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Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot Has A Commanding Influence In Poll Campaign In Rajasthan
By Harihar Swarup “Is not he a man”? Sonia Gandhi was said to have exclaimed at a meeting of the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) earlier last week. There was a deathly silence in the room. “Aren’t there corruption charges against him? Sonia, according to the reports, was referring...
Employment Generation Remains Dismal Reveals PLFS 2022-23
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Centre’s big claims on employment generation under PM Narendra Modi regime since 2014 is once again exposed. The recently released government’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) 2022-23 has revealed that both the employment and unemployment situation in the country remains a matter of serious concern....
Prime Minister Has A Challenging Task In Ensuring Safe Return Of Navy Officers From Qatar
By Sushil Kutty The Modi establishment, which takes pride in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “muscular foreign policy”, recently took Canada to task and bent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Modi’s will. Prime Minister Narendra Modi now has the challenging task of bringing home eight retired Indian Navy officers...
Indian Geopolitical Stakes In Maldives And Indian Ocean Region Nations Are Very High
By Girish Linganna In a recent political development that could potentially reshape the dynamics in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), the Maldives elected a new President, Mohamed Muizzu, 45, of the People’s National Congress (PNC) on September 30, 2023. Muizzu’s victory marked a significant shift in the nation’s foreign...
President Biden’s Bear Hug Of Israel’s Netanyahu Is A Double-Edged Sword
By James M Dorsey It took 11 days and the death of 256 Palestinians for US President Joe Biden’s preference for a bear hug rather than a sledgehammer approach to get Israel to halt the Gaza bombing in 2021. Even then, Biden needed to be blunt and go public...
How Hamas’ Militants Successfully Hoodwinked Israelis By Using Hardwired Phones?
By Girish Linganna Intelligence shared with the United States indicates that a group of Hamas operatives, over a span of two years, used a network of hardwired phones integrated into the tunnel system beneath Gaza to plan the unexpected and deadly attack on Israel, two reliable sources have revealed....
Donald Trump Ahead In Presidential Race For 2024 Polls As Rivals Falter
By Tirthankar Mitra Hardly covering himself with glory during his presidential tenure, Donald Trump seemed to be destined to political wilderness when he stepped down to make way for his Democrat rival Joe Bide after his defeat in 2020 Presidential elections.. His nomination after Joe Biden’s term was not...
Pro-Democracy Opposition Wins Elections In Poland After Eight Years Of Far Right Rule
By Roman Broszkowski Poland’s pro-democracy opposition has finally won a parliamentary election. With all votes counted, the center-right Civic Coalition, Christian-democratic Third Way, and left-wing Lewica, will together command 248 out of 460 seats in the lower house (Sejm) and sixty-five of one hundred in the Senate. Their October...
India, UK Trade Ministers Review Progress Of Talks On Proposed FTA
NEW DELHI: India and the United Kingdom on Saturday reviewed the progress of negotiations of the proposed free trade agreement (FTA), talks for which have reached the final stage. The progress was reviewed by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and UK Secretary of State for Business and Trade...
Ministry Of Power And BEE Unfold New Renewable Roadmap For 2030
NEW DELHI: The ministry of power and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) announced a revision to the Energy Conservation Act of 2001 on Wednesday, setting ambitious renewable energy consumption benchmarks for specified consumers until the financial year ending 2030. According to the notification, the BEE will shoulder the...
SAIL Chhattisgarh Arm Makes Special Rods For Mumbai Coastal Road Project
RAIPUR: Steel Authority of India Limited’s (SAIL) Chhattisgarh arm Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) has developed a new product to be used in the high-speed Mumbai coastal road project. During a visit to customer premises in Mumbai last month, the contractor (involved in the project) desired that wire rod mill,...
AM/NS India Plans To Develop Greenfield Jetty Near Hazira
AHMEDABAD: ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India), a joint-venture between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, plans to develop a Deep Draft Greenfield Jetty having a capacity of 65 million metric tonnes per annum (MMTPA) at Suvali in Shivrampur village near Hazira. The proposed jetty project is envisaged to meet AM/NS...
RIL Posts 29.7 Per Cent Jump In Q2 Net Profit To ₹19,878 Crore
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India’s biggest company by market capitalization, reported a 29.7% increase in consolidated net profit for the July-September quarter on account of higher sales and the robust overall performance of its businesses. Net profit rose to ₹19,878 crore from ₹15,332 crore in the year earlier....
India Inc Divided On Narayana Murthy’s Call For 70-Hour Work Week To Youth
KOLKATA\BENGALURU\CHENNAI\MUMBAI: How much time should one devote to work? Do long working hours mean more productivity? How important is the work-life balance in fostering creativity? India Inc seemed to be divided on such questions after Infosys founder Narayana Murthy suggested a 70-hour work week for “youngsters” to make the...
India Mobile Congress 2023: India Will Lead The World In 6G, Says PM Modi
NEW DELHI: Even as 5G, 6G, made-in-India phones and the role of tech revolution in bringing social justice dominated the seventh edition of the country’s flagship telecom summit ‘India Mobile Congress’, satellite communication managed to steal some of the thunder. At New Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam, which had last month...
JP Morgan Upgrades India To ‘Overweight’ From ‘Neutral’ Ahead Of Elections
MUMBAI: JPMorgan has upgraded the domestic markets to ‘overweight’ (OW) from ‘neutral’ on the “positive historical seasonality to general elections.” The investment bank joins US-based peer Morgan Stanley to flag preference for the Indian markets, which has been the leading performer in the emerging market (EM) pack since 2021....
Tata Group To Make iPhones In India
BENGALURU: It’s final. Taiwan-based Apple contract manufacturer Wistron Corp on Friday approved the sale of its plant in Karnataka to Tata group. This paves the way for the salt-to-software conglomerate to become the first domestic entity to manufacture iPhones. “The transaction price is tentatively estimated at $125 million,” Wistron...
G-7 Trade Chiefs Set To Tackle Supply Chains, Economic Coercion
Trade ministers from the world’s most advanced economies will seek strategies to make global supply chains more resilient and governments less vulnerable to economic coercion from the likes of China when they gather in Osaka this weekend. Group of Seven trade ministers convene on Saturday and Sunday against a...
