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The Gaza Con: How Trump Rebranded Annexation As Investment
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Donald Trump has never met a geopolitical catastrophe he couldn’t rebrand as a development opportunity. His latest venture—the risibly titled “Board of Peace” for Gaza—is perhaps his most audacious grift yet: a scheme to dress up territorial control as portfolio management, to transform...
Governor R N Ravi Creates Controversy Over National Anthem Again
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Governor R N Ravi on Tuesday January 20 has once again created controversy by walking out of Tamil Nadu Vidhan Sabha, third year in a row, alleging disrespect of the National Anthem of India, while his conduct itself is a disrespect of the tradition of...
Europe Versus USA On Greenland Has All The Potential Of A Flare-Up
By Asad Mirza Greenland has become a focal point of international tensions yet again, as US President Donald Trump repeated arguments that Washington must control the territory for national security reasons and has refused to rule out using military force to acquire it. Trump also announced that he will...
European Businessmen Highly Worried At Transatlantic Facture
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: The debate gripping Western capitals sounds familiar: should governments tax the wealthy more aggressively to fund strained budgets? From London’s abolition of non-dom status to California’s proposed billionaire levy, the political momentum is unmistakable. But in Brussels, senior officials privately describe the wealth...
Manufacturing Index Reaches All Time High In Q-3 2025-26: FICCI Survey
By Satyaki Chakraborty FICCI’s latest manufacturing survey continues to reflect sustained growth and increasing optimism for India’s manufacturing sector. For the third quarter of 2025-26, the index has touched all-time high with 91 per cent of respondents reported either higher or same production levels as compared to 87 per...
Oxfam Has Shone A Spotlight On The Threat The Rich Pose To Democracy
By Ben Chacko LONDON: The “billionaires’ decade.” That is how charity Oxfam describes the 2020s, having published research pointing to the extreme — and accelerating — concentration of wealth in Britain and worldwide. The stats alone are alarming — billionaires’ wealth grew 16 per cent in 2025, three times...
IMF Raises India’s GDP Growth Forecast To 7.3 Per Cent For Current Fiscal
NEW DELHI: The International Monetary Fund on Monday raised India’s growth projection to 7.3 per cent for fiscal 2025-26, up 0.7 percentage point from its October forecast, on the back of better-than-expected performance of the economy. The Washington-headquartered multilateral lending agency has also revised India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)...
India To Transition To Upper-Middle Income Country By 2030: SBI Report
NEW DELHI: India is set to transition to ‘upper-middle income’ country in next four years in 2030, joining the ranks of China and Indonesia, and become the third largest economy even earlier in 2028, an SBI Research report said on Monday. The World Bank classifies nations as low income,...
Indian IT Firms Hire Freshers As Automation Trims Overall Workforce
NEW DELHI: India’s biggest IT services companies are still hiring thousands of fresh graduates and have reported stabilising attrition in FY26 so far. However, some firms have seen their total employee numbers fall year-on-year as automation and artificial intelligence reduce demand for mid-skill roles and drive restructuring. Three of...
RBI Tightens PSL Norms, Asks Banks To Get External Auditor Certification
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank has strengthened the priority sector lending (PSL) compliance norms, mandating external auditor certificates from intermediaries to prevent double-claiming of loans, a move comes within two days of two leading private sector banks disclosing that the regulator has found mismatches in their PSL classification of agri...
India, UAE Set $200 Billion Trade Target, Deepen Nuclear And Infra Ties
NEW DELHI: India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday announced a dozen outcomes, including plans to double bilateral trade to over $200 billion by 2032, cooperation in the development and deployment of large nuclear reactors and small modular reactors, and Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi’s invitation to...
Davos 2026 Delegates Are Panicky As Trump Is Set To Explode His Policy Bomb On January 21
By Nitya Chakraborty The annual summit of World Economic Forum began in the Alpine hills of Davos in Switzerland on January 19 with the European leaders and the businessmen rattled over the confrontationist approach taken by the U.S. President Donald Trump on Greenland annexation. After imposing 10 per cent...
Slow-Paced Manufacturing, Growing Imports Turning India Into A Gig Economy
By Nantoo Banerjee It may sound odd, but China has become India’s biggest job snatcher. Massively growing imports from China are standing in the way of India’s manufacturing growth and creation of stable jobs for millions of unemployed. Stable-job-starved India is rapidly transforming into a gig economy. With the...
BJP Is Politically Stagnating In Mumbai, Thackerays Are Down But Not Out
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A closer look at the Maharashtra election results for the 29 municipal corporations across the state shows that the BJP is politically stagnating in Mumbai after its meteoric rise in the 2017 election winning 82 seats increasing its tally by 51. This time its tally...
Congress High Command Must Resolve Karnataka Leadership Crisis Soon
By Kalyani Shankar Karnataka’s political crisis is rooted in an intensifying power struggle between Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar. The unresolved question of a rotating chief minister system has deepened the crisis, making it critical for the Congress High Command to act decisively to stabilize...
How Trump’s Arctic Gambit Is Rewriting The Rules Of Power In Europe
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland did not come wrapped in diplomatic language or buried in briefing papers. It arrived bluntly, as his foreign policy often does: Greenland, he said, was too important to be left where it was. The...
Vince Zampella, The Icon Of Video Game Industry Passes Away At 56
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: By the time most Americans encounter war today, it is not through a history book or a foreign correspondent’s dispatch. It is through a controller, a headset, and a glowing screen. The battlefield is digital, the weapons are pixel-perfect, and the pace is...
Global Supply Chains Enter Era Of Structural Volatility, Says WEF Report
By Satyaki Chakraborty Global value chains have entered an era of structural volatility, according to a World Economic Forum report released today, forcing companies and governments to reevaluate how and where they invest and produce. The report finds that nearly three in four business leaders now prioritize resilience investments,...
