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Mohan Bhagwat’s Backtracking On Retirement Issue Exposes His Weakness For Power
By Arun Srivastava Even a chameleon cannot contemplate to compete with the swiftness with which RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat changes his colour. In past too he had brazenly demonstrated his skill. Bhagwat has inherited this legacy. The most exceptional instance has been his latest denial that he never suggested...
Xi-Modi Bonhomie Unnerves Many Diplomats Both In South Asia And USA
By Sushil Kutty It’s not just US President Donald Trump and his attacks who are stewing in their juices watching the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) take the Trump tariff bull by the horns but also hawks in India who don’t like India and China get closer even if by...
Trump’s Tariff Weapon Working Like A Boomerang On Americans And Economy
By K Raveendran There are increasing signals that Trump’s weaponised tariffs will most likely be his nemesis. A US court of appeals has thrown out his tariffs against other nations, ruling that he exceeded his authority in declaring an emergency to justify the draconian measures. The development is more...
Indian Economy’s 7.8 Percent Q1 GDP Growth Is A Strong Sign Of Revival
By R. Suryamurthy India’s economy has once again surprised on the upside. The first quarter of FY26 clocked a 7.8% expansion, a five-quarter high that has been hailed as evidence of resilience and momentum. In a world where global growth is sputtering, the figure drew applause as another data...
Indian Techie Pratik Pandey’s Death In Silicon Valley Raises Many Crucial Issues
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: The discovery of 35-year-old Microsoft engineer Pratik Pandey’s body on August 20, 2025, at the company’s Silicon Valley campus has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, raising urgent questions about the human cost of the relentless artificial intelligence arms race that has consumed...
Opinion Divided On Implementation Of Four Labour Codes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the RSS-backed Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) has demanded immediate rollout of the Code on Wages 2019, and the Code on Social Security 2020, opinions in the political leadership and the officials are still divided. BMS has created a fresh concern within the BJP-led Union...
U.S. Vice President J D Vance Spoke Of Trump Both In Present And Past
By Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump is trending on ‘X’, not because Elon Musk has returned to Trump’s fold. But Trump is all over X-comments because Vice President JD Vance spoke of Trump in both the present and past tense and though he should have been tense there...
BJP Cadres’ Attack On Congress Office In Patna Is A Part Of Design
By Arun Srivastava PATNA: Weaponisation of politics by the BJP strongman, Amit Shah, got its crude manifestation on Friday August 29 with the BJP cadres led by their two senior ministers, attacking the state office of Congress, Sadaquat ashram, which was once the abode of the former president Rajendra...
Congress Capitulates To Threat Of MLA Accused Of Sexual Misconduct
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a major political setback to the Congress in Kerala, the Crime Branch of the Kerala Police has constituted a Special investigation Team (SIT) to probe the accusations of sexual misconduct against Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil. In view of the digital nature of the alleged...
Madhya Pradesh BJP Government In A Bind Over The Slapping Of IAS Officer By Party MLA
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP is in a dilemma over how to handle the ugly incident involving an IAS officer and a party legislator. If the party does not punish the legislator as per the demand of the State IAS Association, it will face angry...
Israel Seeks To Silence The Truth By Targeting Journalists In Gaza
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The latest Israeli assassination, of six Palestinian journalists, has resulted in worldwide condemnation. Al Jazeera identified the attack as part of a systematic campaign to silence the truth. The bombing attack on the Nasser hospital in the Gaza city of Khan Younis earlier this week...
Economy Spurts 7.8% In Q1 FY26 As Manufacturing, Agri, Services Shine
NEW DELHI: Beating forecasts, India’s economic growth accelerated to a five-quarter high of 7.8 per cent in the April-June 2025 period, driven by a sharp rise in manufacturing and services, defying expectations of a sequential slowdown indicated by high-frequency data. Most economists, however, believe the punitive 50 per cent...
$67 Billion In 10 Years: Japan Pledges Long-Term Investment Push In India
NEW DELHI: Japan on Friday set a target of 10 trillion yen ($67 billion) in private-sector investments in India over the next decade, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to Japanese firms to “make in India, make for the world”. At the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit in Tokyo, Modi...
Net FDI Falls 21.1% To $4.91 Billion In Q1 FY26 On Higher Outward Flows
MUMBAI: The net foreign direct investment (FDI) in India, the difference between gross inflows and outflows, declined 21.1 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to $4.91 billion in April-June 2025 period (Q1FY26) from $6.22 billion in April-June 2024, on higher outward investments from the country and repatriation/divestment, the Reserve Bank of...
Consumption Demand Becomes Broadbased; Government Capex Boosts Investment
NEW DELHI: In what could be a sign of recovery in consumption demand, growth in private final consumption expenditure (PFCE), which represents the economy’s consumption potential, improved to 7 per cent during April-June (Q1FY26) from a five-quarter low of 6 per cent in Q4FY25. Economists reckon this recovery could...
Investment Outlook Remains Cautiously Optimistic Going Ahead: RBI Study
MUMBAI: Lower investment announcements amid uncertain demand conditions, along with higher cash buffer, points to a cautiously optimistic outlook for private investment activity in the country, a study authored by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) staff in the August bulletin of the central bank said. “Looking ahead, the investment...
Easing Of Present Barriers To Chinese Investment Into India To Figure At Modi-Xi Meet On Sunday
By Nitya Chakraborty The tariff war declared by the United States President Donald Trump against India by imposing a total duty of 50 per cent on Indian exports to the USA effective August 27 this year, is having its impact on the economic relations between the two powerful economies...
India-US Back Channel Talks Are On For Working Out A Compromise Formula
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The United States under the deal maker President Donald Trump and India under the charismatic Prime Minister Narendra Modi are arm wrestling despite being buddies on the global stage. They both represent two largest democracies that spent a decade investing in strategic convergence....
