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Strong Trade Momentum For India In December Quarter: UNCTAD
NEW DELHI: India has seen strong goods and services trade momentum in the Dec quarter, a report by UN body Unctad has said but cautioned that global trade could be hit by the policy shifts in the US and trade and geopolitical tensions.Besides, it has pointed to high duties...
Jaishankar Stresses Need For Diverse Energy Relationships
MUMBAI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India, as the world’s fifth-largest economy, must necessarily develop a broad and diverse set of energy relationships. After decades of hearing the virtues of globalisation, the world today is grappling with the reality of industrial policies, export controls and tariff...
India Imposes Anti-Dumping Duty On Five Chinese Products
NEW DELHI: India has imposed anti-dumping duty on five Chinese goods, including vacuum flasks and aluminium foil, during the month so far to guard domestic players from cheap imports from the neighbouring country. These duties were imposed as these products — Soft Ferrite Cores, certain thickness of vacuum insulated...
Public Sector Banks’ Dividend Rises 33 Per Cent To Rs 27,830 Crore In Fiscal Year 24
NEW DELHI: Dividend payout by public sector banks (PSBs) have risen by 33 per cent to Rs 27,830 Crore in FY24, indicating significant improvement in financial health of these lenders. PSBs declared a dividend of Rs 27,830 Crore to shareholders in 2023-24 as against Rs 20,964 Crore in the...
Tamil Nadu Gets Major PLI Projects In Electronics, Automobile: Sitharaman
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has emerged as a key beneficiary under the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, receiving a significant share of projects in the electronics and automobile sectors, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said. Addressing an event organised by Chennai Citizens’ forum on Saturday evening, Sitharaman dismissed charges of the...
Customs Rule Of Origin Changes May Raise Compliance Cost For Importers: GTRI
NEW DELHI: The amendments in the customs rules to tighten checks on goods imported under free trade agreements (FTAs) could make it harder for businesses to do imports at concessional duties and may increase compliance cost, economic think tank GTRI said on Sunday. However, it said the move would...
Noted Hindi Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla To Be Given 59th Jnanpith Award For The Year 2024
NEW DELHI: The 59th Jnanpith Award for the year 2024 is being awarded to eminent Hindi litterateur Shri Vinod Kumar Shukla. He has been accorded this honour for his creativity, unique writing style and huge contribution to Hindi literature. This is the 12th time a Hindi writer is being...
Fires That Never Broke Out And Hidden Monies Never Unearthed
By K Raveendran It would be an understatement that the discovery of a large stash of cash from the residence of Delhi High Court Justice Yashwant Varma has sent shockwaves. This unexpected incident has raised uncomfortable questions about corruption and integrity within the judiciary, often viewed as the guardian...
China Further Closes Its Technology Gap In Outer Space Vis A Vis U.S. In Dogfighting Satellites
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: China never ceases to amaze. It is now practicing “dogfighting” satellites as part of its enhanced program in defense preparedness in outer space that includes extending the conventional dog fights in the air between fighter jets to satellites. The United States Space Force...
AAP Reshuffle Enables Arvind Kejriwal For Greater National Political Role
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Only after a month and half of the Delhi Election setback, AAP has reshuffled its organization which reveals the party’s national aspirations. AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has been spared the regional organizational burden to focus on the party’s national aspirations and national politics. As for...
AAP Ruled Punjab Govt Has Tarnished Its Image By Badly Handling Farmers’ Stir
By Arun Srivastava AAP’s pretention of being a progressive and liberal political organ has been badly hurt by its action to evict the farmers from the Punjab Haryana border. What happened yesterday imbibes highest order of deviousness of AAP. Over these years, Arvind Kejriwal had tried to create the...
Mahayuti Govt Partners Differ On How To Deal With Communal Violence
By Sushil Kutty It is getting awfully crowded in that space where Muslims hold the key to any secular party’s electoral advantage. Every secular politician of note, even those with linkages to communal elements, is out to assure the growing Muslim population that “protection” is theirs for the asking;...
‘Referendum’ Route For Separation Of Hilly Region In Manipur
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: ‘Referendum’ as a route to bring into larger focus the demand for a separate administration for the hills part of Manipur where Kuki-Zos are dominant inhabitants ? As the ethnic conflict that started on May 3, 2023 raged and Manipur came to be referred...
From Berlin, Germany’s Militarist Build-Up Looks Frightening And Insane
By Victor Grossman BERLIN: Some world events can look different to those of us in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at what Trump, Vance and Musk are doing and planning. Nor do I love Putin. But what I hate above all else is war, which is looks...
How A Marxist Understanding Helps In Assessing Doge’s Impact On U.S. Economy
By David Calnitsky NEW YORK: Elon Musk and Donald Trump are attempting to transform the architecture of the federal government. The American state under their influence is not merely a vehicle for broad capitalist governance but a tool for the personal enrichment of individual business elites. Many of Department...
Separate E-Commerce Inflation Index Likely
NEW DELHI: The ministry of statistics and programme implementation (MoSPI) is considering launching a new inflation index, which would track retail prices of items being sold on e-commerce platforms. The new index will not be part of the consumer price index (CPI), but will be released along with the...
Commerce Ministry To Seek Extra Funds For Export Mission
NEW DELHI: The ministry of commerce and industry will seek additional funds for the newly announced Export Promotion Mission (EPM), once the umbrella scheme that will absorb various export promotion initiatives gets approval from the Cabinet. “Under EPM it (department) is working to carve out an umbrella scheme with...
No Tax Demand After Resolution Plan Approval, Says Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court (SC) has said that no tax demand, even if raised by the income-tax (I-T) department, can be allowed to be included in a resolution plan after the said plan has been approved by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy...
