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Unemployment In India Rose For The Third Consecutive Month In January 2026
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The year 2026 began with worsening of unemployment scenario in India, which rose for the third consecutive month in January and stood at 5 per cent in Current Weekly Status (CWS). Youth (15-29 years) unemployment is urban areas rose more sharply in the last five...
Agitation Against UGC Guidelines Vindicate B R Ambedkar’s Fears
By D. Raja The outrage triggered among certain socially dominant sections against the UGC’s Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026 has reaffirmed, with renewed force, B R Ambedkar’s profound characterisation of the caste system as representing “an ascending order of reverence and a descending order of...
New Delhi Architectures A ‘Global South’ Blueprint For Sovereign AI
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The India AI Impact Summit 2026, which concluded on February 20 at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, has officially redefined the global trajectory of artificial intelligence. While previous international gatherings, such as the AI Safety Summits in the United Kingdom and South Korea, were...
Can Europe Provide A Third Way Outside The Domination Of Donald Trump?
By Prabhat Patnaik With the Trump administration adopting brutally repressive measures not just against immigrants but even against US citizens, a tendency has emerged within American liberal circles to look towards Europe for providing a “third way”, a “model” different from both China and the US, the two major...
Congress High Command Smoothens Rough Edges Over DMK Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Congress high command has taken direct control of the brewing discord within the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu. While formal negotiations are scheduled to begin on February 22, public remarks by Congress leaders have already set off debate over whether the...
Christianity And Islam Share The Fasting Month In 2026 After A Gap Of 33 Years
By Asad Mirza Two largest religions of the world, i.e. Christianity and Islam started their most important period of fasting in a year on the same day this year. This rare convergence comes after a gap of 33 years. The Islamic month of Ramadan and Christianity’s 40-day period of...
Restarting Bullock Cart Races In Rural Olympics Is A Welcome Move
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Ultimately after a long wait for 13 years, the ban on bullock cart races has been quashed by the Punjab government. Bullock cart races were halted during the tenure of previous governments in Rural Olympics. Addressing a gathering during the Kila Raipur Sports Rural...
Easing Norms May See Forex Borrowings Scaling Past $100 Billion Next Fiscal
MUMBAI: With the Reserve Bank drastically liberalizing the external commercial borrowing (ECB) norms, investment bankers are expecting corporates to rush to this fundraising route, which could nearly double to $100 billion next fiscal, from the record $61.2 billion raised last fiscal. Key changes that the central bank announced earlier...
India May Attract $200 Billion In Data Centre Investment By 2030: Deloitte
NEW DELHI: India is set to attract $200 billion investment in the creation of new data centre capacity by 2030, part of the larger $800 billion investment line-up in the Asia Pacific region, according to accounting and consultancy firm Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. “This is a huge economic opportunity for...
Panel Proposes Seasonally Adjusted Quarterly GDP Data
NEW DELHI: A committee under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has recommended introducing a seasonally adjusted quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) series to provide a more accurate assessment of the economy’s progress. The proposal, part of a broader review of national accounts methodology, aims to give...
Vehicle, Marine Exports To EU Zoom Before FTA Signing
NEW DELHI: Vehicle and marine exports to the European Union have shown a growth in excess of 25% in the April-December period of this financial year and these are expected to gain greater traction once the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between both sides becomes operational. The vehicle exports to...
Permanent Magnet Production To Start By Year-End: Govt
NEW DELHI: India will begin domestic production of permanent magnets by the end of this year, marking a strategic breakthrough aimed at reducing its overwhelming 95% dependence on imported critical minerals that power electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, electronics and defence manufacturing. “The mining ministry and a state-run body...
India Positions Itself As The AI World’s Third Pole Under PM Modi’s Active Leadership
By T N Ashok At the center of Bharat Mandapam, the chiselled, lotus-shaped convention complex that has become the theatre for India’s global ambitions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood for a “family photo” that looked less like a diplomatic formality and more like a merger of Silicon Valley and...
Bengal BJP Leaders Looking For March 15 Rally Of PM Modi For Poll Boost
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: Optics rather than cohesive groundwork to build up an efficient poll machinery marks the activities of West Bengal unit of BJP in the run up to the Assembly elections in April/May this year.. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposed meeting on March 15 at Brigade Parade...
Epstein Files Reveal A Saga Of Systematic Crimes By The Super Rich In Neoliberal Era
By Nilotpal Basu Since the release of the Epstein Files by the US Department of Justice on January 30, outrage has been unleashed across the United States and Europe. But the revelations, which include more than 30 lakh e-mail exchanges, over a lakh of photographs and above a thousand...
Great Punjabi Sufi Poet Bulleh Shah Was A Rebel Against Caste, Orthodoxy
By Krishna Jha “Break down the mosque, break down the temple, break down everything that can be broken, but do not break a human heart, for that is where God resides.” That was Bulleh Shah, relevant even after so many years. One of Punjab’s greatest Sufi poets, he makes...
Asia-Pacific To Miss 88 Per Cent Of The Sustainable Development Goals By 2030
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia-Pacific region will miss 103 of 117 measurable targets – or 88 per cent – across the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals, adopted by world leaders in 2015, a new report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has...
Kerala Moves SC Against HC Order On ‘Nava Kerala’ Survey
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Government has moved the Supreme Court against an order of the Kerala High Court quashing a Government Order (GO), issued in October 25, to conduct a door-to-door survey titled ‘Nava Kerala Citizen Response Programme’. The programme was aimed at reaching out to the...
