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Trump 2.0 Regime Is Trying To Browbeat Left Wing LA Regimes To Submission
By Sergei Kozhemyakin NEW YORK: One of the most prominent figures in the early days of 20th century imperialism was U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Under his rule, the United States subjugated the Panama Canal Zone, occupied Cuba, invaded the Dominican Republic, and pursued an almost endless list of other...
India’s GDP On Track To Outpace Japan In 2025, Germany By 2027: IMF
NEW DELHI: India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has doubled over the last ten years from $2.1 trillion in 2015 to $4.3 trillion in 2025, reporting a growth of 105 per cent, according to the latest data released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The growth has positioned India as...
Uncertainty In Trade Policy, Geopolitics Risk To Growth Next Year: FinMin
NEW DELHI: Geopolitical tensions, trade policy uncertainties, volatility in international commodity prices and financial market uncertainties pose considerable risks to India’s economic growth in the coming year, the finance ministry cautioned on Wednesday. “Global trade continues to be affected by uncertainty in the policy environment… tariff-related developments in multiple...
BRICS Has Features To Make World Order Fair: Top Russian Expert
BRICS is aimed at not making a new UN General Assembly, but it is a group that has new features of the new incoming world order that would be more fair, according to Victoria Panova, Head of the BRICS Expert Council—Russia, Russia’s Sherpa in W20, and Vice Rector at...
India May Soon Train Select Countries On Best Drug Regulatory Practices
NEW DELHI: India may soon start training drug regulators from select foreign countries on drug regulatory practices and pharmacovigilance, officials in the know said on Wednesday. The project could include drug regulators and inspectors from African, South East Asian, and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries on...
NPLs In Microfinance Segment To Peak By FY26 End: S&P Global Ratings
MUMBAI: Tighter lending norms, including those becoming operational from April for microfinance institutions in India, will keep a check on asset quality strain, and the non-performing loan ratio in microloans segment is expected to peak by the financial year 2025-2026 (FY26), global rating agency S&P said on Wednesday. India’s...
NITI Aayog Working To Improve India’s Penetration Into Global Value Chains For MSMEs’ Growth
NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog is working on a programme to improve India’s penetration into global value chains for growth of domestic micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), CEO of the government think-tank B V R Subrahmanyam said on Wednesday. Observing that MSMEs are more affected by regulations than large...
SEBI Keeps Flexible Workspace Operator WeWork India’s IPO In Abeyance
NEW DELHI: SEBI has put the initial public offering (IPO) of premium flexible workspace operator WeWork India Management Limited in “abeyance”, an update with the markets regulator showed on Monday. The Embassy Group-promoted firm, which filed its draft IPO papers on January 31, planned to offer 4.37 crore shares...
India’s Exports Bound To Grow Despite Global Uncertainties, Says DGFT
NEW DELHI: India’s exports are bound to grow in the coming years despite uncertainties over global trade and tariff, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) Santosh Kumar Sarangi said that exporters should tread the path pragmatically and wisely to navigate the current...
Mother Dairy Launches High Protein Milk In Delhi NCR
MUMBAI: Mother Dairy on Wednesday launched ‘Promilk’, a protein-rich milk product priced at Rs 70 per litre, targeting the country’s protein deficit population in the Delhi-NCR region. The new cow milk product contains 40 grams of protein per litre, four per cent fat, and 11.5 per cent solids-not-fat (SNF)...
Bandhan Bank Signs MoU With Indian Air Force
KOLKATA: Private lender Bandhan Bank on Wednesday said it has inked an MoU with the Indian Air Force to provide corporate salary accounts to the defence personnel. The ‘Bandhan Bank Shaurya Salary Account’ will have features like zero balance savings account, protection for self and family, and attractive interest...
Europe’s Moment Of Truth As U.S. VP Vance Calls Them ‘Free Loaders’
By Nitya Chakraborty Europe, which has always been vocal about its past history and civilization as well its contribution to the making of the modern world, has never faced such humiliation in the hands of its transatlantic ally the USA in the last eighty years since the end of...
Allahabad High Court: From A Hallowed Institution To The Backyard Of Judiciary
By K Raveendran The Allahabad High Court, established almost two centuries ago, has historically occupied a distinguished position in the Indian judiciary. It has been a crucible for landmark judgments, a beacon of justice, and a stage for many legal luminaries who have shaped the judicial ethos of the...
Stop Misleading People With Hype Around GDP Growth Data
By Dr. Gyan Pathak PM Narendra Modi led BJP government in India, and BJP led governments in the states are now tabling “Developed India”, “Developed Delhi”, “Developed Madhya Pradesh” etc budgets as hypnotizing technique, to make people believe that the country has actually developed under their rule. Deception is...
OECD Debt Report 2025 Shows Rising Vulnerability Of The Rich Countries
By Anjan Roy The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, Better known as the OECD, has produced its global debt survey for 2025, which paints a rather grim picture of overall indebtedness of countries across the development and income spectrum. It reveals many a truths, including for those who...
‘Saugat-E-Modi’ Is Taking The Narendra Modi Cult To Another Level
By Sushil Kutty What is ‘Saugat-e-Modi’? The literal translation is ‘Modi’s Gift’. It’s a gift scheme for members of “minority communities” during this festive season, even if it sounds like unmistaken “Muslim appeasement.” Dig a little deeper and ‘Saugat-e-Modi’ is cultivating the Modi Cult and the question should be...
Not Just Mohan Bhagwat, Sanjay Joshi May Also Meet Narendra Modi On March 30
By Arun Srivastava March 30 is going to be the momentous day in the lifecycle of the RSS. On this day the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would not only be meeting his ostensible bete noire Narendra Modi to sort out the issue of selection of the future president of...
Pakistan Has Completely Lost Control In Balochistan
By Manish Rai Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area has been rocked by multiple massive attacks recently. These attacks by Baloch insurgents, especially the attack on the Jaffar Express by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) have raised a very valid question: Is the Pakistani Army really in...
