By A Representative   The Jharkhand Janadhikar Mahasabha has appealed to the Chief Justice of the Jharkhand High Court seeking intervention after a single-judge bench stayed the ongoing police investigation in a hit-and-run case involving High Court lawyer Manoj Tandon.

By Ravi Ranjan*  Rajesh Joshi is one of the most commanding voices in contemporary progressive Hindi poetry. His work is deeply tied to social conscience and the quiet struggles of ordinary people, carrying the scent of native soil after rain and the enduring human will to live amid suffering. Beyond poetry, he has enriched translation and other literary forms. His major collections include "Ek Din Bolenge Ped", "Mitti Ka Chehra", "Naipathya Mein Hansi", "Do Panktiyon Ke Beech" (Sahitya Akademi Award winner), "Chand Ki Vartani", and "Zid". His long poem “Samragatha” sparked wide discussion. He has received the Sahitya Akademi Award, Makhanlal Chaturvedi Award, Shikhar Samman, Pahal Samman, Muktibodh Award, Shrikant Verma Smriti Samman, Shamsher Samman, and others. His poems, translated into English, Russian, German, and various Indian languages, consistently search for faith even in crisis, questioning power with s...

By Rajiv Shah  It is always sad when a journalist colleague passes away — more so when that person has remained firm in his journalistic moorings. Compared to many others, I did not know R.K. Misra, who passed away on February 23 after a long illness, very intimately, but we interacted occasionally over the years.

By Sandeep Pandey*   Shock is being expressed at Galgotias University being found presenting a Chinese-made robotic dog and a South Korean-made soccer-playing drone as its own creations at the recently held India AI Impact Summit 2026, a global event in New Delhi. Earlier, a UGC-listed journal had published a paper from the university titled “Corona Virus Killed by Sound Vibrations Produced by Thali or Ghanti: A Potential Hypothesis,” which became the subject of widespread ridicule. Following the robotic dog controversy coming to light, the university has withdrawn the paper. These incidents are symptoms of deeper problems afflicting the Indian education system in general. Galgotias merely bit off more than it could chew.

By A Representative   A group of 90 retired civil servants under the banner of the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) has written to Mritunjay Kumar Narayan, Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, raising concerns over the timing, methodology and transparency of the upcoming 2027 Census.

By A Representative   A public commemoration marking six years since the February 2020 violence in North East Delhi was held at the Press Club of India on Sunday, bringing together survivors, jurists, political leaders, journalists and civil society members to reflect on questions of justice and accountability that remain unresolved. The event, titled “Lest We Forget: Remembering the February 2020 Delhi Communal Carnage,” was convened by the Constitutional Conduct Group and Karwan-e-Mohabbat. Organisers described the gathering as an act of collective remembrance and a call for renewed democratic vigilance.

By A Representative  As India celebrates the success of the AI Impact Summit 2026, a prominent policy voice is sounding the alarm over what he calls a dangerous gap in the national conversation: the enormous water and energy burden that artificial intelligence infrastructure will place on an already resource-stressed nation.

By Jag Jivan   Across the West, immigration has increasingly been framed as a cultural threat or a political liability, a stance most visibly associated with Donald Trump but echoed in varying degrees across Europe and other advanced economies. What this debate often ignores is a hard demographic and economic reality: without sustained immigration, much of the Western world faces a shrinking workforce, rising dependency ratios, and long-term stagnation.

By Vidya Bhushan Rawat*  Cuba currently faces the greatest challenge to its sovereignty and independence in decades. The brutal and repressive economic blockade, which violates all international norms and practices, is taking a heavy toll on the tiny island nation. While Donald Trump and his administration seek to strangle Cuba for its independent foreign policy, the rest of the world is expressing its solidarity.