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President Donald Trump Finally Gives Up His Initial Musk As A Global Peace Maker
By Indrani Chakraborty U.S. President Donald Trump has finally given up his initial musk as the global peace maker after taking over presidency on January 20 this year. After 135 days of acting as a fake peace maker, under his direction, the United States vetoed a United Nations Security...
Prime Minister’s Boasting About India Being Fourth Largest Economy Has Many Gaps
By D Raja India is being paraded on global and national platforms as the world’s fourth-largest economy. With a nominal GDP of nearly 3.9 trillion dollars, the government claims it has scripted an economic miracle. The Prime Minister thunders from every stage about India’s rise under his watch, and...
Big Beautiful Break-Up Between Trump And Musk Has All The Thrills Of A Hollywood Film
By Sushil Kutty The headlines are topping the Trump-Musk fallout. The best was “I hate my X”, straight out of a divorce playbook and so true of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the two are like a divorced couple carrying the thrill and bitterness of divorce into the public...
Strategically Delayed Central Census Raises Several Concerns
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only a day after announcement of the Census 2027, the Union Ministry of Home said on June 5, that the census was put off due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its “aftershock”. How can the Centre say this when it went on conducting many other...
Chirag’s Aggressive Pitch For Bihar Top Job Rattles Allies, RJD Alike
By Rahil Nora Chopra Political activity in Bihar is intensifying, with Union Minister for Food Processing Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) readies to flex its muscle and likely to stake claim in at least 35 to 40 seats in the forthcoming Bihar assembly elections due in October-November...
Veteran Congress Leader Sankar Malakar’s Defection To TMC Is A Big Boost For Ruling Party
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Electoral prospects of Trinamool Congress seem brighter in north Bengal post veteran Congress leader Sankar Malakar switching loyalty to the ruling dispensation. For such a decision has been taken after weighing the pros and cons as desertion of this veteran leader is certainly an indication...
As The US Economy Wobbles, European Union Targets Dollar Supremacy
By Nick Wright LONDON: The damage Donald Trump has done to the architecture of imperial power is not an accidental feature of an unusually repugnant personality. It has its roots in the real, material conditions of the recurrent crisis in the accumulation of capital and in the projection of...
Agri Yield Could Drop 25 Per Cent Due To Climate Change: Study
NEW DELHI: India’s agriculture sector could face up to 25% yield losses due to climate-related disruptions, according to a new report by a farmers’ body. It called for targeted policy action to improve adoption of climate-resilient technologies among small and marginal farmers, according to a report by a farmers’...
Bank Of Baroda Sees May Inflation At 2.7 Per Cent
As the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is set to announce its decisions after the 55th meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee today, Bank of Baroda (BoB) said consumer price index (CPI) inflation could come in at 2.7% in May, sharply lower than 3.16% registered in April. This follows...
MDR Levy On UPI Coming, Waiver Likely For Small Transfers
NEW DELHI: After months of dithering, the government may allow banks to levy merchant discount rate (MDR) charges on UPI transactions beyond a threshold. The move is in the wake of the need being felt to compensate banks and and payment service providers for their operational costs and investments...
India, Italy Get Into A Huddle Over Critical Mineral Squeeze
BRESCIA: India and Italy Thursday cautioned against some countries’ dominance on critical minerals and how the over-dependence on these key components of semiconductor, aerospace industry and EV batteries can be reduced. Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said the concentration of critical minerals and their supply chains in a...
How Post Operation Sindoor Modi Doctrine Stifling India’s Diplomatic Outreach?
By Nitya Chakraborty 26 days have passed since the temporary truce in the limited four day war between India and Pakistan taking effect on May 10 this year. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been talking of his three point doctrine since then, the most important of which is no...
Parliament, Not Propaganda, Must Lead India’s Response To Kashmir Attacks
By P. Sudhir ‘NOT blood: But Sindoor Flows Through My Veins’ – these exact words by Prime Minister Modi defined his signature style in launching the post-Sindoor campaign blitzkrieg. What else could he or his government have done in response to the grave challenges the country was faced with....
Elon Musk’s Vicious Attack Against Trump’s Economic Policies Has Stunned MAGA Supporters
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The differences between US President Donald Trump and his first buddy tech billionaire Elon Musk, who sunk $288 million of his personal fortunes to get the mercurial Trump re-elected, has now exploded in the public domain with a spat. The bitter attack by...
Little Known BIS Is An Important Cog In The Wheel Of Global Finance Now
By Anjan Roy If you happen to have transferred money from your bank account to another, you would in possibility have used the RTGS system. This is known but little is known about the RTGS platform and its evolution. The RealTime Gross Settlement mechanism was primarily developed by the...
How The Attack By Nazis On Soviet Union On June 22, 1941 Changed The Course Of Second World War?
By Krishna Jha It was June 22, 1941, when the Nazi forces started attacking the Soviet Union. It was a strategy to shift the burden of war and resolve the inter-imperialist conflicts at the cost of Soviet Union. Imperialism was keen to decide the eternal contradiction that always evolved...
Slum Dwellers In Delhi Are Having A Harrowing Time With Continuing Demolitions
By Sushil Kutty Delhi these days is synonymous with demolitions, thanks to Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, who is a zealot when it comes to following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diktats hook, line and sinker! And Rekha Gupta, while bulldozing and razing ugly slums to the ground, is also...
