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Narendra Modi Faces Another Political Test In Assembly Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Maharashtra assembly polls are slated later this year along with Jharkhand. Also the bypolls in 10 UP assembly seats, which will put Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to test, are due. The thing to watch, however, is whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come...
Trump’s Scandalous Jabs Drag Trudeau’s Mom Into Canada’s Election
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The US Presidential election is scheduled for 5 November 2024 while the Canadian elections to elect a new Prime Minister is expected to take place in October 2025. After Kamala Harris became Democratic Party nominee for the President in the upcoming election, Republican Party’s Donald...
US Administration Moves To Help Crisis Ridden Bangladesh Economy
By Nitya Chakraborty The interim Government in Bangladesh led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus has achieved big success in the last few days in persuading the Biden administration to help in bailing out the country’s ailing economy to meet the immediate challenges of the post-Hasina administration. Interim Government head Dr....
Gau-Rakshaks On A Killing Rampage In Poll-Bound Haryana
By Sushil Kutty Lynching over the ‘gaumata’ is back in currency and poll-bound Haryana is where it has returned with a vengeance. In one incident, a Class 12 student was mistaken for a cow-smuggler and shot dead by a group of gau-rakshaks. In another incident a Muslim migrant from...
Pakistan Govt Deeply Worried At Balochistan Rebels Gaining Strength With Young Recruits
By Tirthankar Mitra Balochistan, the biggest province of Pakistan is on the boil. Ever since August 25, Majeed Brigade, a guerrilla group of Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) launched attacks at six different spots, it marked the end of the lull before the storm. Suicide attacks, setting vehicles on fire...
Transfer Of Dormant Commercial Bank Accounts To The RBI Is Unprincipled
By Romar Correa A basic concept in monetary economics is the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR). Commercial banks must park a certain portion of their deposits with the Central bank of the country. As interest is not payable on the funds so deposited with it, the Central bank could be...
How To Confront The Far Right In Germany, Britain And France?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: German regional elections amplify a message we’ve heard loud and clear from Britain and France already this summer: the far right is a rising danger. The Alternative for Germany (AfD’s) first place in Thuringia (it came a close second in Saxony) is especially alarming given...
India Must Avoid Sway Of Financial Markets’ Expectations Over Macro Outcomes: CEA
NEW DELHI: Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran on Monday warned that as financial markets become bigger than the economy, it is natural, but not reasonable, that the priorities of the financial market dominate macroeconomic outcomes. But India, which looks ahead to 2047, should avoid this trend as...
Growth In Indian Manufacturing Sector Slows To 3-Month Low In August, PMI Dips To 57.5
NEW DELHI: Growth in the Indian manufacturing sector slowed to a three-month low in August, as firms saw softer growth in new orders and output. The headline Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) figure released by HSBC on Monday stood at 57.5, down from 58.1 in July. A figure above 50...
Single Corporate Filing With Exchanges Soon: SEBI Chief
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will soon bring a system of single corporate filing with exchanges in a bid to ease compliance norms for companies, its chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch said. “It is a work in progress. If you file your disclosure with one exchange,...
Digital Gets Pride Of Place In ₹14,000-Crore Agro, Food Safety Schemes
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet Monday approved seven schemes totalling nearly ₹13,966 crore, aimed at improving farmer incomes through technological interventions and revamping existing farming practices. Key among them was the Digital Agriculture Mission with an outlay of ₹2,817 crore to build digital public infrastructure (DPI) for farmers. An...
Companies, Banks Struggle To Implement TRAI’s URL Whitelisting Norms
MUMBAI: Large enterprises and banks are finding it challenging to register unique, dynamic weblinks and shortened URLs-under the telecom regulator’s mandate-which are generated in real-time and cannot be pre-registered on the SMS filtering platform deployed by telecom companies. Shortened URLs such as bitly, shorturl, tinyurl etc are temporary links...
China Dominates Steel Imports In India
India is witnessing a significant surge in steel imports from China, contributing to a growing trade deficit and challenging the domestic steel industry. This trend is alarming for India’s economic stability, as the steel sector is a crucial component of its industrial growth. The influx of cheaper Chinese steel...
Cabinet Approves Rs 18,036 Crore Railway Line Connecting Manmad And Indore
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Monday approved a new 309-kilometre railway line between Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh worth Rs 18036 crore, which will connect Manmad and Indore. Speaking at a press conference, Union Minister for Railways, Electronics and Information Technology, and Information and...
Cabinet Approves ₹26,000 Crore Deal With HAL For 240 Aero-Engines For Su-30 MKIs
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-headed Cabinet Committee on Security in its meeting on Monday approved a proposal for procurement of 240 aero-engines (AL-31FP) for Russian-origin SU-30 MKI fighter aircraft from defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) at a cost of over ₹26,000 crore. Earlier, the MoD had given...
Godrej Properties Wins Bid For Two Housing Plots In Gurugram Costing Rs 515 Crore
NEW DELHI: Realty firm Godrej Properties has won bid for two residential plots in Gurugram costing Rs 515 crore and will develop luxury homes worth Rs 3,400 crore on these land parcels. In a regulatory filing on Monday, Godrej Properties informed that it has “emerged as the highest bidder...
FICCI CASCADE Underlines Need For Global Cooperation To Curb Smuggling For Sustainable Growth
NEW DELHI: To combat the menace of smuggling and counterfeiting that feed into terror financing and organised crime, FICCI Committee Against Smuggling and Counterfeiting Destroying the Economy (CASCADE) will be organising the 10th edition of MASCARADE (Movement Against Smuggling and Counterfeit Trade) this month in the national Capital. MASCARADE...
Lying In Politics Is Posing ‘Existential Threat’ To Democracy
By Nantoo Banerjee Democratically elected governments often think their electors are idiots. They may have good reasons to build such a notion as a good number of them don’t deserve to be there in terms of their personal background and characteristic traits. Many of them are booked for even...
