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U.S. Govt Is Making A Mockery Of India-US Trade Relations At This War Time
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In the fraught geometry of global trade, pressure rarely disappears; it merely changes form. That is precisely what appears to be unfolding in Washington. With punitive tariffs increasingly constrained by legal challenges and geopolitical complications, the office of the Donald Trump has turned...
Iran’s Defiance Of US-Israel Axis Becomes Stronger Under Mojtaba Khamenei
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The new voice of power in Tehran did not sound conciliatory. It sounded resolute. Offensive, defensive and no apologies for its programmes or human rights violations. Warned neighbouring Arabs to take off the US naval bases. In his first statement since assuming the...
Trump Is Continuously Giving Misleading Picture On Hormuz Strait Creating Confusion
By Anjan Roy As in any war, conflicting narratives are emerging in Iran war and it is becoming increasingly difficult to get at what is happening on the ground. These have become all the more real as Iran has now started savage attacks on US facilities in the Gulf...
Modi Govt Is In A Position To Deal With Current Oil Crisis Due To Iran War
By Subrata Majumder With the outbreak of combined USA-Israel war against Iran, threats loomed large on oil price hike. It turns double whammy, combined with Trump’s tariff war. It raised a new era of global political and economic conflict, which is unlikely to decelerate in near future. This war...
All Major Political Parties In Uttar Pradesh Are Battling To Own Kanshi Ram Legacy
By Rahil Nora Chopra With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for 2027, the Congress SP, BSP and Azad Samaj party are looking forward to kindle the legacy of the BSP founder Kanshi Ram, who is seen to have reshaped Dalit politics in North India. The new entrant in...
India Dials Iran For Safe Transit Of Its Vessels Through Strait Of Hormuz
NEW DELHI: Amid concerns over India’s energy security due to the conflict in West Asia, Indian government sources said on Thursday that New Delhi was in talks with Tehran to provide safe passage for Indian-flagged merchant vessels — especially the 28 of them currently stranded in the region —...
Economists See Crude Price Surge Having Limited Impact On Inflation
MUMBAI: Economists do not see the surging crude prices having a major impact on inflation nor warranting any monetary policy measures by the central bank soon. The comments came on a day when the Centre released the first full month retail inflation based on the new base year for...
China Silent On India’s Move To Ease FDI Norms
NEW DELHI: China has refrained from responding to India’s decision to ease foreign direct investment norms for countries sharing land borders with it, while the Chinese business called the move “partial” opening up, with restrictions still in place on large-scale investments. New Delhi on Tuesday eased foreign direct investment...
Retail Inflation Rose To 3.2 Per Cent In February On Higher Food, Precious Metal Prices
NEW DELHI: India’s retail inflation rose to 3.21 per cent in February from 2.74 per cent recorded in January, driven by higher food inflation and continued pressure from rising gold and silver prices, according to data released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Thursday. The February reading, which...
Reporting Change To Lift Bank Credit Growth In FY26
MUMBAI: A technical tweak in the way banks report fortnightly balance-sheet data may swell India’s credit numbers by more than Rs 2 lakh crore this year and lift measured loan growth by over a percentage point. The change concerns the date on which banks report credit and deposit figures...
After 13 Days Of Iran War, Trump And Netanyahu Are Learning Bitter Lesson
By T.N. Ashok NEW YORK: Let’s be blunt about what’s actually happening in the current no holds barred war between Iran and US-Israel combine. The United States and Israel have been bombing Iran for thirteen straight days. Cruise missiles, precision strikes, relentless sorties. The kind of firepower that flattened...
India’s GDP Was Shown 1.5 To 2 Per Cent Higher Under Narendra Modi Regime
By Dr. Gyan Pathak On an average, India’s GDP was shown 1.5 to 2 per cent higher than the actual under PM Narendra Modi regime, chiefly due to error in methodology of estimation of the growth rate. Only a few days ago at the end of February 2026, the...
U.S. Under Trump Is Setting The Agenda Of Global Industrial Expansion
By R. Suryamurthy The United States has opened a new front in its long-running effort to police global trade. This time, the focus is not only on China—its usual adversary—but on a much broader set of economies, including India, whose industrial ambitions are beginning to reshape the global manufacturing...
Capturing The Strategic Kharg Island In Iran Is A Prime Task Of Trump Now
By Asad Mirza Iran’s Kharg Island lies in proximity to the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial global oil passage, besides itself being an important site for petroleum and petrochemical installations. In practical terms, that makes Kharg the single most important piece of energy infrastructure Iran possesses. Reports suggest that...
West Asian War Is Increasingly Turning Into A Battle Over Hormuz Straits And Oil Prices
By Anjan Roy The West Asia war between Iran and US-Israel combine now seems to be converging on the Strait of Hormuz and the price of oil. Three vessels have been hit on the twelfth day of the war by projectiles while approaching the Strait of Hormuz and in...
Antonio Kast Sworn As President In Chile Marking The Country’s Biggest Right Wing Shift
By Satyaki Chakraborty Far right politician Jose Antonio Kast was sworn in as the new President of Chile on March 10 indicating the biggest shift in the politics of the Latin American nation since the return of democracy in 1990. In the last 36 years, the Left or Centre-Left...
Electoral Democracy In West Bengal Is Facing A Big Threat Due To Deletion By ECI Of Genuine Voters
By Nilotpal Basu The idea of India was not forged in the fiction woven by Savarkar’s Hindutva ideology. It was shaped by the blood and sweat spilled in the national freedom struggle to dislodge British colonial rule. Obviously, the idea set out a different playbook which contributed to the...
International Women’s Day On March 8 Has Highlighted Ongoing Fight For Gender Equity, Social Justice
By Krishna Jha In 1910, the Second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. German socialist Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office in the Social Democratic Party, proposed an International Women’s Day – a global celebration dedicated to women’s demands for equal rights. Zetkin, known for...
