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Belagavi Extended CWC Meet Signals New Wave Of Congress Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Indian National Congress has postponed the grand convention – Jai Gandhi, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan – on the second day of the Extended Congress Working Committee Meet at Belagavi in Karnataka. Instead, a condolence meeting was held to mourn the sad demise of the...
34 Days From June 21 To July 24, 1991 That Shook The Indian Economy
By Nitya Chakraborty On June 21, 1991, the 70-year-old Congress veteran P V Narasimha Rao took oath as the Prime Minister of a minority government amidst massive political uncertainty over its survival. The Congress had got only 232 seats as against the usual majority of 272 in the Lok...
Folk Artist Devi Had To Apologise For Singing Bapu’s Bhajan
By Arun Srivastava Hindu zealots have been busy tearing India and its cultural and social ethics apart, but now they are out to Talibanize India and its social and cultural order. What happened in Patna at the Bapu Sabhagar auditorium to celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime...
Trump’s Threat Of A Tariff Wall Has Grave Economic Implications
By Prabhat Patnaik Donald Trump is threatening to use tariffs as a weapon against other countries. He has already made three threatening statements: first, he threatened the BRICS countries that if they dared to move away from the dollar, then they would have to face 100 percent tariff in...
Is Bihar CM Nitish Kumar Sulking For The Bharat Ratna?
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Bihar Assembly elections are to take place in October-November of 2025. Union Minister Giriraj Singh is asking for the Bharat Ratna for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and former Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik. In October 2024, the JD(U) had put up a poster outside...
Myanmar’s ‘Tarbuj Brigade’ Gets Set To Enact A Regime Change
By Tirthankar Mitra Longevity of a regime, democratic or otherwise, rests on its popularity. A dispensation has its days numbered after meting out reprisal to its people for what it considers to be acts of defiance. Myanmar’s military junta is one such dispensation. Once feared as a monolithic regime,...
Live-Streaming Has Improved Courtroom Accountability
By Shivam Jadaun The judicial system has not been left untouched in a world increasingly defined by digital transparency. Courtroom live-streaming, once unthinkable due to its perceived threat to the sanctity of judicial proceedings, is now rapidly gaining momentum as a tool to enhance accountability and transparency. At the...
The Real ‘War On Christmas’ Is A Class War Waged By Bosses
By Liza Featherstone In the right-wing imaginary, the War on Christmas had a good run. Fox News host John Gibson alleged in a 2005 book that liberals were planning to “ban the sacred holiday,” and a moral panic was born, yielding outrage after outrage almost every year. This year,...
India Eyes $25 Billion Export Opportunity In US Amid China Tariff Dispute
MUMBAI: Ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26, exporters urged the finance ministry to approve a US-focused marketing scheme worth Rs 750 crore to generate an additional $25 billion in exports to the US over the next three years. According to the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO), the US’...
NBFCs Need To Further Diversify Funding Sources To Mitigate Risk: RBI
MUMBAI: Non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) need to further diversify their sources of funding as a risk mitigation strategy, as their dependence on banks remains high despite some moderation in recent times, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said in a report. Apart from direct lending to NBFCs, banks...
Monetary Policy, Structural Reasons Too Behind Slowdown: FinMin
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry on Wednesday said the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy stance and macro-prudential measures may have contributed to the demand slowdown in the economy. However, the possibility that structural factors may also have contributed to the slowdown in H1 should not be ruled out,...
India’s Oil Demand Growth Surpasses China’s, Crude Diversification Efforts May Gather Steam: S&P
NEW DELHI: India, which is the world’s third-largest consumer of crude oil, is expected to end 2024 with an oil demand growth rate surpassing that of China — a trend that is expected to continue in the coming year as well — making the South Asian country one of...
CSR Spending By CPSEs Surge 19% To Rs 4,911 Crore, Reaches 4-Year High In FY24
NEW DELHI: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) spending by central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) surged by 19 per cent to Rs 4,911 crore in 2023-24 (FY24), marking a four-year high after a dip in 2022-23 (FY23), according to the latest edition of the Public Enterprises Survey released by the Ministry...
Lohia Global Launches EV ‘Youdha’ TO HONOR INDIA’S REAL WARRIORS
NEW DELHI: Lohia Global has unveiled its new electric vehicle brand, Youdha, at the EV Expo, New Delhi, marking a significant milestone in India’s electric mobility journey. Derived from the word “warrior,” Youdha celebrates the unsung heroes driving progress through hard work and determination. Youdha’s initial lineup includes the...
RBI Sets Up Eight-Member Panel On Ethical Use Of AI
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank on Thursday announced the setting up of an eight-member committee to develop a framework for responsible and ethical enablement of artificial intelligence (FREE-AI) in the financial sector. Headed by IIT Bombay professor Pushpak Bhattacharyya (Department of Computer Science and Engineering), the panel will assess the...
Rupee Plunges 12 Paise To Close At 85.27 Against US Dollar
MUMBAI: The rupee stayed weak for the third straight session and fell 12 paise to settle at a fresh all-time low of 85.27 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday, amid a strong greenback and rising crude oil prices. Forex traders said, increased month-end as well as year-end dollar...
New Manufacturing Golden Age For India Beckons: Tata Sons Chief To Staff
NEW DELHI: With global supply chains continuing to shift in India’s favour as the world’s largest businesses strike a new balance between resilience and efficiency, manufacturing has the potential to transform the country’s economy, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said on Thursday. In his New Year message to employees...
AI, Machine Learning To Help Indian Pharma Industry To Pivot On Innovation
NEW DELHI: As technological advancements like AI, machine learning and precision medicine revolutionise drug discovery, manufacturing and patient care, Indian pharmaceutical industry is set for a ‘profound transformation’ in 2025 with innovation, wider global access and improvement in quality becoming key themes for the future. The industry, which is...
