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Bank Credit To Improve To 11.5-12.5 Per Cent In FY26, Says CareEdge Ratings
MUMBAI: Indian banks are expected to deliver a stronger performance in FY26 with improved asset quality and credit growth showing signs of revival, according to CareEdge Ratings. The rating agency has projected overall bank credit growth of 11.5–12.5 per cent in FY26, lifted by a rebound in consumption following...
RBI, SEBI Weigh Relaxing Exchange-Traded Forex Derivative Norms To Stem Offshore Shift
MUMBAI: Indian regulators are in discussions to reassess stringent regulations governing exchange-traded currency derivatives, following appeals from exchanges and traders, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said, in a potential effort to revive a market increasingly shifting offshore. The Reserve Bank of India in 2024 reiterated a...
How President Xi Jinping Has Emerged Taller In Global Diplomacy In 2025 During Trump.2 Tenure
By Nitya Chakraborty 2025 has been a golden year for the Chinese President Xi Jinping in global diplomacy. In the last ten months since taking over the U.S. presidency by Donald Trump on January 20 this year for the second non-consecutive term, Chinese supremo Xi Jinping is on the...
Centre’s Decision To Set Up System For Rare Earth Magnets Is A Game Changer
By R. Suryamurthy India’s decision to establish a domestic rare-earth magnet industry may seem like a technical footnote in a week crowded with political and economic headlines. In reality, it marks one of the country’s most important strategic turns in years. The Union Cabinet’s approval of a ₹7,280-crore scheme...
Farmers Must Not Be Blamed As Easy Target For Air Pollution
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Stubble burning by farmers of Punjab and Haryana has been chiefly blamed for years for deterioration of air quality in the Nation Capital Territory Delhi by the Government of Delhi while keeping a blind eye on other major factors and veiling its own failure. The...
Centre’s Four Notified Labour Codes Dilute The Protection Of Labour
By Nilotpal Basu Four Labour Codes have been notified by the Government of India immediately after NDA’s major electoral victory in the Bihar Assembly elections, and the accompanying euphoria. The Codes on wages, industrial relations, occupational safety and social security override in the name of ‘simplification of 29 Labour...
Japanese Investment In India May Go Up Further Under New PM Sanao Takaichi
By Subrata Majumder Japan’s new Prime Minister and the first female Prime Minister Sanao Takaichi is unlikely to be moved by the historic gender inequality. She is not a staunch supporter for gender equality because of her social conservation and opposition to key reforms. She has long opposed legislation...
Superstar Dharmendra’s Demise Marks The End Of Bollywood’s Golden Age
By T N Ashok When Dharmendra breathed his last on November 24, 2025, at the age of 89, something intangible yet profound died with him. It wasn’t just the loss of one man, however legendary. It was the final, irreversible closing of a chapter in Hindi cinema that can...
Babri Mosque Demolition On December 6, 1992 Was The Continuation Of Communal Politics In India
By Krishna Jha The sinister episodes of how a masjid was turned into a temple is still fresh in the memory of people. The forced placing of the idols of Ram under the high dome of the main hall prohibited any Namaz, a practice that was continuing since ages....
Farmers In Punjab Are Furious Over Centre’s Notification Of Four Labour Codes
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: To oppose the implementation of New Labour Codes, made effective since 21st November, A Nationwide Massive protest was organised jointly on 26th November, 2026 by the Trade Unions and Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a major union of farmers, in more than 500 districts, as...
Hitlerism Is Back In Force In The Western Democracies As Centrists Are Collapsing
By Andrew Murray LONDON: Hitler, it seems, is back centre stage amid the rapidly progressing collapse of bourgeois centrist politics in Europe and USA. Those who follow US politics will have noticed that the country’s numerous and powerful right-wing is riven on the Nazi question. The feud began when...
Cabinet Greenlights ₹7,280 Crore Scheme For Rare Earth Magnet Manufacturing
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet, in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday approved a ₹7,280 crore scheme to promote manufacturing sintered rare-earth permanent magnets (REPM), marking India’s first attempt to build an integrated domestic supply chain for the critical material. The “Scheme to Promote Manufacturing...
India’s Green Economy May Attract $4.1 Trillion Investments, Create 48 Million Jobs: Study
NEW DELHI: India could attract USD 4.1 trillion in cumulative green investments and create 48 million full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs by 2047, according to an independent study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). The analysis further projects that India could also unlock a USD 1.1 trillion...
IMF Reclassifies India’s Forex Regime As ‘Floating’ After Year Of Stability Tag
NEW DELHI: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reassigned the ‘floating’ label for the Rupee’s exchange rate arrangement, citing declining forex interventions by the central bank in recent times. In 2023, the Fund had dropped the floating tag and termed India’s de facto exchange rate policy a ‘stabilised arrangement’,...
Informal Sector GVA Estimates To Get A Leg Up In New GDP Series
NEW DELHI: The new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) series with 2022-23 as the base year will be marked for a new element of dynamism in estimating the household sector. It will have the gross value added (GVA) estimates of the large unincorporated sector compiled using industry-wise productivity information, the...
SEBI Steps In To Fortify Bond Markets
BENGALURU/MUMBAI: At a time, when retail participation in the bond market has been rising at a fast clip, the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) latest release, cautioning against unregistered online bond platform providers (OBPPs) is expected to serve as a wake-up call and put pressure on unregulated...
India, US Energy Alignment Shapes A Quieter Trade Push
By K Raveendran A quieter phase has set in around discussions on a potential trade agreement between India and the United States, yet the subdued optics conceal a period of more intense negotiation. Officials on both sides describe a process that has deliberately stepped away from public signalling, opting...
Union Govt’s Exercise For Base Revision Of GDP, CPI, And IIP Series Underway
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Exercise for base revision of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Consumer Price Indes (CPI), and Index of Industrial Production (IIP) series is underway which will change the base year 2011-12 to 2022-23. National Accounts Division of the Union Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) of...
