By Arnab Sengupta The outbreak of the coronavirus, coupled with record valuations in equity markets, has triggered a global sell-off of high-risk investments and a significant shift in sentiment among global investors. Accompanying the dip is a well-reported surge into traditional safe-haven assets such as gold. As global investors...
By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON—Congressional Democrats, progressive groups, and defenders of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid all blasted President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts for the fiscal year that starts October 1. Two top government worker unions chimed, in, too, slamming Trump for proposing only a 1 per cent raise...
By Nantoo Banerjee Ignorance may be a bliss for India’s most know-all politicians in power. Otherwise, how else could a top functionary in the government advise the country’s poor fixed depositors with banks and post offices to invest in stock market for better returns? To many, such a suggestion...
By Amulya Ganguli As Union home minister Amit Shah’s subdued body language during a recent media interview showed, the BJP has been shell-shocked by the Delhi defeat. It is also aware why the party was trounced. As Shah’s distancing of the party from the “golimaro” (shoot them) comment of...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: After a seemingly endless rounds of discussions, deliberations and debates, the Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) has found a new president: K. Surendran, who is at present one of the four general secretaries of the party. Kunnummel Surendran has managed to secure the...
By Arun Srivastava It will be a party with difference. Same claim was made by the BJP leaders when they floated their party in 1980; a party with a difference. But the activist busy giving the final shape to the proposed Young India Party claim that the formal launching...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: While the BJP finally has chosen its President for Madhya Pradesh, the Congress is still to resolve the issue. On the contrary rift between Chief Minister Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia has widened. Although the BJP finally selected its state President many in the...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: The spectacular victory of AAP in Delhi has set agenda for ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh where assembly elections are due in 2022. Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath must be under pressure as AAP won on the basis of work done by Kejriwal government during last...
By Harihar Swarup What could be impact of Arvind Kejriwal’s sweeping victory in Delhi elections in other states where polls are due? Firstly, it appears that the BJP is losing its appeal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma has been waning. No wonder if West Bengal goes the Delhi...
By K Raveendran After a brief scare, domestic petroleum prices are showing a declining trend. That is certainly a point of consolation for the Modi government, which is facing trouble for the economy on all possible fronts. But new analysis of the emerging global oil market suggests that oil...