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Nikki Haley’s Concern On Trump’s Anti-India Tilt Is Shared By Traditional Republicans
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When Nikki Haley, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and a former Republican presidential contender, warned that “alienating New Delhi at a time of rising Chinese assertiveness would be a strategic disaster,” she was not speaking in a vacuum. Her intervention came...
Mamata Banerjee Scores Over Narendra Modi In The Propaganda War Over Metro Projects
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress, BJP and CPI(M) have always been at odds. Of late, post the inauguration of three Metro railway routes in and around Kolkata, last week by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, things have come to a head between the three political outfits as they...
Indian Students Are Grappling With Trump’s Immigration Clampdowns
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In 2025, for hundreds of thousands of young Indians, the dream of studying in the United States is alive — but under siege. A fiery Reddit post recently captured the angst: “What’s so wrong with us that every country wants to limit us?”...
After Kashmir Home Department’s Ban On Books, Librarians Are Under Pressure
By Siddu Huded On August 5, 2025, the Jammu & Kashmir Home Department issued a notification banning 25 books. The order was justified on grounds that the works propagate “false narratives” and “secessionist sentiment.” This was not an obscure list. It included Arundhati Roy’s Azadi (2020), journalist Anuradha Bhasin’s...
Rs 25,000-Crore Outlay Likely For New Export Mission
NEW DELHI: The total outlay for the Export Promotion Mission (EPM) is likely to be fixed at Rs 25,000 crore for the period through 2030-31 with annual allocation going up each passing year as the various components of the mission get operationalised. According to official sources, the mission is...
Telecom Companies Weigh Next Round Of Tariff Hike After ARPU Boost
MUMBAI: Telcos are likely to raise tariffs in the next two to three quarters, analysts believe, as they focus on value over volume growth. At the same time, given how companies have consolidated customer churn, they will want to limit SG&A (sales and marketing) costs to maintain margins, they...
Industry Body Suggests Policies For A Competitive And Developed India
NEW DELHI: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Sunday unveiled a blueprint to accelerate India’s economic growth through a raft of reforms, including in factors of production, a simplified single GST structure, rationalised tariffs and implementation of labour codes. The industry body, in its report “Policies for a...
Sale Of IDBI Bank A Step Closer After LIC Gets SEBI Nod
MUMBAI: Paving the way for the sale of IDBI Bank, Sebi has approved the reclassification of Life Insurance Corporation as a public shareholder from promoter of the bank once the sale transaction is concluded. The regulator’s nod is subject to conditions, including LIC’s voting rights being capped at 10%,...
RBI May Not Change Stance But Adjust A Bit
MUMBAI: Economists expect India’s monetary policy framework, currently under review, to remain largely unchanged with the target of 4% retail inflation and headline number as the primary anchor. However, there could be some tweaking to make the central bank’s communication of inflation goals more effective, especially with regards to...
Election Commission’s Degradation: From Watchdog To Caged Parrot
By K Raveendran Indian epics tell us that aggression should never be turned against the weak is a lesson etched into the Mahabharata. Karna, remorseful after joining in the humiliation of Draupadi, admitted the shame of deploying power in the wrong direction. Draupadi in that moment represented not just...
130th Constitution Amendment Bill Can Be Challenged In Supreme Court
By T N Ashok India’s Home Minister Amit Shah’s 130th Constitution Amendment Bill to disqualify high profile political leaders after a 30-day pre-trial custody has created a political storm besides raising questions over the constitutional validity of such a measure fraught with serious consequences for the governance of a...
Former CPI General Secretary S Sudhakar Reddy’s Death Is A Big Loss For Left
By Nitya Chakraborty Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy, the legendary communist leader of the undivided Andhra Pradesh and the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) for seven years from 2012 to 2019 passed away on Friday August 22. He was 83. Sudhakar was a distinguished leader of the...
Amartya Sen’s Comment On Deportation Exposes PM’s Bogey On Infiltrators
By Arun Srivastava Trepidation expressed by the 91-year-old Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen on Friday at a public discussion in Kolkata on ‘India’s Youth: Social Opportunities They Should Have’: “There remains a possibility that I might be sent back to Bangladesh because my ancestral home is in Dhaka,” has become...
Constitutional 130th Amendment Bill, 2025 Is A Damocles Sword
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Less than one month remains when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attain the age of 75 on September 17, 2025. Yet there is no announcement on his part that he would retire from public life, as politician and as ruler of the country. One can...
FBI Raid On Former NSA Of Trump Shows The Vindictive Character Of US President
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayer NEW YORK: The FBI’s early morning raid Friday on former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s Maryland home has reignited a cauldron of old enmities inside the Trump orbit, exposing once again the combustible intersection of classified secrets, loyalty tests, and the former president’s refusal to...
Kuki-Zo Council Finds Assam Rifles DG’s Clarification Comforting
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Clarification offered on August 21 by director general of Assam Rifles Lt-Gen Vikas Lakhera, AVSM, SM about Myanmarese nationals entering India under the Free Movement Regime (FMR) effective from last week of December 2024 has given an opportunity to the Kuki-Zo Council (KZC), a...
Monsoon Session Of Parliament Exposed Increased Authoritarianism Of Ruling Party
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As far as outcome is concerned, the month-long Monsoon Session of the Parliament of India that concluded on August 21, 2025, can be termed as near washout. Nevertheless, the symptoms it manifested signalled India’s great struggle ahead. The opposition battled for saving the Constitution and...
India’s Aviation Dream Is Built On A Fragile Safety Net And Compromised Regulator
By R. Suryamurthy The Air India Flight 171 crash in Ahmedabad this June, killing 241 people, should have been a line in the sand. A Boeing 787 — the pride of modern aviation — falling out of the sky seconds after take-off was not just a technical failure. It...
