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Large Capex Loans To States Seen In FY26 Too, With A Hike
NEW DELHI: The Centre will continue to turbocharge public capital expenditure by extending liberal capex loans to state governments for the sixth year in a row in FY26. It may either keep the outlay for the 50-year interest-free loans for the next fiscal at Rs 1.5 lakh crore, the...
INDIA Bloc Is A Dilapidated House Now, Should Be Renovated
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Delhi elections has clearly shown that the opposition INDIA bloc has now become a dilapidated house in which the walls and pillars are falling apart. Saying two of its allies – Congress and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has broken away, will be an understatement, since...
India’s Improved Relations With Taliban Make Sound Diplomatic And Economic Sense
By Sushil Kutty Why is India talking with the Taliban? The Taliban are a throwback to the early Muslim invaders who made inroads into the subcontinent and who did the talking only with the sword? They came in through the Khyber Pass and ran rampage from the border to...
‘GDP-Nationalism’ Is A Neoliberal Project That Doesn’t Serve The People
By Prabhat Patnaik Liberal opinion is invariably opposed to “nationalism”. It treats “nationalism” as a homogeneous term that necessarily entails a non-friendly, non-accommodative and rivalrous attitude towards other countries. This view however is completely erroneous; anti-colonial third world nationalism is entirely different from the nationalism that developed in Europe...
Congress In Backfoot Over TMC, SP And UBT Support To AAP In Delhi Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra I.N.D.I.A. allies are flexing their muscles in the bloc against the Congress with Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Party announcing their support to Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP in the Delhi Assembly elections. While Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena (UBT) too announced to support the AAP and moving ahead...
Big Political Setback For Congress In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Congress party in Kerala has suffered a major political setback with the Wayanad police slapping charges of abetment to suicide against Sulthan Bathery MLA and Congress leader I.C. Balakrishnan. The case has been filed as part of the investigation into the suspected death by...
Latest Household Consumption Expenditure Survey Shows Challenges For Poor
By Sanjay Roy The National Statistical Office has recently released the fact sheet of Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2023-24. It is the second survey report of the annual series that begun in 2022-23 after a long gap since the 68th Round Consumption Expenditure Survey released by the government in...
Defence Ministry To Reform Procurement Policy In 6-12 Months
NEW DELHI: India’s defence procurement policy, criticised for delays and inefficiencies, will be reformed within six months to a year, Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh said on Tuesday. His remarks follow the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD’s) decision to observe 2025 as the “Year of Reforms” and its December announcement...
India’s Economy Likely To Grow 6.6% In 2025, 6.7% In 2026: UN Report
NEW DELHI: The Indian economy is expected to grow by 6.6 per cent in 2025 and 6.7 per cent in 2026, supported by solid private consumption and investment growth, according to the United Nations (UN) flagship report, World Economic Situation and Prospects 2025, released on Thursday. Keeping its 2025...
Telecom Companies Seek Easing Of ‘Stringent Quality Of Service’ Norms
NEW DELHI: Continuing to push back against the stringent quality of service (QoS) norms brought in by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), telcos have informed the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that collection and submission of monthly and site-to-cell-level data should be eased, officials and industry sources said....
Industry Calls For Easier FDI Rules To Boost Flows
NEW DELHI: Industry and law firms have suggested an increase in FDI cap for R&D and security agencies, liberalising regulations for agriculture and plantations and streamlining rules for flow of investments from China to make the overall regime more attractive.The issues were flagged during a consultation by the department...
Simplified Income Tax Law In Budget Session To Skip Reforms
NEW DELHI: The much-awaited revamped Income-Tax Act, which will be far simpler and more unambiguous than the current one, may be tabled in the Budget session of Parliament, with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman piloting it in her Budget speech. The new law, however, is unlikely to be used as...
RSS To Take Full Charge Of 2026 Assembly Elections In West Bengal
By Arun Srivastava RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat visiting Bengal for ten days is certainly not such a big news to draw attention. But his stay this time attains importance for the reason that he would discuss the state of the BJP and RSS in the state and give direction...
Latest UGC Draft Regulation Is A Direct Attack On The Principles Of Federalism
By P. Sudhir The New Year 2025 started with another assault on the education system. The Modi government, through the UGC, announced new draft regulations titled, ‘University Grants Commission (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for Maintenance of...
Low GDP Figures For 2024-25 Show The Need For Some Policy Rethinking
By Anjan Roy No sooner than the latest GDP advanced estimates were released, doomsday sayers have stated with settled conviction that India has slowed down and should not claw back into the 8%-plus performance bracket in the next few years. Theirs view is that India might remain in the...
The Year 2025 Begins As A Dangerous Year For Probing Journalists In India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The year 2025 begins with the murder of an independent journalist Mukesh Chandrakar in Bastar, a conflict zone for over three decades in Chhattisgarh in India, that witnessed many attacks and counterattacks between Maoist rebels and security forces. The incident retags India as one of...
Modi Govt Still Unconcerned About The Just Demands Of The Farmers
By Krishna Jha The newly proposed farm laws that have been released now are worse than the earlier one against which the farmers sat on path breaking Dharna on the borders of the capital in 2020-2021. Irrespective of extreme weather, they had refused to compromise. These laws were brought...
BJP Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Completes One Month With Confidence
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the eagle soaring with a bird’s eye view of what’s happening to Maharashtra under his watch as also what should be happening and what should not? Fadnavis is the Chief Minister everybody is talking about as if there isn’t a...
