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Pope Leo XIV’s Strong Criticism Of Iran War By Trump Sure To Impact November Midterm
By Kevin Gallagher NEW Y0RK: “Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.” As thousands of believers filled St Peter’s Square in the Vatican for the rites of Palm Sunday this year, Pope Leo XIV chose to include in his homily...
In Open Letter To PM, Bernstein Flags Structural Risks To India’s Growth
MUMBAI: Global brokerage Bernstein has flagged a series of structural risks to India’s growth trajectory, cautioning that it could “under-deliver on its potential” unless key policy bottlenecks are addressed. The India strategy note, styled as an ‘open letter to the Prime Minister’, marks a reprise of a similar exercise...
India’s Gross FDI Remains Strong, But Net Flows Stay Near Record Lows: Morgan Stanley
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign direct investment (FDI) outlook remains mixed, with strong gross inflows offset by persistently weak net inflows, according to a report by Morgan Stanley. The report noted that gross FDI is likely to remain well supported, driven by both greenfield and brownfield investments. However, net FDI...
Manufacturing Lifts India’s Private Sector Activity In April: Report
NEW DELHI: India’s private sector activity recovered in April on the back of growing output and sales primarily in manufacturing, after receding to a three-year low in March due to the West Asia conflict, a private survey said on Thursday. HSBC’s flash India Composite Purchasing Managers’ Output Index (PMI),...
RBI Net-Bought $7.4 Billion In February, Highest Since March 2025: Bulletin
MUMBAI: Just before the West Asia conflict started, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) net bought $7.4 billion from the spot foreign exchange market in February, its highest buy since March 2025, according to the central bank’s monthly bulletin. It heavily intervened in the foreign exchange market by selling...
India’s Billionaire Population To Grow By 51% To 313 By 2031
NEW DELHI: India’s billionaire population is forecast to rise by 51 per cent from 207 in early 2026 to 313 by 2031, according to Knight Frank. The growth rate is estimated to outperform China (20 per cent) and the US (12 per cent). India’s current share of global billionaires,...
Narendra Modi And Amit Shah’s Vicious Attacks On Mamata Catapult Her To National Stage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the first phase of election in West Bengal in underway on April 23, the electoral battle for the second phase of election to be held on April 29 has now become a rare spectacle in which Bengal Tigress Mamata Banerjee is seen fighting back...
The Quiet Hollowing Of India’s State Assemblies Before The 2026 Polls
By R. Suryamurthy If elections are the theatre of democracy, legislatures are meant to be its workshop—the place where power is questioned, policy is tested, and governments are forced to explain themselves. Yet, as several states head into high-stakes assembly elections in 2026, that workshop looks increasingly deserted. The...
BJP’s Electoral Discourse Hateful And Devoid Of Accountability
By Nilotpal Basu The assembly elections in the five states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry are extremely important. But the context and the objective which the BJP is trying to pursue is unique in many ways. For the neo-fascist characteristics it has come to assume,...
Women’s Reservation: A New Colour To The Old Deception Of The RSS–BJP
By Mahesh Kumar Rathi The question of women’s reservation is not merely a legislative issue before Indian democracy; it is also a decisive question that shapes the direction of power, ideology, and social justice. However, the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party has presented this issue transforms it...
India Faces Rising Food Inflation Risk Amid Fertiliser Supply Disruptions: FAO Chief Economist
NEW DELHI: India faces rising risks of food inflation despite a USD 18.6 billion fertilizer subsidy for FY2026-27, as global supply disruptions triggered by the ongoing US-Iran conflict threaten input availability ahead of the critical Kharif sowing season, FAO’s (Food and Agriculture Organization) Chief Economist Maximo Torero told ANI...
India Fiscal Deficit May Breach Target, Rise To 4.5% In FY27: BMI
NEW DELHI: India’s fiscal deficit is likely to breach the government’s target of 4.3 per cent and reach 4.5 per cent of GDP in 2026-27 (FY27), as higher subsidy spending and policy support measures strain public finances, according to a report by BMI, which is a unit of Fitch...
India Can Sustain Growth Despite Crude At $90-100 Per Barrel: Assocham
NEW DELHI: India will manage high energy prices without compromising economic growth owing to the country’s increased resilience to high energy costs, industry body Assocham said, citing an analysis which states that India absorbed severe oil shocks while growth remained strong in the past. “Data analysed by the industry...
RBI Tightens Capital Norms For Non-Bank PPI Issuers; Clamps Down On Small Wallets
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed stricter capital requirements for non-bank prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers and tightened norms governing low-KYC “small” wallets, as part of a comprehensive overhaul of its wallet framework. In the new draft master direction on PPIs released on Wednesday, the central...
India’s Unemployment To Tick Up, Inflation To Rise In 2026: Moody’s
NEW DELHI: India’s unemployment rate is projected to rise marginally to 7.0 per cent in 2026 from 6.9 per cent in 2025, which is the highest among its peers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, according to Moody’s Analytics’ latest Asia-Pacific outlook report. India is followed by China and New...
Oil Refusal To Hit $100 Reveals Confidence Against Supply Disruption
By K Raveendran Oil’s refusal to break decisively towards $100 a barrel, despite a tense geopolitical backdrop and repeated threats tied to the Strait of Hormuz, says something important about how markets are reading the balance between rhetoric and reality. At one level, the price action looks counterintuitive. A...
Pakistan’s Peacemaker Moment, A Challenge To India’s Global Leadership
By Asad Mirza Pakistan’s emergence as a diplomatic intermediary between the United States and Iran has introduced an unexpected variable into South Asia’s strategic equation. For a country more often associated in global discourse with internal instability and regional tensions, Islamabad’s role — whether seen as substantive mediation or...
BJP’s Chanakya Amit Shah Masterminding Poll Preparations In Bengal Sitting From His Hotel
By Arun Srivastava While a popular movement against the mass deletion of voter names with the slogan “Apnar vote, jader naam kata gache tader janya” ( your vote for those whose names have been deleted) launched at the call of Mamata Banerjee to “take revenge” through the ballot, has...
