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Credit Growth To NBFCs Declines To 7.8 Per Cent In November
MUMBAI: Growth in credit to the non-banking financial company (NBFC) sector plummeted to 7.8 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in the fortnight ending November 29, 2024, compared to a 19 per cent increase during the same period of 2023. This slowdown contributed to a decline in growth of credit to...
INDIA Bloc Has To Rejuvenate Itself With New Leadership In 2025 To Meet BJP Challenge
By Nitya Chakraborty The New Year 2025 has started in the backdrop of the restoration of the ruling party BJP’s confidence following its electoral successes in the state assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana and completely overshadowing the Samajwadi Party in the assembly by polls in Uttar Pradesh. The...
A Progressive Call Against Using Ayodhya As Template For All Temple-Mosque Disputes
By K Raveendran RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s statement cautioning against the proliferation of temple-mosque disputes comes as a surprise. His assertion that Ayodhya should not be seen as a universal template for resolving such conflicts probably reveals the existence of nuanced layers within the ideological framework of Hindu organizations...
Economic Slowdown In 2024 Raised Concerns For 2025 To Modi Govt
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Slowing down of India’s GDP in the second quarter of the current financial year during July-September 2024 to 5.4 per cent, which was a seven-quarter low, has raised a serious concern about maintaining growth momentum of the country in 2025. India’s Chief Economic Advisor, V...
AAP Supremo Arvind Kejriwal Leans On Soft Hindutva To Take On BJP
By Sushil Kutty Delhi Chief Minister Atishi gets lost in the awesome presence of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal, who was Chief Minister when Atishi was minister. Kejriwal’s advantage is, he went to jail. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia also went to jail. So did AAP Rajya Sabha MP...
Bizarre Political Developments Are Taking Place In Bihar Under Nitish Kumar
By Arun Srivastava Nitish Kumar’s political astuteness, the quality to quickly understand a situation and use that insight to gain an advantage has been his worst enemy. No doubt he is the discerning, cunning and ingenious politician amongst his contemporaries, these qualities inter alia have turned him vulnerable. His...
Israel’s ‘Mother Of All Battles’ Changes Regional Balance Of Power For Ever
By Matein Khalid There is no geopolitical risk premium in Brent crude even though history just went fast forward and literally ballistic in the Middle East as the IDF bombed Hamas into the Stone Age, decapitated Hezbollah’s command/communications networks, killed Nasrallah, forced Iran’s most valuable proxy militia to sue...
India Can Use Retaliatory Measures In Case Of Trade War With US: Think Tank
NEW DELH: India has the option to retaliate against any tariff measure by the US during the Donald Trump administration in sectors such as mineral fuels, iron, and steel products. However, it should also take proactive measures to engage directly with consumers and diversify markets to mitigate any adverse...
Core Sector Growth Beats High-Base Effect, At 4-Month High Of 4.3% In November
NEW DELHI: Despite a high base effect, growth in the output of eight key infrastructure industries — popularly known as the core sector — recovered to a four-month high of 4.3 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in November from an upwardly revised figure of 3.7 per cent in October. In...
CPSE Procurement From MSEs Declines 43% To Rs 773.39 Crore In FY24
NEW DELHI: Procurement by central public-sector enterprises (CPSEs) from micro and small enterprises (MSEs) has declined by a sharp 43 per cent in 2023-24 (FY24), totalling Rs 773.39 crore, from 188 CPSEs, down from Rs 1,369.45 crore during FY23, according to the latest edition of the Public Enterprises Survey,...
India Inc’s 2025 Wish List: Building A Future-Ready Economy
NEW DELHI: As the country steps into 2025, the aspirations of its corporate sector – India Inc – are anchored in four overarching priorities: regulatory reforms, technological leadership, fiscal prudence, and measures to boost consumption. These focus areas reflect a collective ambition to propel the nation toward sustained economic...
Government Firms Up Plan To Widen Ambit Of Quality Control For Steel
NEW DELHI: The steel ministry has firmed up a plan to bring all steel grades consumed in the country – whether domestically manufactured or imported – under strict quality control norms, official sources said. The move is with the twin objectives of improving the quality of infrastructure and assorted...
Donald Trump-Elon Musk Duo Emerging As Leaders Of Global Far Right In 2025
By Nitya Chakraborty Year 2025 is going to witness a new era of global advance of far right led by the incoming U.S. President Donald Trump and his acolyte, the richest man of the world Elon Musk. It will be a unique combination fusing the brand of Trump with...
Farmers’ Agitation May Turn Unprecedentedly Aggressive In 2025
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The second leg of farmers’ movement that had begun in the beginning of 2024, with a call for a March on Delhi Punjab on February 13, is set to spillover into 2025, since the PM Narendra Modi led Centre was not even ready to talk...
Will Ajay Bhalla In Raj Bhavan Augur Well For Manipur In 2025?
By Rabindra Nath Sinha After a pause, the last week of 2024 witnessed a spate of incidents of localised violence in a number of locations in Manipur. This was apart from the serious charges and counter-charges that the two warring sides levelled against each other. Civil society outfits and...
Wayanad Landslides: Centre Scoffs At Kerala’s Special Assistance Plea
By P. Sreekumaran The Union Government continues to rub salt into Kerala’s wounds by ignoring the State’s request for a special assistance package for the rehabilitation of survivors of the Wayanad landslide. The Union Government plumbed a new low when the Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) said it considered the...
No End To Dallewal’s Hunger Strike, No Move To Implement MSP
By Arun Srivastava Farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s clarion call to the youth of Punjab to “rush to the Khanauri border in large numbers and save the ongoing satyagraha against the Centre’s highhandedness” has exposed the farcicality of the BJP leadership. The 70-year-old Dallewal has been on hunger strike...
Adieu To 2024, A Year Of Right-Wing Hate Targeting Muslims, Christians
By Asad Mirza An impartial review of the year 2024 makes it clear that hate has become an essential component of the ruling party’s campaign to vilify and malign the religious minorities in India. Further, it also made it obvious that this party is not apologetic about constructing a...
