The Asian Age

1 week ago | asianage.com | SHIKHA MUKERJEE

There are low-cost solutions to complicated and very large problems; break up the problem into smaller pieces, and the cost comes down. That seems to be the rough and ready mechanism the BJP under Narendra Modi’s leadership is preparing to deploy to bolster voter support. If the one-third reservation of seats for women in the Lok Sabha and state Assemblies is indeed fast-tracked and delinked from the full-scale delimitation exercise, it seems the Modi government is in a hurry.

1 week ago | asianage.com | Aakar Patel

On June 12, 2025, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. It spoke of ending Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war. A total of 149 nations voted in favour, with the United States and Israel voting to oppose it. India abstained from voting, repeating a pattern it has adopted all through the Narendra Modi era.

2 weeks ago | asianage.com | SHIKHA MUKERJEE

Going by the opening salvo in what will be the second historic Battle for Bengal, the next election will be a personalised contest between two charismatic leaders, both endowed with the gift of delivering attention-grabbing one-liners. In 2021, Mr Modi and his BJP lost the fight, flattened by the “Khela Hone” (game is on) call that Ms Banerjee deployed with spectacular success to marshal 28.65 lakh voters, or 48 per cent of the electorate.

3 weeks ago | asianage.com | SHIKHA MUKERJEE

Only the irrationally optimistic would have expected the Congress, suffering from its chronic misdirection, to do better in dealing with the Narendra Modi regime’s unusual manoeuvre of putting together seven multi-party delegations, some headed by former Congress ministers like Shashi Tharoor and Salman Khurshid. The delegations, currently touring different parts of the world, present a united India picture in the face of a national security crisis.

1 month ago | asianage.com | Sridhar Kumaraswami

New Delhi: Hours after US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a ceasefire, later affirmed by India, Pakistan restarted shelling and firing drones over Kashmir and Bhuj and other areas, leading a furious New Delhi to state that there had “repeated violations and a breach of the understanding” reached with Islamabad. “This is a breach of the understanding arrived at earlier today.