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FIEO Urges Government To Extend Interest Subvention Scheme For Five Years
NEW DELHI: Apex exporters body FIEO on Tuesday urged the government to extend the interest subvention scheme for five years to help increase credit flow in the sector in order to boost the country’s shipments, which registered a steepest decline in 13-month falling 9.3 per cent in August to...
Piyush Goyal Urges Realtors To Ensure Guaranteed ESIC, PF Registrations For Seven Million Workers
SYDNEY: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday asked the real estate industry to provide guaranteed ESIC and provident fund registrations for 7 crore people working in this sector, besides adopting new form of construction process for fast project execution with less pollution. Addressing an event organised...
President Murmu Calls For Timely Audit Of Public Finance
NEW DELHI: Underscoring the importance of timelines in auditing public finance, President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday said if a wrong is pointed out well within time, it can be corrected and help save huge amount of public money. She emphasised the need for audit bodies keeping pace with technological...
SBI Predicts Private Capex Uptick In Second Half Of FY25
NEW DELHI: SBI Chairman C S Setty has said the bank has already got Rs 4 lakh crore strong credit pipeline from India Inc and expressed hope that capital expenditure by the private sector is expected to pick up in the second half of the fiscal year. “We see...
Mahindra In Talks To Acquire 50 Per Cent In Skoda-Volkswagen India
NEW DELHI: Indian conglomerate, Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) is in advanced negotiations with Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Private Limited (SAVWIPL) according to a report in Autocar Professional. According to the report, it is believed that M&M is to acquire a 50 percent stake in SAVWIPL for a consideration of...
Amit Shah Has No Business To Spoil Relations With Bangladesh For His Party
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Creating a bad neighbourhood is unwise, especially through totally avoidable unrestrained speeches. However, the leaders from the ruling establishment in India have been in the habit of making unrestrained speeches aimed at winning domestic elections that hurt our neighbouring countries unnecessarily worsening already strained relationships...
Labour Immigration To USA Has Helped The Economy By Boosting Consumption
By Dr. Nilanjan Banik Debates alone don’t win a presidential election, but they can certainly influence the outcome in a closely contested race. The last presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was marked by numerous arguments and counter-arguments, but much of the discussion focused on economics and...
It Is Caste Battle In Indian States As Encounter Deaths Continue
By Sushil Kutty The grim truth holds that everybody Indian belongs to some or the other caste. Even Muslims and Christians. Prime Minister Narendra Modi identifies with an OBC. A Chief Minister has a caste. Criminals also have caste. Caste equations play important political roles. There was the ‘MY’...
Germany’s Ruling Social Democrats Halt Far Right Upsurge At Brandenburg Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty The anti-fascist forces in Germany felt a big relief after the Sunday’s crucial elections to Brandenburg region showed that the beleaguered ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD) narrowly beat the surging far right party AFD defying all opinion polls about the AFD’s imminent victory. The SPD got...
New President Of Bengal State Congress Has A Tough Task On Alliance Strategy
By Tirthankar Mitra The decision of national leadership of Congress to make Subhankar Sarkar the president of the party’s West Bengal unit sends a message of cessation of hostilities with Trinamool Congress, the state’s ruling party. For Sarkar who replaces Adhir Ranjan Choudhury as the state chief, has never...
Nirmala Sitharaman Acts Spiritual While Commenting On Death Of E&Y Girl
By Anjan Roy Nirmala Sitharaman seems to have graduated from being a mere union finance minister to a lofty “management guru” and a spiritual leader. Nirmala Sitharaman’s comments on the untimely death of a young professional from overwork is symptomatic of the present government’s over-anxiety not to alienate foreign...
What Does Leftist Anura Dissanayake’s Win In Sri Lanka Mean To India?
By Nitya Chakraborty India’s neighbour Sri Lanka has elected the Marxist-Leninist leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the next president in the intensely contested presidential elections held on Saturday, September 21. About 75 per cent of the total of 170 million population who voted, broke away decisively from the binary...
Poor Steel, Cement Output Reflects India’s Slow Growth Pace
By Nantoo Banerjee It may look rather odd that the steel production in India, the world’s most populous country, reached only 140 million tons as against China’s output of 1.019 billion tons, last year. The main reason is that India’s housing and construction sector is not showing the robust...
Prime Minister Faces Major Challenges In Pushing ‘One Nation-One Poll’ Proposal
By Kalyani Shankar The ‘ one- nation -one poll’ idea is moving towards Parliament and public debate, with the Narendra Modi government deciding to force the issue last week. The cabinet decided to bring a bill to Parliament in the coming session. The concept has been debated many times...
All Eyes Are Set On Pakistani Refugee Voters In J&K Election
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election campaign for the second phase of Jammu & Kashmir Vidhan Sabha Election on September 25 ended on Monday while it is nearing its peak for the third phase scheduled on October 1. All eyes are set on Pakistani refugee voters in the state who...
QUAD Summit At Delaware Was US President’s Swan Song In Diplomacy
By Asad Mirza The latest Quad Summit is largely seen as an effort by the US President Joe Biden to leave a lasting legacy. Though Prime Minister Narendra Modi ticked all boxes, yet nothing substantial for India was gained at the summit, apart from the optics. PM Modi along...
Joint Parliamentary Panel Is No Match Before The Wakf Board Challenge
By Sushil Kutty Wakf Board. Wakf land, Wakf property. Wakf claim. ‘Once Wakf, always Wakf’. There is enough Wakf to go around for everybody to share. But no, Wakf is limited-ownership. The Muslim can claim ownership of Hindu land, but not vice versa. Just like the PLA salami-slicing India...
Setting Up Of A Semi-Conductor Complex In Kolkata Is Highlight Of India-US Talks
By Girish Linganna The highlight of the bilateral talks between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the US President Joe Biden in USA on September 21 was the agreement on the setting up of a semi conductor complex in Kolkata having potential of creating large number of jobs in...
