By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Various Muslim organisations in Kerala have strongly criticized the dialogue the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) had with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) recently. The crux of the Muslim organizations’ argument was that the JIH was attempting to cosy up to the RSS out of fear. They...
By Ashis Biswas There has been no negative impact in Bangladesh of recent disclosures made by the short seller US-based Hindenburg Research group, about an alleged stock market manipulation by the Adani group: A Bangladeshi Minister has confirmed that Bangladesh will receive its first supply of 750 Megawatts from...
By Harihar Swarup About 3,000, registered unrecognized parties exist in India. Most of them are sham entities which rarely take part in any democratic exercise, but misuse legal exemptions offered to them and perpetuate huge scams ranging from tax evasions to money laundering, running into thousand crores of rupees....
By Subrata Majumder Till Mr Shinzo Abe took Japanese Prime Minister-ship for the second term, India-Japan relation was confined to economic cooperation on bilateral issues. Given the bonhomie between the two Prime Ministers, the relations reached deeper on geopolitics to downplay China’s global influence. Many political and economic analysts...
By D Raja On February 18, 1958, T T Krishnamachari (TTK), the then finance minister of the Union government, resigned from his cabinet position. What led to his resignation was the LIC-Mundhra Scam, in which the newly formed Life Insurance Corporation of India invested Rs 1.26 crores in the...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Who will be the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh? This question is being asked in political circles – both in the BJP and Congress. While this question is almost settled in BJP the issue is still open in Congress. While it is certain that...
By Rahil Nora Chopra After conquering the erstwhile Congress bastion of Amethi, the former constituency of Rahul Gandhi that he lost in 2019 Lok Sabha elections to Smriti Irani, the BJP now is solely focussing on Raebareli and started preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh....
By Prabhat Patnaik Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman made a misleading statement the other day that is not expected from a responsible member of the union cabinet. Talking about the resource transfer to the states in the recent budget, she said that the magnitude of transfer had been raised “sharply”....
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With a prospect of India’s economic growth rate to decelerate from 7 per cent in 2022-23 to about 5.5 per cent with further downside risks, reigning in inflation in the country seems to be difficult in 2023-24 or beyond amidst global uncertainties and economic downturn....
By Dr. Soma Marla The 2023-24 Union budget has allocated Rs10 lakh crore (121.0 billion US dollar) as capital expenditure for 2023-24. Nearly one-fourth of the capital outlay will be spent on constructing new roads and highways and another quarter on railways for running new high-speed trains (like Vande...