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National Minimum Wage Unchanged For Eight Years
NEW DELHI: The non-binding National Floor Level Minimum Wage (NFLMW) has remained unchanged since 2017, a situation that could worsen the income crisis among vast sections of population, mainly daily-wage workers. Proper and timely revision of NFLMW by the Centre, typically conducted once every two years and factoring in...
A House Built On Sand: The Fault Lines In Trump’s 20 Point Gaza Peace Plan
By Girish Linganna The prisoner-hostage exchange between Israel and Hamas has been completed successfully, and many are calling it a major victory for peace. Twenty Israeli hostages returned home in exchange for about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, aid started flowing back into Gaza, and guns fell silent after months of...
BJP’s Love For LJP(RV) Hurts All The Other NDA Allies, May Impact Outcome
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the seat sharing process progressed for the Bihar Legislative Assembly Election, the overconfident BJP leadership fell in love with LJP(RV), one of its allies in the NDA. It has been resented by three of the five NDA allies – the JD(U), RLM, and HAM....
SIR Exercise Initiated By ECI Has Degenerated Into A Tool To Destroy Constitution
By P. Sudhir Shocking as it may sound, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) initiated in Bihar by the Election Commission of India (ECI), when seen contextually, would actually unravel graver implications which have now come out in the open. When the process was initiated on June 25, within a...
India’s Blue Frontier: Can New Delhi Match China’s Deep-Sea Power Play?
By R. Suryamurthy China has already expanded its presence in the Indian Ocean — not just with warships and ports, but also with fishing nets. Its distant-water fleets, armed with state subsidies, GPS-linked trawlers and floating processing units, now sweep across the Indo-Pacific, harvesting tuna, squid and coral reef...
New Bengal BJP President Failing To Constitute His New State Committee Before Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Forming a new state committee of West Bengal unit of BJP has run into trouble as there are few takers for its membership. Several saffron camp leaders, once eager for a berth in the state committee are now dropping broad hints for their preference to...
Sahitya Sabha Of Assam Taking Steps To Bring Different Communities Closer
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In the Northeast, where ethnic differences divide the people especially during elections ,often leading to fierce outbreaks of violence, certain steps taken by the Asom Sahitya Sabha in recent times seeking to bring different communities closer, are indeed praiseworthy. It is also appropriate for the...
Mohd. Azam Khan Looking For An Important Role In 2027 Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is veteran leader Mohd. Azam Khan, who was recently released on bail after being in jail for 23 months, indispensable for Samajwadi Party and its president former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav?. Ever since Mohd. Azam Khan who had been a Muslim face of Samajwadi Party...
Recent Political Upheavals In South Asia Have Constitutional Issues
By Vijay K. Tiwari, Bhanu Pratap Recent political turmoil in Asia has been marked by larger legal uncertainty. Images of violence, protests, and arson have evoked a sense of awe, amazement, and panic. Upheavals in South Asia, first in Bangladesh and then in Nepal must be critically understood from...
Trade Deficit Hits 13-Month High As US Exports Fall 12%, Gold Imports Surge
NEW DELHI: India’s trade deficit widened to a 13-month high in September, driven by a sharp rise in bullion imports, even as merchandise exports grew 6.7 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to $36.38 billion, data released by the commerce department on Wednesday showed. This growth came despite shipments to the...
Power Network Sharing Proposal Needs To Address Legacy PPAs: Former Secretary
NEW DELHI: The ambitious proposal by the power ministry to allow network sharing between distribution licensees operating in the same geographical area will face three key challenges, said a former bureaucrat. According to him, they include sharing of fixed cost of legacy power purchase agreements (PPAs), cross-subsidy burden and...
Room Opened For Rate Cut, Time Not Opportune: RBI Governor
MUMBAI: Despite the benign inflation outlook opening up room for a repo rate cut, the timing is not appropriate to reduce the key rate at present, since it would not produce the expected results, Reserve Bank of India governor Sanjay Malhotra wrote in the minutes of the monetary policy...
Centre Announces New Rules To Ensure Timely Pension, Retirement Dues And PPOs For Government Employees
NEW DELHI: In a major relief to government employees, the Centre has issued new comprehensive guidelines to ensure timely payment of pension and retirement benefits. These rules are aimed at ensuring that no government employee has to wait for months for their pension or Pension Payment Order (PPO) after...
Hyundai Bets Big On India With Rs 45,000-Crore Plan
CHENNAI: South Korean auto major Hyundai Motor Co is making its most ambitious move yet in India, committing an investment of Rs 45,000 crore by FY2030 to turn the country into its second-largest market globally, next only to the US. The announcement, which was made at Hyundai Motor India’s...
Gold Feeds On Oil’s Misfortune; One Hits The Roof, The Other Down In The Dumps
By K Raveendran Oil prices fell to their lowest level in five months on Tuesday, continuing a slide that has gathered pace over the past several weeks. The benchmark Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude futures have both dipped significantly, erasing much of the year’s earlier gains. In stark...
We Choose The Future, Our Time Now, Says New York Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani
By Satyaki Chakraborty Zohran Mamdani, the leftwing Democratic Party candidate for New York City mayor position, the election for which is scheduled for November 4 is creating waves in NYC by holding huge meetings in many areas of the financial capital of USA covering youth, students, the workers as...
Hollywood’s Fictional Presidents Mirror And Challenge Reality In US Politics
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Martin Sheen, who spent years portraying an idealized American president on “The West Wing,” recently castigated Donald Trump as the “biggest nothing in the world,” he articulated a tension that has animated American popular culture for decades: the gap between the leaders...
Decoding The Conviction Of German Fascists At Nuremberg Trial After 80 Years
By Krishna Jha The bell tolls for all those who while treating the living world step beyond. To cross the limits means getting over to barbarity. But consequences come in same measures. No one is spared. Nuremberg Trials are the live examples of the same. October 18 this year...
