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PM Has Taken A Political Risk In Asking Indians To Go Slow On Gold Purchase
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: It takes a certain political courage — or perhaps breathtaking optimism — for an Indian prime minister to stand before a nation of 1.4 billion people and suggest, with a straight face, that they might consider buying a little less gold. Narendra Modi,...
Subhendu Govt In Bengal Is Making Right Noises For Seeking New Investments
By Kunal Bose KOLKATA: Since the time Dr BC Roy died in harness in 1962, West Bengal, first slowly but surely and then quite rapidly was overtaken by darkness. Not only did the physician extraordinaire cum politician had a vision for the state, which bore the brunt of partition...
BJP Govt In Bengal Faces Big Dilemma On How To Acquire Land For Industry
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: In a hurry to kick start industrialisation in West Bengal, the first BJP government seems to be heading for “road block”. The “big-ticket” investments boil down to hands-on land policy which the Left Front government pursued leading to peasants agitation at Singur and Nandigram significantly...
BHEL’s Changing Direction Amid Shifts In The Energy Sector
By Raju Kumar BHOPAL: The recent financial and production figures of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)’s Bhopal unit indicate that the public sector enterprise is gradually strengthening its operational position after facing challenges over the past few years. At a time when the energy sector is undergoing technological shifts,...
Moody’s Slashes 2026 India Growth Forecast To 6% Amid High Energy Costs
NEW DELHI: Moody’s Ratings on Tuesday slashed India’s GDP growth forecast for year 2026 by 0.8 percentage points to 6 per cent on subdued private consumption, capital formation, and industrial activity amid higher energy costs. In its Global Macro Outlook May update, Moody’s said over the next six months,...
Fast-Track Justice Reshapes India’s Corporate Governance Structures
NEW DELHI: For years, India’s corporate litigation landscape carried a reputation for delay, procedural complexity and endless appeals. Promoter disputes, allegations of financial misconduct and shareholder battles often dragged on for decades, reducing the possibility of timely justice to little more than a legal fiction. But a significant transformation...
India To Project Power Across Indo-Pacific And Beyond By 2047
NEW DELHI: India aims to field a military largely equipped with homegrown capabilities and capable of projecting power across the Indo-Pacific and beyond by 2047, with domestic defence production output expected to rise to six times the present level to Rs 8.8 trillion by then, while arms exports are...
PSBs’ Net Profit Rises 11% To All-Time High ₹1.98 Lakh Crore In FY26: FinMin
NEW DELHI: Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have recorded an all-time high net profit of ₹1.98 lakh crore in 2025-26 fiscal year, marking the fourth straight year of profitability, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. Improved asset quality, healthy credit expansion and higher income contributed to improved profitability of PSBs...
SEBI Proposes Higher Position Limits For Clients In Agricultural Commodity Contracts
MUMBAI: In a consultation paper released on Tuesday, Securities and exchange board of India (SEBI) proposed higher position limits (maximum number of contracts that can be held) at client level in agricultural commodity derivatives segment. The position limits were proposed to be revised from 1% of the deliverable supply...
PM’s Advisory On Austerity Measures Exposes His Govt’s Loss Of Control
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: As the war in Iran deepens and flames spread across West Asia’s energy corridors, India finds itself confronting an uncomfortable truth: its economic vulnerabilities are once again tied to oil tankers navigating distant waters. Rising crude prices, disrupted shipping lanes, soaring aviation fuel...
Appointing The Bengal CEO In Charge Of Sir As Chief Secretary Is A Brazen Case Of Award For Loyalty
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers When the men who write the electoral rules also happen to want a particular result, Indian democracy has a question it cannot avoid asking There is a principle so fundamental to democratic legitimacy that even its most cynical practitioners usually pay lip service: the referee...
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Vijay Is A Cultural Icon In South India With Massive Following
By Kalyani Shankar When Tamil superstar Vijay launched his political party two years ago, few expected him to become the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. He achieved the difficult transition from “light, camera, action ” to real-life cues. The State has previously been led by two other film stars,...
BJP Must Not Stop Household Assistance For Deleted Or Pending Voters
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Yet another aspect of the ugly face of BJP’s nationalism has come to the fore after BJP’s West Bengal government took oath under the CM Suvendu Adhikari. The government has decided to replace Lakshmir Bhandar by another scheme by the name Annapurna Bhandar for women...
In Her New Role As Opposition, TMC Supremo Mamata Charts Out Programme
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Days after its first crushing electoral reverse in 15 years in the West Bengal Assembly polls, rumblings of discontent within Trinamool Congress have started. The dissenting voices are not muted. Internal rift is almost out in the open. Despite a stern warning from party supremo,...
New BJP-Led Bengal Govt Is Likely To Get Increased Investments In Coming Days
By Subrata Majumder Once the hub for engineering industry, West Bengal has been facing a lean phase in its industrial development since the 1970s. covering both the 34 years of the Left rule and 15 years of TMC reign. At the time of Independence in 1947, it accounted for...
Latest Expansion Of Adityanath Ministry To Help BJP In 2027 Assembly Polls
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: With the much awaited expansion of Yogi Adityanath ministry in Uttar Pradesh, BJP has attempted to social engineering in order to counter powerful PDA of main rival Samajwadi Party in 2027 assembly polls. For the first time since 2017 when BJP came to power, the...
After Bengal Win, Central BJP Leadership Is Focusing Most On 2027 Polls In Uttar Pradesh
By Arun Srivastava Upper-caste conflict, rift between Brahmins and Rajputs has been intensifying within the Uttar Pradesh BJP and in recent months it has acquired a vicious character threatening the 2027 assembly electoral prospect of the party. Significantly, the BJP is also losing its support in the OBCs, EBCs...
Donald Trump-Xi Jinping Are Both Aiming For Win-Win Outcome At Beijing Summit
By Nitya Chakraborty The U.S. President Donald Trump begins his three-day visit to China on May 13 for his summit with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, the outcome of which has special significance for Trump in shaping his political future in the context of the midterm elections in November...
