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A section of the former and current workers of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (MSIL) has been agitating against the carmaker’s alleged illegal and unethical labour practices for the last five months. Rallying under the aegis of the Maruti Suzuki Struggle Committee, the workers had been protesting peacefully in Haryana’s Manesar sitting on an indefinite dharna near Manesar DC office since September 18 last year, under the banner of their own collective titled Maruti Suzuki Struggle Committee (‘MSSC’). One of their main demands is equal pay for equal work.

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?

NEW YORK: The U.S. government is at war with Cuban doctors working in other countries. Currently, 24,180 Cuban healthcare providers, mostly doctors, perform duties in 56 countries. On Feb. 17, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions directed at people associated with Cuba’s medical missions and declared none of them will be eligible for visas to enter the U.S.

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?"