Fuel tax cut reshapes fiscal calculus
Government on Friday slashed excise duty on petrol and diesel by ₹10 per litre each, sharply lowering the central tax burden and signalling a shift in its approach to managing inflationary pressures and consumer demand....
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India turns to Iran for LPG supply
India has secured its first cargo of Iranian liquefied petroleum gas in several...
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Kabir forges new Bengal political axis
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Trump blocks Netanyahu call for Iran uprising
US President Donald Trump declined a proposal from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
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By Arun Srivastava The Naxalite movement, originating from a 1967 peasant uprising in Naxalbari, West Bengal, has witnessed numerous “twists and turns,” evolving from a localized armed insurrection into a fragmented insurgency and, in recent years, a shrinking threat experiencing mass surrenders and gruesome killings of cadres by the...
Central Subsidies Declined To 1.7 Per Cent Of GDP By 2024-25
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The data show that subsidies and transfers by the central government increased after the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, peaking in 2022-23 at about 2.7 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), and then declining to 1.7 per cent of GDP by 2024-25. However, such expenditures...
India’s Trade Agreements Are Gender-Aware, Not Gender-Responsive
By R. Suryamurthy India’s trade negotiators have, over the past decade, begun to speak a new language—one that acknowledges women not merely as beneficiaries of growth, but as agents within it. Yet, as the fine print of the country’s recent free trade agreements (FTAs) reveals, this rhetorical shift has...
Akhilesh Yadav Makes Phoolan Devi’s Sister State President Of SP’s Women’s Wing
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav wants to revive the magic of bandit queen Phoolan Devi by making her sister Meenakshi Nishad as state president of the women wing of the party. It would be worth mentioning here that Nishad community belongs to OBCs and...
Modi Govt’s Faulty Policies Contributing To A Great Extent The Fall Of Indian Rupee
By Prabhat Patnaik Most Asian currencies have fallen significantly against the US dollar since the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran. Of these however the Indian rupee has been perhaps the worst performer, having fallen to as low as Rs. 93.73 by Friday March 20, from Rs. 91.01...
Where Soldiers Once Marched, Gen Z Now Orders Cappuccino In A Café In Tawang
By T N Ashok In Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh, there is a café where coffee is excellent. The altitude is 10,000 feet. And beneath your chair, under riveted steel plates that once shook with the boots of soldiers retreating in the bitter winter of 1962, a stream murmurs through...
Election Observers Sent By National BJP To Bengal Under Fire By Locals
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: West Bengal unit of BJP is yet to get its act together even as Assembly elections are inching forward in West Bengal. The wraps over an unwieldy organisation in the state came off before the party’s national president, Nitin Nabin when he was in Kolkata...
Even After March 22 Municipal Poll Results, Socialists And LFI Are Fighting
By Pablo Castaño PARIS: Nearly all parties celebrated the results of France’s municipal elections, held on March 15 and 22. Above all, the contests confirmed just how muddled the country’s political situation is ahead of the 2027 presidential elections. The conservative party Les Républicains (LR) will govern the most...
Trump-Xi Summit Rescheduled On May 14-15 In Beijing Worries Japan And Taiwan
By Nitya Chakraborty U.S. President Donald Trump finally rescheduled his much awaited visit to China on May 14 and 15 by announcing in his Truth Social there by creating big interest in the diplomatic circles about the possibility of a sort of ceasefire in the current West Asian war...
US-Iran Talks On Peace In West Asia Have Many Roadblocks Needing Tough Mediation
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: Peace in the middle east has many roadblocks as Iran rejected initially Trump’s 15-point one sided peace plan coming up with its own counter terms and retaining its right to maintain stock piles, control of Hormuz and arming militias in its neighbourhood as...
Cabinet Approved India’s NDC 2031-35 Adopts Calibrated Middle Path
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The cabinet approved India’s Nationally Determined contribution (NDC) 2031-35 has clearly adopted a calibrated middle path between its climate responsibility and development sovereignty in the backdrop of the country’s unfinished development agenda. It signals India’s willingness to act on climate action but on terms that...
Civil Society Outfit Targets BJP-Led Assam Ministry, Wants Regime Change
By Rabindra Nath Sinha KOLKATA: Assam’s chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is leading the NDA for the forthcoming Assembly elections on April 9, may have succeeded in prevailing upon Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), BJP’s steadfast ally, into fielding 50 per cent of its candidates from the minority community....
PM Narendra Modi Failed Indian Foreign Policy Test By Aligning With Israel-US Axis
By Mahesh Rathi During the recent Parliament session, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the United States–Israel attack on Iran. What stood out, however, was not what he said—but what he chose not to say. There was no condemnation of the attack, no reference to the killing of Iran’s Supreme...
Trump’s War Against Iran Has Exposed The Limit Of U.S.’s Mighty Imperial Power
By Nilotpal Basu All across the world, a million-dollar question is being asked: what will be the final outcome of the war of aggression the US and Israel jointly initiated with the elimination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28? Subsequently, there were ferocious attacks on Iran’s facilities, both...
Redrawing Political Map Of India On Census 2011 Will Be A Grave Mistake
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Government of India under PM Narendra Modi has given enough hints by proposing to bring an amendment Bill purportedly to fast-track women’s quota rollout that it is seriously working on its earlier plan to complete the delimitation process by 2028. However, the most surprising...
Challenge To Gold’s Safe Haven Status May Be Transcient And Not Permanent
By K Raveendran Gold’s abrupt retreat has emerged as one of the more striking anomalies in a period otherwise defined by geopolitical escalation and market anxiety, challenging long-held assumptions about the metal’s role as a sanctuary during crises. A decline of roughly 20 percent from levels above $5,000 an...
Redesigning Civil Society: The Quiet Power Shift Behind India’s FCRA Overhaul
By R. Suryamurthy By any legislative measure, the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026 is being presented as a technical correction—an effort to plug “gaps,” streamline procedures, and bring clarity to a law that has evolved in fragments over the past decade. But that framing, while convenient, obscures a...
The Historic Act To Ensure Women Reservation In Lok Sabha Is Finally Taking Shape
By T N Ashok Twenty-seven years is a long time to wait for a revolution. India’s Women’s Reservation Bill — now the Constitution (106th Amendment) Act — was first introduced in 1996 when Deve Gowda led a fragile coalition government and the idea of reserving one-third of Lok Sabha...
