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Modi Government Introduced Three Bills To Change Electoral Map Of India
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the first day of the three-day Special Session – April 16 to April 18, 2026 – of the Parliament convened by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government, three legislations have been introduced seeking to change the electoral map of India. Lok Sabha Speaker...
Iran’s Threat Of Counter Blockade Has Damaging Consequences For Oil Importing Nations
By Anjan Roy Responding ominously to American blockade of the Hormuz Strait, Iran has threatened a counter-blockade over a vast stretch of waters from Red Sea in the west to Gulf of Oman in the east. This, if done effectively, could jeopardise ship movements and international trade from the...
India’s Delimitation And Lok Sabha Expansion Bills Are Using Women’s Reservation As A Cover
By Tanishka Shah Parliament is set to convene for a three-day special session beginning April 16 to consider proposals to expand the strength of the Lok Sabha to 850 members and to remove the requirement that delimitation be based on post-2026 census data, thereby permitting the use of existing...
How China’s Outreach To European Nations Is Bringing Results Amidst Iran War
By Satyaki Chakraborty The world of diplomacy is going through uncertain times as the West Asian war is yet to end even after 48 days beginning with the attack by USA and Israel on Iran on February 28. President Trump has been bruised diplomatically, Iran has been battered in...
Crowds, Charisma, And A Three‑Cornered Contest In Tamil Nadu Assembly Polls
By K R Sudhaman CHENNAI: As the scorching April sun beats down on Tamil Nadu, the political temperature is rising just as fiercely. On April 23, the state heads to the polls in what promises to be one of the most unpredictable assembly elections in recent memory. The traditional...
Pushing Delimitation Through Back Door In The Garb Of Women’s Reservation
By Nilotpal Basu Slogan mongering and inventing fake narratives has been the main forte of Narendra Modi and his government. An extremely severe and obnoxious example is its latest act. The convening of the two day special session of Parliament is a glaring example of that very same trait....
Songs, Music And Dance Add Momentum To West Bengal Poll Campaign
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Be it the parched plains of Durgapur or the cool hills of Darjeeling, ongoing election campaign in West Bengal is swaying to the beat of song and dance. And if it is Billy Joel’s 1977 song “Trading a Chevvy for a Cadillac”, it is rap...
New WEF Report Charts Key Strategies And Trade-Offs For Long-Term Growth
By Indrani Chakraborty As the growth strategies that powered the global economy over the past three decades lose relevance, a new World Economic Forum report released on April 15 calls for a renewed blueprint to navigate a rapidly evolving landscape shaped by AI, geostrategic competition, rising debt and inequality,...
FY26 Exports Grew Despite Tariffs, But Impact Of West Asia War Looms
NEW DELHI: India’s goods trade emerged relatively unscathed through the first month of the US-Iran conflict, with exports hitting a one-year high of $39 billion to help close 2025-26 (FY26) with a 0.9 per cent uptick, and the import bill shrinking 6.5 per cent sequentially and year-on-year to under...
Bank Credit, Deposit Growth At 16.08% In FY26, Fastest Since FY24
MUMBAI: After muted growth in 2024-25 (FY25), bank credit expanded by 16.08 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in FY26, marking the fastest pace since FY24, when credit in the system grew by over 20 per cent. During the same period, deposits rose by 13.47 per cent Y-o-Y, also the highest...
Mutual Funds Reduce Cash Holdings By Rs 15,545 Crore In March
MUMBAI: The mutual fund industry reduced its cash holdings by ₹15,545 crore in March, as they deployed capital to tap opportunities arising from market volatility triggered by the West Asia crisis and a sharp rise in Brent crude prices. On a yearly basis, the industry’s cash holdings as a...
Youth Unemployment Hits 9-Month High Of 15.2 Per Cent In March
NEW DELHI: The unemployment rate among persons aged 15-29 years rose to a nine-month high of 15.2% in March, up from 14.8% in February, according to the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Wednesday. This was the highest youth...
Trump Can’t Afford Escalation Of US War With Iran At The Moment
By Nitya Chakraborty President Donald Trump as usual has been talking in conflicting voices on his immediate stand on Iran war. The U.S. President ordered naval blockade of Iranian ports after the failure of the Islamabad peace talks on Sunday but on Tuesday, he indicated that another round of...
Markets See Through Trump’s Consistent Inconsistencies In Iran War
By K Raveendran Financial markets are often accused of being cold, shortsighted and morally indifferent, yet they do possess one quality that political systems frequently lack in moments of conflict: an ability to strip away theatre and price only what appears durable. That seems to be what has happened...
Women’s Reservation As A Cover For A Greater Political Design
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the three-day Special Session of the Parliament of India – from April 16 to April 18, 2026 – approaches, it has become crystal clear that the Constitutional (131st Amendment) Bill 2026, which seeks to implement 33 per cent of the Lok Sabha and the...
Samrat Choudhary’s Elevation As Bihar CM Marks BJP’s Forward March In The State
By Arun Srivastava Samrat Choudhary becoming the chief minister of Bihar is not only the dream coming home for BJP, it will help the BJP to redefine social justice politics in India by shifting the focus from traditional identity-based mobilization to a model based on Hindutva, Samrasta (social harmony)...
Californian Left-Democrat Saikat Chakrabarti Is Running For Congress
By Satyaki Chakraborty With only six months left for the crucial midterm elections in United States in November this year, a large number of Left wing Democrats belonging to the group of Bernie Sanders have entered the contests for primaries in June this year to be able to formally...
Crude Oil Prices At $130 Could Unsettle Growth Outlook: S&P Global
NEW DELHI: A sustained rise in crude oil prices to $130 per barrel could slow India’s economic growth, weaken fiscal metrics, and strain corporate and banking sector performance, according to a scenario analysis by S&P Global Ratings released on Tuesday. The report estimates that growth could decline by up...
