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In Madhya Pradesh, Slugfest Between BJP And Congress Over Operation Sindoor
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The BJP organised an impressive show of strength in Bhopal on May 31 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event, christened Lokmata Devi Ahilyabai Mahila Sashaktikaran Mahasammelan (Ahilyabai Women Empowerment Conference), was supposed to celebrate the 300th birth anniversary of Ahilyabai...
Kenyan Writer Ngugi Wa Thinog’o Has Left A Rich Legacy For African Authors
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: One of his brothers was a freedom fighter against the British while another sibling was shot to death, Ngugi Wa Thinog’o found his home destroyed when one day he returned from school. The population had been herded to a “protected village” set up by the...
ADB Announces $10 Billion Plan To Transform India’s Urban Infra, Services
NEW DELHI: Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masato Kanda has announced a five-year plan to mobilise up to $10 billion, including third-party capital, to enhance the India’s urban infrastructure and services. The plan was unveiled after Kanda’s meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The plan will focus on metro...
RBI Expected To Deliver Rate Cut On Friday: Experts
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank is likely to go for a third consecutive rate cut of 25 basis points on Friday as inflation continues to remain below the median target of four per cent, to push growth amid continued global uncertainty triggered by the US tariff moves. Reserve Bank’s rate-setting...
Singapore Remains India’s Largest FDI Source For Seventh Straight Fiscal
NEW DELHI: Singapore continued to be India’s largest source of foreign direct investment (FDI) for the last seven years, as the country received the highest inflows of about $15 billion in 2024-25. The overseas inflow grew 13 per cent to $50 billion in the last fiscal. The total FDI,...
Government Slashes APM Gas Price For First Time In Two Years
NEW DELHI: For the first time in two years, the government has reduced the price of natural gas used for producing CNG for vehicles and cooking gas, reflecting a decline in benchmark rates. The price of natural gas from legacy fields allocated to state-owned ONGC without auction has been...
Underlying Weakness May Be Behind Surge In Outbound FDI
MUMBAI: India’s outbound investments jumped 75% to $29.2 billion in FY25, while foreign firms repatriated a massive $51 billion from the country. Yet, gross foreign direct investment (FDI) in the last fiscal saw a satisfactory growth of 14% to $81 billion, including equity inflows exceeding $50 billion. So, there...
Oil Market Waiting For Clear Signals As Pushes And Pulls Exert Divergent Pressures
By K Raveendran Brent crude oil futures continue to hover around the $65 per barrel mark, a level that reflects the push and pull of market forces clouded by a cocktail of geopolitical tensions, environmental disruptions, and strategic production decisions. As prices hold steady, the broader sentiment among traders...
Pakistan Army: Unmatched Expertise In Art Of Deception
By Manish Rai The Pakistani Army is fighting tooth and nail to push its false narrative that it emerged victorious in the recent military confrontation with India. Arch-rival India became the first country to strike 11 airbases of a nuclear-armed nation in a single operation. But despite this fact,...
Why Indus Water Treaty In Abeyance Is A Serious Existential Threat To Pakistan?
By Sant Kumar Sharma On April 23, 2025, the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), which was presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, decided to keep the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance. It bears mention here that the word abeyance is not used anywhere in the Treaty text....
Pakistan’s Military Is Making Use Of War Fever With India To Boost Its Power
By Hamza Shehryar LONDON: Two weeks ago, Pakistan and India were on the brink of all-out war. On May 7, India’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government launched air strikes across the Line of Control (LoC), targeting sites in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and as far inland as Bahawalpur, Punjab. Branded...
The Curious Case Of Malabari Muslims Cheering Modi-Hater Shahid Afridi In Dubai
By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Salman Khurshid has asked Pakistan to end terrorism. CPM’s Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas also voiced the same thought. Khurshid is Muslim and Brittas is Christian. Brittas stressed the point that he’s a Kerala Christian and that there are Christians and Hindus along with...
The Trajectory Of Unique Relationship Between Donald Trump And Elon Musk
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Elon Musk, the $250 million funder of Donald Trump’s election campaign in 2024 that brought the Republican maverick back into the White House for a 2nd non-consecutive term, bid adieu to the White House, leaving as a bruised administrator who could not achieve...
Most Of South Asian Economies Facing Problems Due To Political Turmoil
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: In South Asia generally, the level of politics-related mass violence has been rising in recent times, causing concern among ruling parties/establishments in most countries. The lives of millions have been impacted negatively by such violence whether in Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar — or India!...
Narendra Modi’s Bihar Visit Outcome Belies Expectation Of State BJP Leadership
By Arun Srivastava It was a failed mission. Before embarking on his three-day mission to Bihar and Bengal beginning May 28, Narendra Modi had nursed the view that his mission Operation Sindoor, under which he had envisaged to offer Sindoor to every household, would arouse the nationalist passion of...
Unemployment Rates In Early 2025 Remain At Historic Low
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Global Labour market outlook for 2025 is increasingly fragile. One the one hand, slower economic growth is expected to reduce global employment growth rate, and on the other unemployment rates in the countries with early 2025 data remain at historic low. Job vacancies are slightly...
Narendra Modi Government Has Bolstered Its Relations With Israel At The Cost Of Palestine
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: National governments do not have feelings. They have only interests. It’s by following these interests that we can begin to understand why the world is as it is. One of the major interests is in securing the necessary resources — mineral or otherwise — to...
India Likely To Become 4th Largest Economy In FY26
NEW DELHI: India is likely to become the world’s fourth largest economy in the current fiscal on the back of its projected record-beating growth rate of 6.3-6.8 per cent that would help it overtake Japan. India recorded a growth of 6.5 per cent for the financial year ended March...
