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Pakistan’s Ailing Economy Getting Big Boost From Russian Assistance
By Ashis Biswas Pakistan is urgently seeking financial and other help from Russia and China, even as it faces a double-edged threat to its own territorial security from the Balochistan Liberation Army and Afghanistan-based Talibans. Present indications suggest that the response from Russia has been more encouraging in recent...
Sunita Williams Makes A Huge Splash In India On Her Return To Earth
By Sushil Kutty NASA astronaut, Indian-American Sunita Williams, smiled and waved on returning to Earth from somewhere in Space where she was stranded for 286 days. No, Sunita Williams didn’t stop in Space to gaze at the sky all around her but because she didn’t have control of the...
Israeli Massacre In Gaza Has Exposed Once Again The Dark Side Of Netanyahu
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Words wilt in the face of the fresh murderous horrors being unleashed on the people of Gaza by the depraved state of Israel once more. Cynically breaking a ceasefire agreement it had itself signed up to, Netanyahu and his cohorts massacred more than four hundred...
WPI Inflation May Shoot Up In March On Higher Metal Prices, Fed And Tariff Concerns
NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rose marginally to 2.38 per cent in February on higher global commodity prices and is expected to increase further in March on higher metal prices, stated a report by Barclays. “While inflation in manufactured products rose and deflation in fuel &...
India, New Zealand Set Tight Deadline For Free Trade Agreement
NEW DELHI: India and New Zealand have set a deadline of 60 days to wrap up discussions on their Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and a goal to grow bilateral trade 10-fold in the next 10 years. “I look forward to, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, signing that agreement...
Domestic Steel Prices Rise But Looming Global Trade War Sparks Concerns
KOLKATA: Domestic steel prices have seen an increase over the past couple of months in anticipation of a safeguard duty, but a looming global trade war is likely to weigh as threat of import rises and prospect of export flounders. Data from BigMint showed that in March 2025, hot...
India’s Coddled Billionaires Feel The Pain Of US Tariffs
There’s still two weeks to go before US President Donald Trump’s April 2 deadline for imposing reciprocal taxes on imports. But New Delhi already seems to have gone into damage-control mode, anticipating the worst. Over 24 hours last week, two of India’s largest wireless carriers, whose billionaire owners were...
Bank Lending To Large Companies Rose 6.4 Per Cent In January
MUMBAI: Bank lending to large companies is climbing finally after a protracted post-Covid slump, although the majority of the funds so garnered are being used as working capital – not for private-sector capital-asset financing. Lending to large corporations climbed 6.4% in January this year, compared with 5.7% in the...
Remembering Dedicated Communist Indrajit Gupta On His 106th Birth Anniversary
By Nitya Chakraborty Indrajit Gupta, the dedicated Communist leader of India in the last century and an outstanding Parliamentarian dominated the country’s trade union movement and the Left movement for the last sixty years of the 20th century. He belonged to that generation of leaders from undivided Bengal whose...
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies Getting Ready For Transformation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak One lakh Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) connecting around 13 crore small and marginal farmers are getting big boost to be ultimately transformed under the new Union Ministry of Cooperation created in July 2021, though the performance of the ministry has been dismal so far,...
Why Is Dr. Muhammad Yunus So Worried At Tulsi Gabbard’s Comments On Attacks Against Hindus?
By Sushil Kutty United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard spoke for the Hindu against perpetrators of wrongs against the community and the Muhammad Yunus-led interim government of Bangladesh reacted almost immediately, challenging Gabbard to provide “evidence”. “This statement is both misleading and damaging to the image and...
BJP In Uttar Pradesh Undertaking Major Changes Focusing On State Polls In 2027
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The BJP in Uttar Pradesh is facing tough time to maintain caste balance in the selection of district presidents and state president to make the organisation strong enough to face state Assembly polls in 2027 and panchayat polls. Instead of going for election, the party...
From Mahmoud Khalil To Umar Khalid, Dissent Is Suppressed By Authoritarian Regimes
By Deeksha Dwivedi The recent arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in the United States, an active member of Columbia University’s protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza, takes me back to 2016 when student political leaders Umar Khalid, Kanhaiya Kumar and Anirban Bhattacharya were arrested by the Delhi Police on...
Greenland Election Results Give No Relief To Trump In Realising His Ambition
By Huw Paige NEW YORK: In the last few months, the phenomenon of fake news has come to Greenland. Ads posted on Facebook, Greenland’s main social network, variously suggested that two prominent politicians had either been sued by the Bank of Greenland or physically attacked, or that Elon Musk...
India, New Zealand Explore Digital Payments, Trade, And Investment Ties
NEW DELHI: India and New Zealand have agreed for talks to boost cooperation in digital payments and greater two-way trade and investment during the ongoing visit of New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. A day after both nations revived talks on a proposed free-trade agreement (FTA) after a hiatus...
Exports Shrink 10.9% In February, The Worst Show In 20 Months
NEW DELHI: India’s merchandise trade deficit plummeted to a three-and-a-half-year low of $14.05 billion in February, as exports and imports saw a sharp contraction due to softening global petroleum prices and rising economic uncertainty amid restrictive trade practices by the United States. The trade deficit — the gap between...
Wholesale Inflation Increases Slightly To 2.38% In February
NEW DELHI: India’s wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rose slightly to 2.38 per cent in February from 2.31 per cent in January. This came as prices of manufactured products saw an increase and the deflation in fuel prices narrowed during the month. Meanwhile, food prices cooled further, government data...
Contours Of Trade Pact With US To Be Finalised In 2-3 Weeks
NEW DELHI: India has not brought up the issue of reciprocal tariffs in its discussions with the US, and talks are concentrating on the scope of the Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) and the ways to increase the bilateral trade to $ 500 billion by 2030. “It is not known...
