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By Nitya Chakraborty The tariff war declared by the United States President Donald Trump against India by imposing a total duty of 50 per cent on Indian exports to the USA effective August 27 this year, is having its impact on the economic relations between the two powerful economies...
India-US Back Channel Talks Are On For Working Out A Compromise Formula
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: The United States under the deal maker President Donald Trump and India under the charismatic Prime Minister Narendra Modi are arm wrestling despite being buddies on the global stage. They both represent two largest democracies that spent a decade investing in strategic convergence....
BJP Has Much To Worry At Maratha Agitation Reaching Mumbai
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Manoj Jarange Patil led Maratha agitation demanding OBC status for the community has just reached Mumbai, which brings with it fresh political worries for the BJP led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election is going to be held later in 2025, in which...
Trump’s Governance In First Seven Months Of Second Term Differs In Many Respects From The First One
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Seven months into Donald Trump’s second presidency, the political landscape reveals a stark contrast between his current standing and the trajectory of his first term. Where Trump entered office in January 2017 with a 45% approval rating and the benefit of doubt from...
Trump-Imposed 50 Percent Tariffs Have Devastated The Tiruppur Knitwear Workers
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi is back to doing what he loves doing most, travel the world, touring international political hotspots, engaging with fellow heads of states, genuine gentlemen like United States President Donald Trump and their Chinese and Russian counterparts. As of now, there’s the belief...
Increasing Bonhomie Between Two Thackeray Brothers Signals Political Alliance
By Rahil Nora Chopra A significant shift is occurring in Maharashtra’s political landscape. Former Maharashtra CM and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday visited his cousin, MNS supremo Raj Thackeray, at his Mumbai residence to offer prayers on Ganesh Chaturthi. The visit once again highlighted the growing...
Madhya Pradesh Political Parties Approve Resolution Approving 27 Percent Quota For OBC
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh BJP achieved a remarkable success when an all-party meet passed a unanimous resolution to offer 27 percent OBC reservation in Madhya Pradesh. The meeting, held at the residence of Chief minister Mohan Yadav, was attended by representatives of the governing BJP,...
Trump Administration Looking For Surrender By Narendra Modi As 50 Percent Tariffs Take Effect
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: Trump’s 50% tariffs on Indian exports took effect from Wednesday as there has been no resolution to the dispute over Russian oil buys in by India. In a move that has stunned global markets and rattled one of America’s most strategically important partnerships,...
French Centre-Right Govt Is On The Brink As A Confidence Vote Is Set For September 8
By Nitya Chakraborty France’s centre-right coalition government is once again facing a major political crisis as the Prime Minister Francois Bayrou has called for a confidence vote on September 8 in Parliament after his fragile coalition supporters rejected his budget proposals to revive the economy. Both the Left combination...
What The 130th Constitution Amendment Bill Moved By Home Minister Truly Purports To Achieve?
By Justice K. Chandru (Retd.) ‘History will absolve me’ said Fidel Castro, famously, in 1953, as he was arrested for the alleged attempt to overthrow the Batista regime in pre-revolutionary Cuba. Perhaps all over the world, freedom fighters who were incarcerated or were confiscated of their civil rights have...
Has Modi Started Bowing Down To U.S. Pressure By Withdrawing Import Duty On Cotton
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With India’s suspending import duty on cotton, that is expected to benefit the textile sector of the country, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ‘betrayal’ to farmers. PM Modi has been claiming for several month’s now, the latest being only...
Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill Is An Outrageous Move Of Narendra Modi Govt
By P. Sudhir The last day of the monsoon session of the Parliament came to surprise and shock the people and their representatives. Amidst a session which had been extremely stormy over the charges of large scale manipulation of people’s basic right to vote, late in the evening the...
U.S. Visa Overhaul Hits Most The Indian Meritorious Students And H-1B Holders
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: In a blunt, unfiltered declaration, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced on national TV that the H-1B visa system is a “scam.” He lambasted it for displacing American workers and favouring cheaper foreign labour, then unveiled plans for sweeping reforms. “Hiring American workers...
More Than One-Third Of World’s Undernourished Children Live In India
By Krishna Jha India is fast becoming a nightmare for its children. They are bearing the brunt of extreme poverty and malnutrition. The confession is official. Also it is substantiated with data that are painfully true. Maxim Gorky, the Russian novelist, author of ‘Mother’, had once said that he...
Global Market Endorses India’s Resolve To Continue Russian Oil Purchases
By K Raveendran The oil market has by now mastered the skill to absorb shocks, even when they appear designed to disrupt trade flows and destabilise long-term patterns. Rather than creating turbulence, as many initially feared, the global oil market has taken the imposition of punitive tariffs by the...
Raids On Anil Ambani By Centre Show How Proximity To Power May Sometimes Boomerang
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India’s most watched rivalry isn’t on a stock exchange so much as it is in the corridors where policy, capital and infrastructure intersect. On one side is Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, the $200-billion colossus straddling oil-to-chemicals, the country’s largest mobile network and a...
Now 70 Per Cent Students In Urban Areas Are Studying In Private Schools
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is shifting fast towards privatization of education. In urban India, about 30.1% of students were enrolled in government schools, while 70.0% were enrolled in schools other than government schools in the beginning of the current year. In contrast, about 66.0% were enrolled in government...
Industrialist Swraj Paul Was An Ideal Head Of A Family Run Business In India In Last Century
By Kunal Bose KOLKATA: Like many other celebrated family businesses in the country where the brothers will work together to make a success of their operations before going their separate ways for a number of commercial reasons and family compulsions, the four Paul brothers, namely, Stya, Jit, Swraj and...
