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Ruling NDA’s Direct Cash To Bihar Voters Challenged In Supreme Court
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Was Bihar election rigged by the ruling NDA through direct cash transfers to voters, and also by deploying the beneficiaries on election duty by the Election Commission of India? Was ECI’s ignoring the direct cash transfer to voters vitiated the very election process in the...
From Federalism To ‘Nationalization’: Trump’s Election Gambit Mid Term Eve
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: On February 3, 2026, President Donald Trump renewed a controversial call to “nationalize” U.S. elections — an idea that would shift significant electoral authority away from the fifty states to a centralized federal body. Trump’s remarks, given in the context of ongoing disputes...
2026-27 Central Budget Pays No Attention To The Needs Of Marginalised
By Krishna Jha Among the reflections immediately coming after the announcement of Budget, the absence of substantiation of the claims has occupied a major share. Despite the gripping economic crisis, the Budget is claimed to be visionary, based on ‘stable foundations’. But the reality is the treasure of unemployed...
CJI Blaming Trade Unions For Industries Closure Is Totally Unfounded
By Nilotpal Basu In the wee hours of the Republic Day, the country woke up to the horrific tragedy of the charring of workers at the Nazirabad warehouse complex in Anandapur on the southern outskirts of Kolkata. As of January 29, the death toll had climbed to 21, with...
When Do Children Become A Priority In Financial Planning?
By Raju Kumar The Union Budget is often seen as a document of fiscal priorities, but provisions related to children also reveal how the state defines long-term development. Allocations for children are not confined to the social sector alone; they shape human capital, future productivity, and the trajectory of...
Trump Has A Plan To Steal The 2026 Mid Term Elections In November
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Donald Trump wants to take over the 2026 elections, though “steal” might be a better word. No, the president isn’t planning to send another 1,600 invaders—Proud Boys and other assorted thugs—to rampage through the U.S. Capitol, as they did five years ago in an attempted...
Headwinds May Be Turning Into Tailwinds For Foreign Inflows: FM
NEW DELHI: The headwinds may finally be turning into tailwinds for foreign investment flows into India with the announcement of a trade deal between New Delhi and Washington, Union Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday, arguing the country’s macroeconomic fundamentals were strong even when investors...
Experts Forecast Status Quo On Repo Rate As RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee Begins Meeting
MUMBAI: Mint Road observers are unanimous in forecasting a status quo on the policy rate front at the monetary policy review later this week, citing the growth-oriented budget, coupled with the trade deal with the EU as well as the long-delayed deal with the US. The Reserve Bank-led monetary...
SEBI Chief Rules Out More Curbs To Contain Futures And Options Volume, Hails Trade Deal With US
MUMBAI: Days after the government more than doubled the tax on futures and options trading, leading to a bloodbath in the market, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said it is not planning any further regulatory reforms for the segment. “As a regulator, we are looking at...
‘Reforms To Continue Beyond Budget,’ Says FM Sitharaman
NEW DELHI: The Budget 2026-27 would have been no different – less or more aggressive or ambitious– even if the India-US trade deal had preceded it, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Wednesday, but stressed that more reforms would now take place even outside its explicit ambit in the...
Russia Says Ready For Close Cooperation With India In Hydrocarbons Trade
NEW DELHI: Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that it stands ready to continue close cooperation with India on hydrocarbons trade. “We are convinced that India’s purchase of Russian hydrocarbons is mutually beneficial and contributes to maintaining stability in the global energy market. We stand ready to...
Trump Has Linked India-US Trade Deal To India Acting As Partner In His Pacific Strategy
By Nitya Chakraborty Nearly 48 hours after Donald Trump’s announcement about the India-US trade deal and Narendra Modi’s confirmation in his telephonic conversation, much has been written in the media by the experts, mostly following the lead given by the commerce minister Piyush Goyal in his press meet on...
$500 Billion India-US Trade Deal: Modi Proposes, Trump Disposes
By K Raveendran The sequence of events following Donald Trump’s unilateral declaration of a trade deal with India offers a revealing study in how political narrative can race ahead of economic substance. What stands out is not the content of the supposed agreement, which remains undefined, but the manner...
Mamata Fights Her Own Case In Supreme Court To Protect People Of Her State
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday created a sort of history by appearing in the Supreme Court of India as the first sitting CM to defend the people of her state from being “bulldozed” through Special Intensive Revision (SIR) by Election Commission...
Record Defence Budget Allocation For 2026-27 Is A Boost To Drone Industry
By Asad Mirza While presenting the budget for FY 2026-27, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman earmarked a record Rs. 7.85 lakh crore allocation for the county’s defence sector, post-Operation Sindoor. The increase in the defence outlay in the recent budget, was in the backdrop of “historic success of Operation Sindoor”...
High Tech Companies Have To Adjust To New Market Realities Globally
By T N Ashok For generations of investors across Asia and the Indian subcontinent, the “Golden Rule” of wealth has been simple: when the world trembles, buy gold. But this week, that age-old wisdom faced a brutal reckoning. In a historic “two-front” market shock, the twin pillars of modern...
Installing A Popular Ministry In Manipur Is Welcome But Problems Remain
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Barring any development that acts as a spoiler, the efforts of the Union government and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s top leadership to install a ministry in strife-scarred Manipur should succeed in a couple of days. The usual drill of terminating President’s rule and reactivating...
Balochistan Is On Boil As The Rebels Are Controlling More Areas
By Tirthankar Mitra Balochistan is on the boil. As gun battles and bomb attacks hit Balochistan province of Pakistan, the Sharief Government as also the Pak military which are the real rulers , are in bind. Day after day, their loss of control over the big province is getting...
