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Tragedy-Hit Mp Tourism Cruise Boat Flouted All Norms
By L S Herdenia The tragic incident of 13 persons drowning after a cruise boat carrying tourists capsized while sailing in the reservoir of a dam on River Narmada in Madhya Pradesh offers a microcosm of what is wrong with our system. On the afternoon of April 30, the...
2026 British Local Polls Results Reveal That The Threat Of Far Right Is Real
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The threat of the far right looms over British politics. That is the most serious takeaway from the 2026 elections. It is not that Reform are winning everywhere. The Scottish National Party look secure in power at Holyrood, despite their vote share falling. Labour’s historic...
Cracks In Tripartite Alliance For South African Elections
By Roger McKenzie While debates rage in Britain’s left circles over the rights and wrongs of dual membership of political parties, a long standing arrangement of this kind has been placed under severe threat. The South African Communist Party (SACP) was the backbone of the African National Congress (ANC)...
Centre Notifies Final IR, Wage Code Rules; Issues Model Standing Orders
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Friday notified the final rules under the Industrial Relations (IR) Code, 2020 and the Code on Wages, 2019, marking another step towards operationalising the four labour codes that were passed by Parliament in 2019 and 2020 but are yet to be fully implemented across...
India Test-Fires Glide Weapon System For Precision Long-Range Strikes
BHUBANESWAR: In a decisive leap for indigenous strike capability, India successfully flight-tested its first homegrown glide weapon from an airborne platform off the Odisha coast, defence officials said on Friday. The success of the Tactical Advanced Range Augmentation (TARA) weapon system’s maiden test came exactly one year after Operation...
New Economic Blueprint Targets Worldwide Employment Shortfall
NEW DELHI: Amid mounting concerns over a widening global employment crisis, a new economic framework has been proposed as a possible solution to what experts warn could become one of the world’s biggest socio-economic challenges in the coming decade. Deepak Sharma, founder of the Human Capital Monetisation Economic System...
India May Go Slow On The Trade Pact With US
NEW DELHI: With the Trump Administration’s aggressive tariff policy suffering judicial setbacks for the second time since February, New Delhi may slow down on a bilateral trade agreement (BTA) with the US. A U.S. Court of International Trade in a 2-1 decision Thursday held that Trump’s latest 10% temporary...
Bank Balance Disclosure Made Mandatory In ITR-4 For AY 2026-27
NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has said a major compliance change is mandatory disclosure of bank balances under the revised income tax return forms for taxpayers filing ITR-4 for Assessment Year (AY) 2026-27. The government has been gradually increasing the disclosure requirements in ITR forms...
Instability Stares At Tamil Nadu Polity Even If Vijay Cobbles Up A Majority Of 118
By T N Ashok CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s political drama entered its most decisive phase on Friday evening as actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay moved within touching distance of forming the State’s next government after the Communist Party of India and the CPI(M) extended unconditional support to his fledgling Tamilaga Vettri...
Bihar Cabinet Expansion Exposes PM Narendra Modi’s Double Standard
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Making JD(U) Leader Nitish Kumar’s son Nishant Kumar a minister in the CM Samrat Choudhary led BJP government in Bihar made headlines. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also present during oath-taking, which is seen as his approval of dynastic politics if practiced under his political...
After Congress-Led UDF’s Grand Win In Keralam, Battle On For CM Post
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress has commenced the process of government formation in Keralam, where the party-led UDF registered a marked victory in the assembly polls, winning 102 seats in the 140-member assembly. The Congress Legislative Party met in Thiruvananthapuram on May 7 to pass a resolution authorising...
India Is Celebrating Schooling Numbers Rather Than Quality Of Education
By R. Suryamurthy India has spent the last two decades celebrating numbers. Number of schools built. Number of children enrolled. Number of toilets constructed. Number of tablets distributed. Number of smart classrooms sanctioned. In the political imagination of the republic, scale itself became evidence of progress. And to an...
Protection Of Food Security Has Emerged As A Major Task For Asian Nations
By Kunal Bose Food security for countries across the globe at all times will largely depend on how well the farm sector of the world’s two most populous countries, namely, India and China are doing. Of the world population of 8.3bn, India is home to 1.48bn followed by China...
Marx’s Teachings Are Most Relevant In The Present Era Of AI And New Technology
By Sanjay Roy Technological development and innovation have been the driving force of human civilisation. With change in technologies, the production process, labour process and measurement of human contribution to social product undergoes change. The current phase of digital technology with AI as the emerging general-purpose technology is also...
Recordings Reveal Big U.S. Plan To Engineer Regime Change In Latin America
By Cassandra Swart NEW YORK: A leak of supposedly private audio recordings from Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram—speculated to come from a source close to former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández—has unmasked an alleged plot to force regime change in Honduras and other Latin American countries....
Limited Tariff Hikes, Rising Power Costs To Keep Discom Cash Gap High: ICRA
NEW DELHI: The cash gap for distribution companies is likely to remain high at 30–33 paise per unit in the current financial year due to limited tariff hikes and increased power purchase costs amid the addition of relatively higher tariff-based capacities, ratings agency ICRA said on Thursday. In the...
EU Envoy Seeks Investment Liberalisation Chapter In FTA
NEW DELHI: Ambassador of the European Union to India Herve Delphin on Thursday called for inclusion of investment liberalisation chapter in the free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the EU, and urged for early conclusion of the investment protection pact. India and the 27-nation bloc European Union (EU)...
TRAI Proposes Penalties For Telecom Firms Over Complaint Redressal Lapses
NEW DELHI: India’s telecom regulator Trai wants mobile phone users to have a more efficient and consumer-centric process of filing and tracking complaints. On Thursday, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) issued a draft amendment to the consumer complaint redressal rules, that were last amended nearly a decade...
