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OECD Debt Report 2025 Shows Rising Vulnerability Of The Rich Countries
By Anjan Roy The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, Better known as the OECD, has produced its global debt survey for 2025, which paints a rather grim picture of overall indebtedness of countries across the development and income spectrum. It reveals many a truths, including for those who...
‘Saugat-E-Modi’ Is Taking The Narendra Modi Cult To Another Level
By Sushil Kutty What is ‘Saugat-e-Modi’? The literal translation is ‘Modi’s Gift’. It’s a gift scheme for members of “minority communities” during this festive season, even if it sounds like unmistaken “Muslim appeasement.” Dig a little deeper and ‘Saugat-e-Modi’ is cultivating the Modi Cult and the question should be...
Not Just Mohan Bhagwat, Sanjay Joshi May Also Meet Narendra Modi On March 30
By Arun Srivastava March 30 is going to be the momentous day in the lifecycle of the RSS. On this day the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would not only be meeting his ostensible bete noire Narendra Modi to sort out the issue of selection of the future president of...
Pakistan Has Completely Lost Control In Balochistan
By Manish Rai Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province in terms of area has been rocked by multiple massive attacks recently. These attacks by Baloch insurgents, especially the attack on the Jaffar Express by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) have raised a very valid question: Is the Pakistani Army really in...
S&P Cuts India’s Fy26 GDP Growth Forecast To 6.5 Per Cent
NEW DELHI: S&P Global Ratings on Tuesday cut India’s GDP growth projections to 6.5 per cent for the next fiscal as it expects that economies in the APAC region will feel the strain of rising US tariffs and pushback on globalisation. In its Economic Outlook for Asia-Pacific (APAC), S&P...
Government Open To Reducing Tariffs On 55 Per Cent Of US Imports
NEW DELHI: The government is open to cutting tariffs on more than half of U.S. imports worth $23 billion in the first phase of a trade deal the two nations are negotiating, two government sources said, the biggest cut in years, aimed at fending off reciprocal tariffs. The South...
Revised PSL Guidelines Put Gold-Loan NBFCs In A Fix
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to exclude gold loans that are originated by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and acquired by banks from being classified as priority sector lending is expected to dent the growth of gold loan companies and increase their cost of funds. Shares of...
India’s Software Market To Hit $100 Billion By 2035, Growing 5x: Report
CHENNAI: India’s domestic software market is projected to grow 5X in the next decade from $20 billion in 2025 to hit $100 billion by 2035, a new report shows. SaaSBoomi, in collaboration with 1Lattice, released a report on Tuesday, which shows that the domestic IT software market will be...
Telecom Department Rejects TRAI Views On Infra Sharing By Service Providers Backed By Public Fund
NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom has rejected Trai views on passive infrastructure sharing by service providers supported by public fund, according to a document released by the telecom regulator. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had last year recommended that the Department of Telecom (DoT) should explore...
India Needs To Turn To Beer To Reduce Alcohol, Hooch Tragedies
India has grappled with tragedies related to alcohol including hooch mishaps. While such tragedies also happen elsewhere in the world, the frequency of such events in India is definitely way above the rest of the world. Banning alcohol is not the solution as one has seen in Bihar where...
India, Singapore Join Hands For Green And Digital Shipping Corridor
NEW DELHI: India and Singapore on Tuesday signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) for Green and Digital Shipping Corridor (GDSC), with a focus on digitalisation and decarbonisation. The Singapore-India GDSC, when established, will enhance collaboration from both countries and help accelerate the development and uptake of zero or near-zero...
Government Rolls Out Fix Quality Norms For Hinges
NEW DELHI: The government has issued mandatory quality norms for hinges to curb the import of sub-standard goods and boost domestic manufacturing of these goods, according to a notification. The Hinges (Quality Control) Order, 2025 was issued in this regard by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal...
Government Recovers Rs 416 Crore Under PM-KISAN Scheme
NEW DELHI: The government has recovered `416 crore from ineligible farmers under the flagship scheme PM-KISAN since its launch in 2019, Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told Lok Sabha on Tuesday. Chouhan, in a written reply, said the central government has disbursed over ` 3.68 Lakh Crore to farmers...
India Losing Three Per Cent Of GDP Annually: Gadkari
NEW DELHI: India is losing three per cent of its GDP due to around five Lakh road accidents annually in the country, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Tuesday. The Minister for Road, Transport and Highways made the remarks while addressing AMCHAM’s Technology Interventions For Road Safety: US-India Partnership...
Reservation Issue Becomes The Focus Of Political Fight Between BJP And Congress
By Sushil Kutty Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge is adamant that nobody (does “nobody” include Congress?) can “change the Constitution drafted by Babasaheb Ambedkar” and that nobody “can finish reservation” either. The question then boils down to can anybody give Muslims reservation, i.e., reservation on the basis of religion? The...
Climate Shocks To Cost India 24.7 Per Cent Of GDP By 2070
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The total GDP loss due to climate change under median climate change scenario in 2070 is found to be 16.9% in Asia and the Pacific, with all economies experiencing losses. Changes are in GDP are most pronounced in Bangladesh (-30.5%), Viet Nam (-30.2%), Indonesia (-26.8%),...
Massive Protests By Govt Staff And Citizens Against Musk’s DOGE Cuts
By Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik NEW YORK: In a big win for senior citizens, federal workers, and anyone else Social Security covers or who pays payroll taxes, a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., tossed Elon Musk—Donald Trump’s puppeteer—and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency out of Social Security’s...
Cut In USAID Funds For Rohingya Refugees Creates Big Problem For Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: With international assistance to Bangladesh on account of its feeding and sheltering a million Rohingyas to be sharply reduced from next month (April), Bangladeshi interim caretaker regime is lobbying hard to secure more help from abroad. Dhaka had received an official notice from the World...
