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Big Setback For President Trump As Moody’s Downgrades U.S. Economy
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: It’s the turn of the United States government to face a sovereign rating being downgraded by the Moody’s from its top AAA rating – Moody’s keeps downgrading the ratings of many developing countries including India. Moody’s Ratings cut the United States’ sovereign credit...
INDIA Bloc Constituents Have To Be Pro-Active To Meet BJP Challenge Amidst India-Pak Tensions
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP has said that neither INDIA bloc, nor Congress has any future. Such a wishful statement of BJP has come out after senior Congress leader P Chidambaram’s opinion that he did not see INDIA bloc is intact, and was uncertain whether it would remain intact....
Arresting Gujarat Samachar Owner For Non Official View In His Daily, Is Ominous
By Sushil Kutty If you can’t shut ‘em up, then shut them up! That’s the current day maxim in Modi-India. ‘Shut ‘em up’ is stifling the voice, spoken and written. ‘Shut them up’ is locking up the offending party behind bars, turning him from free bird to jailbird! The...
Rahul Gandhi Has Got Tremendous Response From Dalits In His Bihar Visit
By Arun Srivastava Amit Shah’s direction to Nitish Kumar not to allow Rahul Gandhi to interact with the Dalit and OBC students at SC hostel in Darbhanga during the Congress leader’s visit to Bihar on Thursday, has proved to be counterproductive. Not only the dalit and OBC students, even...
Former BJP Lok Sabha Member John Barla’s Switch To TMC Is A Big Jolt For Saffrons In North Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: North Bengal has not been a happy hunting ground for All India Trinamool Congress even when it replaced CPI(M)-led Left Front government in 2011 and several years thereafter. The northern part of the state continued to be under BJP hegemony but the TMC inroads post...
Baloch Rebels Expose Pakistan Army Vulnerability
By Manish Rai Fierce attacks by Baloch rebels have shaken the Pakistani Army, while it was predominantly occupied on the Indian front. Balochistan’s provincial capital, Quetta, saw six attacks on Pakistani forces in just one day. Pakistan mobilised its Army units from Balochistan and redeployed on the Eastern border...
RBI FY25 Payout To Government May Jump 50 Per Cent
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) central board of directors is likely to meet on May 23 for an annual review of the central bank’s balance sheet and transfer of FY25 surplus funds to the government. The payout could be as high as Rs 3 lakh crore, exceeding...
UN Cuts India’s 2025 Growth Forecast To 6.3% Amid Global Tensions
NEW DELHI: The United Nations on Friday lowered its growth projections for India by 30 basis points for the year 2025 to 6.3 per cent, in line with slower growth projected for the global economy due to heightened trade tensions and policy uncertainty. It also reduced its projection for...
India-US Trade Agreement Talks To Resume May 17 With Ministerial Oversight
NEW DELHI: India and the United States are set to deepen their economic engagement through a series of high-level deliberations on a proposed Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA), beginning May 17 in Washington D.C. The meetings will involve top trade and commerce officials from both countries, according to a PTI...
India Reviews US Push To Lift Ethanol Curbs Amid Trade Deal Talks
NEW DELHI: India is reviewing the United States’ (US’) request to lift restrictions on ethanol imports as it negotiates a wider trade deal with Washington to avoid punitive tariffs, news agency Bloomberg reported on Friday. The development was confirmed by senior industry officials, who added that the US was...
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Takes Root
BENGALURU: A new business model — entrepreneurship through acquisition — is beginning to gain traction in the Indian startup landscape. Known as search funds, they are popular in countries such as the US, Spain, Brazil and Japan, but are now drawing the attention of Indian professionals. Instead of building...
From Fire To Fizzle – President Trump Has To Take A U-Turn In His Global Tariff War
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Renowned Nobel laureate economist Robert Solow was once asked if having a trade deficit is bad for any economy. He answered by saying he would always have a trade deficit with his barber and would always run a trade surplus with his students. Such is...
Along With The Fight Against Cross-Border Terror, Govt Must Ensure Communal Harmony
By D. Raja The developments following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam (Jammu & Kashmir), which claimed the lives of 26 civilians including tourists, have brought to fore a number of pressing concerns: national security, civil liberties, democratic accountability, regional peace and imperialist overreach. In the aftermath of the...
New CJI B R Gavai’s Comments On Waqf Act, 2025 Have Alarmed Hindutva Petitioners
By Sushil Kutty The Supreme Court of India has deferred pleas against Waqf (Amendment) Act till May 20. Chief Justice of India BR Gavai did not waste time arguing. He said the top court will not permit anybody to challenge the 1995 Waqf Act, “Lets argue the petitions challenging...
Centre Has To Take Proper Lessons From Latest Data On Covid 19 Deaths
By Dr Arun Mitra The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in India during the peak of COVID as reported by the Government of India were 3.3 lakh. As per the worldometers website (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/) the number of death due to COVID till 12 May 2025 is 533570. According to...
Revamped PLFS Too Does Not Show The Real Picture Of Joblessness In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak After years of criticism, PM Narendra Modi led Government has finally released its first ever monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) on May 15, 2025 for the month of April 2025, as per the revamped PLFS. Though it saved the government from the allegation of...
Rahul Tells Bihar Students To Demand Caste Census-Driven Rights
By Rahil Nora Chopra Ahead of Assembly polls in Bihar, the battle for votes of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBC), Extremely Backward Classes (EBCs) and the minority communities, especially Muslims, has increased manifold, with Congress having stepped up outreach to Dalit and backward class students. Meanwhile,...
Jai Bhim Nagar Demolitions Contravenes The Fundamental Rights Under Indian Constitution
By Shivam Tyagi, Chanchal Agrawal On June 3, 2024, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced the demolition of Jai Bhim Nagar. Subsequently, on June 6, 2024, BMC officials, joined by bulldozers and numerous police personnel, commenced the demolition process, displacing approximately 600 families who had resided in the area...
