Author: Soumik Dutta

KEBEA, AIPEF meet CM; urge him against Tata's parallel licence

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2026-06-16 --

Bengaluru,
Opposing the move by private player Tata Power, which has applied for a parallel electricity distribution licence in 19 districts of Karnataka, the Karna Read more...

Ladakh unrest exposes flaws in Modi govt’s post-370 strategy

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-10-30 --

Bengaluru: Whether it is Manipur or Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP-led Centre is facing failures in several states due to its policies, though, as usual, it remains in denial Read more...

'Balance it like Jaishankar': India perfects act amid Russia-Ukraine war

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-08-23 --

Bengaluru: In the end, peace can be achieved only by hegemony or by balance of power',' wrote the redoubtable former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger years ag Read more...

Dangerous colours that allure

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-08-08 --

Bengaluru: Bengaluru has a huge number of residents who regularly have their food - whether it it breakfast, lunch or dinner - at the many eateries which dot the city. In Read more...

China tries to choke India's trade, Delhi fights back

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-07-12 --

Bengaluru: China is creating obstacles for India, from stopping rare earth minerals and magnets, to withdrawing their technological manpower . This is the enactment of a b Read more...

TMC and Mamata: The rise and fall

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2026-05-10 --

Kolkata

Mamata Banerjee, the streetfighter who ended the three-decade-long Left Front rule and reshaped West Bengal’s political landscape, has lost not jus Read more...

The trust factor must return to Tata Trusts

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-10-18 --

Bengaluru: Nine years after Cyrus Mistry was uncere moniously removed as chairman of Tata Sons, and a year after the death of patriarch Ratan Tata, the shadow of both stil Read more...

Trump-Putin meet, more to fuel his Nobel dreams

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-08-14 --

Bengaluru: When Russian President Vladimir Putin meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, it will be his first visit to the United States since 2015. As Pres Read more...

5th dirtiest city, really? Time to rethink B'luru's garbage strategy

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-07-23 --

Bengaluru: Bengaluru, renowned as India’s tech capital and the garden city, found itself in the news for wrong reasons. It was ranked the fifth dirtiest city in the Read more...

1.4 cr more people to die by 2030... just because Trump 'killed' aid agency USAID

  • By Soumik Dutta --
  • 2025-07-05 --

Bengaluru: June 30 would be a day written in history as the most sombre day for lovers of humanity. Monday was the last day as an independent agency for the six-decade-old Read more...