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EAC-PM Asks Labour Ministry To Roll Out Paternity Leave In Phases
NEW DELHI: The Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) called on the labour ministry to introduce phased reforms in parental leave policies, noting that its framework remains minimal and fragmented, with no statutory mandate for such leave in the private sector. The paper, titled Re-imagining the Care...
Unregistered Biz Entities Up 8 Per Cent In 2025, Add 74.52 Lakh Jobs: Survey
NEW DELHI: Unregistered businesses or unincorporated enterprises grew by 8 per cent to reach 7.92 crore and added 74.52 lakh jobs between January and December 2025, according to a government survey released on Wednesday. The Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) captures key economic and operational characteristics of...
Mamata’s Defiance Makes A Mockery Of Constitutional Propriety
By K Raveendran Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to resign after a decisive electoral defeat is a political act dressed up as constitutional ambiguity. It may create noise, spectacle and temporary uncertainty, but it does not create a sustainable claim to office. A chief minister holds power only so long as...
Delimitation In Assam And SIR In West Bengal Top Factors For BJP’s Win
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The data for the 2026 election results clearly show that delimitation of 2023 in Assam and the SIR of 2026 in West Bengal were chief factors of BJP’s spectacular wins in both the states respectively. As for the surge in the BJP’s support base, there...
Mamata’s Refusal To Quit Has Some Similarities With Trump After 2020 U.S. Polls
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers In the spring of 2026, what was expected to be a routine democratic exercise in West Bengal has spiralled into one of the most fraught constitutional moments in India’s recent political history. The votes have been counted, the results declared, and yet power remains contested—not...
TVK Supremo Vijay’s Numbers Game: Power Within Reach, But Not Yet In Hand
By T N Ashok CHENNAI: In Tamil Nadu, electoral earthquakes are not new. But the 2026 verdict has produced something rarer than a landslide—it has delivered a political paradox. Vijay, the state’s newest political force and its most electrifying public figure, has shattered the long-entrenched dominance of the Dravidian...
Not Just TMC Corruption, BJP’s Hindutva Agenda Played A Big Role In Bengal Polls
By Sagarneel Sinha After the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, many political commentators started writing that the influence of the Hindutva politics pursued by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started waning. However, the results of Haryana, Maharashtra, Delhi and Bihar forced them to revisit their...
BJP’s Bengal Victory And A New Emerging Geopolitics Of The East
By M A Hossain The urge to call it a “political miracle” is understandable. After all, the fall of Trinamool Congress (TMC) after fifteen years in power and the sweeping ascent of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal looks, at first glance, like a sudden rupture. But...
Election Loss: Tough Task Ahead For LDF In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The hallmark of a political party or front is its ability to turn even adversity to account. Such an opportunity has presented itself to the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala, which has been shaken to the core by the devastating defeat it has...
The Billionaire Sugar Brothers Backing Trump’s Effort To ‘Take Cuba’
By Daniel Delgado NEW YORK: Trump is a billionaire president, with billionaire friends, who represents the billionaire class in the United States. Evidence of this abounds, and when it comes to Cuba, there is no clearer example than his relationship with the Fanjul family. Described by Forbes as one...
Govt Issues Updated Sop To Clear FDI Applications Within 12 Weeks
NEW DELHI: The government will now clear all FDI proposals within 12 weeks as per the updated standard operating procedure (SOP) for processing foreign direct investment applications. According to the SOP, up to 12 weeks’ time has been fixed for a decision on the proposals, excluding the time taken...
Cabinet Clears Two New Semicon Units At Investment Of Rs 3,936 Crore
NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Tuesday approved two more semiconductor manufacturing units with cumulative investment of more than Rs 3,936 crore, Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. The semiconductor projects have been approved under India Semiconductor Mission (ISM), which includes the country’s first commercial mini/micro-LED display facility...
India Tops Global Remittances With Over $137 Billion Inflows In 2024: UN
UNITED NATIONS: India received more than 137 billion dollars in remittances in 2024, the top remittance recipient country in the world and the only nation to surpass 100 billion dollars, the UN agency on migration said. “India consistently leads as the top recipient of remittances, followed by Mexico,” the...
India’s Investment Story Stronger Than It Looks: RBI Deputy Governor
MUMBAI: India’s growth story is being underestimated, and the country’s investment contribution to growth is being overlooked, Poonam Gupta, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), argued on Tuesday. She said that India is habitually described as a consumption-driven economy and investment’s contribution to growth is routinely...
India Most Resilient Among EMEs, Well-Placed To Manage Shocks: Moody’s
NEW DELHI: India has emerged as one of the most resilient large emerging markets in weathering multiple global shocks over the past five years, Moody’s Ratings said on Tuesday. The rating agency also noted that India is well-placed to manage future shocks because monetary policy frameworks are clear and...
Fall Of Two Regional Pillars Mamata And Stalin Weakens Fight For Federal India
By T N Ashok The verdict from India’s sprawling five-state assembly elections of 2026 has redrawn the country’s political map with a force few had anticipated. What began as a routine electoral cycle across West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry has culminated in something far more consequential:...
Love, Deaths And Stormy Sessions At 28 Dean Street
By Nitya Chakraborty Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5, 1818 and died in London on March 14, 1883. Three days after his demise on March 17, Friedrich Engels in his speech at the grave of his best friend and partner in their bid to change the...
India’s 2026 Assembly Elections Outcome Was Partly Influenced By Generation Z
By R. Suryamurthy The temptation, in the immediate aftermath of the 2026 assembly verdict, is to read it as a familiar story of partisan expansion and opposition decline—of one party’s geographic spread and another’s organisational fatigue. That narrative, while not entirely wrong, is analytically insufficient. It explains who gained...
