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Oil Firms’ Refinery Margins May Cool To $6-8 Per Barrel
NEW DELHI: After three years of blockbuster margins fuelled by ultra-cheap Russian crude, the country’s refining sector is moving into a new — and tougher — earnings cycle. Gross refining margins (GRMs), which touched record highs during the peak of geopolitical supply disruptions, are now expected to cool and...
IBBI Draft Norms Aim To Fix Gaps In Resolution Process
NEW DELHI: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has proposed a series of changes in the insolvency rules that will plug gaps in insolvency costs and the treatment of delayed claims in addition to bringing in more transparency in the approval of resolution plans by the committee...
Veteran Politicians Are Back In Strength As Nepal Votes On March 5
By Nitya Chakraborty Just twenty days after the February 12 national elections in Bangladesh, another South Asian country Nepal is going to the polls on March 5 just six months after the Gen Z movement in the country ousted the K P S Oli government in September 2025. The...
Shocking Lack Of Progress In Human Capital Development In Past 15 Years
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When the world seems to be on the rapid development trajectory, there has been a shocking lack of progress in Human Capital development across the world. Despite rising incomes and reductions in poverty, two-thirds of low- and middle-income countries have experienced a decline in health,...
Israel’s Aggression Continues Unabated In West Bank Defying Ceasefire
By Asad Mirza Israel unabatedly continues its expansionist policy in the West Bank. The US, United Nations and several Arab states have criticised Israel as it expands powers in the occupied West Bank by allowing Jewish Israelis to buy West Bank land directly, and extending greater Israeli control over...
At Long Last, Transatlantic Alliance Making Efforts To Bring Cohesion
By Anjan Roy World Economic Forum’s Davos dalliance of world leaders, both political and corporate, has become a widely recognised event. However, an even more critical and certainly highly prestigious pow-wow happened last week. This is the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in the eponymous German city held on February13...
Lakshadweep’s Island Agatti Poses Vexed Questions Of Development Cum Security
By Raju Kumar Agatti, one of Lakshadweep’s smallest inhabited islands, has recently found itself at the centre of a serious policy debate. Gazette notifications issued by the Lakshadweep Administration in January 2026 propose the acquisition of land for three separate purposes: 1,01,020 square metres for tourism and other public...
Can Unions And The Left Help Shape Post-Starmer Labour In Britain?
By Ben Chacko LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer shows no capacity to respond to the ongoing fallout over Peter Mandelson’s appointment to Washington — which has engulfed the whole Labour Together faction key to his own rise to power. Nor to the demand, put more forcefully than before...
Wholesale Inflation Climbs To 10-Month High Of 1.8 Per Cent In January
NEW DELHI: India’s factory-gate inflation, measured by the wholesale price index (WPI), rose to a 10-month high of 1.81 per cent in January, driven by a pickup in food prices and higher core inflation, data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry showed on Monday. After remaining flat...
Goods Trade Deficit Rises To $35 Billion In January As Gold Imports Surge 350%
NEW DELHI: India’s merchandise trade deficit widened sharply to $35 billion in January, up from $24 billion in December, driven by a surge in gold and silver imports and a 23 per cent decline in exports to the US. Merchandise exports during January remained largely flat at $35.56 billion,...
Stopping Russian Oil Buy Has Serious Fiscal, Inflationary Impacts: Moody’s
MUMBAI: Stating that the almost-fully one-sided trade-deal with the US appears to plaster over the breakdown in bilateral relations and the lack of details means that the Indo-US relationship is far from repaired, economists at Moody’s Analytics have warned that completely stopping Russian oil will have serious fiscal and...
Retail Market Expected To Double To INR 210-215 Lakh Crore In 2035: Report
NEW DELHI: India’s retail market is expected to more than double to INR210-215 lakh crore in 2035 from INR90-95 lakh crore in 2025 as the country continues to outperform major global economies and is on track to become the world’s third largest economy, according to a report released on...
Draft Rules Seek Mandatory Reporting Of Offshore Related-Party Rupee-Forex Deals
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday issued draft directions to widen reporting obligations for Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Cat-I) banks, requiring disclosure of overseas related-party foreign exchange derivative transactions involving the Indian rupee. The central bank said AD Cat-I banks would be required to report all...
India’s Reliance On Imported Arms For Defence Is A Concern
By Nantoo Banerjee There is little to be excited about the defence ministry’s latest clearance for the acquisition of 114 Rafale fighter jets from France at a huge cost of Rs.3.25 lakh crore (nearly $40 billion), branded as ‘mother of all defence deals’. It is a matter of major...
Supreme Court Hearing On Sabarimala In April To Impact Assembly Polls
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the Supreme Court scheduling the petitions challenging its 2018 Judgment allowing women to enter into the Sabarimala temple in Kerala for hearing before a nine-judge constitution bench from April 7 to 22, it is most likely to impact elections not only in Kerala but...
How India’s Farmers Are Paying For America’s China Strategy?
By R. Suryamurthy Trade agreements are rarely about trade alone. They are instruments of power, redistribution, and risk transfer, disguised in the neutral language of tariffs and market access. The interim trade framework announced this year between the United States and India is a case in point. Framed publicly...
The Demand For Awarding Bharat Ratna To V D Savarkar Is Six Decades Old
By Kalyani Shankar Demands to award the Bharat Ratna to Hindu thinker Vinayak Damodar Savarkar have revived an ongoing political debate between the Congress-led Opposition and the BJP, highlighting the deep divisions over his ideas, beliefs, and role in India’s independence movement. The issue first gained major political traction...
Rise Of Jamaat-e-Islami In Bangladesh Is Worrying For India’s Security
By Asad Mirza The much-anticipated election results from Bangladesh are out. The BNP has secured 209 seats, while the Jamaat-e-Islami won 68, as the Election Commission disclosed the unofficial election results for 297 constituencies. But the scale of the win surprised some observers, given expectations of a tighter race...
