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Yogi Adityanath Intensifies Campaign For Ten Bypolls To State Assembly
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Even though, the dates for the by polls to the Uttar Pradesh assembly are not out, but all major political parties are gearing up for elections to 10 assembly seats. Since the outcome of these by-elections will decide the mood of the political parties and...
RG Kar Incident Of August 9 Has Imparted A New Dimension To Coming Puja Festival
By Devasis Chattopadhyay As Terence McKenna said that culture is a mass hallucination, likewise the annual festival of Durga Puja is typically an immersive carnival of food, music, community get-togethers and cultural programmes that holds West Bengal in its thrall for five hedonistic days and nights. With Kolkata as...
France Changes Its Liberal Face After It Tightens Immigration Laws
By Tirthankar Mitra Ministerial utterances on policy matters are pointers to a profound shift but sometimes drops more than a broad hint about an impending change in the socio-political landscape if utterance of France’ s interior minister, Bruno Retailleau on immigration is anything to go by. The French government...
Prime Minister Keir Starmer Has Given Some Concessions To Left At Liverpool
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Keir Starmer’s Labour Party is not Tony Blair’s. The lessons from its troubled conference last week demonstrate this in multiple ways. Some mark positive differences from the last Labour government. Then TUC leader John Monks said unions were treated as “embarrassing elderly relatives” by Blair;...
A Washing Machine Brand Named SEBI May Be An Excellent Entrepreneurial Idea
By K Raveendran SEBI would be a nice name for a new range of washing machines. The brand name is short, sweet and has good connect with its namesake market regulator, which has by far excelled in the act of cleaning. Additionally, the new range may not require a...
Anura Dissanayake’s Election As President Of Sri Lanka Promises Positive For South Asia
By P. Sudhir Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Janata Vimukti Perumana (JVP) and the National Peoples’ Power (an alliance of Left and progressive parties) won the presidential elections held on September 21 in Sri Lanka. He polled 57,40,179 votes (42.3 per cent) in these elections, which is a...
Ailing Chinese Economy Gets Massive Stimulus As Central Bank Swings Into Action
By Anjan Roy The Chinese economy is seeing deflation —that is, prices are really falling in real time— for 23 months straight. This has really raised the concerns of the Chinese political bosses which was reflected in the central bank move on Tuesday. The central bank cut its policy...
Make In India Will Be Made Easier By Decriminalising 300 More Activities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak September 25, 2024, is the tenth birth anniversary of Make in India. It was launched on September 25, 2014. PM Narendra Modi government has tried its best to promote ease of business in the country, but finding the scheme not getting desired momentum, it decriminalized...
A Personal Tribute To The CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury
By Harihar Swarup The general secretary of the CPI-M, Sitaram Yechury, who passed away on September 12 at the age of 72, defied all the clichés one associates with hardcore “commies”. From his appearance to his demeanour, he was like “one of us”. Meaning, he didn’t shove his ideology...
Bombay High Court Order Quashing Amended IT Rules Is A Welcome Step
By Krishna Jha Bombay high court has quashed the amended Information and Technology rules that enable the Centre to set up its own Fact Check Unit (FCU). Justice AS Chandurkar’s order, which set aside the IT Amendment Rules, 2023, broke the tie of the split verdict given earlier by...
Indian Officials Have Taken The Right Step In Contacting Rebel Groups In Myanmar
By Tirthankar Mitra India has extended an invitation to political and military opponents of Myanmar junta for a seminar in New Delhi. It is a signal of recalibrating Indian stance towards Myanmar conflict. It is a pointer to the fact that Indian policy towards its neighbour is undergoing a...
Kamala Harris Campaign Represents The Broadest Anti-MAGA Movement
By Juan Lopez NEW YORK: Vice President Kamala Harris’s entrance into the 2024 presidential race has transformed a limping electoral contest into a full-blooded dash to the finish line. Perhaps what seems to be the most underappreciated is Harris’s expressed recognition of this unprecedented moment in the nation’s life—bloodthirsty,...
Bernie Sanders To Move Resolution In U.S. Senate To Block Arms Sale To Israel
By Linda Pentz Gunter WASHINGTON: Democratic socialist senator Bernie Sanders, one of the lone critics on Capitol Hill of Israel’s carnage in Gaza, is set to introduce a joint resolution this week to block the ongoing billions of US dollars in arms sales to Israel. “Much of the carnage...
Fresh Digital Bill On The Cards
NEW DELHI: Facing strong opposition from several quarters, the government is likely to withdraw the Digital Competition Bill (DCB), the draft of which was released in March. Sources said that a fresh Bill may be drafted after taking inputs from other ministries, MeitY for instance, as well as industry...
S&P Retains India’s FY25 Growth Forecast At 6.8%, Expects Rate Cut In October
NEW DELHI: The global credit ratings agency S&P Global on Tuesday retained India’s growth forecast at 6.8 per cent for the current financial year and expressed optimism that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would start cutting interest rates in its October monetary policy review. “In India, GDP growth...
Slowing Indian Economy To Drag APAC’s Growth In 2025: Moody’s Analytics
NEW DELHI: Moody’s Analytics on Tuesday said normalising growth in India would drag the Asia Pacific (APAC) region’s performance in 2025 as India’s economy is projected to slow down to 6.5 per cent in 2025 from an estimated 7.1 per cent for 2024. “In developing Asia, growth will slow...
Bank Bond Issuance Likely To Touch Rs 1.2 Trillion Level In FY25: Report
MUMBAI: Banks’ borrowings through bonds is expected to reach Rs 1.2-1.3 trillion in this financial year (FY25) amid tight liquidity conditions and credit outpacing deposit growth, according to rating agency ICRA. Bond issuances in FY25 may surpass the earlier peak of Rs 1.1 trillion in FY23, said the agency...
Group Of Ministers Not In Favour Of GST Relief To Real Estate Sector
NEW DELHI: Most members in the Group of Ministers (GoM) of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council are not in favour of any relief to the real estate sector with regard to the tax incidence on collaborative ventures between developers and land owners. “Most members feel the rate...
