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On 79th Independence Day, We Must Resolve To Protect Democracy, Secular Values
By P. Sudhir Today, as we observe our seventy-ninth Independence Day, it is extremely useful to revisit the proceedings of our Constituent Assembly. The Assembly was comprised primarily of Indian freedom fighters who were deeply in grips with our history, social realities, cultural traditions, and, of course, the broader...
India’s $200 Billion EV Opportunity Tarnished By Numerous Hindrances
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India had a dream to unlock a $200 billion opportunity in transitioning to Electric Vehicle (EV), but trailing far behind the target, chiefly due to policy paralysis and lack of financing. There have been many other challenges too that remained unaddressed. Even though the recently...
Time For Narendra Modi Govt To Fight Trump On Tariff Issue To Protect Our National Interests
By Krishna Jha The Slogan of “Quit India Movement”, initiated on August 8, 1942, has been acquiring an added significance on its eighty-first anniversary. It was a slogan against the British rulers that had ruled over India for more than a century, and when they decided to leave, the...
Trump Is Launching A Hostile Takeover Of Puerto Rico, The Island State
By Alberto C. Medina WASHINGTON: On Monday, August 4, President Donald Trump dismissed five of the seven members of the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), the entity that, for all intents and purposes, governs Puerto Rico. The move likely signals the start of a Trumpian takeover...
US Tariff Impact To Ease Out In One To Two Quarters: CEA
NEW DELHI: The current imbroglio caused by the 50% additional US tariff on India is expected to ease out in one to two quarters, chief economic advisor Anantha Nageswaran said at Emkay Confluence 2025 event here on Wednesday. “I don’t think from a long-term picture, the impact (of US...
Govt Likely To Allow Private Companies To Mine Uranium To Help Nuclear Expansion
NEW DELHI: India aims to allow private firms to mine, import and process uranium as part of plans to end a decades-old state monopoly over the nuclear sector and bring in billions of dollars to boost the industry, two government sources said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government plans to...
Govt, NITI Aayog To Revise Toll Fee Framework Amid Overcharging Complaints
NEW DELHI: Amid rising cases of toll being charged on national highways (NHs) even after the end of the concession period, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) has initiated a study with central policy think tank NITI Aayog to revise the user-fee determination framework, it has informed...
Exporters Scurry To Fall Back On Local Market, But Question Marks Remain
CHENNAI / AHMEDABAD / NEW DELHI: Should India’s labour-intensive industries worry much about Trump tariffs or any more such external shocks, when the domestic markets for their goods are growing exponentially? This question was implicit in Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s exhortation to the industry and consumers to go “Swadeshi”....
SEBI Proposes To Add Algo Trade To Stock Broker Regulations
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Wednesday proposed to include algorithmic trading and proprietary trading in its master regulations. The regulator floated a consultation paper to revamp regulations of stock brokers (SBs). These aim to ease the compliance burden, harmonise with the Companies Act and...
Why Narendra Modi Can’t Compromise On Market Access To Us On Agri, Dairy?
By Nitya Chakraborty The India-US trade war over Donald Trump’s 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports to the USA with effect from August 27 this year has assumed a major political dimension linking the political future of both Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the United States President...
True To His Self, Trump Beats Retreat From ‘Confusion’ Tariff On Gold
By K Raveendran President Donald Trump’s latest policy reversal has once again demonstrated the peculiar mixture of impulsiveness and calculated disruption that has become the hallmark of his economic interventions. Having first announced a 39 percent tariff on imported gold, the President has now abruptly dropped the plan, dismissing...
Ordinary Americans Are Aghast At Trump’s Increasingly Totalitarian Moves
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: America under Donald Trump has moved, to use a sub-continental simile, towards an alternative reality of a Pakistan and further away from India. The Washington streets might look familiar to any war zone than a western capital of diverse views. No wonder, that United States...
RSS Supremo Mohan Bhagwat To Stay In Office After Attaining 75 Years
By Arun Srivastava RSS Supremo Mohan Bhagwat is not stepping down from his position on September 11 this year when he reaches 75 years. This decision of Bhagwat has come as a big relief to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who attains 75 years on September 17 this year-...
Community Dogs Need More Compassion And Less Cruelty
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Justice of India (CJI) B R Gavai’s assurance of giving a relook at the ban order passed on “Community Dogs” on Monday, August 11, 2025 by a Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan has given a cause to be...
Bangladesh Becomes American Deep State’s Newest Victim
By Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury In 2003, Washington justified its invasion of Iraq by claiming Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. These allegations -later proven false – enabled the toppling of Iraq’s leadership, replacing it with an externally controlled regime of opportunists and...
Cabinet Clears Over ₹18,500 Crore Chip, Hydro Power, Metro Rail Plans
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday approved major investment proposals worth more than ₹18,500 crore for key infrastructure projects, including semiconductor manufacturing, Metro rail expansion, and hydro power generation. The decisions include ₹4,600 crore for semiconductor units, ₹5,800 crore...
India May Miss FY26 Fiscal Deficit Target Of 4.4% On Slower Growth: BMI
MUMBAI: The government is likely to miss its FY26 fiscal deficit target of 4.4 per cent, though only marginally, as economic growth underperforms projections, according to a report released by BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions, on Tuesday. The report said potential aggressive US tariff hikes are the primary...
Food Inflation In Negative Zone For Second Straight Month
NEW DELHI: Retail food inflation remained in the negative zone for two consecutive months in July when it came in at (-) 1.76%, driven by subdued prices of vegetables, cereals, pulses, meat, eggs and spices. The decline in food inflation last month was also attributed to ‘favorable’ base effect,...
