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India-Pakistan Military Stand-Off: Where Do We Stand On May 1, 2025
By Nitya Chakraborty Ten days have passed since the gruesome killings of 26 people at Pahalgam on April 22. In the following days, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a lead to the boiling mood of the nation by announcing a number of measures, including the suspension of the 1960-signed...
Bigger Military Action Against Pakistan May Not Eliminate Cross Border Terrorism
By P Sudhir The terrorist outrage in Pahalgam, which left 26 tourists dead, has united the whole country in condemnation and grief. 25 families spread across India and one family in Nepal saw a beloved family member being murdered in cold blood. By choosing to kill people after ascertaining...
Independent India’s First Caste Census To Impact All Walks Of Life
By Dr. Gyan Pathak By announcing to conduct caste census in India after a gap of about a century, the last being conducted with the Census 1931, PM Narendra Modi led government has not only done away with the independent India’s historical decision not to have caste census at...
Political Leadership Takes Final Decision On War, Not Army Chiefs
By Sushil Kutty The more the three armed forces’ chiefs sit on a decision to strike at Pakistan with uncommon force, the more the chance Pakistan will escape with inconsequential punishment. Point being made is that in the Indian context, a decision on whether or not to go to...
Recessionary Fears Haunt U.S. Economy Once Again As GDP Contracts In First Quarter
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta forecast a sharp decline of 2.7% for US GDP in the first quarter of 2025. That would mark the worst quarter since the Covid era in mid-2020. The US economy has just witnessed its worst quarter since...
Pahalgam Tragedy: What Is The Best Way Ahead For Peace In Kashmir?
By Dr. Ram Puniyani The killing of 26 tourists and injuring of many more tourists in Baisaran in Kashmir was a tragedy beyond words. The terrorists claimed to be part of Pakistan based Lashkar-e-Tayyaba’s front ‘The Resistance Front’, who have taken the responsibility for this dastardly act. They identified...
Will The Latin American Nations Jointly Challenge Trump On Tariff War?
By Pablo Castaño NEW YORK: On December 2, 1823, US president James Monroe declared that the American continent “was no longer to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.” With these apparently well-intended words, the “Monroe Doctrine” was born, which eventually became synonymous with US...
Next Presidential Elections In Bolivia On August 17 This Year Will Be A Stormy One
By W. T. Whitney Jr. NEW YORK: In advance of presidential elections on August 17, 2025, Bolivia’s Supreme Electoral Council on April 17 registered 11 political parties and five electoral coalitions. It will soon announce the final list of presidential candidates. Incumbent President Luis Arce, elected in 2020, candidate...
India, UK Making Last-Ditch Effort To Conclude FTA Talks
NEW DELHI: Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal may travel to London again later this week before he returns to India from the ongoing three-nation foreign tour, to iron out a few irritants in the free trade agreement (FTA) with the UK, according to sources. The minister might formally...
SEBI Mulls Mandatory Demat Account For Key Personnel Before IPO
NEW DELHI: Commerce and Industry Minist Markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday proposed mandating select shareholders, including directors, key managerial personnel and current employees, to hold shares in demat form before filing an initial public offering (IPO) document. These measures, if implemented, will help eliminate inefficiencies and risks associated with...
Indian Businesses Bet Big On Small Language Models: Deloitte
Indian enterprises are betting big on small language models (SLMs) as they seek more efficient, faster and targeted solutions, according to Deloitte’s Tech Trends – India Perspective 2025 report. The report notes that integrating SLMs with AI-based simulations and task-specific AI agents is expected to shape the development of...
Retail Majors See FY26 Demand Rise In Line With Consumer Peers
MUMBAI: Top executives at retail firms such as Reliance Retail, Trent, Shoppers Stop and Vishal Mega Mart have pointed to a better FY26 than FY25, led by the government’s fiscal stimulus measures, a good monsoon forecast and growing discretionary incomes. These companies have followed their consumer goods peers such...
Most Employees Of Indian Companies Considering Changing Jobs In 2025: Study
MUMBAI: More than 80 per cent of employees of Indian companies are in the midst of changing employers or might seek new jobs in 12 months, according to a survey by Aon, a global professional services firm. The international number is 60 per cent. As many as 7 per...
Pahalgam Aftermath: Need To Juggle Economic Interests And Strategic Calculus
By K Raveendran Trump’s aggressive tariff war with China – built on a throwback protectionist logic more suited to the 1800s than today’s intertwined economy – has driven Chinese firms to redeploy their strategies. Major Chinese exporters, now facing punitive U.S. tariffs as high as 145 percent, are desperately...
Politics Over Gayab In A Period Of Intensive Preparations For War
By Sushil Kutty We have heard of the headless chicken flopping about. And of those days of ‘Jhatka’ when headless bled in plain sight. On Tuesday, April 29, a sketch of a headless torso in a kurta-churidar ensemble of rare finish and finery hit the scene. Whose headless torso...
Asian Countries Require Significant Efforts To Close Energy Transition Gap
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Asia and Pacific region’s energy mix is central to achieving global net-zero targets, but it has a 20 per cent higher emission intensity than the global average. The rising energy demand, reliance on coal power generation, energy import dependence, and depth of energy-intensive manufacturing, and...
Despite Setback To Trump, Canadian Election Results Give A Major Relief To India
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The victory of the Liberal Party in the Canadian general elections held on April 28 is a big relief to India and the Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the NDP led by the Sikh extremist Jagmeet Singh suffered a big defeat losing its...
Kuki-Zos Plan Events In Delhi, Guwahati And Manipur To Mark May 3, 2023
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Two dates – May 1 and May 3 – have assumed significance this time round in Manipur as organisations working for promoting the cause of Kukis, Zomis, Hmars and several others, which together work to realise shared objectives, have chalked out programmes that are...
