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Monthly SIP Contributions Decline By 4 Per Cent In February
MUMBAI: The mutual fund industry saw a 3.9% month-on-month drop in collections through systematic investment plans in February – from Rs 31,002 crore to Rs 29,845 crore. This was the first monthly drop since November. The contributing SIP accounts have also seen a decline of about 4.8 million from...
Oil Volatility Before Polls Exposes India’s Political Windfall Trap On Fuel Taxes
By R. Suryamurthy Few economic variables carry the political volatility of oil prices in India. When global crude rises, inflation anxieties spread quickly across households, transport costs ripple through supply chains, and governments scramble to contain the political fallout. Yet the latest oil shock — triggered by tensions involving...
LPG Shortage Has Started Affecting People Across Indian States, Cities
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the government of India has assured that there are enough oil and gas resources in the country, and there is no reason for public to panic, hotels and eateries in several cities in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and elsewhere have shut down causing great...
The $75 Billion Paradox: India And The Global Arms Bazaar
By T N Ashok In the dusty archives of 1947 sits a photograph that serves as the moral conscience of a nation: Mahatma Gandhi, a man of “soul-force” and homespun cotton, walking toward an independence won without a single division of tanks. He famously argued that a nation’s strength...
Colombia’s Ruling Left Coalition Wins Maximum Seats In March 8 Elections To Congress
By Satyaki Chakraborty The ruling Left coalition in Colombia headed by the President Gustavo Petro recorded a significant victory in the national elections held on March 8 by getting maximum number of seats in the legislature. The polls held in the background of US President’s war in Iran and...
Himanta Sarma Is No More The Strong Leader He Was Before 2021 Polls
By Rabindra Nath Sinha Party hopping is on in full swing among the BJP and the Congress ranks in Assam where Assembly elections are due between March-end and mid-April latest and for which the Election Commission of India is expected to announce the schedule in a matter of days....
Nuancing Feminism In The Indian Bar To Make It More Gender Neutral
By Nandita Rao In December 2025, the Supreme Court of India, led by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant passed a historic decision, reserving thirty percent posts in all State Bar Councils for women. The Court passed these directions in a Public Interest Litigation, pointing out that the percentage...
Red Letter Day For People Of Kozhikode, Wayanad
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a Red Letter Day for the people of Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. Friday, March 6, 2026 saw the first controlled rock blast at the site of the proposed Anakkampoyil-Kalladi-Meppadi tunnel road project connecting Kozhikode and Wayanad districts. A long-standing dream of the people...
Iran War Is Likely To Hit Indian Economy Hard
By Nantoo Banerjee The all-out war in West Asia, involving the US-Israel combine and Iran and covering 10 countries in the region, is expected to have a big economic backlash on India. At stake are India’s $120-billion trade in this region, huge oil imports, overall balance of payments, inflow...
Nepal Electorate Give Unequivocal Verdict Against Instability, Old Faces, Corruption
By Nitya Chakraborty With the final results of the March 5 elections in Nepal, almost available, it is clear that the Gen Z supported Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) is set to form the next government in this tiny Himalayan nation headed by the RSP leader Balendra Shah whose political...
Respect (Disrespect) To President Is New Electoral Narrative In West Bengal
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest controversy involving the President of India Draupadi Murmu is being shaped as a new electoral narrative in West Bengal, and the way it is being done shows that it is less about protocol itself and more about electoral narrative building ahead of the...
U.S. Defence Companies Are Making Fortunes As Iran War Escalates
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Strip away the flags. Silence the speeches. Turn off the generals with their grave faces and PowerPoint slides showing red arrows across sand-coloured maps. When the theatre clears, what remains is not a clash of civilisations, not a battle for freedom, not even...
Naming Mojtaba Khamenei As Supreme Leader Marks Continuity Of Iranian Leadership
By Asad Mirza Iran on Monday (March 9) named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as the supreme leader of Iran, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge. Iranian institutions and politicians, from the foreign ministry to lawmakers, issued statements expressing their allegiance to the country’s new...
Narendra Modi Has Politicised President’s Visit To Bengal To Help BJP
By Arun Srivastava Never before in the political history of India, the institution of President was used in such a blatant manner as was done on Saturday March 7, by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for ensuring the victory of the BJP at the Bengal assembly elections. What has...
Britain Is Drifting Into Donald Trump’s Iran War, That Has To Be Stopped
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The tens of thousands who marched against war with Iran on Saturday speak for the huge majority of the British public. That is clear from every opinion poll. It was clear on the BBC’s politics show Question Time, where presenter Fiona Bruce, asking for a...
Govt Sets Up 17-Member Committee For Larger Reforms In SEZ Policy
NEW DELHI: The government is now planning to approach the process of reforms in the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) ecosystem through a different route and for that it has set up a 17-member committee. The panel, composed of representatives of the Department of Commerce, Department for Promotion of Industry...
RBI Adopts Calibrated Approach To Liquidity Management Amid Tax Outflows
MUMBAI: To meet liquidity pressure because of advance tax outflows this month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has adopted a measured approach with its latest announcement of open-market operations (OMOs), worth ₹1 trillion. While the immediate trigger is seasonal tax outflows, market participants said the move reflected broader...
India Taps Alternative Crude Supplies As Iran Conflict Drags On
NEW DELHI: Indian refiners have begun negotiating for additional crude cargoes from the US, Russia and West Africa to ensure supplies remain adequate in the event of the Middle East conflict drags on for a longer period, industry officials and analysts said. Refineries, which convert crude oil into fuels...
