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After Britain leaves the EU, it will have to negotiate new trade agreements with many countries and insurers see India and China as top priority non-EU markets. Reuters Updated:February 8, 2018, 9:57 PM IST After Britain leaves the EU, it will have to negotiate new trade agreements with many...
The list which contains names of both Sachin Pilot and Ashok Gehlot can be seen as an attempt to end factionalism that has beset the party in Rajasthan for a long time now. File photo of Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot (left) and state Congress president Sachin Pilot....
New Delhi/Mumbai: Banks are raising interest rates even though the Reserve bank of India (RBI) is leaving its rates unchanged, as risks such as surging bond yields and more provisioning requirements erode their profit. HDFC Bank, India’s second-biggest bank by assets, on Wednesday became the latest to raise some...
And as his twins turn one, KJo celebrated the special day with his near and dear ones including Kareena Kapoor Khan, Rani Mukerji, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Soha Ali Khan and Manish Malhotra. Updated:February 8, 2018, 3:49 PM IST Image: Instagram/ Karan Johar It was a good...
New Delhi: It is not uncommon to see Panchali Bhattacherjee returning on a cycle rickshaw from the neighbourhood market near her official bungalow. To put it into context, Panchali is the wife of Manik Sarkar, who has been Tripura’s Chief Minister for the last 20 years. The ‘poorest CM...
Union minister Giriraj Singh has been charged with forgery and criminal conspiracy for allegedly conspiring to grab a prime piece of land illegally. via News18 IPA Newspack
By Surajit Mahalanobis UAE foreign minister Dr Anwar Mohammad Gargash declared at the recent 4th Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate that the country cannot live under the shadow of “Iran’s threat”. India needs to be equally concerned about the violent developments in the backdoor of the GCC. As...
By Sushil Kutty There is an uneasy calm in Kasganj. It was not a coincidence that this town in Uttar Pradesh witnessed an unprecedented communal riot on January 26, Republic Day. Since then its bustling markets have gone silent, remained shut. The largely Hindu-dominated trade lies crippled....
By Aditya Aamir The word ‘compulsory’ doesn’t walk the JNU campus, where a diktat to make attendance compulsory is being fought tooth and nail by students and teachers, both like disciplined soldiers. Yeah, the only thing compulsory about JNU scholars and researchers is ‘compulsive-impulsive’. The irony is Indian Army...
By Arun Srivastava If the by-poll results from Rajasthan have been a warning for the BJP, the message of it replacing the CPI(M) as the main opposition party in West Bengal sounded the death knell for the Marxists. This certainly is a bad omen particularly for Prakash Karat...
By Amulya Ganguli It is rather late in the day for the septuagenarian Sharad Pawar to try and emerge as a major player on the national stage. Even if the NCP leader succeeded in assembling a number of parties for his “save the Constitution” rally in Mumbai on...
Sushil Kutty Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA) is a website that posts stories on issues that engage, bother and interest the youth. And India is a country where over 60% of the population is young. People often refer to India as ‘Youngistan’. On February 4, YKA highlighted two posts —...
By Surojit Mahalanobis The anxiety of the Finance Minister and the Prime Minister about periodically raising salaries and perks of the government employees is well understood, because they cannot afford to keep a very large segment of working force in the government unhappy for long when the governance...
By Aditya Aamir The “TOP” news is Rahul Gandhi’s top-aide Divya Spandana asked the un-askable question: “Is this what happens when you’re on POT?”, referencing her tweet to Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling a rally in Karnataka that farmers are his “TOP” priority as “tomato, onion and potato”...
By Kalyani Shankar In his political career, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu has exhibited the same showmanship, like Prime Minister Narednra Modi. It was Naidu who declared himself in the mid nineties as the CEO of the state. It was he who had started using laptop, video-...
By S. Sethuraman An elaborate exercise in “friendliness” to the farmer in distress for long, to the small business, devastated by demonetisation, and “healthcare” for poorer sections, crafted by Prime Minister Modi, was faithfully projected by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the Union Budget for 2018/19. That...
By Barun Das Gupta An unexpected political development in Nagaland has made the holding of state Assembly elections on February 27 uncertain. On January 29, eleven political parties of the state decided to boycott the elections, demanding an early solution to the Naga political problem. The BJP, which...
By Sushil Kutty If we all have a point of view, are we all not biased? So, forget the rhetoric. Disregard feigned outrage – from the Congress and the Samajwadi Party; TDP and TMC, Shiv Sena and the Akali Dal; Left parties and the ‘superstar’ Tamil politician who...