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India, US Chief Negotiators To Hold Four-Day Trade Talks From June 1
NEW DELHI: The chief negotiators of the US and India will begin four-day talks here on Monday on finalising the details of the interim trade pact, whose framework was agreed upon in February. The US team will be led by its chief negotiator Brendan Lynch. India’s chief negotiator is...
RBI Likely To Maintain Status Quo On Rates, Adopt Cautious Approach Amid West Asia Crisis
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank is expected to leave the key policy rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent this week and adopt a cautious stance that factors in the possible headwinds to inflation and growth trajectory amid the West Asia turmoil, experts opined. With surging energy prices, continuing supply chain...
Road To Contentious Sijimali Bauxite Block Gets Final Forest Clearance
BHUBANESWAR: In a significant development for the controversial Sijimali bauxite mining project, the Centre has approved Stage-II (final) forest clearance for diversion of 4.911 hectares of forest land for construction of a approach road connecting to the mineral block in Odisha. The 3.4 km road to the mineral block...
Need Stronger RBI Intervention For Rupee Stabilisation: SBI Research
MUMBAI: SBI Research in its report has called for stronger Reserve Bank of India intervention to stem the rupee’s sharp depreciation, arguing that the currency’s weakness is out of sync with the country’s macroeconomic fundamentals. In its pre-policy report released on Sunday, it said that the RBI is likely...
India Inc Ends FY26 On A Powerful Note
MUMBAI: It’s been a good earnings season for India Inc with operating profits rising nearly 11% year-on-year, backed by robust revenue growth — the best performance in almost 12 quarters. Controlled expenses helped cushion the bottom line at a time of elevated commodity prices, while a weaker rupee came...
Facing Major Challenge From China, India Set To Improve Bilateral Relations With Myanmar
By Nitya Chakraborty Facing the big possibility of China taking control of the new Junta government in Myanmar which took office last month, Indian policy makers are now very keen to give a big push to the India-Myanmar relations covering both economy and security aspects. Myanmar President U Min...
Exam Fiascos A Sad Commentary On Modi Govt’s Claims On Economic Progress
By K Raveendran The promise of India becoming the world’s third-largest economy has become one of the most persistent themes in the political messaging of the Modi government. It is projected as evidence of national resurgence, a sign that India is no longer waiting at the margins of global...
Tripartite Social Dialogue Has Stopped In India Since 2015
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Navigating Change Through Inclusive Social Dialogue, the fourth item on the agenda of the 114th Session of the International Labour Conference scheduled to be held during June 1 – 12, 2026, has pointed out that the tripartite social dialogue in India has stopped since 2015,...
SIR Begins In Manipur Amidst Tense Political Situation
By Rabindra Nath Sinha May 30 marks the launch of SIR in strife-scarred Manipur, where Assembly elections ‘under normal circumstances’ are due between late February and mid-March 2027, SIR, therefore, is preparatory to constituting the 60 member-House in this north-eastern state, where ethnic conflict of alarming proportions on the...
Bollywood’s Copyright War Over Two Songs Has Shaken The Film Industry
By T N Ashok The Hindi film industry has always lived on nostalgia. Every generation rediscovers the songs, stars and stories of the one before it. In recent years, however, Bollywood has turned nostalgia into a business model. Old songs are remixed, recreated, repackaged and inserted into new films...
Democracy Is Dying Under Erdogan’s Autocratic Rule In Turkey
By Manish Rai The Republican People’s Party (CHP), the primary secular opposition party in Turkey, is presently embroiled in a significant political and democratic crisis as a result of an unprecedented court ruling on May 21, 2026, that invalidated the political party’s leadership election in 2023. The fragile democracy...
AI Threatens To Make Economic Anxieties Sharper In India’s White Collar Jobs
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The dimension of the threat from Artificial Intelligence to the human labour force is becoming more clearer as the AI enters its new stage of development. The first wave of artificial intelligence largely functioned like an assistant. It made workers write code faster, summarise documents,...
Resilient Indian Economy May Face West Asia Headwinds: RBI
MUMBAI: India’s economy could face headwinds due to higher energy prices and supply chain disruptions, while the likelihood of El Nino conditions could hit agriculture output, the RBI said in its annual report released on Friday. However, healthy corporate and bank balance sheets, the government’s continued thrust on capital...
PSU Banks Asked To Adopt Prudent Expenditure & Maintain Resilience
NEW DELHI: The finance ministry on Friday asked public sector banks (PSBs) to adopt prudent expenditure and austerity measures at all levels while maintaining resilience amid evolving global uncertainties. Financial Services Secretary M Nagaraju, while chairing a meeting to review the financial performance of PSBs, advised them to provide...
India’s Organic Waste Could Become $51 Billion Market By 2047: Study
NEW DELHI: India’s organic waste sector, driven by enabling policy, could provide a nearly $51 billion market opportunity by 2047 and create 26 lakh direct jobs, according to a study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW). If India reaches 100 per cent collection and processing of...
RBI Unlikely To Revive FCNR Window
NEW DELHI: Even though the rupee has approached a critical depreciation threshold, India is unlikely to reopen a special Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Bank) deposit window similar to the one introduced during the 2013 “taper tantrum”, as the country’s forex reserves remain strong and US dollar interest rates are...
Next Energy Challenge: Cheap Power, Costly Transition
NEW DELHI: India’s energy transition is increasingly becoming a household-budget story. For a middle-class family, energy expenses extend far beyond the monthly electricity bill. A two-wheeler owner may spend Rs 3,000-5,000 every month on petrol. A household using one LPG cylinder spends Rs 850-950. During summer, electricity bills often...
Fuel Crisis, Inflationary Pressure On Economy, And Now A Deficit Monsoon
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The last three months of 2026 have seen considerable inflationary pressure on Indian economy on account of fuel crisis triggered by the Iran war. All sectors of economy are reeling under the pressure. Unemployment is rising, real wages have declined, and living cost is rising...
