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SEBI May Raise Minimum Block Deal Size, Widen Permissible Price Range
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is considering a fresh round of reforms to its block deal framework, with proposals to raise the minimum trade size and widen the permissible price range, according to people familiar with the matter. The markets regulator, according to the sources,...
Growth In Core Sector Activity Slows To 2 Per Cent In July
NEW DELHI: Growth in industrial activity in India’s eight core industries slowed to 2% in July 2025, dragged down by contractions in the fossil fuel categories, according to data released on Wednesday (August 20, 2025). Steel and cement sectors, however, witnessed double-digit growth. The Index of Eight Core Industries,...
Indian Retail Sector To Reach $1.93 Trillion By 2030: Deloitte-FICCI Report
NEW DELHI: Anchored by a deep home market which can act as a buffer against global trade volatility, the Indian retail sector is projected to nearly double to $1.93 trillion by 2030 from $1.06 trillion in 2024, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 per cent,...
India, Russia-Led Trade Bloc To Commence Talks For FTA
NEW DELHI: India and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) signed the terms of reference to launch negotiations for a free trade agreement (FTA) in Moscow on Wednesday, a move that comes amid the US-India trade tensions. The EAEU includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Russian Federation. India signed...
How To Take Forward The Latest Improvement In India-China Bilateral Relations?
By Nitya Chakraborty India-China political relations have started improving giving all the indications that the leaderships of the two countries with the largest population in the world, are ready for building stable relationship after an uneasy period of five years since the Galwan killings on the border in 2020...
Contest For Vice President Is A Symbolic Fight To Protect Constitutional Values
By Dr. Gyan Pathak NDA’s candidate C P Radhakrishnan has filed his nomination papers for the election of Vice President of India on August 20, 2025. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flanked by Radhakrishnan and senior NDA leaders handed over four sets of nomination papers to Rajya Sabha Secretary General...
A Law Too Far: Why Automatic Removal Of Jailed Ministers Could Backfire
By K Raveendran The government’s proposal to automatically remove ministers who spend more than a month in jail on serious charges may look like a corrective to an extraordinary spectacle—Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal attempting to run his government from behind bars. But what appears as a moral stand...
Decoding The Two High Level Summits Aimed To End Three And Half Year Old Ukraine War
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: The past six days have witnessed unprecedented diplomatic activity as President Donald Trump orchestrated two pivotal meetings aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. The August 15 Trump-Putin summit at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, followed by Monday’s White House meeting with...
NDA’s VP Candidate CP Radhakrishnan May Help BJP In Its Southern Conquest
By Sushil Kutty As is his wont, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made one of his standard Smart Alec comments when holding forth on the BJP/NDA vice-presidential candidate, CP Radhakrishnan. Apparently, ‘CP’ and Modi are long-standing friends with Radhakrishnan’s deadly devotion to public service, the clincher in CPR’s favour. Modi...
Rahul Gandhi’s Voter Adhikar Yatra In Bihar Assumes Massive Character On Fourth Day
By Arun Srivastava PATNA:“Voter Adhikar Yatra” by the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and supported by the INDIA Bloc entered its fourth day in Bihar with massive participation by the common people, especially the poor and women in the march. For the Bihar people, the yatra is not merely an...
Central Ministry Pits Savarkar Above Mahatma Gandhi In Its Independence Day Post
By Krishna Jha On August 15, amidst the celebrations of the Independence Day, petroleum ministry in the social media came out with a surprise post, against the basic fabric of our freedom struggle. VD Savarkar, who consciously kept himself away from the freedom struggle, was shown placed above Gandhiji,...
After A 47 Day Gap, Israel-Iran Confrontation Has Come To The Fore Again
By Asad Mirza It has been only 47 days since the Iran-Israel war ended. The peace in the Middle East is only 47 days old. But barely after a month-and-a-half, the possibility of reignition of a new war has increased once again. The situation is tense again after the...
A Red Carpet For Putin In Alaska, No Clear Roadmap For Peace
By M A Hossain Anchorage, Alaska, is not the first place one thinks of when imagining global diplomacy. Yet, on a brisk day in Macomb, Michigan, Americans and the world were reminded that great power politics often thrives in unexpected places. There, U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President...
Prospects Of Ukraine Peace Deal Brighten After Trump-Zelensky Meeting
By Nitya Chakraborty The prospects of arriving at a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia to end the nearly three and half year old war have brightened after the Monday meeting of President Donald Trump with the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House in the presence of...
Like Donald Trump, General Asim Munir Weaves A New Theory Every Day On Four Day War
By Sushil Kutty Pakistan is on a wing and a prayer, hoping against hope that spilling disinformation and spreading misinformation about India and against India with ‘Field Marshal’ Gen. Asim Munir doing his best to push United States President Donald Trump’s single-point agenda, pocket the Nobel Peace Prize against...
Unemployment Rate In Urban Areas Continues Rising Fourth Month In A Row
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in urban areas in India has continued to rise in the fourth month in a row in July 2025 and stood as high as 7.2 per cent, as against 6.5 per cent in April. It rose to 6.9 per cent in May, and...
Contrasting State Of Minorities In Two States – West Bengal And Assam
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ruling in Assam and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, it is not surprising that official policies adopted by the two state Governments regarding the minority communities are strikingly different. Avoiding the usual bureaucratic verbiage of sober language/words...
LDF, Congress Challenge Thrissur LS Constituency Poll Result
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A protracted politico-legal battle is in the offing as the CPI(M), CPI and the Congress are gearing up to move the Election Commission and courts with evidence of fraud in the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency election in 2024 which BJP candidate Suresh Gopi won. CPI...
