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ILO Governing Body To Meet From November 17 To 27 In Geneva
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When the ILO Governing Body meets in Geneva from November 17 to 27, 2025 for its 355th Session, it will confront a world of work that looks increasingly unstable—and increasingly unequal. The global labour market is being reshaped simultaneously by artificial intelligence, geopolitical realignments, climate...
Trump Launches Attacks On Key Democrats Through Probe Into Their Friend’s Companies
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has trained his smoking gun on key democrats (Bill Clinton) leading bank JP Morgan Chase and LinkedIn Cofounder to contain the growing fissures in the MAGA base as new demands emerge to tell all in the Epstein files saga....
PUK To Wait And Watch Until Baghdad Picture Becomes Clear
By Manish Rai The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) has once again established itself as a significant player in the Iraqi political landscape. In the recently concluded Iraqi legislative elections, it became the sole Kurdish party to increase its seats and secure seats in nine provinces of Iraq. PUK...
DPDP Rules Notified: Digital Privacy Law A Reality After 14 Years
NEW DELHI: The government on Friday notified the administrative rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, marking India’s entry into a select group of countries with a federal digital personal data privacy regime. Industry and legal experts welcomed the detailed rules, as India’s digital ecosystem finally has...
Wholesale Inflation Declines To 27-Month Low Of (-) 1.21% In October
NEW DELHI: Wholesale price inflation fell to a 27-month low of (-) 1.21 per cent in October, led by a sharp deflation in food items like pulses and vegetables, and lower prices of fuel and manufactured items, government data showed on Friday. Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation was 0.13...
Reserve Bank Of India Announces Relief For Exporters Amid Trade Worries
MUMBAI: Amid trade tensions with the US that has imposed 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced a host of relief measures for exporters. The measures included easing of the burden of debt repayments on some impacted sectors, and relaxation...
Food Ministry Recommends Lifting Over 3 Years Ban On Wheat Products Export
NEW DELHI: With ample wheat stocks and strong crop prospects for the next season, the food ministry has recommended lifting the export ban on wheat-based products that was imposed in May 2022. In a communication to the commerce ministry, the food ministry has proposed allowing the export of around...
India & Canada To Deepen Minerals, Clean Energy Ties
NEW DELHI: India and Canada have agreed to encourage long-term supply chain partnerships in critical minerals and clean energy collaboration essential for the energy transition and new-age industrial expansion. Besides, both countries have agreed to identify and expand investment and trading opportunities in aerospace and dual-use capabilities partnerships, leveraging...
INDIA Bloc Must Take Proper Lessons From Big Jolt In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Nitya Chakraborty The NDA led by the BJP has swept the assembly polls in Bihar stunning the RJD and the other constituents of the INDIA Bloc by the extent of the win of the NDA constituents in the 243 member state assembly. The initial results till this afternoon...
Bringing LJP(RV) Into NDA Fold Enabled It To Sweep Bihar Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak NDA has swept the Bihar Vidhan Sabha Election 2025, and INDIA block, which is known as Mahagathbandhan (MGB) in the state has cut a sorry figure. Right from the beginning of the counting of votes, NDA allies took lead over the MGB allies and maintained...
AAP Retains Tarn Taran Assembly Seat By A Good Margin In Bypoll
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party has succeeded in retaining its Tarn Taran assembly seat by defeating the Shiromani Akali Dal by a margin of 12091 votes. AAP candidate Harmeet Singh Sandhu got 42649 votes and SAD candidate got 30558 votes. Third position was captured by the...
Federal Govt Reopens But Health Care Ambiguities Haunt Citizens
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The federal government reopened on Thursday s after a grueling 42-day shutdown, sending nearly 900,000 furloughed workers back to their jobs and averting what economists warned could have been a devastating blow to the holiday economy. But the bipartisan agreement that ended the...
Maharashtra Congress To Ally With Smaller Parties For Local Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Maharashtra Congress has taken a decision to ally with smaller and like-minded parties for the upcoming local body elections, leaving those from the ruling Mahayuti coalition. This is even though the Congress continues to assert that its alliance with its major Maha Vikas Aghadi...
President Donald Trump’s Provocations Are Bolstering Latin America’s Left
By Steve Ellner NEW YORK: When Donald Trump assumed the presidency in January 2025, the Pink Tide governments in Latin America were losing ground. The approval rating of Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reached the lowest of his three presidential terms, while that of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro...
Foreign Powers Including U.S. Are Responsible For Catastrophe In Sudan
By W. T. Whitney, Jr. NEW YORK: Since war erupted in April 2023, fighting between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has caused a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. Some 150,000 people have died and 14 million Sudanese out of a population of 51 million are...
Moody’s Sees Economy Growing At 6.5% In 3 Years Till 2027
MUMBAI: Robust infrastructure spending and resilient household consumption will ensure that the economy sustains an average annual growth of 6.5 percent through 2027, with the economy printing in 7 percent in 2025, Moody’s Ratings has said. Retaining the 2025 growth projection unchanged at 7 percent, the agency said economy...
Bad Loans In Unsecured Retail Credit To Peak In FY26, Says S&P Global
MUMBAI: The bad loan formation in unsecured retail loans – personal and microfinance – in India will peak in the current financial year (FY26), showing the effect of stricter risk management practices, S&P Global Ratings said on Thursday. It also flagged that global uncertainty could affect corporate capex, excluding...
Govt Releases Draft Seed Bill, Stronger Quality Control Norms Proposed
NEW DELHI: The government released a draft Seed Bill on Thursday, with the objectives of ensuring traceability of these farm inputs and regulating their prices. The proposed legislation will replace the decades-old Seeds Act, 1966 and the Seed (Control) Order, 1983. The draft, which has been put up for...
