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Petitioners Challenging Waqf Act 2025 Allege It To Be Anti-Islamic
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the President of India’s assent, the WAQF Amendment Bill 2025 has become an act, but it was promptly challenged in the Supreme Court of India, where the matter was mentioned today April 7, 2025, before the Chief Justice of India for urgent hearing. The...
Kunal Kamra Case Is About Limitations And Restrictions On Freedoms
By Sushil Kutty Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra is in the Bombay High Court with a petition to quash the Mumbai Police FIR against him for making the ‘traitor’ jibe against Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, whose keen ears prick up in a micro-millisecond if the word happens to...
Brazilian Left Facing A Succession Problem As Lula Is Ending His Third Term
By Olavo Passos de Souza NEW YORK: With the third term of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva well beyond its midway point, South America’s largest nation is again suffering from a leadership crisis. The once widely beloved politician’s approval rating has reached the lowest point that we...
Protests In The US Show How A People’s Mass Movement Can Be Rebuilt
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Demonstrations across the United States over the weekend against Donald Trump and his policies give the lie to claims that all is lost in the struggle for people’s rights and social justice against the conservative right and its far-right allies. Of course, there are always...
Reserve Bank Of India Likely To Go For 25 Basis Points Rate Cut
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is widely anticipated to shift its monetary policy stance from neutral to accommodative and cut the repo rate by 25 basis points (bps) at its monetary policy committee (MPC) meeting on April 9. This would signal the central bank’s increasing focus on...
New CPI Series From February 2026 To Include Rural Housing Inflation
NEW DELHI: The new consumer price index (CPI) series will measure housing inflation in rural areas, in tune with shifting consumption patterns and emergence of rental markets beyond urban centres, official sources said. At present, housing is only measured as a part of urban inflation because there are only...
Countries Soften Stance On Non-Trade Issues With India
NEW DELHI: As the shake-up of the world trade by US President Donald Trump has brought back tariffs at the centre stage again, “many developed countries” have indicated to India that they are willing to relax their stands on non-trade issues like sustainability in the free trade agreement (FTA)...
Internal Panel To Review All Regulations, Says SEBI Chief
MUMBAI: Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey will set up an internal panel to review current regulations and weed out those that have lost relevance. The exercise would be similar to the one carried out by the Income Tax department while drafting the Direct...
Government Unlikely To Ease Checks On Investments From China
NEW DELHI: Government is unlikely to ease investment checks on Chinese companies amid growing calls to review FDI norms as it remains wary of flows from across the border. US President Donald Trump’s tariffs have made it even more alert to the growing threat of Chinese companies and their...
Women Own 39.2 Per Cent Of Bank Accounts In India: Report
NEW DELHI: Women own 39.2 per cent of bank accounts in the country and the proportion is even higher at 42.2 per cent in rural areas, according to a government report. The Statistics and Programme Implementation Ministry (MoSPI) released the 26th edition of its publication titled “Women and Men...
India To Face Some Adverse Tariff Effects: Kaushik Basu
NEW DELHI: Former World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu on Sunday described the reciprocal tariffs imposed on approximately 60 countries by the Trump administration as baffling, saying that while these tariffs will have some adverse effects on India, the major impact will be felt in the US. Basu further...
‘One State-One RRB’ Plan In Pipeline: Finance Ministry
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry will soon implement the ‘One State-One RRB’ plan to achieve operational efficiency and cost rationalisation and consolidation of 43 regional rural banks (RRBs) to 28. Most of the work related to the issue of consolidation have been completed and the fourth round would happen...
FPIs Pulled Out Rs 10,355 Crore From Equities In Last 4 Trading Sessions On US Tariffs
NEW DELHI: Foreign investors withdrew Rs 10,355 crore from the country’s equity markets in the last four trading sessions this month due to sweeping tariffs imposed by the US on most nations, including India. The outflow occurred after a net investment of Rs 30,927 crore in the six trading...
India, Sri Lanka Ink Major Defence Pact Following Talks Between PM Modi And President Dissanayake
COLOMBO: For the first time, India and Sri Lanka on Saturday inked an ambitious defence cooperation pact with Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlining a broader roadmap for deeper bilateral cooperation, asserting that security of both nations is interlinked and dependent on each other. The defence pact is among seven...
Narendra Modi And Donald Trump: Leaders Bonded Even In Himalayan Blunders
By K Raveendran Donald Trump and Narendra Modi never seem to tire of expressing admiration for each other, their mutual regard forming an odd but undeniable transnational political camaraderie. What binds them is not simply shared ideology but a similar worldview shaped by populism, nativism, and a flair for...
Minimum Pension Remains Rs 1000 Since 2014 Under Modi Government
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two important piece of news this week may shock the conscience of many, but not the ruling establishment of India. The first is that Minimum pension for workers under one of the social security coverage given under Employment Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) remains at Rs...
Nitish Kumar’s Political Woes Mount As Bihar Assembly Polls Are Approaching
By Sushil Kutty Don’t doubt the intentions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the gentle warning to a fellow panelist from a BJP spokesperson, which caught the fancy of the anchor of the prime-time show who repeated the warning in a tone that brooked no defiance. Prime Minister Narendra...
Amended Waqf Act May Lead To More Churning Among The Muslim Support Of BJP Allies
By Arun Srivastava Saffron ecosystem must be feeling ecstatic at its achievement of having Waqf board under its belt, acquiring vast tract of land owned by it across the country and pushing the Muslims to the position of second grade citizens. A closer introspection nevertheless would make it explicit...
