By Nitya Chakraborty Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known globally as Lula has launched a major initiative to meet the U.S. President Donald Trump’s unilateral tariff offensive by joining hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Russian President Vladimir Putin, apart from taking assistance from South Africa and a few other […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The inevitable has happened. Narendra Modi government’s myopic policy on handling the interim government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Muhammad Yunus has led this important neighbour of India into Chinese lap. The Xi Jinping-Yunus meeting held in Beijing on March 28 gave its final seal of approval to the economic strategy of […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Russian President’s pending visit to India has turned into a big diplomatic mystery as in the last five months since the Kazan summit on October 22 last year when Putin officially confirmed his visit to India in the presence of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi amidst full media and TV glare, […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is known as the super salesman of jumlas. Beginning from Jan Dhan account of Rs. 15 lakh for everyone to generating two crore jobs for youth every year, all the hyped up propaganda of the BJP led government since 2014 have turned into a big flop. Even in […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Europe, which has always been vocal about its past history and civilization as well its contribution to the making of the modern world, has never faced such humiliation in the hands of its transatlantic ally the USA in the last eighty years since the end of the Second World War in 1945.The […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the Bangladesh Army going to take over control of their politically turbulent country, either from front or behind, to precipitate the holding of early elections? This question is being raised by the seasoned political observers in Dhaka, as the whole of last week was dominated by highly controversial posts on Facebook, […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh has officially sought a meeting between their head of interim government Dr. Mohammad Yunus and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the coming BIMSTEC meeting at Bangkok on April 2-4 next. Both countries are members of BIMSTEC. As per present schedule, both have confirmed their presence at […]
By Nitya Chakraborty 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 […]
By Nitya Chakraborty 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 […]
By Nitya Chakraborty 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 […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The 14th National People’s Congress of China ended its one-week-long session in Beijing on Tuesday March 11 with a clear direction given by the President and the Communist Party supremo Xi Jinping that China will take on the disruptions made in the global order by the United States president Donald Trump in […]
By Nitya Chakraborty How is China, the second largest economic and military power of the world after the United States is planning to confront the second term U.S. President Donald Trump’s resurgence disrupting the so long established global order to impose his total domination on international politics? Every political analyst is looking at the current […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. President Donald Trump has fired his missile on Europe, especially, France, UK and Germany by suspending arms aid to Ukraine after categorically making it clear that President Zelensky has to agree to the peace and security deal proposed by Trump on Friday in the White House meeting. The deal is […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Is the global geopolitics moving a full circle after 80 years since the end of the Second World War in 1945? The question is now extremely relevant after the world saw on Friday in TV channels the unprecedented spat between the United States president Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Democratic rights activist Jagdeep S. Chhokar in his recent piece in the news portal The Wire mentions of his four conclusions on the state of Indian polity in the present stage after the BJP sweep in Delhi assembly polls. His four concluding points are- first, the BJP is almost achieving an opposition-free […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The final results of Germany’s national elections held on February 23 are being debated intensively in the global media, especially in the European media about the upsurge of the far right party AFD which virtually doubled its voting percentage in the 2025 elections compared to the 2021 national elections. The ruling Social […]
By Nitya Chakraborty February 2025 is not just the moment of truth for the European nations and NATO members but also time for reckoning for the Global Left and the peace movement which are still sizing up the dimension of the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s emergence as a peacenik to end the three […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Eighty years after the end of the Second World War in 1945, Europe, especially Western Europe is in disarray, as their transatlantic ally for eight decades, the United States, is refusing to guarantee the security of the European nations belonging to the NATO under the new Trump doctrine. Earlier, there were differences […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The outcome of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the U.S. President Donald Trump in White House on February 13 may have its impact on the interim government of Bangladesh headed by Dr. Mohammad Yunus, who is in power since August 8, 2024 in the wake of the ouster of Sheikh Hasina […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting the United States President Donald Trump in Washington on February 13. He is going straight to U.S. on a two-day visit after completing his engagement in France on Tuesday, including co-chairing the global AI summit along with the French President Emanuel Macron. For all practical […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The victory of the BJP in the Delhi assembly elections defeating the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convincingly is certainly a jolt to the opposition INDIA bloc, but it does not mean the end of AAP, or the final tolls for the INDIA bloc, as some commentators in the national media and […]
By Nitya Chakraborty Exactly six months have passed since the installation of the interim government in Bangladesh on August 8, headed by Dr. Mohammad Yunus, three days after the ouster of the Awami League government led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina, daughter of the founder of the present Bangladesh, the late Sheikh Mujibur […]
By Nitya Chakraborty The present euphoria among the BJP-led government ministers after the presentation of the 2025-26 budget in Parliament over the mega relief to the income tax payers of the country might be shared by the estimated one crore people in the country benefited due to the budget proposals. But in terms of its […]
By Nitya Chakraborty What is happening to the proposed official visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India early this year? Is the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to the Russian President to visit India given at the BRICS summit at Kazan on October 22 still valid? Doubts are being raised about the visit […]
