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BJP Has Much To Worry At Maratha Agitation Reaching Mumbai
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Manoj Jarange Patil led Maratha agitation demanding OBC status for the community has just reached Mumbai, which brings with it fresh political worries for the BJP led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election is going to be held later in 2025, in which...
Trump’s Governance In First Seven Months Of Second Term Differs In Many Respects From The First One
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Seven months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the political landscape reveals a stark contrast between his current standing and the trajectory of his first term. Where Trump entered office in January 2017 with a 45% approval rating and the benefit of doubt from...
Trump-Imposed 50 Percent Tariffs Have Devastated The Tiruppur Knitwear Workers
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back to doing what he loves doing most, travel the world, touring international political hotspots, engaging with fellow heads of states, genuine gentlemen like United States President Donald Trump and their Chinese and Russian counterparts. As of now, there’s the belief...
Increasing Bonhomie Between Two Thackeray Brothers Signals Political Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra A significant shift is occurring in Maharashtra’s political landscape. Former Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday visited his cousin, MNS supremo Raj Thackeray, at his Mumbai residence to offer prayers on Ganesh Chaturthi. The visit once again highlighted the growing...
Madhya Pradesh Political Parties Approve Resolution Approving 27 Percent Quota For OBC
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP achieved a remarkable success when an all-party meet passed a unanimous resolution to offer 27 percent OBC reservation in Madhya Pradesh. The meeting, held at the residence of Chief minister Mohan Yadav, was attended by representatives of the governing BJP,...
US Tariffs Pose Downside Risk To Aggregate Demand, Says RBI Report
MUMBAI: India–US trade policies pose a downside risk to aggregate demand, which is currently holding up due to benign financial conditions, the ongoing transmission of rate cuts, supportive fiscal measures and rising household optimism, the Reserve Bank of India’s monthly State of the Economy report said. The report noted...
Reversal Of Extra Tariff To Aid Revival Of BTA Talks With US: Official
NEW DELHI: The additional reciprocal tariff by the US on Indian exports need to be addressed for the resumption of negotiations on the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) negotiations, though both sides remain in touch, a senior official said Thursday. “We are hopeful of getting back on the table soon…...
Manufacturing Pushes Industrial Output Growth To Four-Month High Of 3.5% In July
NEW DELHI: India’s industrial production growth accelerated to a 4-month high of 3.5 per cent in July this year due to good performance of manufacturing sector, according to official data released on Thursday. The country’s industrial output earlier recorded this level of growth at 3.9 per cent in March...
Top Four Life Insurance Companies Covered 14 Million Fewer Lives In FY25
MUMBAI: Some of the leading life insurance companies have reported a sharp decline in the number of lives covered in FY25, largely due to a slowdown in credit-linked life insurance policies. Stress in the microfinance segment has reduced loan disbursements and, in turn, the flow of new customers to...
Govt May Relax Press Note 3 To Allow Chinese FDI In Select Sectors: Report
NEW DELHI: The government is considering changes to Press Note 3 of the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy in order to allow Chinese investments in certain non-strategic sectors, as per a report by CNBC-TV18. The move comes a few days after the 50 per cent Trump tariff took effect...
Trump Administration Looking For Surrender By Narendra Modi As 50 Percent Tariffs Take Effect
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Trump’s 50% tariffs on Indian exports took effect from Wednesday as there has been no resolution to the dispute over Russian oil buys in by India. In a move that has stunned global markets and rattled one of America’s most strategically important partnerships,...
French Centre-Right Govt Is On The Brink As A Confidence Vote Is Set For September 8
By Nitya Chakraborty France’s centre-right coalition government is once again facing a major political crisis as the Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has called for a confidence vote on September 8 in Parliament after his fragile coalition supporters rejected his budget proposals to revive the economy. Both the Left combination...
What The 130th Constitution Amendment Bill Moved By Home Minister Truly Purports To Achieve?
By Justice K. Chandru (Retd.) ‘History will absolve me’ said Fidel Castro, famously, in 1953, as he was arrested for the alleged attempt to overthrow the Batista regime in pre-revolutionary Cuba. Perhaps all over the world, freedom fighters who were incarcerated or were confiscated of their civil rights have...
Has Modi Started Bowing Down To U.S. Pressure By Withdrawing Import Duty On Cotton
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With India’s suspending import duty on cotton, that is expected to benefit the textile sector of the country, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ‘betrayal’ to farmers. PM Modi has been claiming for several month’s now, the latest being only...
Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill Is An Outrageous Move Of Narendra Modi Govt
By P. Sudhir The last day of the monsoon session of the Parliament came to surprise and shock the people and their representatives. Amidst a session which had been extremely stormy over the charges of large scale manipulation of people’s basic right to vote, late in the evening the...
U.S. Visa Overhaul Hits Most The Indian Meritorious Students And H-1B Holders
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a blunt, unfiltered declaration, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced on national TV that the H-1B visa system is a “scam.” He lambasted it for displacing American workers and favouring cheaper foreign labour, then unveiled plans for sweeping reforms. “Hiring American workers...
More Than One-Third Of World’s Undernourished Children Live In India
By Krishna Jha India is fast becoming a nightmare for its children. They are bearing the brunt of extreme poverty and malnutrition. The confession is official. Also it is substantiated with data that are painfully true. Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, author of ‘Mother’, had once said that he...
India Eyes Textile Push In 40 Nations To Cushion US Tariff Blow
NEW DELHI: India is preparing dedicated outreach programmes in 40 countries, including the United Kingdom, Japan, and South Korea, to boost textile exports as part of a broader strategy to shield its economy from the impact of steep new tariffs imposed by the United States. An official said on...
