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PM Narendra Modi’s Durgapur Rally Failed To Energise Bengal BJP
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi sounding poll bugle for 2026 Assembly polls in West Bengal at his Durgapur rally on Friday turned out to be a feeble call. While he spoke of Bengali “asmita” (pride) in his 34-minute address to stoke the Bengali sentiment for BJP,...
Gulf States In Central Asia And The Caucasus: Pragmatism Redrawing The Map
By M A Hossain It is easy to overlook the quiet revolutions in geopolitics, especially when the headlines are dominated by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, tensions in the Indo-Pacific, or the perennial drama of U.S.-China rivalry. Yet, beneath the surface of global power struggles, there is a subtler...
PMO Seeks Wider Consultations For Rare Earth Magnet Incentive Scheme
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has asked the ministry of heavy industry (MHI) to hold further consultations with industry stakeholders before rolling out a Rs 1,350 crore incentive scheme aimed at promoting domestic manufacturing of heavy rare earth magnets. Official sources said that though the PMO has...
NITI Aayog Pushes For Softer Investment Rules For Chinese Companies
NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog, the Indian government’s top think tank, has proposed easing rules that de facto require extra scrutiny for investments by Chinese companies, arguing that the rules have meant delays for some sizable deals, Money Control reported quoting government sources. Currently, all investments by Chinese entities in...
Fertiliser Subsidy May Overshoot Budget Estimates As Dap Costs Spiral
NEW DELHI: The government’s fertiliser subsidy bill for FY26 could see a rise from the budget estimates (BE) of Rs 1.67 lakh crore, owing to a steep 23% rise in global prices of Di-Ammonia Phosphate (DAP) since the beginning of April. Sources told FE that in addition to budgetary...
India’s Crude Import Bill Down 19% In April-June
NEW DELHI: India’s crude import bill declined by 18.6% during the first three months of financial year 2025-26, reaching $30.6 billion compared to $37.6 billion in the same period of FY24, according to data from the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell. The decline in the import bill can be...
Government Tells State-Run Banks To Start Up Lending Game
NEW DELHI: The government has asked public sector banks (PSBs) to step up lending to startups. They have been asked to collaborate with educational institutions and incubation centres to identify and monitor early-stage startups to establish formal banking linkages, said people familiar with the development. “These issues were a...
INDIA Bloc Has To Give Sole Focus On Assembly Polls In Bihar By Year End
By Nitya Chakraborty The INDIA Bloc constituents are finally meeting in New Delhi on Saturday, July 19 to discuss the strategy for the monsoon session of the Parliament beginning on July 21 as also an assessment of the developments in the country including increasing threat to the electoral democracy...
BRICS Bloc Members Have To Jointly Challenge Trump’s Tariff Threat On Them
By Prakash Karat The 17th BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7, the first summit with the expanded membership of eleven countries. Soon after, US President Trump threatened to impose 10 per cent tariffs on those countries that align with BRICS. Earlier too, Trump had...
Politics Hots Up In West Bengal Over Bangladeshi And Bengali Muslims
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India’s ongoing voter list clean-up drive in Bihar coupled with rounding up of Bengali speaking Muslims by BJP ruled states and locking them up in detention centres or pushing them into Bangladesh at gunpoint has generated a considerable political heat in West...
Why Modi Govt’s Boasting About Income Equality In India Is Erroneous?
By Prabhat Patnaik The World Bank has recently published a list of Gini coefficients for 61 countries relating in some cases to income distribution and in others to consumption expenditure distribution. In that list India had the fourth lowest Gini coefficient in 2022, on the basis of which the...
Tamil Nadu Politics Is Hotting Up With AIADMK-BJP Challenging DMK Led Front
By Sushil Kutty For the time being Tamil Nadu has set aside the issues of ‘three-language’ and ‘delimitation’ on the backburner. The focus is on alliances or the lack thereof. But with the 2026 assembly elections up for grabs, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is weighed down by anti-incumbency,...
After 20 Years As CM, Nitish Kumar Is Being Called The King Of Jungle Raj
By Arun Srivastava A change of power is yet to take place, a mahagathbandhan government is still waiting in the wings to occupy the centre stage, but to the chagrin of the people of the state, jungle raj has already descended in Nitish Kumar’s Bihar. This negates the myth...
LJP Leader Chirag Paswan Meets J P Nadda And Discusses Bihar Situation
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political activity in Bihar is soaring high as Union Minister and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan met BJP president J P Nadda on 17 July and discussed the current political situation in the poll-bound Bihar. In a post on X, Paswan...
Not Legislation, But Harmony And Secularism Can Prevent Blasphemy
By Dr. Arun Mitra Blasphemy means making statements that oppose or insult God, deities, religious symbols, sacred things, or beliefs—statements which are generally considered wrong according to religious norms. Historically, every religion has defined blasphemy in its own way. Incidents of blasphemy have always occurred, but in recent years,...
South African Communist Party Will Contest Solo In 2026 National Elections
By Sabina Price LONDON: Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy. The Tripartite Alliance, born out of the struggle for national liberation which saw the alliance members fight side by side to end...
India Needs To Invest $1.5 Trillion By 2030 For Climate Action At Scale: Deloitte
NEW DELHI: India would require around $1.5 trillion investment by 2030 across key areas to address the climate challenge at scale, according to Deloitte India’s latest report. The report titled ‘The climate response: Tapping into India’s climate and energy transition opportunity’ highlights that investments will be driven by India’s...
Regulatory Push Sends Q-Comm Platforms Into Food Safety Talent Crunch
BENGALURU: A regulatory push from the food safety authority is driving up compliance costs for quick commerce platforms, as they scramble to hire certified food safety professionals amid a widening talent gap. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) recently mandated that all food handlers in dark...
