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RBI Governor Signals There’s Room For Rate Cut As Inflation Drops
MUMBAI: RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra said the central bank may consider cutting rates if both inflation and growth continue to soften, indicating that inflation could fall below the full-year forecast of 3.7 per cent. The monetary policy committee’s neutral stance, he said, provides room to respond as conditions evolve....
PMO Greenlights GST Revamp; All Eyes On Council
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office has given in-principle go-ahead for a significant recast of the goods and services tax (GST) framework, setting the stage for the first major overhaul of the levy rolled out eight years ago, people familiar with the development said. A proposal in this regard...
Trade Deficit Narrows To 4-Month Low Of $18.8-Billion In June, Exports Flat
NEW DELHI: India’s merchandise trade deficit fell to a four-month low of $18.78 billion in June, as subdued oil imports brought down overall inward shipments by 3.7% on year to $ 53.92 billion while exports were flat at $ 35.14 billion. Exports have been either flat or negative in...
Unemployment Rate In India Remains Unchanged At 5.6% In June
NEW DELHI: The unemployment rate in the country remained flat at 5.6 per cent in June compared to May this year, according to the government data released on Tuesday. In April this year, the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation released the first monthly Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS)...
Centre’s Contempt For Federalism Is Evident From Treatment By Police Of J&K Chief Minister
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One day after the “locking down” of the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir Omar Abdullah, his cabinet ministers, his party National Conference legislators, along with leader from the PDP, People’s Conference, and J&K Apni Party in their homes to prevent them from paying homage...
Assam’s BJP Chief Minister Has Launched A Communal Crusade In North East
By Krishna Jha There is little doubt the Bharatiya Janata Party government led by chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is determined to turn Assam into a communally torn state. The state has been witnessing a systematic persecution of Muslims. Although the attack and harassment of minorities has become a...
Journalist Framed In Bihar For Exposing The Dubious Designs Of The ECI
By Arun Srivastava Election Commission of India, the constitutional body, will not tolerate any kind of rationale criticism of its erratic functioning and non-conforming approach to the constitutional provisions would not be tolerated by it. A strong message to this effect was conveyed to the journalists on Monday by...
Beleaguered Democratic Party Regrouping Again To Take On Trump In Local Elections
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Why are democrats in USA still sulking in the shadows whining and not gotten over the shock defeat of Ms. Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential elections when her rival Trump stole the democrats’ voter bases and not satiated them yet on their...
Islamophobic And Capitalist Diatribe Against Mamdani Underline His Challenge In November Polls
By Asad Mirza Zohran Mamdani’s candidature as the Democratic candidate for the New York City’s next mayor has surely ruffled feathers and has also exposed the Islamophobic and capitalist nature of the establishment, and its influence on the American society. Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in the Democratic mayoral primary...
India’s Aluminium Producing Units To Invest US$ 5 Billion To Build 20gw Renewable Energy Capacity By 2030
By Kunal Bose India, the world’s second largest aluminium maker with production in 2024 rising marginally to 4.2m tonnes from 4.16m tonnes in the previous year, is already a big producer of hydropower with large new capacity periodically getting commissioned. But for logistical reasons that renewable energy is not...
BJP’s Woo-Christians Strategy Falls Flat In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s much-hyped political strategy to woo the Christian population in Kerala has fallen flat in the face of strong opposition from within the community. That the opportunistic strategy has not been to the liking of the community was clear from the very...
Centrism In Democratic Party Establishment Is Too Weak A Weapon Now To Fight Trump’s Actions
By Brandon Chew NEW YORK: The reaction from many to Zohran Mamdani’s win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary has been hyperbolic to say the least. Mamdani, a member of Democratic Socialists of America, has promised a 2% tax on the wealthiest 1% of New Yorkers, an...
How To Revisit The Human Angle In Data Driven Space Governance?
By Harsh Gour A recent academic paper in Acta Astronautica, “The protection of AI-based space systems from a data-driven governance perspective,” authored by Giovanni Tricco and eleven others attempts to tackle a complex and timely topic: how our existing legal frameworks must adapt to be more autonomous, when it...
Indian Trade Unions Need To Reform Themselves To Remain Relevant
By Nantoo Banerjee Trade unionism seems to have lost focus in India. It has failed to reform itself to keep pace with economic reforms and globalisation, and changing job scenarios. It is also facing the biggest leadership crisis. The poor public and industry response to the nationwide strike call...
Rahul Gandhi Has Emerged As An Effective Leader Of Opposition In Last One Year
By Kalyani Shankar Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been the Leader of the Opposition (LOP) for one year now. In this role, he plays a significant part in India’s Parliament. He holds the government accountable and speaks for the people’s views. Although the LOP role is not in the...
Narendra Modi Government And Election Commission Working In Tandem
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All circumstanced and the manner in which the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Roll in Bihar is being carried out suggest that the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi and the Election Commission of India (ECI) are aligning together. BJP has been claiming...
Trump Faces Revolt From His Young MAGA Supporters Of Florida Over Epstein Files
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump faces a revolt from a MAGA base he created in Tampa in Florida. The ghost of the Jeffrey Epstein files and Clients list has come back to haunt him. The weekend was dominated by news of FBI number 02...
Election Commission Giving No Credence To Supreme Court Request For Accepting Aadhaar
By Arun Srivastava Apprehensions have come true. Supreme Court not staying further execution of SIR in Bihar and reluctant to direct the ECI to include Aadhaar, EPIC (Electoral Photo Identity Card) and the ration card as voter IDs has conjured it go ahead with its beseeched design to disenfranchise...
