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The US last week asked for consultation with India, the first step in the WTO dispute settlement process. US president Donald Trump has been violently shaking up trade partners across the globe over the last few weeks in his bid to protect domestic manufacturers. The latest move by...
By Arun Srivastava The verdict of the by-polls depends on the exigencies and compulsions of political parties, especially the one in power. And if the politicians are to be believed, the results do not necessarily reflect the mood of the people. There is a general tendency to...
By K Raveendran Governments all over the world are evaluating the success or failure of their policies in terms of the number of jobs created or lost. Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was predicated on the promise to protect American jobs, particularly in the steel industry, for the collapse...
By Harihar Swarup The BJP’s winning streak that seemed to have got a boost in North-East, after the setback in Rajasthan, has hit a wall in Gorakhpur, a party bastion for nearly three decades and chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s constituency which elected him to Lok Sabha for five...
FE Bureau A report by Icrier recommends use of technology and JAM to link land records of farmers with Aadhaar and bank accounts for assessment and faster settlement of claims. While the country has had crop insurance since 1972, crop insurance has been beset by problems like high premium,...
With the government’s active pursuit of developing India as a gas-based economy, India’s gas imports (in the form of liquefied natural gas, or LNG) have been increasing supported by lower prices. With the Arctic blast, nicknamed ‘Beast from the East,’ lowering temperatures across the European Union (EU) and...
Plato and Aristotle in a detail from the painting ‘The School Of Athens’ by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. Photo: Wikimedia Commons In 1600, the royal British physician William Gilbert explained why the magnetic needle in a compass always faced “north”. It is possible that an ancient Indian...
By Sushil Kutty The big story is not the two no-confidence motions against the Modi Government. One of the YSR Congress and the other of Telugu Desam (TDP). The story of the day is that a fragile opposition alliance is taking shape; interestingly, put in place by the...
By Gyan Pathak India is increasingly losing happiness by the year. World Happiness Report 2018 of the United Nations reveals that Indians are increasingly becoming unhappy. It scored only 4.190 on a scale of 0-10 in 2017, which is only a little more than the passing mark of...
By Alan Simpson It is four years since the death of my friend and mentor, Tony Benn. I could argue that he turns up in every article I write, but that’s a poor substitute for the daily conversations into which he poured tea and optimism in equally copious...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Besides the understanding between Samajwadi Party and BSP, the anger of BJP workers and leaders and the collapse of administration are responsible for the humiliating defeat of BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elections. SP candidate Praveen Kumar Nishad won by 21,881...
By Sushil Kutty To say that politics is fragile is to bend with the wind. If anything, politics takes oxygen through democracy’s fault-lines. A particular party is rejected by the voter and politics peaks – EVM fraud! The machines are working for the ruling party and we don’t...
By Nitya Chakraborty In politics, situation changes very fast and one month is not a long period. For the ruling party BJP, only 11 days have passed since their victory in Tripura and successes in other two states on March 3 leading to the euphoria that the saffrons...
By Aditya Aamir Tamil Nadu’s is getting a bit crowded for political parties with one added every month. The last one was Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM). Thursday morning, TTV Dinakaran launched his party, Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, with ‘Amma’ making its debut in a party name....
By Rahil Nora Chopra The AICC session, taking place over the next couple of days, is expected to reinforce Congress party’s new line of distancing itself from the image of being a pro-Muslim party and further the soft Hindutva line. As part of this approach, Rahul Gandhi has been...
The fear is on account of increase in litigation on this aspect, as the income-tax department may allocate group profits based on the profit split method. Keeping in mind to adopt the global best practices in the area of transfer pricing (TP), India has, over the past few...
Marginal farmers, disadvantaged rural population, women, dalits, minorities are known for vigorous participation at every level of the democratic process. Democracy with universal suffrage, regular elections and presence of numerous political parties has flourished in India. It has deep roots and growing mass participation, as evidenced by one...
By Mark Gruenberg Pleasing few people but himself, GOP President Donald Trump dumped Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in an early-morning tweet on March 13, replacing him with CIA Director Michael Pompeo, a former Kansas right-wing congressman, foe of the Iran nuclear deal and past advocate of...