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GoMechanic Eyes Over 3-Fold Business Growth By 2027
NEW DELHI: Car services and repair platform GoMechanic expects over three-fold rise in net revenue to Rs 700 crore by 2027 and thereafter go for public listing, a top official of the company said. GoMechanic Co-Founder and CEO Himanshu Arora told PTI that the company at present has around...
Restoring Global Credibility Of India’s NHRC Is Going To Be Tough
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India’s National Human Rights Commission has been losing its global credibility very fast. Since June 1, 2024, the post of NHRC Chairperson has been lying vacant and its re-accreditation with the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) was deferred for 12 months, for...
Shah’s Ambedkar Statement Negates The Sacrifices Of Freedom Fighters
By Dr. Arun Mitra Perplexed with Amit Shah’s statement on Dr Ambedkar in the Parliament, the drama created by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the entrance gate of the Parliament and later registering an FIR against Rahul Gandhi was a very low level and reprehensible act with the...
Bhagwat Faces War Of Survival With Modi-Led Saffronites
By Arun Srivastava RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat is desperate to fix the soup he has landed in. His advice to Hindu society to refrain from raking up temple-mosque is part of this course-correction exercise. While suggesting to neo-Hindutva crusaders to refrain from raking up such issues, Bhagwat also cautioned...
Babasaheb Ambedkar Lives On In The Generations Who Came After Him
By Krishna Jha He was found dead in his cell in the prison where he was brought just two days before his exams started. The reports said he died of shock from multiple injuries. His fault was that he belonged to a Dalit family and wanted to be like...
Yellow Taxis Of Kolkata At The End Of Their Road
By Tirthankar Mitra Introduced in the 1960s, the yellow Ambassador taxis, which had come to be synonymous with Kolkata, are at the end of the road. Come March, 2025 most of this nearly 7,000 fleet will be off the road following a Supreme Court order of 2009 together with...
Land, Democratic Protests And ‘Unlawful’ Activities In Chhattisgarh
By Radhika Chitkara On November 8, 2024, the Chhattisgarh government issued a gazette notification declaring the Moolvasi Bachao Manch (MBM) as an ‘unlawful organisation’ under its Special Public Security Act (CSPSA). Like the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967, the CSPSA empowers the government to proscribe organisations which, in...
Labour Militancy Erupts In New York In Runup To The Holidays
By Taryn Fivek In the run-up to the holiday season, the diverse, working-class New York City borough of Queens seemed to suddenly erupt with labour militancy. Both the Amazon Teamsters and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) took action on December 19 to demand the same thing: that management...
Govt May Peg FY26 Fiscal Deficit Lower Than 4.5% Of GDP
NEW DELHI: The Union government is committed to pursuing the glide path of fiscal consolidation, as announced in Budget for FY22, and to attain a level of fiscal deficit “lower than 4.5%” of GDP by FY26, the finance ministry said. Going forward, the thrust will be on improving the...
Govt Weighs Junking Customs Relief In ‘Make In India’ Push
NEW DELHI: India could in the upcoming budget remove customs duty exemptions for certain imported components such as bulk drugs used to manufacture certain insulins, raw material to produce rough lab grown diamonds, plastics used to manufacture optical fibre, components used in LED and LCD TV panels and goods...
Offer Tariff Plans With Only Voice, SMS: TRAI
NEW DELHI: Batting for the “right to choice” of feature phone users and the aged and rural customers – many of whom do not use internet on phones — telecom regulator Trai on Monday ordered mobile operators to start offering tariff plans with just voice and SMS and not...
Food Inflation Continues To Play Spoilsport For FMCG Sector: Kantar Report
NEW DELHI: The fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector has witnessed a significant slowdown due to rising inflation, the latest Kantar FMCG Pulse report has found. According to the report, it is not just urban markets but rural ones too that are showing signs of a slowdown. The August-October (ASO)...
Discoms To Miss Target To Cut A&T Losses Again
NEW DELHI: Even as the national Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses of electricity have reduced to 15.37% in 2023 from 27.8% in 2008-09, many states have continued to high losses even in the past five years. This may hamper the reduction of losses to 12-15% as targeted by...
New RBI Governor Has Limited Role To Play In Stabilising The Rupee
By Nantoo Banerjee It will be unfair to expect much from the new Reserve Bank governor, Sanjay Malhotra, a career bureaucrat and former revenue secretary, in terms of delivery of key functions of a central bank chief such as controlling inflation, stabilizing domestic currency, foreign exchange control and lifting...
Vengeance At The Heart Of BJP’s FIR Against LoP Rahul Gandhi
By Sushil Kutty The Winter Session of Parliament went its way after days of pandemonium. Some would say to a “wintery end”, what with the ice-cold vibes between the Modi government and the Opposition led by LoP Rahul Gandhi, especially after the BJP-led NDA government filed an FIR against...
Decoding Dissanayake’s India Visit: Are Delhi-Colombo Ties Back On Track?
By Girish Linganna Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s recent trip (15-17th Dec 2024) to India is an important moment in strengthening the ties between the two neighbouring countries. This visit highlights the growing bond and cooperation between India and Sri Lanka. This was his first official trip abroad...
Centre’s ‘One Nation One Poll’ Bill May Not Pass The Opposition Test
By Kalyani Shankar The introduction of the controversial bill, ‘One Nation One Poll,’ has created more hullabaloo than acceptance. The BJP has been talking about it, but now after introducing it has sent it to the joint select committee of the Parliament. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in a...
India Yet To Meet Forest Cover Goal, 35 Years After National Forest Policy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is still struggling to meet the target of the National Forest Policy set 35 years ago in 1988. In 2023, it could attain a forest and tree cover of only 25.17 percent against the target of a minimum one-third (33.3 percent) of the total...
