Modi's birthday celebrations highlighted India's distinctive geopolitical positioning as world leaders selectively offered greetings based on strategic interests and current relationships
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Following Sushila Karki's appointment as interim prime minister, Nepali Gen-Z protesters confront allegations of collaborating with monarchist elements. The youth movement condemns military interference while vowing to resist any attempts to restore Hindu monarchy or dismantle secular governance.
The Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing Chhatra Shibir has swept the DUCSU elections, indicating a similar feat by the parent organisation in the upcoming general elections.
Is the Himalayan country experiencing a West-backed colour revolution?
Is Modi changing India's foreign policy or is it an attempt to peddle the old wine in a new bottle?
The Arab League Summit in Doha aimed at projecting unity against Israeli aggression. Yet behind closed doors, a different reality emerged.
The Israeli attack on Qatar exposed a troubling reality: no amount of cooperation, no degree of accommodation, no depth of partnership could guarantee safety from Israeli aggression.
What made Beijing avoid inviting Narendra Modi to China's V-Day commemoration?
Israel's latest attacks on Yemen, hitting its civilians, have drawn sharp criticisms from Palestinian and Yemeni left-wing nationalist organisations.
The conflicts
The Arab League Summit in Doha aimed at projecting unity against Israeli aggression. Yet behind closed doors, a different reality emerged.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is showing his monthly geopolitical acrobatic stunts again, this time by rapproaching the US-Israel nexus.
The Israeli attack on Qatar exposed a troubling reality: no amount of cooperation, no degree of accommodation, no depth of partnership could guarantee safety from Israeli aggression.
Is Modi changing India's foreign policy or is it an attempt to peddle the old wine in a new bottle?
Geopolitics
The Alaska 'Pursuing Peace' summit offered no ceasefire for Ukraine, but Putin walked away with revived talks and a softened Trump—signs that Russia’s strategy now reaches beyond the battlefield.
Finally, the British, French and German join the chorus demanding an independent Palestinian state but without any sovereignty.
Understanding the implications of the BRICS expansion as the bloc's Summit starts in Brazil in a few days.
Fifty-eight years ago, the battered Arab countries pleaded with the US and Soviet Union for a ceasefire; in 2025, it was Israel that sought a ceasefire with Iran despite losing fewer personnel. But why?
Geoeconomy
The cotton duty slash, hailed in Washington, has sparked outrage in India’s farm belt over Modi’s retreat.
Discount-laden Russian crude greases the wheels of India’s refinery boom—but Trump’s latest duties turn that advantage into a delicate balancing act between state claims and market realities.
Bangladesh's economy has shown promising performance in the year since the July Revolution.
The World Bank's recent data shows India's poverty has fallen drastically. However, experts raise an eerie alarm over this data and survey methodology.
With nothing new to offer, does Bangladesh's austerity budget for 2025-26 disappoints the very youth who toppled Sheikh Hasina's regime last year?
As civilian tolls rise with India-Pakistan military conflict escalating across the LoC and international border, who is benefitting from the war?
Trump's China tariffs of 145% can't scare Beijing; a diplomat asserted that posting a video of Mao Zedong
As the US president launches a global trade war, world leaders are quick to condemn—except for a peculiar trio. The East Post examines how Modi's unusual acquiescence is trading India's economic interests for personal political capital.
Chinese AI start-up Zhipu AI launched its new AI model AutoGLM Rumination, which has the potential to disrupt the industry.
Who will be hurt more due to Trump's tariffs on Canada and China when it comes to agriculture? It will be the US agricultural sector.
Editorial & Op-eds
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is showing his monthly geopolitical acrobatic stunts again, this time by rapproaching the US-Israel nexus.
Why do American officials, despite growing up, still see a monster under the bed? Why are they so scared of China?
The recently-concluded China-US trade talks hold potentials to rebuild the bridges that Donald Trump and his predecessor had tried burning.
Indonesia's inclusion as BRICS' 11th member means the bloc now represents 40% of the global population and 37% of the world GDP, strengthening its challenge to Western institutions.
The West
A war crime complaint filed against Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials by a Freedom Flotilla activist in a Spanish court adds to Tel Aviv's ignominy.
The Russian Embassy to the UK tried to infuse some common sense into the sarcastic British minds regarding the threat posed by Moscow using a humorous social media post.
What did Donald Trump's Middle East tour aim at? Arming the Arabs to support Israel's aggression?
Agriculture & Labour
KITU claims victory in forcing the Karnataka government in India to retreat on the proposal to increase the working hours for the IT/ITeS sector to 12 hours a day.
KITU has asked the workers not to panic and not to resign under any type of pressure.
KITU alleges the Congress government is helping corporates to axe more tech workers by running two 12-hour shifts than three eight-hour shifts.
Amid Israel's aggression on Gaza, the left-wing Palestinian resistance group PFLP called for workers' solidarity on International Labour Day in Palestine.
Farmers have sown a lesser amount of paddy crops this kharif season. Mango farmers are also suffering this season due to several issues.
Japanese management and Indian workers are embroiled in a standoff over retrenchment. Labour union resorts to protracted movement.
Caste & communalism
Understanding how Islamophobia has been spread among Kolkata's Bengali Bhadralok community over decades, which bolstered the Hindutva camp in West Bengal.
Art, culture, films & more
The second WOW Congress will take place in Russia on September 20th-21st.
The Chinese film industry has transformed from "chaser" to "leader," with 2025's Spring Festival box-office reaching 10.5 billion yuan, surpassing North America as the world's largest market.
On the 225th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin, a competition was organised for Russian and African journalists on great personalities in the history of Russian-African relations.
Art as resistance, from Palestinian ballads to anti-colonial paintings, reveals deep truths and inspires global solidarity against oppression.
Law
India's large-scale drive against Bengali-speaking people, labelling them as Bangladeshi infiltrators, exposes South Asia's citizenship matrix's inherent problems.
Most of the abducted Handala activists have decided to defend themselves in an Israeli kangaroo court.
Hamas's appeal in the UK against the ban on it exhibits the West's hypocrisy regarding the anti-colonial struggles in the Global South.
With the introduction of new criminal laws and codes, India's defence lawyers face a lot of confusion and with them, justice delivery also faces uncertainty.
Climate
Experts say that behind the massive landslides in Himachal Pradesh is the rampant deforestation and unplanned constructions.
Cloudburst and flash floods have wreaked havoc on Himachal Pradesh, killing nine people and leaving over 200 stranded due to road closures.
Finally, southwest monsoon arrives in southern West Bengal, providing a brief relief to the people living in a severe heat-like situation.
The West Bengal government has decided to allot around 30 acres of land to the ECL for open-cast mining in Asansol.