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PM Narendra Modi Has To Deal More With Hard Core Hindutva In 2025
By Sushil Kutty 2024 was a happening year. Happenstance, 2025 also will be. There was a new government at the Centre in 2024 — with the same old Prime Minister and a brand new Leader of the Opposition! In year 2025, there will be a new government in Delhi...
Centre Must Allocate Higher Funds In Budget For Healthcare And Education
By Dr Arun Mitra At the time of Indian independence in 1947 with GDP at 2.7 lakh crore that is 3% of the world’s total GDP, it was a big challenge and horrendous task to meet aspirations of all sections of the society particularly the marginalized ones. Since the...
Nitish Kumar Sending Ominous Signals To BJP Before Bihar Assembly Polls
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the Bihar Assembly elections scheduled to be held in October-November 2025, the BJP has commenced playing Kaun Banega CM with its ally in Bihar, the JD(U) First it was Union Home Minister Amit Shah dispelled speculations that the BJP might push for a Maharashtra-like...
From Indigenous Warships To Maritime Security, Indian Navy Has Moved Ahead
By Aritra Banerjee India is witnessing a transformative era in its naval history. On January 15, 2025, the Indian Navy will achieve a historic milestone by commissioning three advanced combat platforms—Nilgiri, Surat, and Vagsheer—on the same day. These platforms signify technological advancement and mark a crucial step in India’s...
Greece’s Syriza Party, Once The Hope Of European Left, Is In Tatters
By Panagiotis Sotiris ATHENS: First as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as that final season of a mediocre sit-com when every possible trick, even if obviously ridiculous, is used to attract some interest from the audience. This is one way to describe the complete implosion of Syriza, a...
Centre Eases Norms To Fast-Track Capex Loans To States
NEW DELHI: The Centre has relaxed a clutch of norms regarding the release of interest-free capex loans to the state governments to ensure that the entire sum of Rs 1.5 lakh crore earmarked for 2024-25 is fully utilised during the year, and help arrest a decline in public capex....
India-EFTA Trade Pact May Come Into Force Before End Of 2025: Goyal
NEW DELHI: The implementation process of free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the four-nation European bloc EFTA is progressing fast and is expected to come into force before the end of this year, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said. The two sides signed the Trade and Economic...
Manufacturing PMI Slips To 12-Month Low Of 56.4 In December
NEW DELHI: India’s manufacturing sector growth slipped to a 12-month low in December, as fresh business orders and production expanded at softer rates, according to a monthly survey released on Thursday. The HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) compiled by S&P Global slipped to 56.4 in December from...
NBFCs Seek Reforms In Pre-Budget Talks To Boost Liquidity, Ease Challenges
NEW DELHI: During a pre-Budget consultation with stakeholders from the financial sector and capital markets, the Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC)—a key representative body of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) —has called for major reforms to ease operational burden and improve liquidity for NBFCs. One of their requests was the...
Working Group Formed To Suggest Road Map For Producer Price Index
NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday announced the formation of a panel of experts to revise the base year of Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and suggest a road map for switching over to the Producer Price Index (PPI). The working group for revision of base year of WPI to...
2025 Must See The Emergence Of Strong Movement Of Left And Secular Forces
By P. Sudhir The year 2024, which has ended, has been a tumultuous one both nationally and internationally. In India, the year began with the State-sponsored installation of the idol at the newly-built but incomplete Ram temple at Ayodhya, a signal from the BJP rulers that the era of...
2025 Throws Up Major Challenges To The Left Wing Regimes Of Latin America In Retaining Power
By Nitya Chakraborty The Left wing forces in the Latin American region will be facing major test in the year 2025 as crucial Presidential elections as also the polls to the parliament will be held in four countries, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Honduras. Out of the four, excepting Ecuador,...
In 2025, Left Must Confront A Dystopian Right Fighting For Unchecked Power
By Ben Chacko LONDON: As we enter 2025, the exhaustion of liberal centrism across the West is clearer than ever. The return of Donald Trump to the White House. The recent collapse of the governments of France and Germany. Britain’s own experience — a Labour government resting on fewer...
Indian Workers Will Face Decline In Living Standards Due To Fall In Rupee Value
By Prabhat Patnaik The Indian newspapers have been full of stories about the fall of the rupee vis-à-vis the US dollar in the last few days. Just over a month ago, on November 27, the value of the dollar was Rs 84.559; by December29, it had risen to Rs...
Why Are The Children Missing From The Education System In India?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Falling enrolment of students in schools of India for the second year in a row in 2023-24 is a matter of serious concern. The year preceding the shutdown of schools across the country due to outbreak of the COVID-19 in 2020, enrolment of students had...
RSS Is Determined To Remove Every Legacy Of Mahatma Gandhi In Indian Life
By Krishna Jha New year is here with its pleasant freshness, though not without the pain that never gets dim. The memories that keep haunting are of a man who was killed because he always held human cause above the cold power of the forces of Right. His philosophy...
Data Protection Rules Get Home Ministry’s Nod
NEW DELHI: The long-awaited implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act is one step closer to reality, as inter-ministerial consultations on the draft rules concluded on Tuesday with the home ministry’s approval. The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) is now set to release the draft...
Defence Ministry Seeks To Modernise Armed Forces, Will Observe 2025 As ‘Year Of Reforms’
NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and the secretaries of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) unanimously decided to observe 2025 as the “Year of Reforms” during a New Year’s Eve meeting. The decision comes against the backdrop of ambitious defence production and export targets, as well as the rapid...
