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India’s Digital Leap In The Informal Economy Masks A Deeper Structural Drift
By R. Suryamurthy The latest quarterly numbers for India’s unincorporated non-agricultural sector look, at first glance, like a modest win for an economy navigating global shocks: digital adoption is rising sharply, establishments have inched up, and employment remains steady. Nearly 39% of enterprises now use the internet in some...
Youth Unemployment Drops In China, This Time It Might Stick
By Dr Imran Khalid In the autumn of 2025, China is quietly showing signs that it is turning a corner on one of its most daunting economic challenges: youth unemployment. The National Bureau of Statistics reported that the urban jobless rate for 16 to 24 year-olds (excluding students) fell...
Why India’s Seventh Entry Into The UNHRC Is A Troubling Tale For People?
By Edgar Kaiser On October 14 this year, India was elected to the UN Human Rights Council for the seventh time from the Asia group, along with Pakistan, Vietnam, and Iraq. While this may read as a diplomatic triumph for the state and a national prestige for the citizens...
British Labour Party Must Back Current Talks Based On Ukraine Peace Plan
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Everyone must hope that the present talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine succeed. It is a conflict that has cost perhaps half a million lives with many more injured, driven millions more into exile and wreaked havoc with the economy and infrastructure...
India On Track To Surpass $4 Trillion GDP In FY26: CEA
NEW DELHI: India is on track to exceed the $4 trillion milestone in 2025-26 (FY26), surpassing the $3.9 trillion gross domestic product (GDP) mark recorded at the end of March 2025, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran said on Tuesday. Delivering a keynote address at the IVCA GreenReturns...
Seasonality Rises In Demand Deposits, Banks’ Cash In Hand, Says RBI Report
MUMBAI: While seasonality in India’s macroeconomic indicators remained broadly stable, several key variables — like banking aggregates, vegetable prices, industrial output and payment systems — are showing more seasonal fluctuations, according to a Reserve Bank of India study. In a report titled Seasonality in Key Economic Indicators of India,...
GDP In Second Quarter To Grow At 7-7.5 Per Cent
NEW DELHI: The economy continues to be on a strong footing as analysts expect the second quarter GDP to grow at 7-7.5% boosted by high rural consumption as a result of low inflation and GST rate rationalization. Though the second quarter GDP growth is estimated to be lower than...
FY27 Budget Should Streamline Withholding Tax Regime: Deloitte
NEW DELHI: The Budget for 2026-27 should streamline the withholding tax regime and introduce tax incentives to drive investment and innovation in emerging and high-potential sectors like R&D, renewable energy, Deloitte India said on Tuesday. Deloitte India, in its FY 2026-27 Budget wishlist, also recommended that the government should...
Employment In Unincorporated Sector Rises To 12.85 Crore In Q2
NEW DELHI: Employment in the Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (USE) rose marginally to 12,85,95,600 in July-September from 12,85,72,500 in the preceding quarter, a government survey, released on Tuesday, showed. The National Statistics Office (NSO) released Quarterly Estimates of the Unincorporated Non-Agricultural Sector for the July-September 2025, an official statement said....
India’s Strategic Shift Toward Diversified Trade And Green Commitments
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik With the long-awaited trade deal with the US delayed, India is deepening engagement with other developed partners such as the European Union (EU) and New Zealand to secure free trade agreements (FTAs). This shift reflects New Delhi’s intent to diversify its trade relationships and reduce...
Future Of Millions Of Children In Poverty Is At High Risk
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Regrettably, efforts to reduce poverty are slowing. If we are to reverse this slowdown and accelerate progress, we need to maintain and extend the approaches that have been shown to work in recent decades,” says the State of the World Children 2025, a flagship report...
New Labour Codes: A Most Unfair Labour Practice
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The trade unions with the exception of the Bharatiya Mazdoor Sabha (BMS) have condemned the notification of the four new labour codes as the most unfair labour practice. Expectedly, Opposition parties and many trade unions have demanded that they be revoked as the codes were...
India Can Take A Leaf From China’s Book To Tackle Winter Pollution
By Tirthankar Mitra Come winter, the discourse over air pollution gets shriller in India. It is this time of the year when burning agricultural stubble and bursting firecrackers make the air more noxious. India can take a leaf out of China’s book to find s way out of the...
The New Kill Zone: Gaza’s Borders After The ‘Ceasefire’ Set By Israel
By Ramzy Baroud LONDON: The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction. Starting on October 10, the first day of the announced ceasefire, Israel transitioned tactics: moving from indiscriminate aerial bombardment to...
The Quiet American Plot To End Progressive Government In Honduras
By John Perry LONDON: Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean grabs the headlines, while quieter moves to destabilise other progressive Latin American governments go unnoticed by corporate media. A key case is a plot that would create chaos enabling a neoliberal candidate to be declared victor, with Washington’s connivance,...
India and Canada To Reboot Trade Deal Negotiations After Two Years
NEW DELHI: After a gap of more than two years amid a tumultuous bilateral relationship, India and Canada have finalised a broad framework and agreed to restart negotiations for a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney, met late on Sunday...
Rate-Cut Room Intact, Signals RBI Governor Malhotra; Bond Yields Decline
MUMBAI: The yield on the 10-year benchmark government bond fell on Monday, after Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra said the scope for further rate cuts — as indicated during the October monetary policy meeting — had not diminished, as suggested by the latest data. He added,...
India, EU To Firm Up FTA, Defence Agreement At January 27 Summit
NEW DELHI: With the world order looking wobbly, the European Union is eyeing to forge a broad global agenda in partnership with India and the two sides are set to firm up a free trade pact, a defence framework agreement and a strategic agenda at their annual summit on...
