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After The Failure Of U.S.-Iran Peace Talks, The Task Is How To Hold Next Meeting
By Asad Mirza As expected, the United States and Iran failed to reach a peace deal after high-stakes talks in the Pakistani capital, with American Vice President JD Vance saying Tehran refused to accept Washington’s terms after 21 hours of talks in Islamabad. And Iran citing lack of American...
World Can’t Bear The Brunt Of Another Full Scale War In West Asia
By T N Ashok The collapse of high-stakes diplomacy over the weekend has pushed the Middle East to the edge of a far more dangerous phase—one where economic warfare, military brinkmanship, and global disruption are converging around a single chokepoint: the Strait of Hormuz. What began as a tentative...
Madhya Pradesh Govt Is Facing Problems In Implementing UCC In The State
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Following in the footsteps of other BJP-ruled states, Madhya Pradesh is also planning to rollout its own version of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). Chief minister Mohan Yadav has hinted that the new statute may be in place within the next six months. Uttarakhand is...
Attacks On Media & Journalists: Strangling The Freedom Of Expression
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: UNESCO Director-General, Khaled El-Enany, on last week while condemning the killing of journalist Juan David Gámez in Mexico said, “I condemn the killing of Juan David Gámez and call for a thorough investigation into his death. Violence against journalists is not only an affront...
Will The World Learn From Chambal?
By Rajagopal P.V. BHOPAL: At a time when many parts of the world are engulfed in war and conflict—whether in the form of military confrontations between nations or deepening ideological divisions within societies—talk of peace often appears idealistic. Yet history offers examples that reassure us that even in...
India’s Poverty Map Bends Under Climate Pressure, Finds NISER Study
BHUBANESWAR: Climate shocks, ranging from erratic rainfall and rising temperatures to floods and droughts, are worsening poverty across India, particularly in regions heavily dependent on agriculture, according to a new first-of-its-kind study by the National Institute of Science Education and Research (Niser), an autonomous research institute under the Department...
RBI Criticises Banks’ Rupee Arbitrage Trades
A senior Reserve Bank of India official criticized foreign-exchange market makers for their role in aggravating the rupee’s weakness during the West Asia tensions, as the regulator keeps up its tough messaging stance in its defense of the currency. Addressing an annual foreign exchange dealers’ conference in Paris at...
Parliamentary Panel Raps Health Ministry Over SSDRS Funding Gaps, Approval Delays
NEW DELHI: Raising serious concerns over disruptions and structural inefficiencies in India’s drug and medical device regulatory framework, a parliamentary standing committee has asked the Department of Health and Family Welfare (DoHFW) to pursue immediate approval of funds under the scheme for Strengthening of State Drug Regulatory System (SSDRS)....
Equities, Rupee Brace For Market Volatility Amid West Asia Conflict
MUMBAI: Geopolitical uncertainties caused by the unproductive United States-Iran talks in Islamabad are likely to cast a shadow on equity markets on Monday. Tensions mounted after US President Donald Trump ordered a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday evening if Iran fails to keep this key...
Indian IT Firms Turn To Acquisitions As AI Squeezes Traditional Growth
India’s leading information technology companies are accelerating acquisitions as slowing demand and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence begin to reshape the sector’s growth model. The latest sign of this shift came from Wipro, which this week agreed to acquire Mindsprint from Singapore-based Olam Group for $375 million, alongside...
Election Commission Applies 19th Century Thinking To 21st Century Realities
By K Raveendran Election regulation in India is trapped in a contradiction that has become harder to defend with each passing cycle. The Election Commission continues to apply old assumptions about influence, persuasion and voter exposure to a media and political environment that has been transformed by technology, scale...
Strengthening Social Protection For All Types Of Workers Is Urgent
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In a context of rapidly changing labour markets, a new report of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said that strengthening social protection for all type of workers have become urgent. Robust social protection systems are essential in helping people, societies and economies to navigate...
Who Will Benefit From The High Voter Turnout In Kerala?
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Who will benefit from the high voter turnout in the Kerala Assembly election? That is the question uppermost in the minds of voters of Keralam. Both the fronts – the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) – are on...
Lights, Leaks, And Legends: The Weekend Indian Cinema Couldn’t Ignore
By T N Ashok A quietly powerful Telugu comeback, a Malayalam icon’s Ambani-sized hunger, and a stolen film that set an industry on fire — three stories that rewrote the week The curtain came up on Indian cinema this weekend like a Shaneil Deo slow burn — unhurried, layered,...
Clearing The Constitutional Fog On Women’s Reservation In Parliament
By Mohan V Katarki The reported decision to summon Parliament from April 16 to 18, 2026, has sparked intense debate on the manner of implementation of a historic and three-decade-old bipartisan demand for women’s reservation in the Lok Sabha and State Assemblies to promote diversity and inclusivity in representative...
Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s 100 Days As New York Mayor Have Been Result-Driven
By Liza Featherstone NEW YORK: March Madness is over, spring is here, and Morrisania, a neighbourhood in the Bronx, is getting a resurfaced basketball court. The Lower East Side in Manhattan is getting a water fountain repaired, Sunset Park in Brooklyn is getting dispensers for dog poop bags, playground...
RBI Proposes Asset-Based Criteria For PSU Inclusion In Upper Layer NBFC
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday proposed an overhaul of the framework for identifying upper-layer non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), suggesting a shift to an asset-size-based criterion and inclusion of government-owned entities, PTI reported. Under the draft ‘Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies’ Registration, Exemptions and Framework...
Panel Suggests Pre-Insolvency Mechanism, Greater PSU Participation For Faster Resolution Of Real Estate Distress
NEW DELHI: A government-appointed panel has called for a pre-insolvency restructuring framework and a larger role for public sector entities to resolve stress in the real estate sector. The committee has argued that the current Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP), though effective in select cases, often proves too slow...
