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India Blocks China’s Move To Form WTO Panel For PLI Dispute
NEW DELHI: India has blocked China’s request for establishment of a panel to adjudicate the dispute it has brought before the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against Production Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) for solar modules and duties charged on IT products. The dispute was initiated on December 19 last year...
Artificial Support For Rupee Could Weaken Economy: Montek Singh Ahluwalia
NEW DELHI: Former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission of India Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Friday endorsed a policy of allowing the rupee to depreciate against the dollar in line with the market conditions, cautioning that attempts to artificially keep the currency up could weaken the economy further. He...
India’s Ethanol Boom Runs Into Demand Wall: Report
NEW DELHI: India’s aggressive ethanol capacity expansion is set to significantly outpace demand despite the government’s push towards E85 fuel and flex-fuel vehicles, with installed production capacity expected to touch nearly 2,400 crore litres by FY27 against current fuel demand of only around 1,100 crore litres under the E20...
Modi Government Banned The Voice Of The Voiceless Cockroaches On X
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Annoyed by the voice of the voiceless cockroaches on Social Media platform X, the Union Government of India led by PM Narendra Modi got their account banned in the country. Thanks to the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant’s one of the comments on May...
Modi Govt Is Still Not Taking Proper Initiative To Improve Relations With Dhaka
By Nitya Chakraborty More than three months have passed since the historic general elections in Bangladesh on February 12 this year leading to the installation of the BNP government in the country headed by Tarique Rahman. PM Narendra Modi’s warm congratulations to the Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and...
The Rupee Rout Is A Grim Warning Modi Govt Can’t Ignore At The Moment
By R. Suryamurthy India’s rupee is not merely depreciating. It is sending a warning flare about the structural weaknesses of an economy that spent two decades celebrating growth while postponing the harder questions of economic resilience, industrial depth, and external vulnerability. When the currency slipped past ₹96 to the...
Only Poor Are Bearing The Burden Of Iran War Under Modi’s Austerity Programme
By Sanjay Roy Geopolitical conflicts affect the lives of people who hardly have any role in initiating the conflict. The ruling class of conflicting nations engage in wars and the burden of the disruptions caused in the process is asymmetrically imposed upon common people. The national leaders of Israel...
Is UP Congress Trying To Bring BSP Onboard Opposition Bandwagon?
By Rahil Nora Chopra To obtain Dalits votes in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the assembly elections in 2027, a section of the UP Congress leaders wants Mayawati on board the opposition front against the BJP. A tie-up with the BSP could help consolidate Dalit, Muslim and OBC votes behind...
India’s Present Economic Crisis Is Primarily Due To Modi Govt Policies
By Mahesh Rathi The Indian government today is trying to present the danger arising from the growing tensions in West Asia and the Hormuz Strait as the biggest cause of the economic crisis. An atmosphere is being created as if India’s economic difficulties have suddenly arisen because of some...
Donald Trump’s Indictment Of Raúl Castro Is Pretext For War On Cuba
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: After kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January and killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the following month, President Donald Trump declared “Cuba is next.” With the unsealing of a criminal indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro on May 20, the administration...
Transmission Delays Hit India’s Green Push; 300 GWh RE Curtailed In Q1
NEW DELHI: India’s rapidly expanding renewable energy capacity is beginning to outpace transmission infrastructure, forcing nearly 300 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean power curtailment in the first quarter of 2026 due to grid bottlenecks and causing an estimated monetary loss of ₹75-90 crore, according to a report by global energy...
Banks Bet On Renewable Energy To Boost Credit Growth
MUMBAI: Lenders are sharpening their focus on corporate credit in emerging industries, with renewable energy emerging as the biggest growth driver. The push comes at a time when transition goals are accelerating demand for clean energy financing. In addition, the rising energy security concerns have risen due to the...
Manufacturing Drags Down India’s Private Sector Activity In May: Flash PMI
NEW DELHI: India’s private sector activity is expected to have slowed marginally in May as growth in new orders, international sales, employment and business activity dipped and input price inflation ticked higher, with manufacturers faring worse than services firms, a private survey said on Thursday. HSBC’s flash India Composite...
SEBI Moots New Price-Discovery Mechanism For IPOs And Relistings
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has proposed changes to the price-discovery mechanism for initial public offerings (IPOs) and relisted stocks during the pre-open call auction session. Under the proposed revised framework for determining the base price of relisted shares, Sebi has suggested using the latest...
Unincorporated Establishments Surge To Over 9 Crore, Jobs Hit 15 Crore Mark: Govt Survey
NEW DELHI: The number of unincorporated establishments in the non-agriculture sector has surged to over 9 crore, and employment under these firms crossed the 15-crore mark in the January-March quarter, according to a government survey. The National Statistics Office (NSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on...
China-Russia Joint Declaration From Beijing Summit Puts More Pressure On Trump
By Nitya Chakraborty The joint declaration made by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin after their summit in Beijing on May 20 has major ramifications on the global geopolitics in the context of the present unilateral actions of the U.S. President Donald Trump including...
Uttar Pradesh Politics Hots Up, Akhilesh Identifies With Cockroaches
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Uttar Pradesh became the hottest state in India on May 20. 2026 with Banda earning a distinction of the hottest city in the world with 48.2°C. Whether this affected the minds of the political leaders is not known, but their statements were hot, that made...
Narendra Modi Should Come Out Revealing The Real State Of Economic Crisis
By Nilotpal Basu The trouble with the post truth world is that it has an expiry date. The truth can be glossed over for some finite length of time, not perpetually. Truth eventually triumphs. It seems that we have reached that hour of reckoning. Indications were pronounced, coming from...
