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BJP Leaders Are Needlessly Creating Furore Over Nitish’s Remarks
By Sushil Kutty Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was the wrong guy at the wrong place. He should have been an American speaking to a house of US legislators. And to think that modern-day Indians make such a hue and cry about free speech. What about Nitish Kumar’s right...
Death Of A Horse Of Kolkata Mounted Police By Sheer Noise Should Serve As A Warning
By Anjan Roy The death of a horse, ironically named Voice of Reason, has erupted into widespread bemoaning what we humans are doing to the environment and our insensitivity to nature and other sentient beings. A horse belonging to the Calcutta Mounted Police died of fright from loud noise...
World Goes Against Its Pledges, Doubling Fossil Fuel Production
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Despite pledges by 151 national governments to achieve net-zero emission by phasing out fossil fuels production, the world is set to double its production by 2030. A new report from the UN environment agency (UNEP) has warned that global coal production would continue to increase...
Stretching Working Period To 70 Hours A Week Contradicts Global Practices
By Krishna Jha Looking at the data and studies done across the world, it appears that the Infosys founder N Narayana Murthy when he said that in India youth should work for seventy hours a week, he was ignoring a reality: working hours in India are amongst the longest...
High Onion And Potato Prices Are Now Major Issues In Bangladesh Poll Campaign
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The national elections in Bangladesh are scheduled to be held in January 2024. The Shiekh Hasina-led Awami League will try to continue its uninterrupted stint in power since 2009. The united opposition led by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, whose top leader, Khaleda Zia, is serving...
October CPI Inflation Seen At 5-Month Low Of 4.8 Per Cent
NEW DELHI: India’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) – based inflation likely fell to a five-month low of 4.8% in October from 5.02% in September, primarily due to the statistical effect of a high base and decline in prices of key vegetables, according to an FE poll of 15 economists....
11 Firms Ride The Market Wave To Join Rs 1-Trillion M-Cap Club
MUMBAI: As Indian markets scaled new highs this financial year, the market capitalisation (m-cap) of 11 companies crossed the Rs 1 trillion-mark over the past seven months, joining the club with 46 others. This is a rise of 19% over FY23. These 11 firms include Adani Power, DLF, Hindustan...
India Proposes Slashing EV Import Taxes To Clinch UK Free Trade Deal
India is proposing reducing import taxes on some electric vehicles from the UK in an effort to clinch a free-trade deal between the two nations by the end of the year, according to two people familiar with the discussions. New Delhi is considering a concessional tariff of 30% on...
Adani’s Colombo Port Terminal To Get $553 Million Funding From US DFI
NEW DELHI: The US Develop–ment Finance Corporation (DFC) on Wednesday announced it would provide $553 million for Colombo West International Terminal Pvt Ltd (CWIT), in which Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) is a majority stakeholder with 51 per cent. It is part-owned by Sri Lanka’s John Keells...
Survey Soon To Gather Data From Informal Sector Firms
NEW DELHI: India will soon begin work on the 2023-24 round of the Annual Survey on Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) even though the results of the previous surveys, dating back to four years, are yet to be released. The aim of ASUSE, along with the Annual Survey of Service...
Nitish Trumps RSS, Modi With Caste-Based Socio-Economic Report
By Arun Srivastava Once again, the Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has proved that his bête noire Narendra Modi could not match his political craftsmanship and administrative acumen. Though the middle class bhakts of Modi claim that he has perfect understanding of the time, when to strike and how...
Congress Emerging Stronger In Madhya Pradesh, Closer To Power
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Election campaigns reach its mid-way, with only a week left for campaigning, Congress seems to have emerged even stronger than previously expected just one week ago, or even likely to perform better than in the last election held in 2018....
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Is Playing The OBC Card In Telangana Polls
By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party despairs that the opposition INDI-Alliance is dividing Hindus into caste to rob the BJP a chance at victory in the five states’ assembly elections. The moral high-ground the saffron party took by championing a casteless Hindu society, however, does not fetch votes...
Israel Will Be Doing A Terrible Blunder If It Extends The War To Iran And Lebanon
By Girish Linganna As Israel grieved in the aftermath of the October 7 tragedy, where more than 1,400 citizens lost their lives due to the actions of Hamas terrorists, US President Joe Biden visited Tel-Aviv to pledge American support. However, during an appearance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
Portugal May Face Elections Again As Prime Minister Antonia Costa Resigns
By Satyaki Chakraborty Portugal may face another national elections early next year as the Prime Minister of the ruling Socialist Party government Antonio Costa resigned on Tuesday November 7 after the police arrested the PM’s chief of staff and allegations were galore about the involvement of the PM office...
V K Pandian, A Bureaucrat Of Extraordinary Calibre Is Assisting Naveen Patnaik
By Harihar Swarup Former bureaucrat Wajahat Habibullah, while serving as director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, called up his school friend, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, saying that he was sending to him a freshly-minted IAS officer, who also writes movies script, an...
Gaza War Drowns Out Sane Voices On Both Sides Of Palestinian Divide
By James M Dorsey Gershon Baskin may be one of the few sane voices left on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Baskin speaks with authority when he denounces the Israeli assault on Gaza as a war crime and Hamas for its brutal October 7 attack on Israel that...
Policy Soon To Make Airports Transit Hubs For South Asia
NEW DELHI: India is framing a national policy to transform its airports into major international hubs that will offer single-point international connectivity to the South Asian region. The policy, which will need cabinet nod, aims to frame laws for easing security and immigration bottlenecks at airports, allocation of international...
