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Loot Of Ram Mandir Funds Has Weakened BJP Campaign Before 2027 Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Within a week of the accusation by the Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was an unregistered and unconstitutional organisation and should face legal actions, the right-wing Hindu exclusionary body suffered a shattering jolt that its senior leaders managing the affairs...
Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi’s Visit To India On July 1-3 Is Aimed At Boosting Investment
By Subrata Majumder India is a vast country. It has long border stretching over the eastern region, which can act gateway to South East Asia. West Bengal has the longest international border, connecting the eastern region. West Bengal is better placed compared to Assam in acting as the gateway...
Bengal BJP Govt’s Announcement On Reviving Calcutta Stock Exchange Is A Political Optics
By Kunal Bose The country has two major stocks exchanges, namely, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange (NSE). Between them, they have a daily turnover of around Rs4 lakh crore across the cash and derivative segments. Though NSE arrived decades after BSE, which prides itself...
Latest Killings In Manipur Have Made A Mockery Of Centre’s Peace Efforts
By Krishna Jha Manipur, a remote eastern state of our country, is in the grip of continual ethnic violence for more than three years. For every moment, deadly ambushes, abductions and protest marches have become the realities of the region and making the violence into a way of life...
Suvendu Govt In Bengal Proposes To Remove The Muslim Names Of All Kolkata Streets
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Kolkata’s streets are not just thoroughfares. They are living chronicles of the city’s souls. Kolkata or Calcutta as it was known then may have been “chance erected, chance directed”, but its streets are not named thus. The city father’s of yore have had a wide...
Can Congress Stop Kerala CM Satheesan’s ‘One-Man’ Show?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress is sharply divided over the low alcohol tax rate cut unilaterally announced by Chief Minister V. D. Satheesan. Resentment over Satheesan’s one-man show is growing not only within the Congress but also among the allies. Satheesan has angered both by announcing without consultations...
Possible Union Cabinet Rejig, BJP Organisational Reshuffle Likely Soon
By Rahil Nora Chopra After Union home minister Amit Shah and PM Narendra Modi’s interaction with the President Droupadi Murmu, speculation over a possible reshuffle of the Union Council of Ministers has gathered pace. BJP has also announced an organisational revamp in its Uttar Pradesh unit ahead of the...
Bangladesh Officials Still Pursuing The Controversy Over Diplomat’s Detention At Delhi Airport
By Ashis Biswas A section of the BNP-led establishment in Bangladesh appears keen to prolong the controversy generated recently over the refusal of an invited diplomat to attend an India-hosted regional conference. The Dhaka-based official Dr. Zahedur Rahman, Information Adviser to Prime Minister Mr. Tarique Rahman had complained of...
Alan Greenspan’s Death Marks The End Of Mega-Central Banker’s Age
By Anjan Roy There are central bankers and central bankers. But Alan Greenspan, who died at the age of 100 four days back, was the central banker’s central banker. The chairman of the US Federal Reserve is always much more than the head of any such institution by virtue...
Goldman Sachs Lifts FY27 India Growth Forecast To 6.5% As Oil Price Easing
NEW DELHI: As oil prices ease following a peace deal between the United States (US) and Iran, Goldman Sachs raised its forecast for India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2026-27 (FY27) by 40 basis points (bps) to 6.5 per cent. The global brokerage firm also cut its projection...
Centre Proposes Easing Shelf-Life, Licensing Norms For Imported Drugs
NEW DELHI: The Centre has proposed two amendments to the Drugs Rules, 1945, aimed at easing the import of medicines and reducing regulatory hurdles for pharmaceutical research, as part of its broader push to improve ease of doing business in the sector. The Union Ministry of Health and Family...
India Growth Momentum Reviving On West Asia Peace: EY
NEW DELHI: A lasting peace in West Asia will restore India’s growth momentum with the GDP likely growing at 6.6-6.8% in FY27 if crude prices settle at relatively lower levels and shipments through the Strait of Hormuz normalise, according to EY. “A gradual normalisation of global energy markets is...
Building Energy Systems For The Future: Union Power Minister
NEW DELHI: India’s BRICS Chairship seeks to place the Global South at the centre of a secure, resilient, equitable, and sustainable global energy future. The global energy landscape is undergoing rapid transformation. Nations are striving to balance economic growth, energy security and sustainability, while building resilience against geopolitical uncertainties...
HDFC Bank Gets Clean Chit From Legal Review
MUMBAI: HDFC Bank on Friday said an external legal review by two law firms— Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Wadia Ghandy & Co—into concerns raised by former chairman Atanu Chakraborty’s resignation letter found “no contemporaneous support” for his allegations in board or committee records, meeting materials or related...
Collapse Of TMC In Bengal Has Given A Big Opportunity For A Left Turn-Around
By Sobhanlal Datta Gupta The Eighteenth West Bengal Legislative Assembly which was formed in the wake of the poll results in 2026 has catapulted the BJP into power on a scale which is unprecedented, but not totally unsurprising. It has been a verdict by default, a furious act of...
Modi’s Iran Dilemma: Will India Attend Ayatollah Khamenei’s Funeral?
By T N Ashok An invitation from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the funeral ceremonies of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has placed New Delhi in a delicate diplomatic position at a time when West Asia is emerging from one of its...
Massive Acquisitions And Mergers By Adani Group Raise Serious Questions
By Nilotpal Basu Economics and finance tend to manifest in the political process. However, what we are witnessing right now is an extraordinary level of convergence in the contemporary landscape. A deeper exploration reveals that this is more than a mere coincidence. For quite some time now there has...
