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House Panel Seeks Upward Revision Of Wage Floor
NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary Standing Committee has urged the Ministry of Labour and Employment to raise the National Floor Level Minimum Wage (NFLMW) without any further delay. The floor levels have remained unchanged for several years and no longer reflects current living costs, inflationary pressures, or the essential needs...
Energy Markets Entering A New Phase Of Infrastructure-Related Uncertainty
By K Raveendran Energy markets are entering a phase where the traditional assumptions underpinning pricing models are being fundamentally reshaped by the evolving nature of conflict, with the Iran war serving as a critical inflection point. For decades, oil prices have largely responded to state-driven variables such as production...
What Makes Mamata Banerjee So Confident Of Winning 226 Seats?
By Dr. Gyan Pathak There is mockery of election in West Bengal, that has begun in the right earnest after its announcement by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on March 15. The election will be held on a very faulty and incomplete electoral roll as the foundation of...
GST 2.0’s Missing Link: Why Consumer Protection Must Anchor Tax Reform?
By R. Suryamurthy When India recalibrated its GST structure in September 2025, the promise was seductively simple—cut taxes, soften prices, revive demand. It was a proposition that carried both political appeal and economic logic, particularly in an economy where consumption had yet to regain durable momentum and household balance...
Pak-Afghan War Enters A Dangerous Phase After Monday’s Kabul Massacre
By T N Ashok The protracted war between Pakistan and Afghanistan entered a critical phase on Monday following the death of about 400 persons in a Kabul Hospital due to air strikes by Pakistan. Kabul immediately talked of severe retaliatory action. India also strongly condemned the barbaric attacks by...
Gulf States Brace For A New Order Post-Iran Conflict
By Arjavi Indraneesh Missile and drone strikes linked to the widening confrontation around Iran have forced Gulf governments to confront a reality long considered unlikely: the region’s economic hubs, energy infrastructure and aviation networks can no longer assume insulation from large-scale conflict. Airports, oil terminals and urban centres across...
Iranian Security Chief Ali Larijani’s Killing Is A Big Jolt To Tehran Command
By Anjan Roy Another key leader of Iran was assassinated in an Israeli raid on Tuesday, leaving the country even more deeper in a stormy sea with lost leadership. Ali Larijani, who was the head of national security of Iran, and was reportedly virtually leading the country since the...
Decoding The Leading Bengali Dramatist, Badal Sircar, On His Centenary
By Nabanita Chakraborty Badal Sircar, a civil engineer turned dramatist, was born in Calcutta in 1925. He died in 2011 at the age of 86. His birth centenary celebrations have been observed nationally as he was the only writer of plays in Bengali in the second half of the...
First Round Local Polls In France Show Far Right’s Surge As Also Left’s Power To Hold
By Harrison Stetler PARIS: This month’s local elections in France may not turn out to be such a debacle for the Left after all. A far cry from the nationalist and conservative wave that many had feared, left-wing candidates are reasonably well positioned to hold on to power, not...
Iran War For U.S. AND Israel Is A Test Lab For AI Warfare
By Marc Vandepitte NEW YORK: War is increasingly being fought less by humans and more by algorithms. In Iran, we see how artificial intelligence is driving the pace of destruction to an unprecedented speed, bringing with it a host of profound moral problems. New wars are rarely purely military;...
Finalise Legal Strategy For Indirect Control Model For PSUs: Parliamentary Panel To DIPAM
NEW DELHI: The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has asked the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) to finalise a clear legal strategy—such as a ‘golden share’ or indirect control model—to safeguard strategic autonomy in public sector undertakings (PSUs) even if government shareholding drops below 51 per...
Easier PN3 Rules To Clear $10-20 Billion Investments In India
NEW DELHI: India’s recent decision to amend its Press Note 3 framework is expected to pave the way for $10-20 billion global capital investment in India. The move, industry watchers say, addresses a years-long friction point in cross-border capital flows. The Union Cabinet last week approved changes to the...
India’s Chemicals Industry To Reach $255 Billion By 2030: McKinsey
NEW DELHI: India’s chemicals industry is set to outpace economic growth and expand to $ 230-255 billion by 2030, driven by emerging high-growth segments, according to a report by McKinsey & Company. The sector, currently valued at $ 155-165 billion, is projected to grow at a compound annual rate...
SEBI Proposes To Reinstate The Use Of PoA For Incapacitated Investor Accounts
MUMBAI: In a consultation paper issued on Tuesday, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) proposed to allow the power of attorney (PoA) holder to operate the investor’s account/folio in situations where the investor is physically incapacitated, but has the capacity to contract. This comes in the backdrop...
Two-Thirds Of Unemployed Youth Are Graduates: State Of Working India Report
NEW DELHI: Over two-thirds of unemployed Indians aged 20–29 were graduates in 2023, with the share of degree holders among the unemployed rising sharply from 46 per cent in 2017 to 67 per cent in 2023, according to the State of Working India 2026 report released by Azim Premji...
Trump Is Facing His Moment Of Truth In Iran War With Isolation From NATO
By Nitya Chakraborty On Wednesday, the 18th day of the U.S.-Israel combo’s war against Iran, Trump got two bad news simultaneously which made him ponder on how to go about on his next forward strategy to ensure Iran’s submission to the U.S. might. The first news was the European...
RSS Conclave Decides To Launch Fresh Outreach To Dalits And Nationalist Muslims
By Arun Srivastava For keeping the rank and file in high spirit and let not its logical difference with the BJP conjure them to lose trust in the saffron philosophy, the three day Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha of RSS which concluded on Sunday, has decided not only to launch...
UN General Assembly’s Emergency Session On March 18 Is Of Crucial Importance
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The Middle East is on fire. Not metaphorically — literally. Since February 28, 2026, when U.S. and Israeli stealth assets struck 400 Iranian targets simultaneously in a “surgical” operation designed to decapitate the clerical regime and bury its nuclear program, the Persian Gulf...
