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Children’s Fundamental Right In Tamil Nadu Is Being Violated
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Children of Tamil Nadu are caught in the political crossfire between PM Narendra Modi led NDA government at the Centre and CM M K Stalin led INDIA bloc government in the state. Centre insists on implementation of the three-language formula under New Education Policy (NEP)...
Donald Trump Now Talking Of Golden Dome To Protect U.S. Citizen’s Security
By Sushil Kutty For a certified peacenik, with no appetite for war, United States President Donald Trump can confound. That’s because Trump’s ‘USA First’ potentially pits the United States against all and sundry other countries. President Trump’s threats and theatrics does not help. Witness the tariff wars he started...
How The State Administrations In India Have Been Harassing The Journalists?
By Krishna Jha It is about a report on 423 criminal cases registered against 427 scribes spread over 28 states and Union Territories of India. It has a database also that analyses information on 423 criminal cases, between 2012-2022. It seeks to bring light on the offences most used...
NITI Aayog’s Paper Bats For Revision Of Defence Laws
NEW DELHI: A NITI Aayog’s working paper has proposed amendment and revision in defence laws to develop a resilient and efficient defence supply chain in the face of evolving geopolitical tensions, cybersecurity threats, and global supply chain disruptions. The Aayog in the working paper said a resilient and efficient...
US Tariffs Unpredictability Has Negative Credit Consequences: Moody’s
NEW DELHI: Moody’s Ratings on Tuesday said the uncertainties around US tariffs have negative credit consequences for debt issuers across emerging markets, including companies, governments and banks. “The on-again, off-again US tariffs and difficulty predicting US trade policy have negative credit consequences for debt issuers across emerging markets,” Moody’s...
India, US Discuss Expediting Conclusion Of First Phase Of Trade Pact
NEW DELHI: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday held discussions with US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington to expedite negotiations on the first phase of the proposed bilateral trade agreement between the two countries. Goyal is in Washington for a ministerial-level meeting to review the progress...
India’s Core Sector Growth Plunges To Eight-Month Low Of 0.5% In April
NEW DELHI: Output growth in India’s eight core infrastructure industries plummeted to an eight-month low of 0.5 per cent in April from an upwardly revised 4.6 per cent growth recorded in March, with three sectors contracting sharply, including refinery products and fertilisers, while electricity and natural gas clocked very...
Government Set To Further Intensify Outreach Programme For UPS
NEW DELHI: The Union government is set to intensify the outreach programme to encourage its employees to switch over to the new Unified Pension Scheme (UPS), which has seen a muted response since its roll-out on April 1. Teams of officials from the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority...
Donald Trump Passing The Buck To Pope Leo XIV For Conducting Ukraine War Peace Talks
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has virtually called off his peacemaking efforts with Ukraine and Russia to break their ongoing conflict after his two-hour talk on Monday with so-called buddy Russian President Vladimir Putin ended in a no entry zone. Now the Vatican has...
Congress Should Spoil BJP’s Game By Patching Up With Its Erudite MP Shashi Tharoor
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ever since the Government of India picked up Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to lead an “all-party” delegation Group-5 under Operation Sindoor, the Congress has been under great humiliation. First, because Congress had not sent Shashi Tharoor’s name to the government; Secondly, the government chose him...
Social Media Influencers Are Giving Sleepless Nights To Union Home Ministry
By Sushil Kutty Social Media spies are giving sleepless nights to not only intelligence agencies but also to private television channels with TRPs to consider. Hit hard by steadily increasing numbers of YouTubers, these television channels have latched on to YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra arrest on charges of espionage to...
BJP’s Tiranga Yatra Fails To Generate Nationalist Passion Among Hindus In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava Ideological fatigue and misperception of the issues that guide and help frame the strategies has been primarily responsible for BJP losing the initiative in Uttar Pradesh which was supposed to be the laboratory for its Hindutva alchemy. BJP’s modern ideologue had made Narendra Modi convinced that...
Shashi Tharoor Kicks Up Another Controversy
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Courting controversies seems to have become second nature to senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha member from Kerala Shashi Tharoor. The latest controversy the four-time Thiruvananthapuram MP has kicked up is over his naming as one of the heads of Government delegations which will visit...
Manipur Kuki-Zos To Take Part Only In ‘Regular Political Dialogue’
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It may well be called the ‘Guwahati Resolution on Manipur not made public’. It all happened in Guwahati on last Friday, May 16 when several Kuki MLAs, senior functionaries of Kuki-Zo outfits and civil society organizations (CSOs) – in all over a dozen persons...
Mayawati Brings Her Nephew Akash Anand Again As BSP’s Number Two
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BSP national President and former chief minister Mayawati once again brought back her nephew Akash Anand as national chief coordinator of the party. Much significance is being attached to high level meeting of party on May 18 when Mayawati created a new post of chief...
Supreme Court Junks Pleas Of Telecom Companies On AGR Dues
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the pleas of telecom majors Vodafone, Airtel and Tata Teleservices seeking the waiver of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. A bench comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan called the pleas “misconceived”. “We are really shocked by these petitions which have...
India, Maldives Sign 13 MoUs To Implement Projects Under Indian Grant Assistance
MALE: India has signed 13 MoUs with the Maldives for enhancing ferry services in the island nation with an MVR 100 million grant, expanding maritime connectivity and uplifting community livelihoods. The MoUs signed on Sunday are for projects to be implemented under the Indian grant assistance scheme—High Impact Community...
India May Benefit From Trade Protectionism: S&P Global India Research
NEW DELHI: Changes in global trade policy would catalyse supply chain diversification to the benefit of India, which is on track to become the world’s third-largest economy by financial year 2030-31 (FY31), S&P Global India Research Chapter’s report said on Monday. While projecting India’s real GDP growth to average...
