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Governance In Delhi Being Sabotaged Before Election By Officials Themselves
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A Joint Director of the Department of Woman and Child Development and the Special Secretary of the Health and Family Welfare Department of the National Capital Territory of Delhi placed public notices in newspapers on December 25, 2024, stating that two state government schemes of...
Bihar Set For Political Change After Arif Mohammad Khan’s Entry
By Arun Srivastava The National Democratic Alliance meet of Wednesday had convoluted implications. It was meant to evolve a mechanism to counter opposition narratives, primarily to work out a to protect BJP strongman Amit Shah from Congress from attacks on his insinuations targeting Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of...
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly In The Delhi Assembly Elections
By Sushil Kutty Three political parties. Three sets of politicians. All three fighting for control of the warren called Delhi. Biting, sniping and snapping at each other’s heels. Calling each other names. Enticing, inducing and bribing the voters with ‘schemes’. Lying and casting aspersions at each other, this is...
Globally, 2024 Was Marked By Intensifying Conflicts With No End In Sight
By Dr Arun Mitra A year back when we entered the New Year 2024, we all hoped that the year would bring an end to the conflicts around the world and reduce the threat of nuclear weapons, even though this hope was filled with fear and scepticism. Despite the...
RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Speaks Once Again With A Forked Tongue
By P. Sudhir What is one to make of RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat’s speech regarding the raking up of new temple/mosque disputes? In his speech in Pune on December 19, Bhagwat disapproved of the raking up of new temple/mosque disputes. He said that Ram temple was a matter of...
Trump Is Bent On Beating Putin In Expansionism, Come 2025
By Anjan Roy From the early indications so far available, the New Year—2025— is all set to be tumultuous for all nations. India must be wary and take every possible caution and steps to navigate the forthcoming year of uncertainty. The USA, with its sheer size and weight in...
Shyam Benegal, A Filmmaker With The Common Man’s Take On Life
By Tirthankar Mitra Even at the risk of uttering a cliché, filmmaker Shyam Benegal was in a class of his own. A path-breaker, he took his audience to places where they had never been before. And this is no sweetener to enhance the reputation of a man who is...
The Spectre Of Anti-Communism Is Once Again Haunting North America
By John Wojcik The United States Congress has recently passed a horrific piece of legislation calling for the infusion into the nation’s public school system of a curriculum that teaches middle and high school students about the alleged evils of communism, including the absurd claim that communists have killed...
BNS’s Black-And-White Treatment Of A Rainbow Of Masculinities
By Aishwarya Avraj In 2024, India introduced a legal reform with the implementation of three new criminal laws, the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), and Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam (BNA) (criminal laws) replacing the existing Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860; Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973...
Experts Want PDS Out Of New Inflation Series
NEW DELHI: The ministry of statistics & programme implementation (MoSPI) has floated a discussion paper to seek views on the treatment of “free public distribution system (PDS) items in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) compilation”, as it feels the current mechanism doesn’t properly capture the impact of free food...
EY Report Forecasts India’s GDP Growth Seen At 6.5 Percent In FY25, FY26
NEW DELHI: India’s economy is likely to grow by 6.5 per cent in the current and the next financial year, an EY report said, attributing lower than anticipated expansion in the September quarter to fall in private consumption expenditure and gross fixed capital formation. Real GDP growth eased to...
Regular Employees In CPSEs Dropped 3.1% To 0.81 Million In FY24: Survey
NEW DELHI: The number of regular employees hired by Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) declined 3.14 per cent to 814,018, while that of contract workers rose 8.8 per cent to 704,565 in the financial year 2023-24 (FY24), according to the latest Public Enterprises Survey released last week. CPSEs across...
Investors Get Good Exits In IPO Frenzy
MUMBAI: Investors and promoters have taken home close to Rs 1 lakh crore through the sale of shares in initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2024, the highest level in at least 10 years. The amount raised through the sale of fresh shares was around Rs 64,300 crore. This is...
Rupee Sees Relative Gain As Other Currencies Fall More VS $: RBI
MUMBAI: A relatively weak rupee, in the short term, benefits India’s trade balance, a report published by RBI said. However, in the long run, a stronger rupee is more beneficial to trade balance. Trade balance is the difference between exports and imports of goods and services. The report, published...
Markets Surge In Early Trade On Buying In Blue-Chip Bank Stocks
MUMBAI: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty surged in early trade on Thursday amid a rally in Asian markets and buying in blue-chip bank stocks. The 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex jumped 425.5 points to 78,898.37 in early trade. The NSE Nifty surged 123.85 points to 23,851.50. From the 30 blue-chip...
BPCL Picks Andhra Pradesh For India’s Last Greenfield Refinery Project
NEW DELHI: State-owned Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) has picked Andhra Pradesh for setting up a new oil refinery-cum-petrochemical complex, which may be the last greenfield project in India which has detailed a very ambitious energy transition plan to net zero emissions. In a stock exchange filing, BPCL said...
Government Committed To Improve Quality Spending In FY26: FinMin Report Amid Legal Tussle With SEBI
NEW DELHI: The government will continue its focus on improving quality spending, strengthening the social security net and bring down the fiscal deficit to 4.5 per cent of the GDP in FY26, a finance ministry document said. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is schedule to present the Budget for 2025-26...
Infrastructure Projects, Marketing Campaigns Drive Tourism Growth In 2024
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, undertook several key initiatives in 2024 to boost tourism in the country. These included infrastructure development projects under Swadesh Darshan and PRASHAD schemes, promotion and marketing campaigns like “Bharat Parv” and “Dekho Apna Desh,” and participation in international travel fairs...
