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Why SCO Summit In China On August 31 Is Of Big Significance For Indian Diplomacy?
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be facing his major test in diplomacy at the coming summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to be held in Tianjin in China on August 31 and September 1 this year. The SCO meet will be hosted by Chinese President...
As U.S. Official Order On Additional 25 Per Cent Tariff Takes Effect, PM Modi Has To Fight Back
By R. Suryamurthy From August 27, Indian goods landing at American ports will smash against a tariff wall so steep it amounts to economic warfare. With Donald Trump’s administration slapping an additional 25% duty on Indian exports, effectively raising tariffs to nearly 50% across a wide swath of products,...
Global Outrage After Israeli Strike Kills Five Journalists At Gaza Hospital
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The western news world has been outraged over the killing of five journalists in a tank fire in a hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday as Israel faced an unprecedented wave of condemnation after a pair of back-to-back strikes on Gaza’s...
Why Every BJP Leader Is Against Revealing PM Narendra Modi’s Degree?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It was only last week, Union Minister of Home said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself put PM under the proposed Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill for the sake of equality before law that seeks automatic removal of PM, CM, and Ministers if detained for 30...
Home Minister Amit Shah’s Diatribe Against Opposition VP Candidate Sudershan Reddy Is Ominous
By Justice K. Chandru (Retd.) Last Friday, Home Minister Amit Shah, during a sudden tirade against the INDIA Bloc’s Vice Presidential Candidate former Justice B. Sudershan Reddy (who served as a judge at the Supreme Court between 2007 and 2011), accused the latter of being a supporter of the...
No News Of Jagdeep Dhankhar After His Resignation Deepens Mystery
By Sushil Kutty So where’s former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar? One would have thought he would be easy to meet, come across, now that he is a free-bird and not the Vice President, a thankless job, if any, Dhankhar would have himself submitted to the people. But Jagdeep Dhankhar...
U.S. European Union And Russia Still Clashing Over Path To Attain Ukraine Peace
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: If this past weekend’s appearances on NBC’s Meet the Press were meant to clarify where the world’s power brokers stand on the Ukraine war, they instead underscored how fractured the road to peace remains. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, U.S. Vice President JD...
Personal Fight Between Two Brothers Of Matua Community Worries Bengal BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: As 2026 Assembly polls in West Bengal are inching closer, two brothers both sweating by BJP ideology taking on each other have hit the headlines as they belong to the influential Thakur family whose word counts in the Matua community in the state tipping the...
The Trump Regime Is Promoting Incendiary Far-Right Politics In Britain
By Ben Chacko LONDON: A new wave of anti-refugee protests is threatening asylum-seekers held in hotels a year on from the violence that followed the horrific Southport murders. Lucy Connolly was released on Thursday after jail time for incitement to racial hatred, having posted on social media on the...
Fitch Affirms India BBB- Rating, Stable Outlook
MUMBAI: A week after its larger peer S&P upgraded the country’s ratings to BBB with stable outlook—after holding a BBB- rating for 18 years, Fitch Ratings has chosen to remain in status quo to affirm the BBB- ratings with stable outlook, despite citing the robust growth and solid external...
RBI Won’t Be Found Wanting If 50% US Tariff Hurts Growth: Governor
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) could step in with policy measures if the 50 per cent US tariff — due to take effect from Wednesday — affects domestic economic growth, Governor Sanjay Malhotra signalled on Monday. He also said the RBI intends to implement Basel-III norms for...
GST Cuts To Take Effect By Mid-September
NEW DELHI: The proposed rejig of the slabs of Goods and Services Tax (GST), which involves rate reductions for a large number of everyday use items, FMCG and white goods, and even most cars and two-wheelers, will likely take effect by mid-September, according to a plan which the Centre...
Banks To Seek RBI Nod To Finance M&A Deals: SBI Chairman
MUMBAI: State Bank of India chairman Challa Sreenivasulu Setty on Monday said the Indian Bank’s Association (IBA) is preparing a formal recommendation to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow bank financing for mergers and acquisitions, particularly for listed companies with shareholder-approved deals. “We have been requesting the...
No Slowdown In India Expansion Plan, Says Apple
NEW DELHI: Apple has told government that it does not intend to slow down the expansion of iPhone production in India. This expansion is estimated to entail investments of around $2.5 billion and will continue to boost manufacturing capacity to around 60 million units annually, up from the current...
Trump’s USA Is Unreliable, Xi’s China Could Be Worse
By Nantoo Banerjee Notwithstanding India’s current trade tariff spat with the United States, India should apply caution to further open up imports from China with which it already suffers from massive trade deficits – nearly $100 billion last year when China had severely cut down imports from India. The...
Time For Reforming GST To Reduce Inequity Among States To Suit True Concept Of Federalism
By R. Suryamurthy When India rolled out the Goods and Services Tax in 2017, it was sold as a grand nation-building reform – a “one nation, one tax” revolution that would bind the economy together. Eight years later, it looks less like a fiscal triumph and more like a...
Pakistan’s Increasing Strategic Alliance With China And Bangladesh Is Ominous For India
By Asad Mirza The last week was full of hope and consternation both, for the Indian diplomatic community. On the one hand, the Chinese Foreign Minister met the Prime Minister Modi in Delhi. The Ministry of External Affairs described the talks as fruitful. But what rattled the Indian diplomats...
Gram Urja Swaraj Campaign Of Centre Is On Sans Scheme Or Budget
By Dr. Gyan Pathak It would be shocking for many to learn that the Union Ministry of Panchayati Raj (MoPR) that runs a campaign named Gram Urja Swaraj has in fact neither any scheme nor any budget. PM Narendra Modi’s Gram Urja Swaraj is just an empty slogan with...
