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US Tariff Heat Looms Over India’s Russian Oil Supplies
NEW DELHI: A proposed US bill that includes a 500% tariff on countries importing oil from Russia could significantly disrupt Indian supplies, and also raise its oil import bill, industry experts warn. US Preesident Donald Trump is considering the Sanctioning Russia Act of 2025, which aims to pressure Russia...
MNCs Press Pause On Dei Initiatives While India Inc Keeps Focus
NEW DELHI: Several multinational companies, especially those headquartered in the US or closely working with the US government, are scaling back their diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives globally. There is a deep rumble of uncertainty as several MNCs scale back on their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Where...
Indian Foreign Policy Under Narendra Modi Is In Shambles
By Prakash Karat The infamy that the Narendra Modi government’s foreign policy has earned in the recent period, is something that cannot be understated. On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution moved by Spain calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza. The resolution...
ECI Has To Follow The Procedure, Cannot Have Intent To Exclude Electors
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The crux of the observations and suggestions made by the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Special Intensive Revision of Electoral Roll in Bihar is that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has to follow the well laid procedure under the law, and...
Donald Trump, Brazilian President Lula, Jair Bolsonaro And Trade War
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Just when you thought booming guns went into silence on the tariffs front in the wake of controversies over ending birthright citizenship and stripping citizenship for certain categories of residents, the war on tariffs has come back center stage with the new steep...
Even After Supreme Court Bench Comments, Bihar Dalits And Muslims Are Apprehensive
By Arun Srivastava Supreme Court of India while allowing the Election Commission to continue with the Special Intensive Revision of Bihar electoral rolls, suggested to include three documents Aadhaar, EC voter ID, and ration card for inclusion of the names in the voters’ list. The SC did not issue...
Capitalist Countries Are Rolling Back Spending On Welfare Programmes
By Prabhat Patnaik Immediately after the war when capitalism had faced a serious existential crisis, it had adopted a dual strategy to cope with it. First, it whipped up the “red scare” which was absolutely without any justification, in order to terrorise the domestic working class into acquiescing with...
Congress High Command To Decide On Karnataka CM Issue Only After Bihar Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Karnataka Congress is seeing challenges amidst power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar. However, Siddaramaiah announced that there is no vacancy for the CM’s post. To support his claim, he said that DK Sivakumar who is an claimant...
India-US Still Talking On Trade Deal, Team To Visit Washington Next Week
NEW DELHI: With the deadline for imposition of reciprocal tariffs by the US extended to August 1, Indian negotiators will be visiting Washington next week to continue the discussions on an interim trade deal and the subsequent first tranche of the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA), a senior official said...
Indian Companies Queue Up For Domestic Rare Earth Magnet Production
NEW DELHI: India is planning to establish its own rare earth magnet production within the next year or two, with support from automakers and parts manufacturers, along with the expected rollout of incentives by the Indian government, according to a Reuters report. The move to locally manufacture rare earth...
India Seeks To Impose $3.83 Billion Worth Extra Duties On US Steel, Aluminium
NEW DELHI: India has revised upwards the extent of retaliatory measures it might take against the US tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium even as both countries hold intense negotiations on a Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA). In a notification to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) India has said...
RBI Closely Monitoring Global Crypto Moves As India Mulls Policy Paper
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is keeping close watch on global cryptocurrency developments, governor Sanjay Malhotra told a parliamentary panel, people familiar with the matter told ET. Crypto has been resurgent since Donald Trump’s turnaround from sceptic to champion. Besides Trump’s own ventures in the sector, under...
CPSEs, Four Govt Entities’ Capex Up 25% In June
NEW DELHI: Capital spending by large central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) and four key government entities jumped 25% in June from a year before to ₹62,425 crore, lending crucial support to the economy when private investments are yet to see a broad-based rebound, said a senior official. With this,...
Can India Emerge As The Trusted Leader Of Global South Like Earlier Years?
By Nitya Chakraborty The 17th BRICS summit held in Brazil on July 6 and 7 has helped in partially restoring the image of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the defender of the interests of Global South against the increasing attacks on the political and economic interests of...
Big Success Of All India Strike By Workers Is A Wake Up Call For Modi Govt
By P. Sudhir Crores of working people hit the streets in the historic strike on July 9. Originally scheduled earlier, the strike had to be postponed by nearly a month and a half following the dastardly attack on innocent civilian tourists in Pahalgam. Yet, the spirit of resistance against...
ECI Steps Beyond Its Constitutional Power In Determining Citizenship
By Dr. Gyan Pathak During the hearing of the bunch of petitions on Thursday July 10, 2025 challenging the Election Commission of India’s (ECI’s) order of June 24, 2025 for conducting Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Electoral Rolls in Bihar, the Supreme Court said that citizenship is an issue...
Expenditure Capacity Of Indian Households Is Shrinking In Recent Years
By Krishna Jha Industrial growth, the stock market and the rupee have already been sinking. Now more and more reports show a constant fall in Indian households’ rapidly shrinking expenditure capacity. According to the latest data released by the National Accounts Statistics, Indians have significantly reduced their spending on...
Election Commission’s Special Revision Of Electoral Rolls Has Led To Both Fear And Confusion
By Sushil Kutty Election officials have been on the SIR job for months, the entire 2024, in fact, and into 2025. The ‘job’ included deleting the names from the voters’ list of people who had passed away. This could be done only when informed by a close relative. What...
