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No Windfall Tax On Oil Companies After New Law: H S Puri
NEW DELHI: Oil and gas companies will not face any new taxes like the windfall profits tax after the coming into effect of a new law that promises stability of fiscal regime, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. Parliament has passed the Oilfields (Regulation and Development) Bill, 2024 that...
Rupee Rises One Paisa Against US Dollar
MUMBAI: The rupee stayed firm and appreciated 1 paisa to close at 86.36 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday supported by positive domestic equities. Forex traders said the Indian rupee has staged a counterattack against external pressures, gaining support from strong foreign inflows into debt markets. However, risks...
Investors’ Wealth Surges Rs 17.43 Lakh Crore In Four Days Of Market Rally
NEW DELHI: Market investors kitty swelled by Rs 17.43 Lakh Crore in four days of sharp rally in equities where the BSE benchmark Sensex jumped over 3 per cent. On Thursday, the 30-share benchmark Sensex jumped 899.01 points or 1.19 per cent to settle at 76,348.06, regaining the 76,000...
Adani Group In Advance Talks To Acquire Real Estate Company Emaar India
NEW DELHI: Billionaire Gautam Adani’s group is in advanced talks to acquire real estate company Emaar India for an enterprise value of around $1.4-1.5 Billion as it looks to expand its property business, according to sources. Dubai-based Emaar Properties entered the Indian real estate market in 2005 in partnership...
India’s ‘AI for All’ Mantra Backed By Concrete Action: Jitin Prasada
NEW DELHI: India’s ‘AI for All’ mantra is backed by concrete action with the country leading in AI skill penetration and talent concentration, Union Minister Jitin Prasada said on Thursday as he urged industry leaders to prioritise research and development (R&D) to capitalise on India’s position as a global...
Meeting Of Southern States CMs Convened By M K Stalin On Delimitation Is Important
By P. Sudhir As the year 2026 approaches, the issue of the delimitation of parliamentary and assembly constituencies is drawing public attention and controversy. This is the year when the freeze on the number of seats will end, and the next round of delimitation must be undertaken following the...
Farmers In India At A Turning Point With Their Protest Sites In Punjab Bulldozed
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Just after the seventh round of talks between agitating farmers representatives of Punjab and the central delegation ended inconclusively on March 19, 2025, the Punjab Police came into action, arrested hundreds of protesting farmers from various places including from the protest sites at Shambu and...
What Does Elon Musk’s Starlink Entry Into Indian Telecom Market Mean?
By Prabir Purkayastha The announcements of Musk’s SpaceX-Starlink’s tie-up with Jio Reliance (Jio is a trademark of Reliance Industries) and Bharti Airtel, the two dominant players, raise a number of questions. The two key questions are: i) Will it mean a greater monopolization in telecom services? ii) Will satellite...
Violence In Nagpur Reveals Utter Confusion Amongst Sangh Parivar Units
By Sushil Kutty The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is confused. Confusing ‘glorification’ with ‘irrelevant’ and vice versa, leaving everybody in the Sangh Parivar confused. RSS’ top spokesperson Sunil Ambekar couldn’t clearly enunciate who are the glorifiers of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb or why “glorification of Aurangzeb” is “irrelevant” to present times?...
Narendra Modi’s Meeting With RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat At Nagpur Is Crucial
By Arun Srivastava “Sangh Saranam Gachchami”. Yes, after a long eleven years’ of insolence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting the RSS headquarters at Nagpur on March 30 for meeting the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and paying his obeisance. In recent months Modi has been trying to send...
Maruti Workers’ Protest Demanding ‘Equal Pay For Equal Work’ Has Big Significance
By Dr. Kingshuk Sarkar A section of the former and current workers of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. (MSIL) has been agitating against the carmaker’s alleged illegal and unethical labour practices for the last five months. Rallying under the aegis of the Maruti Suzuki Struggle Committee, the workers had been...
Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Is Tense As Trump’s April 2 Deadline Approaches
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Can India follow the Chinese model with retaliatory tariffs against the US duties on Indian goods as US president Donald Trump, despite his bonhomie with Indian premier Narendra Modi, publicly declared that Indian tariffs on US products were among the highest and so...
Trump Administration Making Good Work Of Cuban Doctors Difficult In Other Countries
By W. T. Whitney Jr. NEW YORK: The U.S. government is at war with Cuban doctors working in other countries. Currently, 24,180 Cuban healthcare providers, mostly doctors, perform duties in 56 countries. On Feb. 17, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions directed at people associated with Cuba’s...
There Is Good Scope Of A Viable Left Alternative Outside Starmer’s Labour
By Andrew Murray LONDON: “The centrists in Labour are worried that an authentically left-wing rival party could emerge.”Thus the usually interesting Telegraph columnist Sherelle Jacobs, apparently channelling the apprehensions of Downing Street. Have the centrists — generous term by now — anything to be worried about? “Yes” would be...
Trade War, Tariff To Impact Global Growth, Fuel Inflation: RBI Report
MUMBAI: Escalating trade tensions amid a tariff war after Donald Trump took over as President of the United States (US) could adversely impact global growth and fuel inflation, an article on the “State of the Economy” in the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) monthly bulletin said. Citing estimates, the...
Parliamentary Panel Calls For Coordinated Approach To Reduce Debt To GDP Ratio
NEW DELHI: The Standing Committee on Finance, in its report tabled in Parliament on Wednesday, has called for the adoption of a comprehensive and coordinated approach to monitor and manage general government debt, ensuring that both the central and state governments adhere to prudent fiscal policies. Ajay Seth, secretary,...
Govt Recommends 12% Provisional Safeguard Duty On Select Steel Items
NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR), under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has recommended a 12 per cent safeguard duty on certain steel products for 200 days to protect the domestic industry from what it describes as “serious injury” caused by a recent surge in...
India For Staggered Free Trade Pacts For Faster Outcomes
NEW DELHI: India has suggested that talks for free trade agreements (FTAs) should initially focus on core trade issues and that the comprehensive agreements can be concluded in phases, commerce secretary Sunil Barthwal said on Wednesday. This will deliver results faster, he said at the 10th CII India-Latin America...
