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Alleged Turkish Intelligence Plot In South Asia Raises Regional Security Concerns
By M A Hossain Serious allegations have emerged suggesting the presence of a covert foreign intelligence operation targeting Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. According to information obtained from multiple sources, a Bangladeshi national currently residing in India is suspected of working under the direction of National Intelligence Organization,...
Ruling Social Democrats And Left Allies Emerge As Largest Bloc In Denmark Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats and the other left wing allies in her ruling coalition emerged as the single largest group in the national elections in Denmark held on March 24. Out of the total 179 seats in Parliament, the ruling block got 84 seats...
Spain’s Strong Refusal To Support Joint US-Israel War In Iran Unnerves NATO
By Dr. Hana Saada NEW YORK: The most revealing feature of the current confrontation is not the fury of its rhetoric, but the narrowing of its coalition. In the political language of war, the loudest voices often conceal the deepest fragility. That is precisely what is now unfolding in...
Private Sector Growth At 3-Year Low As Demand Falls
NEW DELHI: India’s private sector in March is expected to have grown at its slowest pace in more than three years as market disruptions and energy shocks due to the Iran war dampened domestic demand and pushed up costs, a private survey said on Tuesday. HSBC’s flash India Composite...
India’s Digital Media Crossed ₹1 Trillion In 2025: FICCI-EY Report
MUMBAI: India’s digital media has emerged as the single largest segment of the media and entertainment (M&E) industry in 2025 and crossed the Rs 1 trillion mark for the first time, according to FICCI-EY’s report on India’s M&E sector titled Stories, Scale and Impact. Digital advertising witnessed a 26...
SBI Sees Rupee Breaching 96 If War Lasts Another Month, Says Remittances To Rise On Better Exchange Rate
MUMBAI: If the Iran war continues for another month, the rupee, which has lost nearly 9% so far this fiscal including over 4.5% since the war began nearly a month back, may breach another sensitive barrier of 96 to a dollar, State Bank of India economists have warned. However,...
China’s Investment Facilitation Pact At WTO May Pose Systemic Risks, Caution Experts
NEW DELHI: If the China-led Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD) agreement is approved at the World Trade Organization, it could enable China and other supporting members to bring investment-related issues formally under the WTO’s purview. Experts warn that, if adopted, the proposal may be incorporated under Annex 4, allowing...
Employment In Unincorporated Sector Rises 6.18 Per Cent In 2025: Report
NEW DELHI: Employment grew 6.18 per cent to 12.80 crore in the unincorporated enterprises sector in 2025, adding more than 74.52 lakh new jobs during the period, according to a government survey. The Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE) for 2025, released on Tuesday, showed that the number...
Amidst India-China Bonhomie In Bilateral Ties, Both Sides To Fight Each Other At WTO Meet
By Nitya Chakraborty It is a history of twists and turns in India-China economic relations for decades. The same is being repeated now as India after taking special measures to make Chinese direct investment easier and agreeing to start border trade from three points in this country from June...
West Bengal Voter List Is Incomplete 12 Days Before The Last Date Of Nomination
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The Final Electoral Roll for West Bengal published by the Election Commission of India on February 28, 2026 under Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is still not final. The supplementary list published on March 23 late around midnight has covered only about 29 lakh voters. The...
No Space For Complacency Towards The Nuclear Threat In West Asian War
By Dr Arun Mitra The United States of America President, Donald Trump, has now extended the deadline regarding the opening of the Strait of Hormuz. This decision appears to have been taken on the advice of his senior military leadership, as well as under pressure from European nations and...
PM In His Parliament Speech On Monday Did Not Explain His Failure In Condemning Killing Of Khamenei
By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi speech in Parliament on West Asia war on Monday sounded like that of a fugitive who lacked the courage and moral conviction to confront the truth. After 25 days assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Ali Hosseini Khamenei), following joint U.S.-Israeli air...
India On The Edge: How The Iran War Is Testing India’s Key Economic Sectors
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: When Narendra Modi flew to Jerusalem on February 26 to address the Knesset — becoming the first Indian prime minister to do so — the timing carried an unmistakable strategic signal. Two days later, U.S. and Israeli forces launched their campaign against Iran....
India’s Strategic Petro-Products Reserve Can Take Care Of Six Weeks Demand
By T N Ashok The flames have been burning for weeks now, but for India, the real crisis is not military — it is mathematical. Every day that the Strait of Hormuz remains contested, every tanker that turns back or delays, every cargo rerouted around the Cape of Good...
AIMIM Joining TMC Rebel Humayun Kabir’s Front Should Cause Worry To Ruling TMC
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress is likely to face a stiff competition in minority dominated constituencies in poll bound West Bengal next month after Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has decided to form an alliance with Humayun Kabir’s Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP). Hyderabad MP, Owaisi...
BJP Facing A Plethora Of Problems In Keralam Elections
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Keralam unit, which is hoping to improve its performance in the crucial Assembly elections, is bedevilled with a bewildering array of problems. Topping the list is infighting over and dissatisfaction with the selection of candidates for the assembly elections. To...
Dhurandhar 2 Is A Successful Propaganda Film Paraded As A Patriotic Thriller
By T N Ashok Bollywood has always flirted with politics. From Indira Gandhi’s state-funded documentaries to Modi-era blockbusters, cinema has been a pliable tool for power. But with Dhurandhar 2, the line between entertainment and propaganda doesn’t just blur—it collapses entirely. What masquerades as a patriotic thriller is, in...
India Inc To Pull Back On Capex By 16.5% In FY27, Says NSO Survey
NEW DELHI: India Inc’s capital expenditure (capex) plans show moderation in 2026-27 (FY27), with aggregate intentions falling 16.5 per cent to ₹9.55 trillion from the provisional ₹11.44 trillion estimated for 2025-26 (FY26). This is according to the National Statistics Office’s (NSO’s) second forward-looking survey on private corporate sector capex...
