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By Satyaki Chakraborty The inevitable happened on September 8 in French Parliament as Prime Minister Francis Bayrou lost the confidence vote on his minority government by 364 to 194 in the house of 577 giving a clear indication that many of the members of the Macron’s centrist party voted...
ECI Can Not Be Fully Trusted In Implementing Supreme Court Order On Aadhaar
By Arun Srivastava The latest directive of the Supreme Court to ECI to treat Aadhaar the “12th document” which can be produced as proof of identity for the purpose of inclusion in the revised voters list of Bihar is too little and too less content wise. With barely 20...
Trump’s Second Sanctions Against Russia Is Sure To Further Impact Indian Economy
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: President Donald Trump’s latest policy announcements represent a convergence of his most aggressive impulses: economic coercion through secondary sanctions targeting India’s post-SCO energy partnerships, a final ultimatum to Hamas on hostage negotiations, and the deployment of federal troops in American cities despite growing...
Russia Is Playing A Significant Role In Bringing India And China Closer In Geopolitics
By Asad Mirza The recent Shanghai Cooperation Council (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China has essentially revived the fortunes of the SCO or in other words exhibited the might, power and reach of China in the backdrop of tariffs and sanctions upheaval created by the US President Donald Trump. At...
India’s Geopolitical Dilemma: Between Multipolarity And U.S. Hegemony
By Dr Arun Mitra The shifting contours of global geopolitics have placed India at a critical juncture. The United States, along with certain other former colonial powers, is once again striving to reassert global dominance. Their strategy is clear – prevent developing nations from advancing, while sustaining their own...
Indian Steel Industry And Iron Ore Development Facing Big Challenges
By Kunal Bose Indian steel industry faces a series of new challenges as the country is faced with US President Donald Trump’s imposition of 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports to the USA including the steel products. India presents a different picture now where because of the growing...
Mukesh Ambani’s RIL Is India’s Biggest Beneficiary Of Discounted Russian Crude Oil
By Nantoo Banerjee One’s pain could be another’s gain. The phrase aptly describes those big business gainers across the world out of the three-and-a-half-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians on both sides. The list of such gainers may be short but very impressive. They include some...
Bihar Assembly Poll Is The Testing Ground For PM-RSS Experiment On SIR
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s manouvres failed to ignite the passionate feelings of Bihari women and connect them with the PM and his party’s political ambitions before the ensuing assembly polls.. Modi was miffed at Congress leaders presumably used abusive languages against her mother Hiraben. He ought...
Trump’s Economic Promise Turns Into Political Peril As Essentials Prices Rise
By T N Ashok NEW YORK: President Trump’s signature economic strategy is backfiring in spectacular fashion, transforming his promise to make life more affordable for working Americans into a growing source of voter anger that threatens to define his second term. Seven months after returning to office pledging to...
BRS Supremo KCR Is Presiding Over The Decline Of His Party In Telangana
By Kalyani Shankar Why do political families believe they can hold onto power indefinitely? This is common in many one-man or one-woman parties, where leaders often engage in nepotism by appointing relatives to positions of authority. For example, the late Mulayam Singh Yadav, leader of the Samajwadi Party, had...
Share Of Child Mortality In India Was 8.2 Per Cent In 2023
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Death of children below the age of five in India is still a serious problem. The national average of percentage of deaths in the age-group 0-4 years to total deaths in India was 8.2% in 2023. Worst scenario was observed in Uttar Pradesh, where it...
China Opting For More Iron Ore Imports Die To Low Quality Of Its Own Ore
By Kunal Bose China, which has a share of over half the world steel production and at the same time accounts for nearly two-thirds of seaborne trade in iron ore by way of imports will unarguably have a major impact on price movements of the steelmaking ingredient in all...
Differing Approaches Of PUCL’s Report And Congress On Manipur Crisis Remain
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Responding to the points raised and concerns expressed over the findings of the Independent People’s Tribunal (IPT) on the Ongoing Ethnic Conflict in Manipur” by Inner Manipur constituency’s Congress Lok Sabha member Angomcha Bimol Akoijam, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has clarified...
Artificial Intelligence And Digital Rights Have To Be Intertwined
By Harsh Gour Artificial Intelligence now permeates daily life From the smartphone assistants many of us carry to credit scoring, healthcare imaging, and government services, technological high-end systems (pro-AI-driven) are becoming progressively foundational, invisible, and everywhere in our institutions and economy. AI is set to be deployed not just...
Latest Round Of GST Reforms Has Larger Perspective Other Than Tax Reforms
By Anjan Roy The GST reforms introduced by the GST council at its September 4 meeting is a mega budget for the entire country. It will be the determining factor for the budgets of the central government as well as those of the states. The goods and services tax,...
OPEC Tug Of War Between Price Management And Market Share Defence
By K Raveendran The oil market enters another crucial weekend with OPEC set to review its output policy against a backdrop of mounting uncertainty. The producers’ alliance has been carefully navigating the fine balance between supporting prices and defending market share, and the latest developments suggest that the pendulum...
Employment In Unincorporated Sector Fell By 2.1 Per Cent In Q1 Of 2025-26
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Labour market complexity in India is worsening. The quarterly bulletin of unincorporated non-agricultural sector enterprises for April-June 2025, that is the Quarter 1 of the current financial year 2025-26, has just revealed that the number of establishment rose by 1.1 per cent compared to January-March...
After SCO Meet, Trump Unleashes MAGA Department Of War Against Indians
By Sushil Kutty India has brought the worst out of United States President Donald Trump and his raucous MAGA supporters who have started a war of go thwarts India campaign and are gunning not only India and Indians in India but Indian-origin Americans across USA accusing them of taking...
