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Winning Perception Battle Against Bangladesh Is The Main Task Of Narendra Modi At G-20 Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending G20 summit at Johannesburg on November 22 and 23 amidst the diplomatic crisis for India over the Bangladesh demand for deportation of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from her shelter in India. On November 17, the International Crimes...
Supreme Court’s Advisory Opinion Will Have Far Reaching Implications
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the advisory opinion given by the five-judges Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India led by the Chief Justice B R Gavai under Articles 143 of the Constitution of India is not binding, it is likely to have far reaching implications influencing the...
Denial Of Economic Reality By Trump Imperils Republican Party’s 2026 Mid Term Prospects
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Nearly a year into President Trump’s second term, the political math has become unforgiving. His approval rating has collapsed to levels not seen since the chaotic final months of his first presidency. Congressional Republicans face a double-digit deficit heading into next year’s midterm...
Beyond The Mandate: Bihar’s Structural Fatigue Is The Real Opposition
By R. Suryamurthy Bihar has once again handed power to Nitish Kumar, sending him into the record books with a tenth chief ministerial term. It is an extraordinary political achievement — longevity on a scale unimaginable in most Indian states. Yet as Kumar prepares to take oath, the state...
HAL Tie Up With German HENSOLDT Is A Major Breakthrough In Defence Technology
By Aritra Banerjee The third day of the Dubai Airshow 2025 delivered one of the event’s most consequential announcements: a new defence–industrial partnership between Indian and German state-backed companies, centred on co-developing a LiDAR-based Obstacle Avoidance System (OAS) for Indian military helicopters. The contract between Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL)...
NDA Has Successfully Exploited Insecurity Over SIR In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Nilotpal Basu The Bihar assembly election is a watershed in the electoral history of our country. Conducted against the backdrop of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) announced on June 25, it laid out a new set of ground rules for adult franchise. The debates in the Constituent Assembly,...
India’s Expanding Digital Infrastructure Triggering Fresh Water Crisis
By Tirthankar Mitra India’s digital infrastructure is growing at a rapid pace. Even as the country is poised to become one of the world’s biggest data centre hubs, the success story conceals an environmental dilemma. A vast facility hosting the servers is powering everything from banking to streaming. But...
Decoding The Great Friedrich Engels On His 205th Birth Anniversary
By Krishna Jha Friedrich Engels was the one without whom Marxism could not have been complete. Born on November 28, 1820in Barmen, in the Rhine province of the Kingdom of Prussia, Engels was inseparable from Marx. His father was a manufacturer. He was forced to leave his studies and...
The World Faces A Deepening Hunger Crisis, Says United Nations Report
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: The world is facing a deepening hunger crisis, the United Nations food agency warned on Tuesday. The World Food Programme (WFP) said funding cuts mean that more than 300 million people will face acute food insecurity next year. In its 2026 Global Outlook report, the...
CAG To Conduct Pan India Audit On Ease Of Doing Business For MSMEs
NEW DELHI: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has launched an integrated audit across 32 states and Union Territories to assess the ease of doing business for the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector. The move shifts the approach from vertical, deep-dive audits to a horizontal,...
Investment Rate Of 32 Per Cent Needed To Achieve Over 7% Growth: EAC-PM Chief
NEW DELHI: India needs to increase the investment rate to 34-35 per cent from 31-32 per cent currently to achieve a growth rate of 7 per cent and above, said Mahendra Dev, chairman, economic advisory council (EAC) to the Prime Minister, on Wednesday. He added that for this to...
Banks Seek More Leeway In Acquisition Financing
MUMBAI: Banks have flagged off several restrictions in the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) acquisition financing guidelines, as they believe that these will limit their participation in the merger and acquisition (M&A) space. These include capital caps, equity restructuring as well as inability to fund smaller deals, among others....
Government Hardens Stance, No Relief For ACC-PLI Defaulters
NEW DELHI: The ministry of heavy industries (MHI) has issued fresh notices to all three beneficiaries of the Advanced Chemistry Cell (ACC) production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme who failed to meet mandated timelines for setting up their manufacturing plants. The government has directed Ola Electric, Reliance New Energy and Rajesh...
MoSPI To Revise CPI Base Year Every 3-5 Years: Secretary
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) may conduct the revision of the base year for the Consumer Price Index (CPI) series more frequently after the release of the new series in February, MoSPI Secretary Saurabh Garg said on Wednesday. The secretary underlined that the idea...
COP30 So Far Have Some Achievements, But Finance Remains A Sticking Point
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By the Day 9 November 18, the COP30at Belem (Amazonia) under the Brazilian Presidency recorded several achievements, but the two key issues still remain sticking points – financing the climate action, and clear roadmap for phasing out of fossil fuels. We have now three days...
Epstein Files Controversy Has Been Seriously Impacting Trump’s MAGA Base
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: President Donald Trump is confronting the most serious political setback of his second presidency, a reversal that unfolded with unusual speed and left him newly exposed on an issue that has hovered over Washington for years: the unreleased files relating to the late...
Massive Guard Failure Exposes Fragility Of Cyber Defence
By K Raveendran The disruption inflicted by the cyber-security firm and the web-infrastructure provider offers a sobering reminder that even the protectors are vulnerable. On 19 July 2024 CrowdStrike caused an update-related blackout that cost more than US$5.4 billion in aggregated losses. Transport firms, banks and hospitals were immobilised...
Tech Guru Sunder Pichai’s Caution On Ai Investments Must Be Taken Seriously
By Anjan Roy Famed Indian origin tech guru, Sunder Pichai, the supremo of Google has spoken some home truths about the much-hyped potentials of AI (artificial intelligence). He has observed that any collapse of the astronomically high valuation of small Ai start ups could result in a generalised crash...
