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The Union Budget 2025-26 seems like a dream come true for those who envision the government acknowledging agriculture as the backbone of the Indian economy. It brings a host of benefits, including a revised income tax threshold that…
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The Union Budget 2025-26, presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is disappointing for violence-hit Manipur. The budget should have made an immediate and substantial intervention to halt the state's unprecedented economic collapse,…
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Donald Trump's unexpected victory in the recent American elections has sparked widespread discussion across the globe. As the 47th president of the United States embarks on his new term, the global business and economic community is keenly…
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In a move emblematic of his administration’s climate scepticism, President Trump signed the Executive Order Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements, signalling the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.…
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One doesn’t have to be empowered by knowledge of science to feel and see the deterioration of environment all round. The recent wildfires in California that once again destroyed properties worth in multiple of millions and caused untold…
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In pursuance of Equality of opportunity and treatment, an ILO Committee of Experts has asked India again to amend the definition of wage, ensure job evaluation, equal remuneration for the same job to male and female workers, and end…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call for greater emphasis on the Global South in the evolving world order shaped by artificial intelligence is a strategic proposition. With AI becoming the most critical technological force of the 21st…
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The Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has, in her budget speech, announced the government’s intention to amend the Atomic Energy Act and the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010 (CLNDA). The amendment to the Atomic Energy Act is…
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The two-day eighth edition of Bengal Global Business Summit, held here on February 5 and 6, betrayed chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s frantic efforts to live down the Opposition’s charge as also a widely…
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NATO secretary-general Mark Rutte is on the warpath, much to the delight of Ukraine’s state-controlled mass media and politicians. Europe’s biggest-selling daily paper, Bild, reports his comments in the light of the Ukraine war: “I’ll tell…
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How come Prime Minister Narendra Modi always invariably makes a symbolic statement on Election Day, doesn’t matter where and when the election. Once, he sat in a cave in Kedarnath and meditated with eyes shut to what people thought of the…
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Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman labelled MSMEs of India in her budget speech as the second engine in the growth story of India, boasted of significantly helping the sector under PM Narendra Modi-led government, and announced…
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The political crisis into which INDIA bloc allies in Maharashtra had fallen after humiliating defeat in the Vidhan Sabha election in the hands of NDA, seems to have deepened. Shiv Sena (UBT) made a direct political attack on NCP(SP) supremo…
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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget announcement to establish five national Centres of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education, with an allocation of Rs 500 crore, marks a significant step in India's AI ambitions.…
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Indians await a miracle to happen as the Union Budget is presented after ten days. They have been doing it for long but their hopes are not realised. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s faith in Manmohanomics is leading to a free-flow…
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Narendra Modi government is due to present its second budget in the third term of the Modi regime on February 1 in an environment of domestic downturn in GDP growth along with global uncertainty in trade due to U.S. President Donald…
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In Bangladesh, a bunch of unelected interim 'rulers' led by economist Mohammad Yunus is desperately anxious to cosy up to Pakistan, from which their country had seceded violently only five decades ago. In a strange reversal of their own…
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Debt is a crucial source of financing for development. However, when debt becomes burdensome, it can threaten the very sovereignty of a nation. This is the situation that many African states are facing today. I have learned about Africa’s…
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The ceasefire in Gaza, at least pausing a 15-month-long genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people waged by a depraved Israeli state, must be welcomed. If the ceasefire takes hold — always a doubt given Israel’s record in these…
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The GDP growth figures being officially put out are suspect, given the fact that the calculation is based on an implicit inflation rate that is not even a fourth of that emerging from the Consumer Price Index (CPI). But despite such…
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The Budget deals with allocating money towards areas where the government thinks it is essential to spend, and finding out ways such as taxes, to finance it. The government primarily requires money to spend on social infrastructure (such as…
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“Somewhat better in recent days” is what regular Manipur watchers say, perhaps, for the first time in 21 months since the outbreak of ethnic violence in the north-eastern state on May 3, 2023 between Meiteis and Kuki tribals. The reference…
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Decent job creation in India continues to be indecent, if the latest Employment Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) provisional data released on January 20, 2025 is of any indication. The trend of increase in new EPF subscribers remains at…
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The inaugural speech of Donald Trump and the flurry of executive orders issued by him on the first day as president, show that Trump does what he said he will do. In claiming to make America great  again, Trump has threatened to take over…
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Only a week before Donald Trump taking over as U.S. President on January 20, defence ministers of five European NATO member nations came out officially against U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion for raising defence spending to 5…
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