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A Tariff Shock In The Oil Market Could Blow A Hole In Centre’s Budget 2026–27
By R. Suryamurthy The threat from Washington to impose punitive tariffs of up to 500% on countries buying Russian crude is not just a foreign policy problem for India. It is a fiscal one. As New Delhi prepares the Union Budget for 2026–27, the shadow cast by the proposed...
Kerala‘S Strong Protest Against Union Govt’s Policies
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in Kerala sent a powerful message to the Union Government by launching a day-long satyagraha against its anti-people policies in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who inaugurated the satyagraha, described it as a fight for survival in...
Artificial Intelligence An Asset To Media But Can Not Be A Substitute
By Asad Mirza NEW DELHI: At the ongoing world Book Fair 2026, In New Delhi, Abu Dhabi-based Muslim Elders Council organised a panel discussion on ‘AI for Humanity: Religious Perspective on Ethical AI’, chaired by former ambassador Dr Zikrur Rehman, former Indian Ambassador to erstwhile Palestinian Authority (PA) and...
Iranian People Have The Dual Challenge Of Fighting Dictatorship Inside And Trump
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Lashing out with deadly violence, the theocratic regime that rules Iran has murdered, according to unverified numbers, several hundred demonstrators in a desperate attempt to crush the mass popular uprising that’s rapidly spread across the country since mid-December. The scale and lethality of Supreme...
India, US Push Trade Deal Talks Forward, Next Round Set For January 13
CHENNAI: India and the US remain actively engaged in talks on a bilateral trade deal, with the next round of discussions scheduled for Tuesday, 13 January, according to US ambassador to India Sergio Gor, who has just taken charge as America’s envoy in New Delhi. Gor said on Monday...
India, Germany Boost Economic, Technology And Security Ties Ahead Of EU FTA
NEW DELHI: India and Germany on Monday announced 27 outcomes — 19 agreements and eight announcements — to underline their deepening ties in defence, security, the mobility of health care workers, semiconductors, supply chains, technology, and green energy, and with an eye to enhancing bilateral trade in the context...
Retail Inflation At Three-Month High In December, Touches 1.33 Per Cent
NEW DELHI: India’s retail inflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) , increased to a three-month hight at 1.33% in December, revealed the recent data released by MoSPI on Monday. After touching a record low of 0.25%, it increased marginally to 0.71% in November, before crossing 1% by...
Indian Economy Is Story Of Rising Credibility: Shaktikanta Das
NEW DELHI: Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Shaktikanta Das, has said that despite of several hiccups on every front globally, India continues to stand for a cooperative, rules-based global system while pragmatically forging partnerships to safeguard its national interests. Placing India’s journey in a global context, Das highlighted...
India’s Credit-Deposit Ratio Rises To 82 Per Cent, Says SBI Report
NEW DELHI: With the financialisation of the economy, India’s Credit-Deposit (CD) ratio has been increasing continuously since 2000-01 from 53 per cent to 82 per cent as of December 15, 2025, which signifies a better financial development and lead to strong economic growth, a report said on Monday. The...
Ajmer court admits plea seeking survey of dargah site
Jaipur: A district court in Ajmer on Monday admitted a petition asserting that the Ajmer Sharif Dargah complex was originally a Shiva temple and seeking a court-mandated survey of the site, triggering sharp reactions from religious bodies and raising fresh questions over the scope of judicial scrutiny of protected...
US Gunboat Diplomacy Challenges The World Order
By Nantoo Banerjee The theatres of state-sponsored piracy are expanding, from the traditional Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Somali Basin to the Black Sea and now the Atlantic. The recent US seizure of Russian-flagged oil tanker, Marinera, originally known as the Bella-1, after pursuing the vessel for weeks across...
Donald Trump’s Decision On Iran Will Determine The Geopolitics In 2026
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: When President Donald Trump speaks of Iran, he no longer discusses deterrence in conventional terms. Gone is the Cold War lexicon of containment, mutual assured destruction, or carefully calibrated signalling. In its place sits something starker: the explicit threat of regime liquidation as...
Trump Completes His Controversial One Year In Office On January 20
By Kalyani Shankar US President Donald Trump will complete his first year in his second term on January 20. Trump’s second-term foreign policy, which began in January 2025, represents a significant departure from traditional US approaches, even from his first term. His foreign policy actions, including withdrawing from agreements...
Modi Government Policies Are Responsible For Present Isolation Of India In Bangladesh
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: No one can deny that India faces a tough geopolitical challenge within its own South Asian neighbourhood in 2026, with due apologies to Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar and his countless admirers all over the world. Over time, recent geo-political developments in this highly sensitive...
February 12 All India Workers Strike May Be Beginning Of Labour Unrest
By Dr. Gyan Pathak All India General Strike of Workers on February 12 against the implementation of the four labour codes may be the beginning of a disturbing labour unrest in India, if the Government of India goes ahead with their plan to fully implement it from April 1,...
Tragic Death Of Two Players In Haryana Is A Wake Up Call For Sports Ministry
By Jag Mohan Thaken CHANDIGARH: Two teenage basketball players — Hardik and Aman, died in separate accidents in Haryana after court poles collapsed on them during practice sessions in November 2025. Both the players belonged to Rohtak, Haryana. The painful death of these two promising Haryana Basketball players, not...
Is Artificial Intelligence Really Plagiarism On A Massive Scale In The World?
By Dennis Broe NEW YORK: Is AI “Intelligence” or plagiarism software? By plagiarism, is meant not the use of AI that plagues teachers, that is, AI used by students to produce papers, the writing and subject matter of which they are largely unaware, but the larger question of whether...
Modi Mustn’t Rush To Appease Trump On Trade Deal, Explore Options
By Nitya Chakraborty U.S. commerce secretary Howard Lutnick’s stunning podcast on Thursday claiming that the bilateral India-US trade deal was almost ready but was not signed as Prime Minister did not call the U.S. President Donald Trump as was expected by the Americans. This lack of proper gesture on...
