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SEBI To Revamp M&A Rules To Protect Retail Investors, Expedite Deals
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board (SEBI) plans to amend its merger and acquisition rules, including barring acquiring companies from offering higher prices or additional compensation to major shareholders, said two sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The reforms aim to level the playing field for smaller and...
How A Disney Studio Animation Film “Zootopia 2” Is Boosting China-US Trade Agenda?
By Nitya Chakraborty Something incredible is happening in Beijing as also in other cities of China in the last five days. The cinema halls showing the American animation film “Zootopia 2” produced by the famous Disney studio are full and the Chinese cine lovers who have not yet seen...
Parliament And Its Complex Witness Strong Protests Over G Ram G Bill
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha passed the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee For Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill 2025 today December 18, 2025 which seeks to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Employment Guarantee Act amid fierce opposition, uproar, and tearing of the copy of the...
Bangladesh Interim Chief Dr. Yunus Facing Severe Scrutiny From Western Nations
By Ashis Biswas In Bangladesh, the interim Government led by Chief Adviser Dr M. Yunus has not yet succeeded in establishing the requisite level of administrative control over the pre-poll situation. February 12 2026 is the date of polling. As expected old and new parties are carrying on a...
As War In Ukraine Completing Four Years In February, No Immediate Truce In Sight
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Nearly four years since Russia’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia still occupies roughly 20 percent of the country, and Russian President Vladimir Putin made clear Wednesday that he has no intention of compromising on his territorial demands despite President Donald Trump’s...
This Astronomical Level Of Inequality In India Is Unsustainable
By Nilotpal Basu Some time back, when Thomas Piketty, renowned for his work on inequality, had observed that inequality in India had surpassed the levels prevailing under the British Raj, all hell had broken loose. Now that the World Inequality Report, 2026 is out in the public domain, issues...
Poverty Alleviation And Climate Change Programme Are Intricately Linked
By Krishna Jha The Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2025, brought out recently by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) and the United Nations Development Programme, is basically a caution against the looming danger, and not just a statistical update. It is a caution to the world’s...
Wuhan Lapse Was Not A Mistake — It Was A Governance Choice By Beijing!
By Aritra Banerjee The COVID-19 pandemic is often discussed as a tragedy of biology. In truth, it was a tragedy of governance. What unfolded in Wuhan in the winter of 2019–20 was not merely an administrative lapse or a momentary failure of judgment. It was the predictable outcome of...
Venezuela War Is About Oil Trump Admits, Imposes Blockade On Tankers
By C.J. Atkins NEW YORK: Oil, oil, oil, oil, oil—the word appeared five times in President Donald Trump’s Truth Social post on Tuesday announcing the U.S. military was imposing a “TOTAL AND COMPLETE BLOCKADE” of sanctioned oil tankers going into and out of Venezuela. The White House occupant’s inability...
Parliament Passes Bill To Allow 100 Per Cent FDI In Insurance Sector
NEW DELHI: Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent from the current 74 per cent, which is expected to increase insurance penetration, lower premiums, and boost job creation. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025,...
ARCs Looking To Net 120% Jump In Recoveries From Road Assets Next Fiscal: Crisil
MUMBAI: Asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) are set to see a strong step-up in cumulative recovery rates for stressed operational road projects with recovery rates doubling to 120% by next fiscal over fiscal 2025 levels on the back of healthy annuities and toll collections. This will ride on timely annuity...
Trade Pact With Oman To Benefit Key Labour-Intensive Sectors: Commerce Minister
NEW DELHI: A free trade agreement, to be signed between India and Oman on Thursday, will open up opportunities in trade and joint investments to address the markets in the region concerned and beyond, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. He listed sectors like textiles, footwear,...
Indian Railways Electrifies 99.2% Of Network, Outpaces Japan, Russia, And China
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways has reached a major milestone by electrifying 99.2% of its broad gauge network, putting India ahead of countries like Japan (39%), Russia (52%) and China (82%), according to the Ministry of Railways. This brings the country closer than ever to having a fully electrified railway...
FPI Debt Inflows Hinge On Trade Deal Clarity, Rupee Stability
MUMBAI: Foreign investors began withdrawing from government securities in December, ending five straight months of inflows. The expectation of no more rate cuts, elevated global yields, and a declining rupee are the factors which contributed to the outflows, said market participants. A clarity on the trade deal and a...
Energy Markets Recalibrate As Geopolitics Reshapes Supply Calculus
By K Raveendran Oil prices slipping below $60 a barrel for the first time since February 2021 and a sharp easing in European gas prices mark more than a cyclical downturn in commodities. They signal a rapid repricing of geopolitical risk at a moment when diplomacy, rather than escalation,...
Political Heat Rises In West Bengal After Publication Of Draft Electoral Roll
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With the publication of Draft Electoral Rolls on December 16, 2025, political heat has considerably risen in West Bengal which is going to poll three months from now in March-April 2026. Over 58 lakh names have been deleted from the existing voter list during the...
Redefining Aravali, The Oldest Hills Chain Is A Matter Of Concern
By Jag Mohan Thaken The coming generations will hardly believe that there was a chain of the oldest mountains, namely the Aravali hills, on Indian earth and they will read only in the books that the hills spread over 800 km from Gujarat to Delhi, through Rajasthan and Haryana,...
Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Again? Iraq Lies Recycled For Venezuela War
By Rob Warzyniak NEW YORK: On December 6, President Trump’s “War” Secretary Pete Hegseth took the stage at the Reagan Defense Forum to outline the latest iteration of U.S. foreign policy. The U.S. should not be “distracted by democracy building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing,...
