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By T N Ashok NEW YORK: India is once again at the epicentre of a great geopolitical tug-of-war. On one side stands the United States under President Donald Trump—erratic, aggressive, and determined to punish India with a 25% tariff for buying discounted oil from Russia. On the other, Russia,...
India Opting For Restraint And Caution In Dealing With Trump’s 25 Per Cent Tariffs
By Kalyani Shankar India’s hopes for reduced export tariffs to the United States were dashed on Wednesday when the Trump administration announced a 25% levy and an unspecified penalty for buying arms and crude oil from Russia. The Narendra Modi government is responding cautiously, as the full impact of...
Rate Cut Again Or Pause: RBI Monetary Policy Committee To Make The Choice
By R. Suryamurthy As the Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) begins its three-day deliberation from August 4 to 6, all eyes are on Mint Street. Will the central bank pull the trigger on another rate cut, or will it stick to a cautious pause? The stakes...
DMK Led Front Will Have A Tough Battle In 2026 Polls Against AIADMK-BJP Combo
By Sushil Kutty Politics has taken a turn in Tamil Nadu as parties, fronts and alliances get on the front foot for the 2026 assembly elections except that the DMK-led alliance might not end up with an encore as it faces the AIADMK-led alliance which also includes the Bharatiya...
Through SIR, BJP-RSS Combine Is Pushing For One Nation, One Election Plan
By Arun Srivastava Notwithstanding Supreme Court’s assurance to the petitioners, the opposition parties and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), to hear their pleas against SIR on August 12, the confidence level with which the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) has been moving steadfastly and shifted its operational area as well...
Assam’s Foreigners Tribunals System Lacks A Secure Legal Foundation
By Tiasha Mukherjee Assam’s Foreigner’s Tribunals (‘FTs’)have declared over 165,000 people as “foreigners”, with more than 85,000 cases still pending and more than a million NRC appeals potentially headed to these tribunals. Behind each data point are individuals facing serious consequences as a result of the State’s one hundred...
Israeli Extremism, Western Hypocrisy And Palestinian Statehood
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Israeli ministers have again exposed how hollow are Western claims to back a two-state solution. Yet global opinion on Israel’s colonial project has reached a tipping point — and the prospect of real change cannot be dismissed. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir leads settlers in...
Trump’s Tariff War Creates De Facto Counter-Axis Driven By Common Cause
By K Raveendran Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime, launched under the guise of bolstering American strength and reclaiming lost economic ground, has triggered a worldwide response that may ultimately defeat the very goal it seeks to achieve. Framed as a nationalist project to assert America’s economic primacy, the tariff...
Trump’s High Tariff Rates For Trade Partners Are Having Adverse Impact On US Economy
By Anjan Roy TORONTO: As US president Donald Trump’s new tariffs take hold globally effective August 1, the US economy is reeling with a new reality. Stocks have gone down on a wide front and new data reveals that the economy is slowing down. Prices have not gone up...
India Asserting Its Strategic Autonomy In Dealing With Trump On Tariffs
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: United States officials are showing their frustration at the Indian Prime Minister not conceding to the U.S. terms at the trade talks, but at the same time they do not rule out New Delhi’s bend down after some days. In the last three...
GST Growth In The Country Is A Mirage Without Hike In Domestic Demand
By R. Suryamurthy India’s July 2025 GST revenue numbers arrived dressed in confidence. A 7.5% year-on-year rise in gross collections to ₹1.95 lakh crore suggests continuity and resilience. Yet, behind the sheen of top-line growth lies a fragile and fractured economic narrative—one of sputtering domestic demand, an unsustainable reliance...
China’s AI Diplomacy In The Age Of US Unilateralism
By Dr Imran Khalid On July 26, 2025, amid the grandeur of Shanghai’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Governance, China unveiled what may well become the defining moment in the transformation of global artificial intelligence – its AI Global Governance Action Plan and the bold...
Delhi Takes A Step Towards Implementation Of New Labour Codes
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Delhi government has finally taken a step towards implementation of the controversial new labour codes by publishing its Draft Code on Social Security Rules, 2025 on July 28, 2025. This is first to be framed by the Delhi Government under the Code on Social Security...
When Public Outcry Fills The Gaps Justice Leaves Behind
By Gurmehar Kaur, Divya Spandana/Ramya We did not learn it from the news. We learned it from each other. Last week, a woman who had in 2017 dared to file a case against a powerful man, posted an update on a close friend’s Instagram story. The man, who she...
Narendra Modi’s Moment Of Truth Has Arrived After Eleven Years Of Rule
By Nitya Chakraborty It is not a cliché to say that our powerful Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s moment truth has arrived after 11 years of ruling the country as the unchallenged leader. The 25 per cent tariff hike on Indian exports announced by the United States President Donald Trump...
Modi Govt’s Silence On Israeli Genocide By Starvation In Gaza Is A Big Shame
By Prakash Karat The Narendra Modi government should hang its head in shame – if it has any sense of shame left. Unfolding before the eyes of the world is the horrific and unbearable spectacle of mass starvation in Gaza, of babies and children wasting away due to malnutrition...
Trump’s Imposition Of 25 Per Cent Tariff On Indian Exports Is Linked To Ego Not Trade Strategy
By Anjan Roy India will for sure face some limited economic impact as the US President Donald Trump’s 25 per cent tariff on Indian exports to USA, starts to be effective from August 1, Friday.. However, it could still be manageable eventually with a determined effort to further diversify...
China Officially Extends Support To BNP In Bangladesh As General Elections Are Nearing
By Satyaki Chakraborty China has come out officially in support of the main opposition party in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) as the chief adviser of the interim government Dr. Muhammad Yunus prepares to announce the dates of the general elections shortly. Political sources say that the announcement might...
