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North Korea’s Hwasong-20 Missile Poses A Big Threat To US Defence Power
By Girish Linganna In the heart of Pyongyang, under the bright lights of Kim Il Sung Square, North Korea unveiled what it calls “the world’s most powerful nuclear weapon” — the Hwasong-20 intercontinental ballistic missile. The timing was no accident. As U.S. warplanes and aircraft carriers patrolled nearby waters,...
Court Framing Charges Against Tejashvi Yadav Jolts RJD On Eve Of Bihar Polls
By Arun Srivastava The framing of corruption charges by the Delhi High Court against the three members of Lalu Yadav Family, Lalu, Rabri Devi and their son Tejashvi on the eve of the crucial assembly elections in Bihar, has stunned even the detractors of their party RJD as Tejashvi...
Outcome Of 52 Marginal Seats In Earlier Bihar Polls Can Be Decisive In 2025
By Tirthankar Mitra Given a closely contested poll battle in the two phase election in Bihar next month, results of 52 constituencies can make or break the prospects of INDIA and NDA alliances. The Bihar polls are likely to be a closely run electoral race as Opposition did well...
Even Common Infections Are Becoming Harder, Sometimes Impossible To Treat
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics endangering millions of lives and straining heath systems. Even common infections are becoming harder, sometimes impossible to treat. India has much to worry, because very large number of resistant infections have been reported from...
Kerala CM Rejects Allegation Of ED Summons To His Son
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Yet another attempt by a frustrated opposition to discredit Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his Government has failed dismally. The latest exercise undertaken by the Congress and the BJP relates to a so-called summons by the Enforcement Directorate(ED) to the Chief Minister’s son, Vivek...
India Must Cut Down Coal Consumption
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little to be excited about the recent inauguration of predominantly mountainous Arunachal Pradesh’s first commercial coal mine at Namchik-Namphuk in the Changlang district jointly by Union Coal & Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy and Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu, marking the state’s first coal...
PM Narendra Modi Must Take Up Students Visa Issue With President Trump Urgently
By Kalyani Shankar The U.S. visa crisis has particularly impacted international students, including those from India. There are growing concerns about the future of their education in the US. Approximately 1.1 million international students are studying in the US. The recent crackdown on international students, has intensified, with its...
Afghan Foreign Minister Muttaqi’s Current Visit To India Is Positive For The Region
By Asad Mirza The Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Amir Khan Muttaqi is on a 7-days visit to India. The visit assumes importance as it is the first such high level visit by any Afghan official to India since the Taliban-led government of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was proclaimed...
Passing Away Of IPA Columnist Sushil Kutty Is A Big Loss To Independent Media
By K Raveendran Sushil Kutty, who passed away on Sunday night, lived and wrote like a man apart — a loner in every sense, and yet deeply connected to the world through the force of his words. A regular columnist for the India Press Agency for the last ten...
2025 Nobel Prize Winner Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is An Uncompromising Writer
By Tirthankar Mitra Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian author whose fiction walked the tightrope between despair and grace has been awarded the 2025 Nobel prize for literature. He is the second Hungarian to win this prize. Born in 1954 in Gyda, he came of age in the long dusk of...
With Israel’s Partial Pull Out Of Troops, The Long March Of Palestinians To Gaza Is On
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: The people of Gaza have begun their long march home from the concentration camps in the southern part of the besieged strip, as a ceasefire agreement finally appears to be taking hold and Israeli troops have partially pulled back from cities in the north....
New Interest Subvention Scheme Soon For MSME Exporters
NEW DELHI: The government will soon unveil a revamped interest subvention scheme for exporters, under which it may extend a 3% interest subsidy to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), instead of all exporters, sources told FE. This will be a key element of the support package for exporters...
India, EU Wrap Up 14th Round Of Talks
As officials from India and European Union (EU) wrapped up their 14th round of negotiations on the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) on Friday, plans are afoot for the visit of Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal to Brussels later this month before the next round of talks begin....
Telecom Companies Seek Uniform Rules For Satcom, OTT Platforms
NEW DELHI: Telecom operators are pressing the department of telecommunications (DoT) to ensure a level regulatory playing field for satellite communication (satcom) and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, saying existing rules need to evolve in line with the digital economy.“Satcom is complementary, not competing. It can help extend coverage in rural...
Narrowing Margins To Shrink Banks’ Q2 Profits
MUMBAI: Banks are expected to report weaker earnings for the second quarter of FY26 in coming weeks as falling lending rates outpaced the decline in funding costs, compressing margins and profit growth. Analysts said the full impact of earlier RBI repo rate cuts was felt during the quarter, causing...
General Govt Capex-To-GDP Likely To Stay Around 5% In FY26, Lower Than Fy25p And FY24 Peak: Report
NEW DELHI: The general government capital expenditure (capex) as a share of GDP in FY26 is likely to remain around 5 per cent, which is lower than 5.1 per cent in FY25P and much below the FY24 peak of 5.4 per cent, according to a report by Emkay Research....
Trump-Modi Meet At ASEAN Summit In Malaysia Can Remove Irritants In Indo-US Ties
By Nitya Chakraborty There is a big possibility of renewal of India-US bilateral ties impacting the ongoing trade talks following the proposed one on one meeting between the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the U.S. President Donald Trump during their presence in Kuala Lumpur to attend the summit...
Basking In Borrowed Glory: Funny And Hilarious Show Of Bravado
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s admission that he is basking in borrowed glory is as disarmingly honest as it is characteristically Trumpian. When he says that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, the newly minted Nobel Peace Prize laureate, called to tell him that she was accepting the...
