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In First Six Months Of Trump 2.0, Left Wing Latin American Regimes Feeling The Heat
By Roger D Harris and John Perry NEW YORK: With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Call it the “new cold war” or – in Trump’s words, “endless war” – this is the era that the world has entered....
Trump Slams India’s Tariffs, Hints At 20-25% Tariff Deal
NEW DELHI: Days before a self-imposed deadline on potential trade tariffs, former US President Donald Trump repeated his dissatisfaction with India’s trade policies, while still calling the current negotiations promising for the United States. “India has been a good friend. But India has charged basically more tariffs than almost...
RBI Caps Investment By Banks, Others In AIF Schemes At 10 Per Cent
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which has been frowning upon the mushrooming of alternative investment funds (AIFs) for quite sometime, has tightened the overall regulations by capping the investments by banks, non-banks and all-India financial institutions at 10% of the corpus of any such scheme. The new...
IMF Raises India’s FY26 Growth Forecast To 6.4 Per Cent
NEW DELHI: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday raised India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast by 0.2 percentage point to 6.4%, citing improved external environment. In its July World Economic Outlook Update, the multilateral agency also revised upward India’s GDP growth estimate by 0.1 percentage point to...
GAIL Line Up Rs 12,000 Crore Capex For FY27 As Gas Prices Ease
NEW DELHI: State-owned Gail India is expecting global natural gas prices to soften going forward, aiding its growth, and has charted out a capex plan of Rs 12,000 crore for the financial year 2026-27. “This is actually not a normal situation in which we are experiencing that Henry Hub...
India Adds 2.46 Million Wireless Subscribers In June 2025, Led By Urban Growth
NEW DELHI: India’s total wireless phone subscriber base, including mobile and 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), rose to 1170.88 million at the end of June 2025, registering a monthly growth rate of 0.21 per cent, according to the latest data release by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). This...
Supreme Court Raises Many Doubts About ECI’s SIR Move In Bihar
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Election Commission of India (ECI) was busy in giving final shape to the Draft Revised Electoral Roll of Bihar to be published on August 1, an oral direction of the Supreme Court to ECI on July 28 to proceed with accepting Aadhaar and Electors...
Trump’s Forced Trade Deals With EU And Japan Have Set A Template For Others
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump is emerging as a parallel to the WTO which we could eponymously call the “American Trade Organisation” — ATO — with his Art of the Deal with Indonesia, Japan and now EU. ATO is a unique organization that Trump...
Kharif Crisis Brews As China Weaponises Fertiliser Supply Against India
By R. Suryamurthy When China quietly shut off the tap on fertiliser exports to India earlier this year, it didn’t just disrupt supply lines or trigger a price surge. It exposed a far more troubling truth: India’s agricultural security is only as strong as the weakest link in its...
ECI’s Adamant Attitude Not To Accept Aadhaar And EPIC For Identity Has Angered Bihar People
By Arun Srivastava Quite intriguing, notwithstanding agreeing to the submission of petitioners, especially of the Association of Democratic Reforms, the Supreme Court has refused to pass order restraining ECI from publishing the draft voter list implying the implementation of its plan to remove names of nearly 1 crore Dalits,...
Amit Shah Gloats About Indian Success In Operation Sindoor But Avoids Intel Failure
By Sushil Kutty Union Home Minister Amit Shah spoke in the special debate on Operation Sindoor and Operation Mahadev and it was a clinical performance, concentrating as he did on explaining threadbare ‘Operation Sindoor’, which was primarily against ‘terrorism’ and Pakistan was a carrier of the disease. For Shah,...
U.S. Restriction On China Transshipping Goods Through Vietnam Is A Relief To Indian Exports
By Subrata Majumder Concerns loomed large, when the basic reciprocal tariff on imports from Vietnam to USA was drastically cut by Trump administration on July 9, 2025 from 45 percent to 20 percent, leaving India in a major setback. This is lower than import tariff from India, which will...
Harassment Of Bengali Speaking Muslims In BJP Ruled States Gives TMC Big Weapon To Hit Its Rival
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Processions are commonplace in West Bengal with its capital Kolkata being once dubbed “a city of processions” by a prime minister. But the “bhasa michil’ (language procession) taken out on Monday by Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee leading a sizeable number of activists in the...
Indian Economy Has Look, Feel Of ‘Steady As She Goes’ For FY26
NEW DELHI: Indian economy has the look and feel of “steady as she goes” for the current fiscal, the Finance Ministry said on Monday even as it flagged slowing credit growth. In its monthly economic review, the ministry said the first quarter of fiscal 2025-26 (FY26) presents a picture...
Industrial Output Growth Slows To 10-Month Low Of 1.5 Per Cent In June
NEW DELHI: Industrial output growth slumped to a 10-month low of 1.5% in June as mining and electricity sectors contracted sharply, causing the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) to rise at an 11-quarter low rate of 2% in April-June quarter. The IIP had risen 1.9% in May and 4.9%...
Govt Begins Consultations To Ready Industry For UK Trade Deal Gains
NEW DELHI: To prepare the industry for the opportunities opened up by the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the UK, the ministry of commerce and industry on Monday held a meeting with the textile, leather and footwear sectors. The aim of the meeting was to inform the...
Foreign Investors Trim Stakes In PSU Banks Amid High Valuation And Sectoral Reassessment
MUMBAI: Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have pared their holdings in public sector undertaking (PSU) banks during Q1FY26, signalling near-term caution after a robust FY25 rally. Data shows the average foreign portfolio investment (FPI) in PSU banks eased from 4.60% in Q4FY25 to 4.44% in Q1FY26, as investors selectively rebalanced...
100% FDI To Help Unlock Full Potential Of Insurance Sector: Finance Minister
NEW DELHI: The proposed increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) limit from 74% to 100% for insurance companies may unlock the full potential of the sector, which is projected to grow at 7.1% annually over the next five years, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Lok Sabha on Monday. The...
