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NITI Aayog Calls For Tighter Norms To Fix India’s Waste Tyre Recycling Gaps
MUMBAI: As India’s automobile fleet expands rapidly, the country is staring at a growing challenge of managing end-of-life tyres (ELTs), prompting NITI Aayog to call for tighter regulation, better traceability and stronger domestic markets for recycled tyre products. A new NITI Aayog assessment said tyre production is projected to...
Indian Households Spend 25% Of Their Total Wallet Share On Buying Insurance
MUMBAI: Rising risk awareness and protection-led spending have seen insurance emerge as one of the biggest priorities for Indian households. Of the Rs 100 withdrawn from ATMs, Rs 25 in 2025 was spent on insurance purchases, according to a CMS Consumption Report. On a year-on-year (Y-o-Y) basis, insurance spending...
India-EU FTA Gives A Strong Political Message Of Europe To Trump
By Asad Mirza In today’s fractured world, fissures caused mostly by the ongoing Trumpomania, every nation is working post haste to forge new alliances particularly focussed on trade. The best example of this is the India-EU partnership FTA, to be formalized on January 27.. The enhanced partnership is going...
India-EU Free Trade Agreement Gives A Big Boost To India’s Trade Diplomacy
By Kalyani Shankar India and European Union announcing on Tuesday the historic deal on Free Trade Agreement is a major achievement of the Indian Government in the present state of global turmoil after U.S. President Trump’s declaration of tariff war at global level A military contingent from the EU,...
President Xi Jinping’s Major Military Purges Leading To Uncertainty In Defence
By Anjan Roy With the purge of General Zhang Youxia, until now the vice-chairman of China’s all-powerful Central Military Commission, there remains just another member in the traditionally seven-member top body controlling China’s vast military outfit following the latest purges by the President Xi Jinping. Chinese analysts are not...
2026-27 Defence Budget Has To Stress On Modernisation And High Technology
By Girish Linganna Every time we sleep peacefully at night, there is someone awake at the border, watching over us in the freezing cold or the scorching heat. When we go to school or college without fear, when our parents travel for work, or when we celebrate our festivals...
2026-27 Budget Must Address The Health Concerns Of The Marginalised
By Dr Arun Mitra Health and education are the most fundamental prerequisites for the development of any country and society. Only a well-educated, trained, and healthy population can meaningfully contribute to the nation’s economic and social progress. Unfortunately, India continues to fall far short on these basic parameters, as...
Trusts In Digital Systems In South Asia Is Fragile, Protection Framework Weak
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Though the South Asia is well positioned to move from ad hoc bilateral coordination to more structured, institutionalized forms of regional collaboration, the region is facing numerous challenges in strengthening Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). Trust remains a critical enabler for both DPI adoption and interoperability...
Vizhinjam: Infra Development In Kerala Enters A New Phase
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Nothing happens here. These are not fit for Kerala. That has been the criticism trotted out day in and day out by the Opposition parties in the State. Well, that criticism has been buried fathoms deep. That is for sure. That is the biggest takeaway...
Continuing Decline In Marine Fishing Worries Bangladesh Govt
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: When it comes to marine fishing, India seems to be well ahead of Bangladesh in terms of production and export earnings. Bangladesh authorities are looking for ways to improve and upgrade their coastal fishing — it has declined by nearly 80% during the last seven...
On Holocaust Memorial Day, We Must Recognise Signs That Fascism Is Back
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The term “fascism” has often been bandied around irresponsibly, used to describe any form of right-wing authoritarianism and sometimes any opponent at all. Whether today’s far right can be accurately described as fascist has been debated at length in international socialist circles. But there are...
States’ Capex Growth Slowed To 10 Per Cent In FY25
NEW DELHI: States’ capex grew by 10% in FY25 to Rs 8.9 lakh crore, a lower increase compared to the previous three post-pandemic years, mainly because of election-related disruptions. States’ capital expenditure has shown a strong upward trajectory over five years, supported by the Centre’s interest-free 50-year capex loans....
India-EU Summit Begins On Tuesday, To Focus On Security And Defence Ties
NEW DELHI: India and the European Union (EU) will upgrade their strategic partnership, signed in 2004, by inking a pact on Security and Defence Partnership (SDP), which is set to look at possibilities of Indian participation in European defence initiatives. On Tuesday, at the 16th India-EU summit, the EU...
RBI Nudges Banks Towards Direct Priority Sector Lending
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s latest changes to priority sector lending (PSL) norms are aimed at pushing banks towards direct lending and tighter borrower-level accountability, while reducing reliance on indirect routes such as on-lending through NBFCs, bankers and industry experts said. “The idea behind these changes is that...
Weight Of Manufacturing & Electricity Set To Rise In New IIP Series, Mining To Fall
NEW DELHI: The index of industrial production (IIP), which is moving to a chain-based series with annual resets, is also expected to see an increase in the weights assigned to electricity and manufacturing, while weightage for mining is set to decrease. This is part of the overhaul of the...
Government Gets Proposals To Push Divestment Amid Weak Show
NEW DELHI: Amid a weak disinvestment performance so far this financial year, there are at least two proposals on the table to step up privatisation and use the proceeds for specific purposes. Industry body CII, govt departments and think tank NITI Aayog have proposed that govt should significantly step...
Union Budget Should Focus On Transport Sector As India’s Most Potential Growth Engine
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s transport sector, combining road, rail, air and water, is ready for a significant job boom, with the logistics industry alone projected to grow at a 10.7 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through the current year. The national budget for 2026-27, which is scheduled to...
Old Global Order Has Collapsed, But No Unanimity On New Order In Trump Era
By Satyaki Chakraborty The five day annual session of World Economic Forum at Davos ended on January 23 witnessing virtual collapse of the transatlantic alliance at the hands of Donald Trump and both German Chancellor Frederich Merz and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez saying that old order has gone,...
