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Adani Overtakes Ambani To Become Asia’s Richest With $92.6 Billion Net Worth
NEW DELHI: Tycoon Gautam Adani has overtaken fellow Gujarat business czar Mukesh Ambani to become Asia’s richest person, as a sustained rally in shares of his ports-to-energy conglomerate lifted his net worth. With a net worth of $92.6 billion, Adani surpassed Ambani, whose fortune stands at $90.8 billion, to...
India’s Smartphone Shipments Drop 3% In January-March, Mark Weakest Quarter In 6 Years
NEW DELHI: Supply-side cost pressures and weak demand took a toll on India’s smartphone shipments, which fell 3 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2026, suffering its weakest quarter in the last six years, according to Counterpoint Research’s Monthly India Smartphone Tracker. On the outlook, Research Director Tarun Pathak said...
India Emerges As Global Capital Magnet With $4.4 Trillion Market Cap: SEBI Chief
MUMBAI: India is increasingly being recognised as a stable global capital hub, with its market capitalisation at about US$4.4 trillion and around US$154 billion raised through equity and debt markets in FY26, according to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey. Speaking at a high-level...
Higher Wages Fail To Move The Needle For Workers Amid Rising Living Costs
NEW DELHI: Dinesh Kumar’s story reflects a wider reality playing out across industrial hubs such as Noida (Uttar Pradesh) and Manesar (Haryana). A tailor from Moradabad in UP, Kumar moved to Noida in 2014 in search of better prospects, and began working in a textile factory for about Rs...
Avoiding Voting On Bills, Modi Govt Brings Women’s Reservation In Force From April 16
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Showing its impatience, PM Narendra Modi led government, has notified the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam 2023. The government implemented it from April 16, 2026, the same day after it introduced an amendment to the Act in the Lok Sabha, after convening a three-day special session...
Iran’s Political Leadership Is Showing Remarkable Resilience Against U.S. Pressure
By Asad Mirza As tensions intensify between Iran, Israel, and the United States, one thing has become increasingly clear: Iran has managed not only to respond to sustained pressure but to endure it far longer than many analysts had anticipated. In an era defined by advanced surveillance systems, sophisticated...
Delimitation And The Quiet Rewriting Of India’s Federal Compact
By R. Suryamurthy India’s proposed delimitation exercise, long deferred and constitutionally mandated, is now being revived with a sense of administrative inevitability. Yet to treat it as a mere technical correction is to miss the deeper transformation it portends. What is unfolding is not simply a recalibration of parliamentary...
TMC Focuses On Identity Politics To Take On BJP In The Kudmi Belt
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Both BJP and Trinamool Congress are wary of an undercurrent of unrest among Kudmi community in Purulia, Jhargram and Bankura districts with days to go before first phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal. Shifting voter loyalty and identity politics are shaping contests in these...
Mamata’s Messed Up Tajpur Deep Sea Project Can Impact Purba Medinipur Polls
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Has West Bengal’s chief minister Mamata Banerjee, in her habitual practice of appropriating to herself all credit, bungled the much talked about Tajpur deep sea project in Purba Medinipur district? Two quotes throw enough pointers how the chief minister has been playing with the...
CM Siddaramaiah Pushes For Cabinet Reshuffle In Karnataka
By Rahil Nora Chopra Amid recent discussions about the possible leadership changes in the Karnataka Congress, Yathindra Siddaramaiah has strongly backed his father, while Siddaramaiah has reiterated that there is no threat to his position as Chief Minister. Now Siddaramaiah’s camp is pushing for a cabinet reshuffle and legislators...
West Asian War Has Led To Loss Of Jobs In A Large Part Of The World
By Krishna Jha War is the negative outcome of evolution. The Gulf war has proved it once again. Production has critically gone down due to the crisis in availability of energy and raw material. If the crisis persists, the notion of easy access to Gulf energy may become a...
AI Layoffs In U.S. High Tech Companies Reveal The Logic Of Capitalism
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Something has shifted in the way American corporations talk about firing people. Not long ago, a wave of mass layoffs was read as a bad omen—a company in trouble, cutting losses, circling the drain. Today, on Wall Street and in the business press, the...
125 To 150cc: A New Phase Of Technology In Everyday Motorcycling
By Raju Kumar Over time, the nature of motorbikes has evolved rapidly and meaningfully. There was a time when simple, lightweight 100cc bikes focused purely on mileage were the first choice for most people. Today, however, the 125cc to 150cc segment reflects a new balance of technology, safety, and...
Govt Forms High-Level Inter-Ministerial Body To Steer Ai Governance Plan
NEW DELHI: A high-level inter-ministerial body, AI Governance and Economic Group, headed by Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, has been constituted to steer the country’s national AI governance strategy, an official statement said on Thursday. AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG) will coordinate policy across ministries, departments and sectoral...
Asia Will Remain Main Driver Of Global Growth, Says IMF
WASHINGTON: Asia will remain the main driver of global growth with India and China contributing 70 per cent of the regional expansion, the IMF said Thursday, adding that the energy shock due to the Gulf crisis will negatively impact the region. However, the five per cent regional growth witnessed...
India’s Liquidity Surplus Hides Deeper Funding Stress In Banking System
As of 6 April 2026, the banking system was in a liquidity surplus of about Rs 3.8 trillion. This is a reasonably comfortable headline number, equivalent to roughly 1.5% of banks’ net demand and time liabilities (NDTL). Yet, this headline surplus masks a much more uneasy underlying reality. Despite...
European Union Examines Expansion Of CBAM To 180 More Items
NEW DELHI: The European Union has started examining the proposal to expand the scope of carbon tax and bring 180 new steel and aluminium products under it from January 2028. The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety has recommended to EU parliament for expanding the...
Agri & Processed Food Exports Rise Just Two Per Cent In FY26
NEW DELHI: India’s exports of agricultural and processed food products rose by a modest 2% year-on-year to $25.71 billion in 2025-26, as shipments of rice, which has the biggest share in this export basket, declined due to geopolitical factors. The value of rice exports including basmati and non-basmati varieties,...
