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WTO To Set Up Dispute Panel In China’s Case Against India’s Trade Measures
NEW DELHI: The World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body on Tuesday agreed to set up a panel in a case filed by China against India over its measures for the solar cells, modules, and IT goods, an official said. China has alleged that India’s tariffs and incentive measures discriminate...
Businesses Seek Uniform GST Audits, Fewer Tax Disputes: Deloitte Survey
NEW DELHI: Businesses have expressed near-universal confidence in the goods and services tax (GST) nine years after its rollout, but they want GST authorities across states to adopt a more uniform approach while examining returns and compliance records, according to Deloitte India’s GST@9 survey released on Tuesday. The survey,...
Indian Inc Seeks To Ward Off Tariff Risk With Tighter Supply-Chain Audits, Traceability
MUMBAI: Despite the absence of a specific law prohibiting goods linked to forced labour across supply chains, Indian manufacturers ranging from textiles and apparel to auto components, processed foods and steel have put in place stringent frameworks, including multi-layered compliance mechanisms, traceability systems, documentation protocols and adherence to global...
Banks Draw Up Cyber Defence Strategies To Tackle AI Risks
MUMBAI: Indian banks are converging on a four-pillar cybersecurity framework comprising code and identity concealment, AI-driven threat detection, micro-segmentation, and zero-trust architecture as they prepare defences against frontier AI models capable of autonomously identifying software vulnerabilities, sources aware of the lenders’ action plans told ET. In such plans submitted...
Three Years After Founding, INDIA Bloc Is Facing Uncertainty On Its Future
By Nitya Chakraborty The opposition INDIA bloc which completed its three years on June 23 is passing through a critical period when the very foundation of this alliance, the strong regional parties, are shattered by defections and splits backed by the ruling party BJP. Mamata Banerjee who gave the...
Keir Starmer Lost Support Both From Right Wingers As Also Labour Left
By Arun Srivastava British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s exit was forced by a massive mutiny, spearheaded by the leftist and Marxist factions within his Labour Party as his tenure was defined by a decisive shift to the political right and the systematic abandoning of the party’s socialist base....
Cuban Government Announces Emergency Reforms To Pep Up Economy
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: State capitalism, socialist market economy, New Economic Policy—whatever term supporters or critics of the Cuban Revolution want to use, it’s clear that the emergency reforms being proposed in the island nation under seize by the U.S. through economic blockade, will bring major changes to...
Bollywood Is Undergoing A Churning – Big Budget Films With Super Stars Are Not Clicking
By T N Ashok For decades, Bollywood operated on a simple formula. Cast a superstar, spend lavishly on songs and action sequences, release the film across thousands of screens, and wait for the cash registers to ring. The bigger the budget, the bigger the expected success. That formula is...
China Has Been Conducting Its Gaokao Test Involving More Than One Crore Students
By Tirthankar Mitra The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for MBBS and BDS courses was held on June 21. About 20 lakh students appeared in it which was a re-test held a few weeks after allegations of leakage of questions led to the cancellation of the first examination....
Medical Experts Are Apprehensive On Dengue Upsurge In South Asian Countries In 2026
By Ashis Biswas A major outbreak of dengue fever is sweeping over South Asian countries this year; in India, the reduced rainfall during the current weak monsoon season has emerged as a negative factor. While the number of affected persons and dengue-related deaths are significantly higher in India in...
Low-Tech Longevity Investments Could Unlock $6 Trillion By 2040
By Satyaki Chakraborty Low-tech, low-cost strategies could prevent 400 million falls at home, 8.5 million new type 2 diabetes cases and 2.4 million dementia cases by 2040, while unlocking $5.8 trillion in healthcare savings and $645 billion in productivity gains. Yet much of that opportunity remains unrealized because governments...
Indian Vessels Must Avoid War Zones Across The World
By Nantoo Banerjee It is surprising that the government took over three months’ time to issue a directive to Indian shipping companies to restrict operation through conflict-stricken waters in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz following lethal US attacks on a foreign vessel causing the death of three...
Defections And Splits In Regional Parties Are Harming The Democratic Process
By Kalyani Shankar The Indian Opposition is facing considerable political challenges due to ongoing conflicts within its parties. This complex political landscape, where party switching and defections have become common, is understandably worrying for many. Such actions can erode trust, weaken accountability, and put our democratic stability at risk....
Pro-Trump Lawyer Espriella Wins Colombia Presidential Polls By A Narrow Margin
By Nitya Chakraborty Pro-Trump far right billionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella won the Presidential elections run off on Sunday defeating the candidate of the ruling Left coalition Ivan Cepeda by a narrow margin. Espriella got 49.66 per cent of the votes while Cepeda got 48.7 per cent. The...
Modi Declaring June 20 As Paschimbanga Divas Is A Travesty Of History
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 20 at Tarkeshwar near Kolkata spun a fresh yarn, promising to create a “New Bengal” (Viksit Bangla), as he christened the day “Paschimbanga Divas” (West Bengal Day), since it was on this day that BJP/RSS icon Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who...
Modi Govt’s Delimitation Proposal Has Many Political Fault Lines
By T N Ashok Few issues in contemporary Indian politics carry consequences as profound as the impending delimitation exercise. While elections dominate headlines every few months, delimitation has the potential to alter the balance of political power for decades. It is not merely about drawing constituency boundaries. It is...
Mamata’s Woes Mount As HDFC Bank Freezes TMC Party’s Deposits
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: It is political theatre of absurd in Bengal as the former Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo is witnessing the desertions of TMC leaders close to her and reports coming in from the districts of the state of the closure of the party offices or...
India Is Now Emerging More As Arms Manufacturer Than An Importer
By T N Ashok When Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India must “build arms and not just buy them,” he is articulating perhaps the most important shift in Indian defence policy since economic liberalization in 1991. The statement is not merely about weapons. It is about sovereignty, technology, strategic...
