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India’s Defence Production Hits All-Time High Of ₹1.46 Trillion In FY25
NEW DELHI: India’s annual defence production reached an all-time high of ₹1.46 trillion in 2024-25 (FY25), marking an almost 15 per cent jump from the previous record of ₹1.27 trillion in FY24, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday. He said that defence exports also hit a record high...
Israeli Genocide In Gaza Is A Reminder Of Atrocities Perpetrated By Nazis On Jews
By P. Sudhir Yaqeen Hammad, a 12-year-old Palestinian girl, was shredded into pieces by an Israeli missile attack on her residence. Yaqeen has been aptly called the Anne Frank of Gaza. Like Anne, who kept a diary in an attic in a Holocaust-ravaged, Nazi-occupied neighbourhood, Yaqeen documented the horrors...
At The End Of 130 Days Of His Rule, Donald Trump Has No Success Story
By Anjan Roy One hundred and thirty days have passed since Donald Trump took oath as the second time President of United States on January 20 this year. After arousing big expectations in the initial days, the hyperactive President is now gradually reconciling to the fact that he is...
Cracks Appear In Ties Between Donald Trump And His Buddy Elon Musk
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Cracks have begun to emerge in the Trump-Musk relationship as the latter has shown his disappointment with President Donald Trump on the recent domestic policy endorsed by the Congress. He said in a TV interview that he was “disappointed” that it would increase...
The Importance Of Being Shashi Tharoor Amidst India-Pakistan Diplomatic Battle
By Sushil Kutty Congress party’s Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor’s roar is unlikely to pierce Congress eardrums. No, but fielding a former BJP uproot to take on Tharoor’s eloquence does speak of a bankruptcy of credible leaders in the grand old party. Does Tharoor give the impression of ‘irreplaceable’? You...
Is The Global Community Prepared To Face The Next Covid Surge?
By Asad Mirza While there are reports of the dreaded Covid-19 making a reappearance in several countries, including India, the picture is not gloomy, as the world today, under the guidance of the latest WHO agreement on Covid-19 seems better equipped and coordinated to face the disease. In a...
Natural Disasters Cost World A Staggering $2.3 Trillion Annually
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged USD 70–80billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to USD 180–200 billion. Now in 2025, total...
Far Right Chega Party Is Now The Official Opposition In Portugal Parliament After Elections
By Satyaki Chakraborty In Portugal, the full right wing turn of the country’s politics is complete with the centre right Democratic Alliance (AD) emerging as the largest single party with 91 seats, followed by the far right Chega with 60 seats putting the Socialist Party (PS) at third position...
Rejuvenated After Elections, German Left Party Die Linke Is Working Hard
By Marc Martorell Junyent BERLIN: This month, Die Linke met for its congress in Chemnitz, under the motto “Organizing Hope.” Such a slogan would have seemed out of touch the last time it held such a meet-up in October 2024. Back then, activists were surely hopeful for Die Linke’s...
Industrial Output Growth Dips To 2.7% In April, Lowest In Eight Months
NEW DELHI: Growth in industrial production fell to an eight-month low of 2.7 per cent in April from an upward revised figure of 3.94 per cent in March due to high base effect and a sequential decline registered in the output of the mining sector, according to data released...
India-US Interim Trade Deal Likely Before June 25
NEW DELHI: The much-awaited interim trade deal between the US and India may be advanced, and take place before June 25, according to official sources. A team of US negotiators are expected in India early next month, with a view to taking forward the talks from where they were...
Govt To Operationalise Rs 1-Trillion Innovation Fund In Next Three Months
NEW DELHI: The Rs 1-trillion Research Development and Innovation (RDI) fund, which was announced in the July budget for FY25, of which ₹20,000 crore has already been allocated, will be operationalised in the next two to three months, a top official said. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on February...
Cabinet Nod To Rs 15,642-Crore Interest Subsidy On Farm Loans
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved Rs 15,642 crore for providing interest subsidy to farmers on working capital loans for the current financial year. Under the Modified Interest Subvention Scheme (MISS) farmers taking short-term loans of up to Rs 3 lakh through Kisan Credit Cards (KCC) will...
India Can Achieve 6.5 Per Cent GDP Growth In FY26: EY Report
NEW DELHI: India’s growth is projected to be relatively more stable, at 6.2 per cent in FY26 and 6.3 per cent in FY27, while there has been a “tangible downward revision” of 0.6 per cent points and 0.5 per cent points this fiscal and the next in growth prospects...
Impeachment Rarely Works As An Effective Deterrent Against Judicial Misconduct
By K Raveendran The impeachment of Allahabad High Court judge Yashwant Varma in the wake of burnt notes being discovered from his residence appears to be a certainty. However, going by past experience, impeachment has rarely functioned as an effective deterrent against judicial misconduct in India. In the history...
India And Pakistan Must Not Fall Into Unfathomable Abyss Of Hyper-Nationalism
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hyper-nationalism as a political thought is an outdated concept, since not a single country in the world has ever benefited from hyper-nationalism, since it is dehumanizing. It always brings miseries, as we have already seen in Mussolini’s fascism and Hitler’s Nazism. The most modern political...
Has Narendra Modi’s Moment Of Truth Arrived On His Good Friend Donald?
By Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump needs no introduction. Trump was the guy who came to India and attended a Modi jamboree at the ‘Modi Stadium’, where cricket is played and the ball of whichever colour, red or white, never sails out of the stadium’s perimeter, it’s that big!...
Narendra Modi Faces His First Test After Operation Sindoor In Bihar Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava It is wrong to construe that Narendra Modi is for reforms. Though certainly not an alien word, it nonetheless occupies the lowest slot on the doormat of his agenda. His May 30 visit to Rohtas and Bikramganj in the western Bihar is the second in last...
