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Government Eases Approval For Minor Bilateral MoUs And Agreements, MEA Clearance Suffices
NEW DELHI: Bilateral agreements, which have no financial or serious security implications, will no longer require prior Cabinet approval with the Cabinet Secretariat making it clear in a recent communication that a green signal from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) will suffice on the condition that it is...
Foreign Banks’ Credit Card Base Shrinks As Local Rivals Step Up
MUMBAI: Foreign banks, once dominant players in India’s credit card market, have been losing ground as domestic lenders expand aggressively in the segment. In 2025, foreign banks recorded around 6% year-on-year contraction in active credit cards, alongside a decline of over 63 basis points in their share of total...
Oil Shock Fears Mount As Gulf Conflict Impact Spreads Far And Wide
By K Raveendran Escalating hostilities between the United States, Israel and Iran are rapidly transforming a regional confrontation into a global economic and geopolitical crisis, raising the spectre of what many analysts are beginning to describe as a Third Gulf War. Tehran’s early warning that Washington might possess the...
Women Workers Facing Double The Risks From Generative AI Than Men
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the world is celebrating the International Women’s Day on March 8, a new concern has emerged for women workforce. They are facing double the risks from Generative AI (Gen AI) compared to men, which an International Labour Organisation (ILO) research brief has just confirmed....
Iran War Threatens Growth, Jobs, And Fuel Prices Ahead Of Assembly Elections
By T N Ashok The Strait of Hormuz is ablaze, and India’s economic miracle is suddenly hostage to a war it did not script. What began as a regional clash between Iran and Israel has metastasized into India’s most acute economic crisis in a decade. For New Delhi, the...
Israel, US, Iran War Is An Economic Disaster For India
By Matein Khalid The geopolitical convulsion in Iran has led to panic buying in Brent crude as Saudi Arabia’s largest refinery Ras Tanura and Qatar’s LNG mega complex at Ras Laffan shut production even as tanker traffic in the Straits of Hormuz comes to a halt amid soaring war...
Bangladesh Takes Emergency Measures To Deal With Energy Crisis Due To Iran War
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: Bangladesh has resorted to petrol rationing to stave off a crippling shortage of fuel in the days ahead, as the war against Iran by the US/Israel forces completed its first week. New Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has cut down on power consumption in his official...
Pentagon’s Internal Memo Expects The US’s Iran War To Run Till September
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: By a seven-vote margin, the Republicans-run U.S. House backed Donald Trump’s war on Iran, but that wasn’t the big war story out of Washington on the sixth day of the war. A Pentagon memo saying the military expects the war to continue through at least...
Spain Shows Europe How To Oppose Donald Trump’s Illegal War In Iran
By Pablo Castaño MADRID: Pedro Sánchez has done it again. The Spanish prime minister has once more become the sole voice among major European countries standing up to Donald Trump, this time over the war launched by the United States and Israel against Iran. The Madrid government has denied...
Gen Z Supported RSP’s Resounding Win In Nepal Elections Is A Gamechanger
By Nitya Chakraborty The resounding victory of the Gen Z supported Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) in the March 5 general elections in Nepal is a game changer not only in the political history of this tiny Himalayan nation but also in the evolving polity of South Asia. Nepal is...
Reshuffle Of Governors Is Manifestation Of Centre’s Changing Political Stance
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The latest reshuffle of the governors in 9 states and UTs of India seems not merely an administrative exercise, but has greater political significance. It is actually a manifestation of Centre’s changing political stance vis-à-vis most politically sensitive states and UTs of the country at...
A Oil Buying Waiver That Reveals The Limits Of India’s Strategic Autonomy
By R. Suryamurthy The United States’ decision to grant India a temporary waiver for Russian oil purchases may appear, at first glance, to be a pragmatic gesture designed to stabilise energy markets during a geopolitical emergency. In reality, the episode reveals something far more consequential: the structural limits of...
With Nitish Kumar In Rajya Sabha, NDA In Bihar Will Not Be The Same Again
By Arun Srivastava Never write off a politician. Yes, media plays a key role in showing the door or refurbishing the image of the politician, but it is the resilience of the politician that defines his role and survival, the political durability. It is a general perception that once...
The Architect Of His Own Obsolescence: The Paradox Of Nitish Kumar
By T N Ashok The Rajya Sabha — India’s upper house of Parliament — has long served as a dignified parking lot for politicians past their prime. Former ministers, retired bureaucrats, loyal party functionaries: they fill its benches comfortably, delivering occasional speeches to a half-empty chamber. On March 5,...
U.S.-Israel Combo Is Looking At Destruction Of Iran As A Divine Mission
By Asad Mirza US and Israeli leaders are framing the ongoing conflict with Iran as a religious war primarily for domestic mobilisation, civilisational framing, and strategic narrative construction. While the US-Israel led war against Iran could primarily be described as the one which is aimed at reducing Iran, the...
The Iran War By US-Israel Is Becoming Too Costly For President Trump In Mid Term Year
By Anjan Roy Henry Kissinger, the doyen of twentieth century diplomacy, had once observed “to be an enemy of US could be dangerous, but being its friend is fatal”. The truth of this observation made years ago is being learnt by the West Asian allies of the US much...
With Nitish Set To Join Rajya Sabha, Stage Set For BJP To Take Over Bihar
By Rahil Nora Chopra With Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar joining the Rajya Sabha, the avenue is now fully open for the Bharatiya Janata Party to appoint its own chief minister in Bihar for the first time. However, Nitish will formally enter the Upper House once the new Rajya...
Exports Across Sectors May Take A Hit: Report
NEW DELHI: Rising geopolitical uncertainties in the Middle East and disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could affect several sectors of the Indian economy, including basmati rice, fertilisers, airlines and energy-linked industries, according to a report by Crisil Ratings. “If the ongoing geopolitical uncertainties in the Middle...
