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SC Gives The Green Signal For Global Ayyappa Sangamam
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The BJP-RSS combine suffered a second successive setback when the Supreme Court refused to intervene in the Kerala High Court’s order allowing the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) to conduct a Global Ayyappa Sangamam on the banks of river Pampa which flows adjacent to the famed...
Manipur: Free Movement Through NH 2 A Test For MHA, Governor-Led Regime
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: It is abundantly clear that the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Manipur on September 13, Saturday, has made little difference to the ground realities in the ethnically-divided north-eastern state. Optics may help the principal political outfit, the Bharatiya Janata Party, to live...
Supreme Court Has Muted Posh Act Of 2013 In The Very Place It Came Alive
By Ashna Siddiqui The Supreme Court on September 15 refused to extend the scope of The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (‘POSH Act, 2013’) to political parties. The decision, in my understanding, retreats from certain core tenets of how we must imagine...
India Has Been Converted Into A “Flawed Democracy” Under 11 Years Of Modi Rule
By Krishna Jha On September 15, the world observed International Day of Democracy, 2025, focusing on attainment of freedom, promoting equality and removing the hurdles that deter peoples’ participation in decision making which together constitute the core of democracy. In India, at least during the last one decade or...
Banks, NBFCs Unveil Offers As Festival, GST 2.0 Approaches
MUMBAI: With the Goods and Services Tax (GST) 2.0 set to be rolled out from Monday amid the festival season, financial institutions are also beginning to roll out offers to drive consumption. For example, Kotak Mahindra Bank, L&T Finance and IDFC FIRST Bank have each unveiled campaigns spanning lifestyle,...
EU Launches New Strategic Agenda To Deepen Defence, Trade Ties With India
NEW DELHI: The European Union (EU) on Wednesday unveiled a new strategic agenda to significantly ramp up its engagement with India in a range of key areas such as defence, trade and energy, and to jointly tackle major global challenges. The EU said its closer partnership with India is...
Private Capex Revival In India Expected Only Next Year: S&P Global
MUMBAI: Owing to the current uncertain business climate due to tariffs, the revival in private capital expenditure (capex) in India is expected only in the next financial year, according to S&P Global Ratings. “We are projecting $800-850 billion of private capex in the next five years, but I do...
AI To Boost Trade By Nearly 40% By 2040 If Gaps Are Bridged: WTO Report
NEW DELHI: Artificial intelligence (AI) could boost the value of cross-border trade by nearly 40 per cent by 2040 on the back of productivity gains and lower trade costs, said the 2025 edition of the World Trade Report released by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Wednesday. However, for...
Global Tie-Ups Soon To Push Geo-Thermal Energy: Govt
NEW DELHI: The government is exploring international technology collaborations for the development of geothermal energy projects in the country with several foreign players — including those from the US, Norway, and Iceland — already initiating pilot studies, according to Santosh Sarangi, secretary, ministry of new and renewable energy. The...
Decoding Prime Minister Narendra Modi As A Political Leader On His 75th Birthday
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stepped into his 75th year on Wednesday, September 17.His birthday is being celebrated by the BJP nationally. The significance is much more as PM’s 75th birthday celebrations have coincided with the centenary programmes on the founding of the RSS in 1925.On...
Bail For UAPA Accused: Weighty Issues For Supreme Court To Ponder
By K Raveendran Solicitor General Tushar Mehta’s argument before the Delhi High Court in the case concerning Umar Khalid and others points to the creeping erosion of basic constitutional protections in the criminal justice system. The High Court’s decision to reject bail to these accused in the UAPA larger...
PM Narendra Modi Will Be NDA Mascot For Bihar Polls, Not CM Nitish Kumar
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Bihar is nearing close to the publication of final Electoral Roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) on September 30, 2025, the politics in the state is being sensationalized by the BJP on the issue of women’s pride and Muslim infiltration issues, while the...
British Royal Pageantry Is On Full Display To Woo Visiting US President Donald Trump In UK
By Anjan Roy Great Britain is bending backward as much as it can to entertain and woo the imperious US president, Donald Trump, who is currently visiting the country as a state guest at the invitation of the King Charles. The US president is being hosted at the 900...
Record Harvests, Empty Wallets: The Mirage Of India’s Farm Targets
By R. Suryamurthy India’s agriculture establishment loves big numbers. Year after year, ministers stand before cameras to announce record production targets, claiming the country’s farmers are marching toward self-sufficiency and prosperity. The latest came at the National Agriculture Conference – Rabi Abhiyan 2025, where Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh...
Supreme Court’s Interim Order On Waqf Act Is A Partial Victory For The Muslims
By Asad Mirza In a much-anticipated decision by the country’s Supreme Court on the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Act 2025, the court treading on very sensitive ground, granted relief to the Muslim petitioners on three provisions of the new Act. The Muslim petitioners back-slapping each other have described it as...
Donald Trump Is In A Continuous Battle With American Print Media
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Donald Trump’s announcement of a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times represents the latest salvo in what has become the most systematic assault on press freedom by an American president in modern history. The staggering sum—exceeding the newspaper’s entire market...
BJP Is Facing Problems In Madhya Pradesh With The Party’s One Family One Post Formula
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP and the state government ruled by the party are not able to find solutions of two problems. The one problem related to implement policy of the one family. One member in party organisation. Despite party policy, in several cases it...
The Last Cowboy: Robert Redford’s Journey From Sundance To Sunset
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: Robert Redford died as he had lived for the better part of nine decades—on his own terms, in a place he loved, surrounded by those who mattered most. At 89, the golden-haired icon who once embodied America’s idealized vision of itself passed away...
