On October 27, 2026, a combined team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)/Imphal East and the 28 Assam Rifles (AR) arrested an active cadre of the Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF)/People’s Liberation Army
The recent meeting of the Jammu and Kashmir political party National Conference at Dachigam was an atypical party meeting. This meeting was an important political manoeuvre to unify the party, reaffirm support
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With everything going on in the Middle East, Ukraine, the United States, and elsewhere, you could be forgiven for not thinking much about North Korea lately. But while we’ve all been looking
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Few developments since the Taliban’s return to power have been as surprising as India’s gradual re-emergence in Afghanistan. In 2021, most observers assumed Islamabad would be the principal beneficiary of the new
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The global order is entering a harder-edged phase of realism, in which power increasingly rests on the ability to compel rather than the authority to persuade. Across regions, calculations of immediate advantage
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The Iran–US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) emerged not from reconciliation, but from exhaustion and strategic failure by the United States and its allies. It was the product of a war that had
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The battle for socialist liberation in the twenty-first century cannot be fought with the weapons of the last century. In an era in which algorithms hold sway, in which the influence of
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Sheikh Hasina is no fascist, notwithstanding the deliberate attempts of some to portray her as such. Few political figures in contemporary South Asia have evoked such fierce passions, profound loyalties, and relentless
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Forty-two years after Operation Blue Star, the events of June 1984 remain among the most consequential and contested episodes in modern Indian history. What began as a military operation aimed at removing
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On June 18, 2026, Saif Ansari alias Rohit was arrested in Ranchi, Jharkhand, while Aman Ansari alias Golu and Sayam Sujan were arrested near Gajhandi Railway Station in the Koderma District of Jharkhand on June 17,
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On June 13, 2026, 33 Security Force (SF) personnel were killed in a coordinated guerrilla operation orchestrated by the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF) at Naal town in the Khuzdar District of Balochistan.
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A subtle but significant shift is underway in Pakistan’s debt strategy. Islamabad is seeking to reduce its dependence on bilateral lenders by raising billions of dollars through international bonds and commercial borrowing.
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A historic and bloody conflict took place 269 years ago at a place called Palashi, on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, about 50 kilometers north of Krishnanagar in Nadia district of
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Objectification is a notion central to feminist theory. It can be roughly defined as seeing and/or treating a person, usually a woman, as an object. History has been replete with such cases,
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Among many citizens of Bangladesh, a growing unease has taken root—a profound apprehension that the country is gradually surrendering its sovereign will to external powers and becoming increasingly vulnerable to foreign influence
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New negotiations between the United States and Iran have begun to address Iran’s nuclear program. Further correspondence, talks, and sanctions-related understandings have been established, with a 60-day window to negotiate a broader
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