitalist countries as well. This assault is at three levels, economic, political and ideological.

The Sangh Parivar’s attempt to take political advantage out of what has traditionally been a religious congregation has turned the Kumbh into of the bloodiest events since the Kumbh in 1954. The effort was visible long before the Kumbh began in Prayagraj. It was reflected in a massive campaign launched by the BJP and its governments, inviting devotees from across India and even from foreign countries. They promoted this year’s Kumbh as the rare occasion for religious tourism. The mainstream media dutifully followed the suit, reported every claim of the government and published promotional photographs without questioning the political shift that was sought to be given to the religious congregation.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The ‘Invest Kerala Global Summit’ to be held in Kochi, Kerala is expected to give a booster shot to the State’s economic activities.

The controversial circumstances surrounding the appointment of the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) have given rise to a sense of distrust between the Congress party and the Election Commission, setting the stage for a difficult and fraught relationship. The tension was further exacerbated when Rahul Gandhi publicly expressed his dissent, effectively institutionalizing this mistrust. While he refrained from making direct personal attacks on the appointee, his concerns about the selection process itself have created an unavoidable rift. This dynamic between a major political party and an institution responsible for conducting free and fair elections threatens to undermine democratic processes and public confidence.