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Modi Govt Avoiding Discussion On Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor In Parliament
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Even a naïve can perceive that the Union Government is playing a trick in respect to discussion on the Operation Sindoor and the ensuing events in the Parliament of India. They had given assurance in the all-party meeting on the eve of the Monsoon Session...
Bihar To Witness One Of The Bitterest Assembly Polls By Year End
By Kalyani Shankar The politics is heating up in Bihar with the Assembly elections scheduled at the end of the year. Regional and national parties are preparing for this and have begun the seat-sharing process early to avoid last-minute hitches. The election will be a fiercely competitive battle for...
The Muslim Electorate In Bihar On The Margins Before Assembly Polls
By Jiyaul Haque, Nizamuddin Ahmad Siddiqui On June 24, the Election Commission of India announced a Special Intensive Revision (‘SIR’) of the Electoral Roll (‘ER’) in Bihar, just months ahead of the State Assembly elections. While such revisions are standard electoral procedures, the conditions attached to this one, particularly...
BRICS Bloc Has To Work Jointly To Emerge As Defender Of Global South
By Asad Mirza The recent BRICS Summit at Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, apart from raising concerns on the multilateral issues, was marred by dissensions within the grouping. It also faced the added threats from the American President Trump over BRICS’ plans to float a new global currency to...
U.S. Supreme Court Is Acting As A Collaborator In Trump’s MAGA Agenda
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The United States is witnessing a political transformation of seismic proportions. In the wake of Donald Trump’s return to power and an increasingly assertive conservative Supreme Court. Long -standing liberal institutions are being dismantled or radically altered. At the same time, the Democratic...
Gopalganj Violence Marks The First Organised Resistance Of Awami League
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In Bangladesh, the recent eruption of violence involving pro-government forces and opposition supporters of the currently banned Awami league (AL), at Gopalganj, reveals the failure of the country’s interim Government, to stamp its political authority among a bitterly divided population. The shocking outburst of public...
Rewriting Mughal History For Class Eight Students By RSS Inspired Ideologues
By Sushil Kutty Class 8 is when students look forward to Class 9. But today’s Class 8 is another lot. They will be told the Mughals were cruel, a bunch of uncivilized uncouth marauders who made mountains out of skulls of Hindus they defeated in surprise raids they made...
Low-Cost Credit Cards For Micro Enterprises On The Cards
NEW DELHI: The government is preparing a scheme under which banks will issue credit cards with a Rs 5 lakh limit to micro enterprises to help them meet immediate working capital needs at affordable interest rates. The scheme will include credit guarantee cover, a first for such a product....
Early Birds Fail To Catch The Worm; Margin Squeeze, Other Income Save The Blushes
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries put up a stellar show in the June quarter but the rest of the early birds — 156 companies have declared their results so far — turned in a rather ordinary performance. Operating margins were under pressure and it is the ‘other income’ that has boosted...
FPO Scheme Takes Big Strides, 340 Units Cross Rs 10-Crore Sales
NEW DELHI: Of over 10,000 farmer producer organisations (FPO) set up under a special incentive scheme launched in FY21, over 340 have grown to report annual sales turnover of over Rs 10 crore, among nearly 1,100 that have business in excess of Rs 1 crore, according to data gathered...
Government Keeps Tabs On Capex As Private Investment Lags
NEW DELHI: Govt is keeping a close watch on capex as private investment remains weak, some of which may be on account of the global uncertainty induced by the US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime. During April-May, Centre’s capital expenditure has been higher with ministries and departments spending 20%...
HDFC Duo’s Merger Still Looms Over Industry’s Credit Growth
MUMBAI: The merger of HDFC and HDFC Bank in FY24, which slowed down bank credit growth in FY25, continues to remain a drag on overall lending, pulling industry credit growth into single digits in Q1FY26. The combined entity’s loan growth fell from 15-17% before the merger to 5.4% in...
Wall Street Journal’s Ahmedabad Crash Report May Well Be A Plant
By K Raveendran The Wall Street Journal’s report on the Ahmedabad Air India crash has triggered a storm of controversy not only for what it suggests but also for what it deliberately avoids. The claim that the crash, which took 260 lives, may have been caused by the senior...
Hindutva Is Yet To Emerge As Core Issue In Bihar Despite BJP’s Bangladeshi Pitch
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the BJP has been raising its pitch on the issue of Bangladeshi Muslims infiltrators, and the Election Commission of India (ECI) has said that they have found illegal infiltrators name during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the Electoral Roll, Hindutva is yet to...
Indian Govt Confident Of Maintaining Oil Supplies Despite Trump’s Sanction Threat
By Subrata Majumder US President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to Russia to end war with Ukraine, or, face secondary sanction, embracing 100 percent tariff on countries purchasing oil and other goods, if no peace agreement is reached between Russia and Ukraine within 50 days. At present, over 90...
Communist Party Of India Urges Maoists To Leave Armed Struggle And Join National Mainstream
By Satyaki Chakraborty The Communist Party of India (CPI) has called upon the Maoists as also other sections of armed rebels in the country to leave the path of armed struggle and join the mainstream of the communist movement. The Party’s call assumes special significance in the context of...
Differences On Next CM Choice May Prolong President’s Rule In Manipur For A Short Period
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Politically the Bharatiya Janata Party and administratively the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA) are still trying hard to install a popular ministry in restive Manipur ; but circumstances seem to have forced them to be in a state of readiness to extend President’s...
Trump’s Battle With The WSJ Over Epstein Issue Might Be Prolonged
By Sushil Kutty Scandals and US President Donald Trump are buddies. Problem is, if only Trump didn’t have so many skeletons! One or the other skeleton keeps tumbling out of a Trump cupboard. And most if not all involve trouble with ‘woman’ or ‘woman trouble’. Who doesn’t know of...
