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Deaths Of People Due To Contaminated Water Increasing In BJP Ruled States
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Hardly any quarter of time goes when no news of death caused by contaminated water gets the highlight in the media, but who cares? Even after eight decades of India’s independence, why are our own rulers failing to provide sufficient and potable water? Why...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz Challenges Trump Version Of Europe
By Asad Mirza In the backdrop of a continuous barrage of new American interpretations of the global law, threats and actions against unfriendly states, at least one leader has tried to show a mirror to the American President Donald Trump. Under Trump’s rule in the last 13 months most...
India Rebalances Crude Slate As Saudi Gains, Russian Flows Ease
NEW DELHI: India’s crude import strategy is entering a phase of calibrated rebalancing rather than abrupt realignment, with Middle Eastern suppliers led by Saudi Arabia regaining market share even as Russian volumes remain significant but increasingly shaped by geopolitics and compliance constraints, according to shipping data and analysts. During...
India, US Postpone Trade Deal Talks After Donald Trump Tariff Verdict
NEW DELHI: A team headed by India’s chief trade negotiator for the US, Darpan Jain, has postponed the visit to Washington DC amid the uncertainty surrounding the tariff situation following the Supreme Court judgment. The team was scheduled to travel on Sunday for three-day talks to finalise the legal...
CPSE Dividends On Track To Meet FY26 Target
NEW DELHI: The Centre’s dividend receipts from central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) have reached Rs 57,800 crore so far this financial year. This is marginally lower than collections during the same period last year but remains broadly on track to meet the full-year budget target. In the revised estimates...
Venture Capital Flows Play The Waiting Game, Sit On $10 Billion
BENGALURU: Even as venture capital flows into startups pick up, more than $10 billion in committed capital is still sitting on the sidelines. The paradox underscores a shift in investor behaviour rather than a funding slowdown. Investors, industry executives say, are becoming far more selective about where they deploy...
MAT Revamp Prompts Capital-Intensive Firms To Modify Tax Planning
NEW DELHI: The proposed changes to the Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) regime, announced in the Union Budget for FY27, will significantly impact companies in capital-intensive sectors such as infrastructure, Special Economic Zone (SEZ) units and tax-holiday startups, analysts said. Electronics manufacturing units, power and renewables and automobile firms will...
How A Supreme Court Ruling And A Russian Oil Gambit Rewrote India’s Trade Destiny
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: When the Supreme Court of the United States struck down Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs on February 20, delivering a 6–3 verdict that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 confers no authority to impose broad-spectrum duties without Congressional approval, the most...
Learning To Live With ‘Shirtless Protest’ At India AI Summit
By K Raveendran Global summits have long offered a global stage not only for heads of government and corporate leaders but also for those who oppose them. Protest movements have learnt to converge where television cameras, diplomats and policy makers gather, turning high-profile meetings into arenas of dissent as...
Gujarat Govt’s Latest Marriage Notification Order Has Ominous Consequences
By T N Ashok Last Friday, in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi rose to announce what the BJP government described as a measured administrative reform. Couples who elope and wish to register their marriage, Sanghavi explained, would henceforth be required to submit...
Why Madras High Court Ruling On Cryptocurrency As Property Sets A Critical Precedence
By Harsh Gour In October 2025, the Madras High Court took a noteworthy step in India’s crypto framework. The High Court had to decide on whether a digital token – bought on a Mumbai-based exchange and lost in a cyber-attack – could be treated as “property” under Indian law....
Iconic Bengali Writer Shankar’s Death Leaves A Void In Literary Arena
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better named as Shankar, passed away in Kolkata on Friday, February 20 imparting grief to thousands of his readers who enjoyed his story telling power portrayed through hundreds of his works. He was 92. One hardly comes across a person who is...
Why Communist Manifesto Written By Marx And Engels In 1848 Is Relevant Now
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Saturday February 21 is the anniversary of the 1848 publication of The Manifesto of the Communist Party drafted by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and adopted by the International Working Man’s Association in 1864. We mark this event each year with Red Books Day in...
Near-Term Outlook Favourable To Sustain High Growth, Says RBI Report
MUMBAI: India’s near-term economic momentum remains favourable to sustain high growth, amid a benign inflation outlook, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) monthly State of the Economy report, released on Friday. The recent trade deals with the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) are likely...
State Bank Of India In Talks With Japanese Banks For Acquisition Financing After RBI Nod
MUMBAI: The nation’s largest lender State Bank of India with a business of over Rs 103 trillion as of December, is talking to Japanese banks for collaboration in acquisition financing which the regulator RBI has just allowed, chairman CS Setty has said. The bank has a war chest of...
Government Announces Seven Measures To Help Boost Exports
NEW DELHI: The Government on Friday announced seven measures, including credit assistance for e-commerce exporters and support for alternative trade instruments, with an aim to promote the country’s outbound shipments. These measures are part of the INR25,060-crore export promotion mission. Out of 10 components of the mission, three have...
NITI Aayog Seeks Major Overhaul Of India’s Apprenticeship Ecosystem
NEW DELHI: The NITI Aayog on Friday proposed a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s apprenticeship ecosystem, urging deeper industry participation, streamlined governance and stronger support for apprentices. “Weak industry-academia linkages, inadequate institutional coordination, and fragmented regulatory frameworks continue to constrain the scalability and effectiveness of apprenticeship initiatives,” said a...
Core Sector Growth Eases To 4 Per Cent In January
NEW DELHI: Infrastructure-sector industries grew by 4% year-on-year in January, down from an upwardly revised 4.7% growth in December. Seven of the eight core sectors recorded a deceleration in the growth rate in January compared with the previous month. According to the official data released on Friday, five of...
