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Congress In Bengal Is Yet To Launch Intensive Campaign For Assembly Polls
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The two-phase Assembly election scheduled later this month is a battle to regain political relevance in West Bengal politics for both CPI(M) and Congress. Once arch political opponents who later became electoral allies, both the outfits failed to win in a single Assembly constituency in...
Kerala Witnesses Brisk Polling And Long Queues As LDF Fights UDF
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Polling began on a brisk note in most of the 140 constituencies in the Kerala, which went to the polls on Thursday, April 9. Long queues, especially of women, were seen outside almost all polling booths across the State. By 3 p.m. most of districts...
Heavy Polling Raised The Stakes High For BJP In Assam And Puducherry
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Assam and Puducherry have recorded s heavy polling trend right from 7 AM on April 9, 2026 when voting started. Assam recorded a significant voter turnout of 59.63 per cent by 1 PM, while in Puducherry the polling percentage reached 56 per cent by that...
Haryana’s New Procurement Policy: To Ease Or To Tease The Farmers?
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Why are the Farmers agitating and sloganeering against the Haryana government and its administration? Why are they worried about procurement of their crop produce despite the government’s assurances? Why are the opposition parties of the state slamming the government and supporting the farmers? Why...
On The Occasion Of Birth Anniversary Of Ambedkar, The Fight Against RSS Is Relevant
By Dr. Ram Puniyani As we will celebrate Babasaheb Ambedkar’s birth anniversary on 14th April (2026), it is also time to think as to what is the status of major teaching of Babasaheb about ‘annihilation of caste’. Caste-Varna system has been central to the practices of Hindu society, even...
RBI Expects 6.9 Per Cent GDP Growth In FY27
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank on Wednesday projected India’s GDP growth for the current financial year at 6.9 per cent, lower than 7.6 per cent estimated for 2025-26, amid elevated commodity prices and supply chain disruptions originating from West Asia crisis. Unveiling the first bi-monthly monetary policy for 2026-27, RBI...
TRAI Mulls Allowing Direct Communication Services On Mobile Phones From Satellites
NEW DELHI: Telecom sector regulator Trai has started exploring options to allow direct transmission of communication services from satellites to mobile phones to support ubiquitous connectivity in the country, particularly in rural and remote areas. In a consultation paper on the framework for satellite communication network authorisation floated on...
World Bank Raises India FY27 Growth Forecast To 6.6% Amid Headwinds
NEW DELHI: The World Bank on Wednesday upgraded its forecast for India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in FY 2026-27 (FY27) by 30 basis points to 6.6 per cent compared to its October 2025 forecast of 6.3 per cent, citing robust domestic activity even as it expects inflation to...
IRDAI Revises Cyber Security Norms, Mandates Stronger Governance
MUMBAI: The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) on Wednesday issued revised information and cyber security guidelines for regulated entities to strengthen the cybersecurity framework for insurers and intermediaries, mandating tighter governance, enhanced board accountability and more frequent risk reviews. Under the revised norms, the Information Security...
Inclusion Gaps In Infrastructure, Tech Weigh On Labour Force: Report
NEW DELHI: Barriers in access to transport, workplaces and digital systems are constraining labour force participation in India with an estimated 34 per cent of the population facing mobility-related limitations affecting jobs and skilling, said a report by audit firm KPMG and Svayam, a non-profit focused on accessibility, released...
Irrespective Of Two Week Ceasefire, Demand For Impeachment Of Trump Grows In U.S. Congress
By Asad Mirza It seems that President Trump’s Tuesday morning Truth Social post, which threatened “a whole civilisation will die tonight” and raised the spectre of nuclear war, has jolted the American lawmakers, and it has begun a chorus of calls either for Trump’s impeachment or for his removal...
Oil’s Relief Movement Due To Ceasefire Masks Deeper Market Risks
By K Raveendran Oil markets have responded to the Iran ceasefire in the way they often react to any pause in conflict near a critical supply artery: with visible relief, but not full conviction. Prices have pulled back sharply from their war-risk peaks as traders moved to price in...
West Bengal SIR An ‘Electoral Purge’, With 91 Lakh Excluded From Voting
By Arun Srivastava The rightist saffron ecosystem has launched a blitzkrieg on Mamata Banerjee in its bid to severely dent her political image on the eve of the West Bengal Assembly elections. In order to accomplish its objective of demolishing the West Bengal CM’s political career, the saffron brigade...
The BJP’s Three Phase Rephasing Of Indian State Is Steadily Taking Shape
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: In the grand, triangular corridors of India’s Parliament, power has long been a game of two speeds. The Lok Sabha, or Lower House, is a theatre of populist surges and “brute” majorities. But the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House, has traditionally served as...
BJP State Chief, CPI(M)’s Sivankutty Locked In A Grim Battle In Nemom
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Nemom, known as ‘Kerala’s Gujarat’, favour the BJP candidate and the party’s state chief Rajiv Chandrasekhar? That is the question doing the rounds in the State’s political corridors. While the BJP camp is ‘confident’ of wresting the seat from CPI(M) candidate V. Sivankutty, the...
Big Rise In School Dropouts During The Modi Regime Is A Matter Of Big Concern
By Krishna Jha Between 2015 and 2025, the country witnessed the closure of about 93000 government schools. It was simply denial of light, light of knowledge. Vast masses from the lower depths were stopped from crossing the barrier, without any explanation. Obviously the system had refused them the freedom...
Global Waste Generation Is Faster Than We Are Able To Handle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global waste generation is faster than we are able to handle. It reached 2.56 billion tonnes in 2022, according to the new World Bank report “What a Waste 3.0” as against projected 2.59 billion tonnes by 2030 by “What a Waste 2.0” of 2018. Under...
Insider Trading On Iran Takes War Profiteering To A New Level In Last Five Weeks
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: While ordinary Americans watch gas prices climb, someone with a lot of money—and apparently the right connections—appears to have made a fortune in a single minute. On the morning of March 22, just before 7 a.m. Eastern time, oil futures markets lit up. In...
