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Demand Slowdown Pulls Down Services PMI To 10-Month Low In September
NEW DELHI: Growth in India’s dominant services sector declined to a 10-month low in September on the back of a slowdown in demand as new business, international sales, and output all rose at their slowest rates since late 2023, according to a private business survey released on Friday. The...
‘Navratna’ MTNL Is Now An NPA In SBI’s Books
MUMBAI: Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), a Navratna company, has been declared a non-performing asset (NPA) by State Bank of India (SBI), the state-run telco informed the exchanges on Friday. This comes a month after Punjab National Bank (PNB) downgraded the loan accounts of the company, which provides services in...
China Outpacing India In Technology, Defence Production & Infrastructure, Says IAF Chief
NEW DELHI: With China steadily eroding India’s air combat advantage along the frontier by deploying a greater number of aircraft, the Indian Air Force chief on Friday said his force was also upgrading its forward airbases and advance landing grounds, while asking Hindustan Aeronautics Limited for faster delivery of...
Decoding Bangladesh Politics Two Months After Sheikh Hasina’s Ouster
By Nitya Chakraborty Bangladesh has just completed two months after the ouster of Sheikh Hasina Wazed from power on August 5 following the mass upsurge led by the students of Anti-Discrimination Front, popularly known as anti Quota movement. The interim Government led by the Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus...
Chandrababu And Pawan Are Starting A New Kind Of Rath Yatra Over Laddus
By Sushil Kutty The Tirupati laddus are in the maw of a hybrid team of investigators appointed on the orders of the Supreme Court. The team includes two CBI officers. Will that speed up delivery of justice for Lord Venkateswara of Tirupati-Tirumala? Any unresolved case handed to the CBI...
States Want Focussed Approach For Creating Quality Jobs
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the culmination of Centre’s six regional meetings on October 4, 2024 on employment generation and labour reforms with states and Union Territories of India, it has clearly emerged that the states want focused approach for creating quality jobs in the country as well as...
Bihar Sees Angry Protests Over Smart Meter Pitch, Poor Flood Relief
By Rahil Nora Chopra The political temperature is soaring in Bihar as the Nitish Kumar-led NDA government has set a deadline of 2025 for the ongoing installation of pre-paid smart electricity meters across the state, which, in turn, has led to a massive row, causing protests from the Opposition...
Kolkata Is Set To Bid Goodbye To Tram Services As A Part Of Transport
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA; Remember a close shot of a tram’s trolley pole snug against the overhead line sparking at every joint in the film ‘Mahanagar’. It was the opening shot of the 1963 film directed by Satyajit Ray in which the tram track identifies this metropolis. West Bengal...
World Economy Has Slowed Down, Inequality Is Widening In Capitalist Countries
By Prabhat Patnaik The fact that the world economy has slowed down since the financial crisis of 2008 is beyond dispute. In fact even conservative American economists have started using the term “secular stagnation” to describe the current situation (though they have their own peculiar definition for it). The...
Huge Concentration Of Digital Content Ownership Diminishes Its Democratic Potential
By Sanjay Roy The value of creative labour has always been very context specific and dependent on subjective appreciation of the buyer of the products of such labour. The importance of aesthetic value of products has increased particularly with increased possibility of customisation of products. This has also increased...
SEBI Meeting: A Missed Opportunity Amid Vice-Like Grip Of A Chief Without Credibility
By K Raveendran The outcome of the much-anticipated SEBI board meeting on Monday showed beyond doubt that the board has become a captive in the hands of chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, who is facing serious allegations of misconduct. The toxic work culture and unprofessionalism that the SEBI employees have...
Israel Is Pushing West Asia Into A Destructive Regional War
By P. Sudhir This October 7 marks a year since Israeli aggression on Gaza. Israel used Hamas attack as an excuse to carry out its genocidal war on Gaza, Palestine. It declared the elimination of Hamas as its objective in attacking Gaza. Far from achieving its objective, Israel has...
Adivasi Vs Anti-Adivasi Will Be Chief Component In Jharkhand Electoral Battle
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Jharkhand is once again heading for an Adivasi and anti-Adivasi electoral battle, just within a couple of months since Lok Sabha election 2024 result was out on June 4, in which BJP had lost all the five seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes (STs). There are...
SP MLA Mehboob Ali Sends Some Warning Signals To Yogi Adityanath
By Sushil Kutty Amroha’s Samajwadi Party MLA Mehboob Ali jumped the gun. Ahead of Gandhi Jayanti, Ali said “population of Muslims is increasing” and predicted that “your rule” will come to an end. It sounded like “Hindu rule” but the vigilant print media of India read Ali’s lips correctly....
Continuing Ethnic Clashes In Manipur Show The Collapse Of Governance
By Krishna Jha Tragic situation in Manipur has been continuing without any respite. To resolve the crisis the efforts made are almost half hearted. The peace stands fragmented. Responsibility to restrain the violence has been left with the forces of violence itself. Security forces are expected to restore peace....
Deadlock Over Refugees Continues Between Centre And Mizoram Govt
By Ashis Biswas With more tribal migrants from Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh fleeing to India in the wake of political turmoil, the cost of maintaining nearly 40,000 refugees is rising for both Indian government and Mizoram state authorities. During the last few weeks, many more tribals from...
Removal Of 35-A Enables Many Groups To Vote In J&K Assembly Elections
By Sant Kumar Sharma JAMMU: There were celebrations at Labba Ram Gandhi’s house in Samba district as dozens of his supporters raised slogans in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday. For them, voting in assembly elections for the first time in decades was a novel experience. Gandhi...
Narendra Modi Did Not Ask Netanyahu To Stop Strikes Against Lebanon
By Dr Arun Mitra Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is without any outcome, commitment or even hope of ending war in the Middle East. In his quote on X Modi has said that he told to the Israeli Prime Minister “Terrorism has no...
