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By Subrata Majumder BRICS accounted for 23 percent of world economy, 16 percent of world trade and contributed 50 percent to global economic growth. Given these high stakes in global economy, trade war opens a new opportunity for BRICS to play a dynamic role to protect the global multilateral...
By K R Sudhaman Buoyed by a pick-up in exports in April-June quarter this year, India may target $400 billion annual merchandise exports in two years, a top export body said. India clocked about $300 billion merchandise exports in 2017-18 after dipping to $275 billion in the 2016-17 –...
By Anjan Roy It might not be obvious always why the gods behave the way they do. From their Olympian heights so much more could be visible than ordinary mortals. That also probably applies to the central banks. Reserve Bank has raised the interest rate when the price prospects...
By Aditya Aamir Navjot Singh Sidhu has the makings of a Mani Shankar Aiyar. Except that Aiyar can hardly make anyone laugh and Sidhu laughs from deep down in his throat at the lamest of jokes. Aiyar and Sidhu will not make good roommates. Sidhu will laugh at every...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: There are now clear indications of MP Congress chief Kamal Nath and campaign committee chief Jyotiraditya Scindia working in greater coordination. Even there are no negative reports about coordination with Digvijaya Singh. A high level meeting was held in New Delhi to discuss the...
By Ashis Biswas There are strong reasons to conclude that overzealousness of some Assam state officials in dismissing claims of Indian citizenship might have resulted in rendering over 40 lakh people suddenly stateless. Mainly Bengali Hindus and Muslim residents, these people did not find their names in the upgraded...
By Barun Das Gupta The second National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam was published on July 30. (The first one was published way back in 1951) After its publication, 40,06,707 residents of Assam, many of them living there for several generations, found that their names “had not appeared”...
By Aditya Aamir There are places on earth, where if you found the words, you could talk to the gods! Would Mamata Banerjee, been aware of such places, be talking of “civil war and bloodbath?” Mamata is a most down-to-earth person, but that doesn’t mean she’s any less a...
By Sushil Kutty Ram Sevak Sharma is an adventurer. Somebody illegal alien hacked into his bank a/c and deposited Re 1 there. A direct to bank a/c beneficiary, redeemer of government scheme, Ram Sevak is proof that Modi’s Jan Dhan Yojana is working. It’s another matter that the miser...
i. Supreme Court quashes ban on protests in Central Delhi – The Supreme Court has held that there cannot be a blanket ban on protests in Central Delhi and the police has been asked to frame guidelines. The petition had been filed by an NGO Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan...