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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On May 10, the Prime Minister issued seven appeals to the nation – all of whose purpose was to save foreign exchange. The people are being told: prepare to tighten your belts. But it is not the common people who have created the present foreign exchange crisis.
The contrast between the Manmohan Singh government’s management of India–Iran relations under US pressure and the Modi government’s abject capitulation is the clearest possible illustration of what strategic autonomy means in practice, as opposed to in rhetoric.
On its first anniversary, Sushant Singh in Delhi and Khurram Husain in Karachi sit down with Varadarajan to discuss questions related to Operation Sindoor and draw up a balance sheet – military, political, and diplomatic.
‛How Indian States Are Using FIRs to Reframe Wage-Related Workers’ Disputes as Crimes’; ‛Money, ID, Only Link to Family: Noida Police Hold on to Phones Despite Workers Being Released’; ‛May Day Under Police Watch in Noida: Workers’ Resistance Persists’.
‛Press Freedom in India: “Caged Voices, Silenced Truths”’: On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective assembled a deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing of jailed journalists like Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj. Also: ‛Corporate Control and Political Pressure: The Twin Pillars of Media Decline in India’.
‛Why Chhattisgarh’s Midday Meal Workers Have Not Given Up Their Fight for Better Pay’: Their work is crucial for children’s wellbeing, but they earn less than Rs 70 a day. A two-month strike sought to secure them a daily wage of at least Rs 350. Also: ‘Govt Doesn’t Seem to Care for Those Taking Care of Country’s Mothers, Children’.
The 16th Finance Commission has avoided estimating the Vertical Fiscal Imbalance which would have given an idea of the gap in the States’ resources; elsewhere the Commission has made changes to the formula on distribution of tax revenue among States, not all of which are convincing.
As police probe serious claims of harassment, a parallel story of conspiracy and conversion dominates public discourse.
The story from Odisha is not just a reminder about a brother and his dead sister. It is about the distance between policy and practice.
‛Can China Curb Trump’s Gambit in Hormuz?’; ‛Beijing Confronts US Sanctions on Refineries’: Within six days of the Russian President Putin rendering a forceful advice to the US President Donald Trump to abandon the path of war in Iran, Beijing has delivered a humiliating rebuff to the US move to sanction Chinese oil refineries. Also: ‛Ceasefire Served US’s Purpose in Iran War’.
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