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Tamil Nadu Is Witnessing Spectacular Rallies By New Political Film Star Vijay
By Sushil Kutty Kamal Haasan and Vijay Joseph are rivals on the big screen, but they parallel and therefore their films strike different notes with the movie crazy Tamil diaspora at home and abroad. Kamal Haasan is age-wise older and had a head start over Vijay, which also ensured...
Trump’s Latest Salvo Against India On H-1B Visa Fees Can Be Used As An Opportunity
By Anjan Roy The blow on India has now landed. Donald Trump has, in effect, slapped a very steep hike in services exports through movement of professionals from India to the United States. Until now, the fees from H-1B fee application fees used to vary from $1700 to $4500...
Politics And Economics Of ‘GST Saving Festival’ Of PM Narendra Modi
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When one uses a word to mean different than the lexical meaning, then it becomes politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on September 21, 2025 fits into the definition, since he intended to push up expenditure of the people while calling it...
Talibans Have Every Right To Reject Trump’s Demand For Bagram Military Base
By Asad Mirza President Trump has fired a fresh salvo from his wish list, ignoring sovereignty of an independent nation and ignoring all norms of international decorum and diplomacy. He seems to act like a child who must cry, when he wants to take control of any other sovereign...
Bangladesh Allows U.S. Troops In Sensitive Island Of Bay Of Bengal
By Ashis Biswas Not many people believed in the serious warning addressed to her countrymen by former Prime Minister, of Bangladesh, Mrs Hasina (Sheikh) Wazed. Days before her flight to India on August 5 2024, when an armed mob attacked and looted her residence. in Dhaka city, she had...
How The Pro-Rich Bias Of Visa System Will Be Adversely Affecting U.S. Tech Supremacy?
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India’s measured diplomatic response to Trump’s latest H-1B visa sledgehammer—a punitive $100,000 annual fee that effectively prices out most employers—carries the understated fury of a nation whose skilled professionals have been branded economic pariahs. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal’s words about “humanitarian...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Holding Marathon Sessions To Rejig State Party Machinery
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Both the state units of Madhya Pradesh BJP and Congress have initiated major strategy to streamline the organisation setup, The Congress has drawn up three day programme involving all the district Congress committees. The district Committees were given task by Rahul Gandhi. Now the...
Deportation Of A 73 Year Old Ailing PIO Woman Tells Of Absurdity Of Trump’s Immigration Machinery
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the annals of bureaucratic absurdity, few episodes rival the spectacle of the United States government deploying its vast immigration enforcement apparatus to detain a 73-year-old grandmother with arthritic knees. Harjit Kaur, a Sikh seamstress from the San Francisco Bay Area, has become...
US Companies May Find Selling In India Easier Under New Trade Deal
NEW DELHI: Selling of products and services by US companies in India is likely to get easier with the two countries renegotiating a trade deal, with focus on facilitating digital trade. The two countries have agreed not to demand information concerning source code or other proprietary knowledge, and access...
Centre’s Capex May Cross 50 Per Cent Of Annual Target In H1
NEW DELHI: The Centre’s budgetary capital expenditure in the first half of the current financial year is expected to reach 50% of the annual target of Rs 11.21 lakh crore, reflecting a further acceleration of such asset-creating spending upon the momentum gathered in the first quarter. “Budget capex reached...
CBIC, Other Agencies Vigilant On GST Benefit Transfer To The Public
NEW DELHI: The field formations of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) across the country have put their monitoring wings on high alert, with a view to ensuring that businesses pass on the benefits of Goods and Service Tax (GST) cuts to the consumers right away. Besides...
Lens On Small-Ticket Personal Loan Defaults: RBI To Look At Use Of Device Locking Tech
MUMBAI/ NEW DELHI: RBI is considering a proposal to regulate the use of device locking technology in case of continued default for some small-ticket personal loans – but with explicit safeguards. Sources said a final decision on the issue has not been taken, but the needs of consumers and...
Import Duties May Be Imposed On Key Varieties Of Pulses
NEW DELHI: A surge in cheap imports and robust harvest prospects have dampened mandi prices of key varieties of pulses – tur, urad, masoor and chana. Their prices are currently ruling significantly below the year-ago prices, as well as the respective minimum support prices (MSPs). According to sources, with...
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Redefines U.S. Liberal Immigration Policy
By T N Ashok The Trump administration’s latest immigration directive has stunned employers, foreign workers, and higher-education leaders alike: a $100,000 surcharge on each H-1B visa application, announced by executive order on 19 September 2025. What might appear on the surface as a routine adjustment to visa fees is,...
No Surprises In SEBI Clean Chit To Adani Over Issues Flagged By Hindenburg
By K Raveendran The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s clean chit to the Adani Group over allegations raised by the Hindenburg report has hardly surprised anyone who has followed the regulator’s history. For decades, SEBI has functioned less like an independent watchdog and more as an extension of...
Reclassifying Jobs By Skills And Qualification To Remove Discrepancies
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Given the significant discrepancies in job descriptions across nations, the Government of India and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed an agreement on 16 September to fund a feasibility study on an international classification of occupations based on skill and qualification requirements. The initiative,...
Special Intensive Revision: Kerala To Oppose Election Commission’s Agenda
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has decided to strongly oppose the Election Commission’s move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State. As a first step to protest against the EC’s decision, the State Assembly will pass a unanimous resolution against the rolls revision....
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Move Makes Him India’s Biggest Headache So Far
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to avoid confronting United States President Donald Trump, while the former real-estate developer with business interests worldwide including in India, harasses India with stupidly high tariffs and now by horrendously increasing the H-1B visa fee. Instead, PM Modi’s response was as...
