Author: Rayan Chakravarty
India on the surface appeared to take a small stride in terms of its job market in August. The general level of unemployment went down to 5.1 per cent at the lowest level in five months. Howbeit, behind the encouraging title is a disturbing fact that to young women, and more particularly, those between 15 and 29 years, it has been made even more difficult to find work.
The mood in Visakhapatnam was a jostling one. The audience was restless in excitement. The BJP president J.P. Nadda was in the center of the event, whose voice was full of pride and determination. All his words sounded as a way reverberating through the grounds not merely as a political message but as a narcissism of the party journey and the expectations of the people who had turned up to listen.
Unity prevailed in the General Assembly hall in the United Nations this week in a rare feeling. In the tallying of the votes, unanimous support of a resolution that advocated a Palestinian state was recorded in 142 countries.
In Tamil Nadu’s political theatre, a familiar drama is playing out again. The AIADMKBJP alliance, once seen as carefully balanced, is now wobbling under the weight of suspicion, bruised egos, and Delhi’s long reach.
For days, Kathmandu burned not just with fire, but with the fury of its young. Streets once alive with chatter turned into battle zones as Gen Z protestors lit torches outside parliament, stormed government offices, and demanded that their leaders answer for years of corruption and misrule. At least 19 people died, hundreds more were injured, and Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli finally bowed to the pressure and resigned.
In a spacious hall in New Delhi, pens glided over paper and hands were tightly clasped as India and Israel celebrated a new phase in their economic narrative. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and her Israeli counterpart Bezalel Smotrich moved closer to sign the Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) — an agreement designed to encourage companies on both sides to explore opportunities beyond their borders.
In the quiet hills of Tripura, politics is no longer just about leaders and parties it’s about the lives of the tribal people who feel promises made to them are slipping away. The ruling alliance of the BJP, Tipra Motha, and the Indigenous Peoples Front of Tripura (IPFT) is now struggling to hold together, with tensions spilling out into villages.
Israeli troops cautioned residents of Gaza City on Saturday to head south before targeting a high-rise building, as the military advanced further into areas of the city.
On Wednesday, India and Germany pledged to increase their bilateral trade twofold and accelerate discussions regarding a long-anticipated free trade agreement between India and the European Union, amid rising worries about possible new sanctions impacting nations purchasing Russian oil.
A strong magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late Sunday evening (Aug 31), just before midnight, and its epicenter was east of Jalalabad.