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India, Canada To Resume FTA Talks After 21-Months Pause
NEW DELHI: India and Canada have agreed to resume negotiations on a free trade agreement (FTA) that were suspended in September 2023, just before New Delhi was to host the G-20 Summit. In the first meeting between Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the...
India A ‘Bright Spot’ Amid Global Uncertainty, Says CEA Nageswaran
NEW DELHI: India remains a rare “bright spot” in a world facing growing uncertainty, said Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) V Anantha Nageswaran, pointing to the country’s steady economic performance despite ongoing global challenges. Talking to PTI, the CEA said that while conflicts and disruptions have been part of the...
Credit Growth Likely To See Turnaround From September Quarter
MUMBAI: The worst for bank credit growth, which hit a three-year low of 8.97% in May, could soon be over, said bankers and analysts. They added that things could start turning around after the September quarter. There are multiple reasons why things are beginning to look up. “There is...
Economic Fallout Of Israel-Iran Conflict Could Extend Way Beyond Region
By K Raveendran With the likelihood of a diplomatic solution appearing increasingly distant, West Asia is now clearly veering toward a longer and more intense confrontation, one that may significantly reshape economic, geopolitical, and energy dynamics not only in the Middle East but globally. What was initially perceived as...
Possibility Of U.S. Participation In Israeli War Against Iran Is Now Real
By T N Ashok WASHINGTON DC: US President Donald Trump cut short his visit to Canada to return home after the G7 summit to take stock of the situation as he ruled out what national security advisor Tulsi Gabbard had to say about the alleged nuclear facility in Iran....
What Did Trump-Munir Cook Up For India At White House Lunch?
By Sushil Kutty Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asim Munir had lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday. Missing from the menu was the delectable ‘Ambush Modi’, the main course. Gen. Munir must not have known. But not many knew till Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri woke...
June 2025 Going To Be A Decisive Hinge Month In Middle East History
By Matein Khalid There is precious little good news to emerge from the Middle East since the IDF launched its spectacular blitzkrieg and leadership decapitation strike against Iran’s nuclear asset and military/intelligence elite last Friday. This weekend was grim with Iran’s ballistic missile strike on Haifa and Tel Aviv...
Nilambur Bypoll In Kerala Set For A Tough Electoral Battle
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The stage is set for an absorbing electoral race between the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in the by-election to the Nilambur assembly constituency in Kerala. The by-election has been necessitated by the exit of PV Anvar from...
Bihar Congress Organisational Meeting Revealed Fissures Over Dalits Issue
By Arun Srivastava It was a meeting with difference. Usually the organisational meetings are held to project a leader or strategize the policies and ideas. But the June 15 meeting convened by Krishna Allavaru, a close aide of Rahul Gandhi and in-charge of Bihar where Assembly elections, turned out...
The Capitalist Social Order Has Always Been Based On Subjugation And Violence
By Krishna Jha It was in the decade of 1840s, dominated by strikes and struggles and signified by upheavals and uprisings. Among them the most popular but brutally suppressed one that remained alive only for four days – but has kept echoing even after almost two centuries — was...
The Chinnaswamy Stadium Stampede Leads Us To Rethink Crowd Safety
By Tarun, Anamika Shukla June 3, 2025 marks the end of an eighteen year wait for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (‘RCB’) to be crowned champions of Indian Premier League (‘IPL’) 2025. On June 4, an open bus victory was organised by the RCB management, DNA Event Management and the Karnataka...
Advance Tax Growth Sluggish At 3.6 Per Cent In Q1
NEW DELHI: The Centre’s advance direct tax collections for the first quarter of 2025-26 from companies, LLPs and individuals rose by a modest 3.6% on year compared with a robust 27% growth seen in the year-ago quarter, as personal income tax relief announced in the budget and high corporate...
India’s Largest Gati Shakti Multi-Modal Cargo Terminal Inaugurated In Gurugram
GURUGRAM: Haryana has achieved a historic milestone in the field of logistics and industrial infrastructure. Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, along with Union Minister for Railways, Information and Broadcasting, and Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw, inaugurated the country’s largest automobile Gati Shakti Multi-Modal Cargo Terminal at Maruti Suzuki...
India Oil Demand To Grow By One Million Barrels Per Day By 2030: IEA
NEW DELHI: India, the world’s third-largest oil-consuming and importing nation, will lead global oil demand growth by a large margin, adding a steep 1 million barrels per day by 2030 on the back of stellar economic expansion, IEA said on Tuesday. The global oil demand is expected to grow...
NBFCs Bank On Surplus Liquidity For Credit Push
CHENNAI: The business environment is set to turn favourable for non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), thanks to two recent developments. The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) sharper-than-expected 50 basis point rate cut and the earlier easing of risk weight norms on unsecured lending — both expected to improve liquidity and...
India’s Exports Share Growth Among Fastest Over 2010-23
NEW DELHI: India’s export trajectory from 2010 to 2023 has shown a consistent and steady upward trend, reflecting the resilience and dynamism of its trade sector, an official said on Tuesday. Citing an UNCTAD report, the official said that over the 2010 to 2023 period, India has been one...
Was Israeli Strike Against Iran A Part Of Donald Trump’s Game Plan?
By Nitya Chakraborty Israeli missile strikes against Teheran and Iran’s counter offensive entered its fifth day on June 17 Tuesday with U.S. President Donald Trump dramatically cutting short his stay in Canada for G-7 meeting for Washington indicating that he would be busy in peace moves in the next...
Intensification Of Minority Pushback In Assam Sparks Outrage
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Intensification of minority pushback drive after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s reaffirmation during the special session of the Legislative Assembly of the State held on June 9, 2025, that his government will not halt the pushback drive against alleged Bangladeshi infiltrators, has sparked the...
