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Chirag Paswan Drives A Hard Bargain With Bjp Riding Dalit Support
By Tirthankara Mitra Chirag Paswan has punched above his weight securing 29 seats for his Lok Jan Shakti Party (Ram Vilas) out of the total of 243 seats in the coming Bihar assembly polls.. He made BJP accommodate him capitalising on the saffron camp’s weak footing among...
Game Changer: Tejas MK1A Roars To Life, Production Hits Full Throttle
By Girish Linganna On October 17, something special happened at HAL’s facility in Nashik. The Tejas Mk1A fighter jet took to the skies for the first time, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was there to witness this proud moment for India’s aviation industry. It wasn’t just about...
About 8,000 Nepali Youths Fighting In Ukraine As Part Of Russian Army
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In Nepal, educated youths are still joining foreign armies, despite serious efforts made by the Government to stop them. There has been a rekindling of concern in the matter in a somewhat tangential manner, even as Kathmandu-based officials have urged upon Israeli authorities to locate Bipin...
Anand Teltumbde’s Memoir Shows Why Prison Is A Mirror Image Of Society
By Abdul Wahid Shaikh Anand Teltumbde’s ‘The Cell and The Soul’ is not just a prison memoir., it is a mirror to the Indian state, society and criminal justice system. It refrains from fitting into the neat category of carceral literature, refusing to limit itself into description of everyday...
Narendra Modi’s Mounting Dilemma Over President Putin’s Visit To India In December
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomatic woes are mounting as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed visit to India on December 5 and 6 is approaching. US President Donald Trump is determined to ensure substantial reduction in Indian imports of Russian oil by November and this has been...
Unemployment Rate In India Worsened Again In September 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in India worsened again in September 2025. Sharpest rise registered in youth unemployment which stood at 15 per cent in Current Weekly Status (CWS) for the age group 15-29 years, while it was 5.2 per cent for the age group 15 years and...
Narendra Modi’s Advice To Farmers To Grow More Export Oriented Cash Crops Is Ominous
By Prabhat Patnaik On October 11 in New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian farmers to grow more “export oriented crops”. This amounted to saying that Indian farmers should move away from growing foodgrains, and the country should import foodgrains instead. This is precisely the advice that institutions...
How The US-China Trade War Has Shifted From Chips In The First Stage To Rare Earths Now
By Prabir Purkayastha The decoupling of the world’s major economies is now gathering pace. The US, which had appeared to have reached a tariff truce with China earlier, recently ramped up its export controls targeting China’s semiconductor industry with its September 29, 2025, notification, “Expansion of End-User Controls To...
The Electricity Bill 2025 Exposes India’s Tension Between Markets And Mandates
By R. Suryamurthy Electricity reforms in India have always been as political as they are technical. The latest Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, unveiled by the Ministry of Power, is no exception. Framed as a “modernisation milestone,” the bill seeks to revive India’s financially crippled power sector through cost-reflective...
Bihar Polls: JD(U), BJP Seat-Sharing Equally, CM Nitish To Lead Again
By Rahil Nora Chopra Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar kicked off his election campaign for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from Darbhanga and Samastipur, reminding people of the conditions that existed in the state before he came to power in 2005. Meanwhile, Union home minister Amit Shah, who was...
Bihar Poll Campaign Now Marked By Poetic Battles Between Rivals
By Tirthankar Mitra With the Bihar Assembly elections campaign gathering momentum, the heat and dust of the canvassing for votes and candidate nomination has thrown up an unexpected element -poetry. And heartbreak is finding expression in verses cutting across the political divide. And it has little in common with...
Chinese Battle With Australian Companies Over Iron Ore Import Prices Continues
By Kunal Bose For many years till around 2010, Japan, which then led the global steel industry in terms of production and more importantly technology (which unarguably is still the case) was setting the benchmark price of iron ore for the year following negotiations with miners. It would go...
Hurling Of Shoe At CJI Gavai By An Advocate Is A Result Of Right Wing Politics
By Ram Puniyani Advocate Rakesh Kishore hurled his shoe on Chief Justice of India, B R Gavai early this month. The background was that while giving his verdict on a PIL filed by the advocate asking for restoration of Lord Vishnu idol’s head, in one of the temples in...
Why The Government Schools In Haryana Are At The Brink Of Closure?
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: While defining education, Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Nation, states that education is more comprehensive than that of the literal meaning. He says, “By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in child and man-body mind and spirit. Literacy is not...
India Says Diversifying Oil Sources To Protect National Interests
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday asserted that its energy import decisions are driven solely by national interest and the need to secure affordable supplies, hours after US President Donald Trump claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured him of halting Russian crude oil purchases. Responding to Trump’s remarks,...
India, Brazil Look To Broaden PTA, Eye $20 Billion Bilateral Trade By 2030
NEW DELHI: India and Brazil are looking to broaden the preferential trade agreement (PTA) and are eyeing a bilateral trade target of $20 billion by 2030, up from $12 billion in 2024. India and Brazil have a limited trade agreement, as a part of a part of the PTA...
Centre Plans New Credit Cover For MSME Exporters
NEW DELHI: To aid exporters impacted due to the steep US tariffs and diversify to other markets, the Centre may soon launch a credit guarantee scheme for MSME exporters for loans up to Rs 100 crore. This new scheme exporters could be on the lines of the common Mutual...
RBI May Retain Existing Cap For Deposit Insurance Premiums
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may retain the current 12 paise/Rs 100 cap on deposit insurance premiums, even after it moves towards the new risk-based premium model (RBP) proposed in the October policy, said banking industry sources. However, for well-managed banks, the insurance premium is expected to...
