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India-US Tariff Dispute Now Morphs Into Diplomatic And Security Row Between Two Countries
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: Indo-US trade dispute has now quickly morphed into a full scale diplomatic and security row. Both sides are digging in and refusing to budge from their respective positions as apparent from the statements from even the highest levels. This is clearly an escalation set in...
Trump’s Tariff Rate For Japan Is Helpful For Larger Japanese Investment In India
By Subrata Majumder Caught in the crossfire between Japan’s submission to Trump’s tariff war linking with investment and incentivizing Japanese investors to quite China , India is opened with a new opportunity to combat Trump’s threat of tariff war, which is linked with scrapping of oil and defence deal...
People’s Power Can Shatter Israel Government’s Sense Of Impunity On Gaza
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Reckless and genocidal, Israel’s government is now bent on an impossible-seeming intensification of its Gaza atrocities nearly 22 months into the invasion. Plans to occupy Gaza City will inevitably lead to thousands more deaths. Not as “collateral damage,” the cynical term for bystanders blown up...
Bengal’s 100-Day Job Scheme Impasse Continues Despite High Court Order To Resume
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Applications for jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 are being submitted by card holders in West Bengal districts but applicants do not have the slightest idea when the authorities will, if at all, allot them work. MNREGA job remains...
Kerala Boasts The Country’s First Integrated Land Records Digital System
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The country’s first comprehensive land records digital system, launched in October last year, has attracted attention from many States and Union Territories. Among the States which have consulted Kerala to learn from the system, named “Ente Bhoomi”, was Assam. Kerala has agreed to provide software...
Govt Chalks Out 4-Pronged Plan To Blunt 50% Tariff Impact
NEW DELHI: With US President Donald Trump doubling tariffs on India to 50%, the government has begun reaching out to industry with a four-pronged strategy to limit the damage to manufacturing, exports and jobs. The real problem that India will face post these tariffs is competitiveness, because all other...
India’s GDP Could Slow Down To 6% In FY26 If US Levies 50% Tariff: Moody’s
NEW DELHI: Moody’s Ratings on Friday said India’s GDP growth is likely to slow down by about 30 basis points to 6 per cent in the current fiscal if the US implements 50 per cent tariffs from August 27. However, resilient domestic demand and the strength of the services...
Independent Directors Should Be Stewards Of Accountability: SEBI Chief
MUMBAI: Tuhin Kanta Pandey, chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday called for redefining the role of independent directors – from being honorary appointees or friendly critics to stewards of accountability. “Many directors are highly qualified, but unfamiliar with emerging risks of AI governance, cyber threats,...
Govt Rules Out Changes To DPDP Act, FAQs To Address Concerns Soon: Report
NEW DELHI: The government does not see any scope for making changes in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 and may issue a detailed reply soon to explain issues raised by journalists and civil rights bodies, an official source said on Friday. Civil rights and journalists’ bodies on...
Trump Hits Pause On Trade Talks With India, Plays Up Tariff Issue
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has ruled out the possibility of trade negotiations with India until the issue of tariffs is resolved. “No, not until we get it resolved,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday, replying to a question on whether he expects increased trade negotiations...
Pro-BJP Hindutva-Corporate Nexus Vertically Split On Strategy To Deal With Trump’s Tariff War
By Nitya Chakraborty The additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian exports to the USA announced by President Donald Trump to be effective from August 27, has led to an intense ideological and political battle within RSS, the BJP as also among the industrialist friends of Prime Minister Narendra...
ED’s Neutrality As Central Investigating Agency At Its Lowest
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Enforcement Directorate’s (ED’s) neutrality as a central investigating agency under the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi has plummeted to its lowest since its inception in 1956, when a bench of the Supreme Court of India has to ask it on August 7, 2025...
Rahul Gandhi’s Exposure Of Electoral Fraud Unites INDIA Bloc Parties
By Arun Srivastava Undeterred of the innuendos and jibes by the second rung BJP leaders, describing him as destroyer of the democratic system and having some brain problem, which are being hurled against him certainly at the behest of Narendra Modi, for his expose of the Chief Election Commissioner’s...
Trump’s Tariff Threats Have Opened Up Possibilities Of A Viable Alternative
By Dr. Soma Marla President Trump’s imposition of 25 percent tariffs on Indian exports, effective August 1, 2025, is beyond mere commercial friction. Mr. Trump, is now attempting to pressure India by imposing various measures aimed at weakening our economy. USA now is weaponizing tariffs as a political leverage...
Rahul Gandhi’s Presentation On Electoral Fraud Enthuses INDIA Bloc
By Rahil Nora Chopra Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hosted a dinner for leaders of 25 INDIA bloc parties at his Sunehri Bagh residence in Delhi, where he showed them a presentation alleging fraud in the Lok Sabha voter rolls in a...
Rahul Gandhi Is Going All Out Against The Prime Minister Narendra Modi
By Sushil Kutty The whole thing about Trump’s tariffs bringing all sorts of Indians on to the same platter is a chimera, a lie told in the flush of the moment; in times of adversity when people comfort themselves with dreams and lies, which is what has happened and...
BNP Wooing Jamaat-e-Islami For Alliance In Bangladesh Polls In February
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) the strongest political party in Bangladesh that had fought a running battle against the ruling Awami League (AL)-run Governments for over a decade, has appealed to the Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) to contest the coming elections in February next year. Mr Shamsuzzaman Dudu,...
Need For Strong Peace Movement To Harness Nuclear Weapons Abolition
By Dr Arun Mitra Everyone by now knows the dreadful effects of the atomic bombs used by the US on human population at Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6th and 9th August 1945 respectively. Testimonies by the survivors, the Hibakusha and the reports by the Red Cross speak effectively of...
