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BSF jawan abducted amid fog on Bangla border
Dense winter fog along the international boundary in West Bengal was exploited early Saturday when cattle smugglers from across the border abducted a Border Security Force jawan during a routine patrol, triggering a heightened security alert and urgent coordination between authorities on both sides. The incident unfolded in the...
Trump Has Become A Threat To Free Trade
By Nantoo Banerjee US President Donald Trump may have problems with Russia, Venezuela and a host of other states and has every right to decide on the US trade and diplomatic policies to deal with those countries. But he has no right to thrust upon other free nations his...
Bangladesh Govt Interim Chief Dr Muhammad Yunus Under Fire From BNP
By Ashis Biswas Doubts have arisen in Bangladesh as to whether the general elections scheduled on Feb 12 2026 can be held, after yet another major outbreak of mob violence during the last 48 hours. There have been several deaths as frenzied armed gangs of religious extremists publicly butchered...
Setback In Maharashtra Local Body Election Has Lessons For INDIA Bloc
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Setbacks to the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), which is the political alliance of INDIA bloc in Maharashtra, in the local body elections in the state have clearly served a stern warning to the opposition that they must exert more unitedly if they want to perform...
Year 2026 May Witness Further Global Disruptions And Dominance Of Trump
By Kalyani Shankar As the Year 2025 comes to a close, we stand on the brink of 2026, anticipating what lies ahead. What does the crystal ball say? The ball reveals the potential for emerging events and political shifts that could shape our world in 2026. Notable forecasts, including...
H-1B Visa Holders Stranded In India As US Backtracks On Assurances
By T N Ashok Hundreds of Indian professionals working in the United States on H-1B visas are stranded in India after returning home for what they believed would be routine visa renewals — a process that has now spiralled into months-long uncertainty, financial distress, and professional limbo. Many of...
Political Parties In Kerala Are Concerned At Sir Exclusion Of 25 Lakh Voters
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Political parties in the State have voiced grave concern over the fact that more than 25 lakh voters are ‘untraceable’ in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) undertaken by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The parties, with the exception of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),...
New Uttar Pradesh BJP President Pankaj Choudhry Is Disliked By Yogi Adityanath
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Is BJP high command trying to corner powerful chief minister Yogi Adityanath through recently appointed State President Union Minister Pankaj Choudhry.? The appointment of Pankaj Choudhry surprised several BJP leaders and political commentators as he and chief minister Yogi Adityanath belong to same district Gorakhpur....
Zero-Margin Deals, Tariff-Exempt Sectors Push Exports To US In November
NEW DELHI: Exports to the US declined sharply between May-September as buyers delayed new orders in the face of the imminent tariff escalation, but November saw an unexpected 22% rise in shipments to the world’s largest economy. Has the adverse impact of the additional 50% tariffs been quickly nullified...
Feasible To Meet 4.4 Per Cent Fiscal Deficit Target For FY26: Economists
NEW DELHI: Even amid slowing nominal GDP growth and ambitious fiscal consolidation plan, economists broadly agree that the Union government can still meet its headline fiscal deficit goal of 4.4% of GDP for FY26, compared with 4.8% in FY25. The management will, however, be anchored by expenditure discipline. While...
Renewable Energy Capacity Addition On The Fast Track; Grid Bottlenecks
NEW DELHI: India made further headway in the renewable energy (RE) sector in the past year, with total RE capacity reaching 262.7 gigawatt (GW) as of November in the current fiscal year 2025-26. That is more than half of the total installed electricity generation capacity. During the April-November period,...
Budget 2026: Government May Extend MUDRA Scheme By Five Years
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to extend the flagship Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) by another five years up to 2030-31, reinforcing its focus on promoting entrepreneurship and self-employment through collateral-free credit to micro and small businesses in the non-corporate, non-farm sector, sources said. The scheme, launched in...
Land Bottlenecks Drive CPSUs To Team Up With States For 33 Solar Parks
NEW DELHI: Of the 55 solar parks approved under the ‘Development of Solar Parks and Ultra-Mega Solar Power Projects’ scheme, 33 have been developed or are currently under development through partnerships between Central Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs) and state governments in order to ease land identification and acquisition process....
Latest Bangladesh Developments Have Dangerous Consequences For India
By Nitya Chakraborty The political developments in Bangladesh including violence against any one opposing the fundamentalists are having dangerous consequences for India involving the security and geopolitical stability in the sub continent. According to this writer who has been following the churnings in the newly liberated nation since 1971,...
CJI’s Bench Hits The Nail On A Problem That The Courts Were Always Shy To Discuss
By K Raveendran A pointed observation from the apex court has opened an uncomfortable but necessary conversation about judicial integrity, a subject that has long been discussed in hushed tones but rarely confronted head-on within the system itself. A bench of the Supreme Court of India headed by Chief...
Rise In Agricultural Activities Brought Unemployment Down In Rural Areas
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With rise in agricultural activities during the reaping of Kharif and sowing of Rabi crops, the unemployment rate in the rural areas of India has witnessed a considerable fall to 3.9 per cent in November 2025 as against 4.4 per cent in October on current...
Big Relief To Kerala CM P Vijayan As High Court Stays Proceedings On ED Notice
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Yet another attempt to discredit the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government in Kerala has failed with the High Court staying, for three months, proceedings on the show-cause notice the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had issued to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, former finance minister Thomas Isaac, and...
Steel Producing Giants Like China, Japan, India Are Competing To Import Raw Materials
By Kunal Bose Japan is a shining example of remaining a powerful entity in the global steel industry in terms of capacity and production volume but more by way of technology prowess. This is in spite of it remaining perennially wholly dependent on imports of principal steelmaking ingredients. The...
