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QUAD Foreign Ministers Joint Statement Ignores Indian Position On Action Against Pakistan On Terror
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s three QUAD partners USA, Australia and Japan ignored on Tuesday Indian foreign minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s appeal ahead of the four nation QUAD foreign ministers meeting to understand and appreciate that India will exercise its right to defend its people against terrorism. Jaishankar did not...
Special Intensive Revision Is Turning Out To Be A Vote Bandi For Muslims And Dalits
By Arun Srivastava Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral roll is more treacherous having wider political and economic implication than the National Register of Citizens (NRC) which is a register maintained by the Indian government to record the names of genuine Indian citizens. NRC differentiates between citizens and those...
Centre’s Employment Linked Incentive Scheme Set To Start From August 1, 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the approval of the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, though after loss of the entire financial year 2024-25 and three months into the current financial year 2025-26, the Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) Scheme announced in the Union Budget 2024-25 on July...
World’s Most Powerful President Trump And Richest Person Elon Musk Are In An Ego Battle
By Sushil Kutty It’s “so tempting to escalate” billionaire Elon Musk posted on his ‘X’ after President Donald Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ spoke its mind on peace-deals. And “escalating” is such a beautiful word, almost as much as Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”, which is one bill Musk wants Congress to...
Iran Is Not Syria, Nor Like Any Other Country In Middle East
By Manish Rai The question of regime change in Iran has recently resurfaced after the killing of Iran’s top military commanders following the Israeli airstrikes. However, Israel’s short-term goal was to damage Iran’s nuclear facilities to severely diminish its weapons program. But the Israeli Prime Minister mentioned during his...
‘New Middle East’ Under Israel Control Is Netanyahu’s Real Goal In The Region
By Ramzy Baroud NEW YORK: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu persistently declares his ambition to “change the face of the Middle East.” Yet, his repeated assertions seem to clash with the unfolding reality on the ground. Netanyahu’s opportunistic relationship with language is now proving detrimental to his country. The...
Financial System Resilient Amid Global Uncertainty: FSR
MUMBAI: At a time when global uncertainties are looming large, India’s financial system remains resilient and well capitalised, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) latest Financial Stability Report (FSR) on Monday. The report highlighted that the country’s scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) have significantly improved their asset quality, with gross...
Mega Schemes For R&D And Jobs Get Cabinet Nod
NEW DELHI: Two major schemes aimed at giving a boost to the economy’s growth potential and its employment intensity were approved by the Cabinet on Tuesday. It gave the nod to a Rs 1 lakh crore scheme to support research & development and innovation (RDI) in sunrise domains and...
Manufacturing PMI Rises To 14-Month High On Buoyant Export Orders
NEW DELHI: Manufacturing activity rose to a 14-month high in June 2025 on the back of strong export orders, according to a private sector survey. The HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 58.4 in June, up from 57.6 in May. The performance in June was the highest...
Rate-Cut Benefits Yet To Trickle Down To NBFCs
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 100-basis-point repo rate cut in 2025 has definitely benefited a lot of borrowers, especially ones linked to the external benchmark lending rate (EBLR). However, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) are yet to get access to cheaper funds. The key reason: Most loans to...
India’s Growth Engine Loses Steam In June, May Get Back On Track Soon
NEW DELHI: The Indian economy hit a soft patch in June with several high-frequency indicators such as goods and services tax (GST), UPI transactions, diesel consumption and car sales showing muted growth or even a contraction from a year earlier. On the positive side, India’s manufacturing activity strengthened and...
Narendra Modi Has The Big Task Of Refurbishing India’s Image In Global South At BRICS Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces a tough task in improving India’s image as defender of the interests of Global South at the coming meeting of the BRICS at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil on July 6 and 7 which he will be attending. The 17th BRICS...
Trump’s Order On Birthright Citizenship Is Meant To Make America White Again
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump first wanted to end birthright citizenship with an executive order issued on January 20, 2025, the day he assumed office for his 2nd nonconsecutive term as president. Again on June 20, 2025, he issued an EO for the Department of...
RSS Campaign To Delete Socialist And Secular From Preamble Of Constitution Must Be Defeated
By Krishna Jha Dattatreya Hosabale, the general secretary of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, has proposed to remove the words “socialist” and “secular” from the Preamble of the Constitution. All the words in the Preamble constitute the core value of the Constitution. Supreme Court has upheld that the Parliament can amend...
Ayatollah Shirazi Has Spoiled Iran’s Case More Issuing Fatwa Against Trump And Netanyahu
By Sushil Kutty All Iranian clerics are “top” and there are a number of them in Iran, not just Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who has been ‘Supreme’ for decades. He succeeded Ayatollah Khomeini, the first who rose to political power, to the position of Supreme Leader. Now, there’s...
Social Disconnection Widespread In Digitally Connected World
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “In this age when the possibilities to connect are endless, more and more people are finding themselves isolated and lonely,” said Director of World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, after the release of a new WHO report that found one in six people were...
Israel And Iran Have Set The Stage For The Next West Asian War In Near Future
By Arron Reza Merat NEW YORK: On June 5, a satellite photograph captured around forty aircraft on the tarmac of a US airfield inside the regional headquarters for the US Central Command (CENTCOM), some two hundred miles from Iran. A second photograph taken of the Al Udeid airfield on...
