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India, UK Likely To Sign Free Trade Agreement Next Week
NEW DELHI: India and the UK are likely to sign their Free Trade Agreement (FTA) next week, as the legal teams from both sides have nearly got the formal text of the pact ready. The conclusion of FTA negotiations between India and the UK was announced on May 6....
China’s Informal Trade Restrictions Threaten India’s $32 Bn Smartphone Export Target, Warns Industry Body
NEW DELHI: India’s electronics industry has raised the alarm over informal trade restrictions by China, saying this could dent the country’s competitiveness and threaten the $32 billion smartphone exports target for this fiscal year. In a recent letter to the government, the industry said China’s actions are solely aimed...
RBI May Go For Another 25 Basis Points Rate Cut In August, Repo Rate To Come Down At 5.25%: Report
MUMBAI: The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may go for another cut in the policy rate of 25 basis points (bps) in the upcoming August policy meeting, bringing it down to 5.25 per cent, according to a report by ICICI Bank. The report...
U.S. Supreme Court Is Being Used By Trump To Implement His MAGA Agenda
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON: In a landmark but largely silent move, the U.S. Supreme Court has paved the way for former President Donald Trump to dismantle the Department of Education, terminate thousands of federal employees, and slash funding to states — all without providing a single word of...
World Organization Against Torture Flags India As “High Risk” Country
By Edgar Kaiser, Grace Anu Backia This year has proven to be a sobering one for the Indian police with several reports revealing their unconstitutional and torturous attitude. The Status of Policing in India report 2025 put forth an alarming data about the police officers’ stand on torture. As...
Latest PLFS Data For June 2025 Shows Worsening Labour Market
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s labour market has undergone deterioration in June 2025. Unemployment rate in current weekly status (CWS) for the person above the age of 15 years was shown in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) of the government of India at 5.6 per cent, Labour Force...
Dark Clouds Hover Over The Future Of Electoral Democracy In India
By P. Sudhir ‘Foreigners Found on Bihar Rolls, Says EC; INDIA Questions Data’ – screamed the lead headline on the front page of a major national daily. It appeared to be simply unbelievable. The timeline for the Special Intensive Revision, as laid out by the Election Commission of India...
The Illusion Of Inclusion: What India’s Fintech Revolution Leaves Behind
By R. Suryamurthy India has long been celebrated as a global trailblazer in financial inclusion. From biometric identity systems to mobile-enabled digital payments, we’ve built infrastructure at a scale and speed that few countries can rival. According to the World Bank’s Global Findex Database 2021, 78 percent of Indian...
British PM Keir Starmer Plunges Labour Party Into Crisis As He Axes Four Rebels
By Andrew Murray LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suspended four left Labour MPs from the party whip on Tuesday night in a desperate attempt to restore his floundering and diminished authority. Brian Leishman, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Rachael Maskell and Chris Hinchcliffe will now sit as independent MPs. Left MP...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Balancing Of QUAD And SCO Summits In September Will Be A Tricky Task
By Nitya Chakraborty India-China bilateral relations have started showing cautious improvement with the signals from both the leaderships of the two biggest countries of Asia that they are keen to restore normal political and economic ties. Indian external affairs minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s meeting with the Chinese President Xi...
Trump Message To New Delhi As Trade Talks Progress: Bend Or Be Broken
By K Raveendran The Trump administration’s twin-pronged approach to force India into granting greater trade concessions marks a new and particularly aggressive phase in the ongoing trade talks. It combines the threat of punitive economic measures with geopolitical pressure, making the situation deeply precarious for New Delhi. At the...
India’s Crucial Oil Imports From Russia Can Now Be Hit By Widening Ukraine War
By Anjan Roy India will in all possibility face a new tariff from the United States of as high as 100% as Trump’s new policy to stop Russia’s Ukraine war. An economic tool, tariffs are now caught up in Donald Trump’s geo-economics. Countries buying oil from Russia are now...
India Ranks 99th In The UN SDG Index 2025, Not On Track On 15 Out Of 17 Targets
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Against the boasting of the ruling establishment of India led by PM Narendra Modi about its world ranking in wealth and equality fourth in each, the SDG Index 2025 of the United Nations ranks this country as 99th in the World, and is out of...
Grand Mufti Of India Musliyar Stops Execution Of Nimisha Priya For The Time Being
By Sushil Kutty Two stories hit the news cycle on July 16. Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya’s execution in Yemen, scheduled for July 16, has been postponed. And the newly released NCERT history book for Class 8 has nothing good to say about the ‘Delhi Sultanate’ and the ‘Mughal’. Both...
Trump’s 50-Day Ultimatum: Ukraine Ceasefire Or A New Trap?
By M A Hossain Donald Trump once campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine within 24 hours. He promised to bring an end to the proxy war with Russia, leveraging his self-proclaimed ‘Dealmaking’ skills. Yet, halfway into July, what we see instead is a new escalation dressed up as...
On The Voter List Revision In Bihar, Has The ECI Forgotten Its Duty?
By Prakruthi Jain Bihar is gearing up for the State Assembly elections to be held in November 2025. The Election Commission of India’s (‘ECI’) move to revise the voter list at the eleventh hour raises serious concerns about the accessibility of participation in the upcoming polls for the ordinary...
Britain’s New Left Party’s Polling Data Is A Wake-Up Call For Ruling Labour
By Ben Chacko LONDON: If Keir Starmer’s stumbling government needed a further wake-up call, the latest opinion poll should provide it. It shows Labour’s support at a historic low of just 15 per cent. That is no more than the share secured by the as-yet unlaunched new party of...
Share Of Small Firms In CPSE Purchases Crosses 42 Per Cent
NEW DELHI: The Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)’ procurement from micro and small enterprises (MSEs) continues to rise steadily, with these entities accounting for 42.2% of the CPSE’s total purchases so far in 2025-26 compared with 35% achieved in the whole of 2024-25. These figures are well above the...
