Arabian Post Staff Wego, the leading travel app in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has teamed up with the Aseer Region Development Authority (ASDA) to promote the scenic and cultural treasures of Saudi Arabia’s Aseer region. This collaboration aims to enhance the visibility of Aseer’s unique landscapes and rich heritage, positioning it as a prime destination for travelers. The Aseer region, known for its mountainous […]
By Harihar Swarup Puducherry is said to be the BJP’s plan B to get a foothold in the Dravida land. But it took a serious hit in the Lok Sabha elections when its candidate in the lone constituency in the union territory, home minister A. Namassivayam, suffered a humiliating loss against the Congress’s V. Vaithilingam. […]
By Satyaki Chakraborty The new coalition government of South Africa formed last month after the national elections on May 29 is facing a major crisis as the leading party African National Congress (ANC) has been taken to court by its partner Democratic Alliance (DA) on the issue of a speech delivered by the President Cyril […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Indian economy needs to generate average of nearly 78.5 lakh jobs annually until 2030 in the non-farm sector to cater to the rising workforce,” said the Economic Survey 2023-24 tabled in the Parliament of India on July 22. Next day on July 23, the Union Budget 2024-25, announced several schemes for […]
By Arun Srivastava Prime Minister Narendra Modi lifting the 44-year-old ban on government employees from joining RSS and allowing them to actively participate in its programmes, might be construed as a tactical move to buy peace with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, but more than that, it is a move to legalise RSS interference in managing […]
By Sushil Kutty Who benefits from blaming Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for the BJP’s poor Lok Sabha polls performance in Uttar Pradesh? As things have moved, Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya is the dark horse though Union Home Minister Amit Shah is also talked about as somebody who gains from a downgraded Yogi. OBC […]
By K Raveendran Rahul Gandhi and a host of Congress leaders have criticised Nirmala Sitharaman and the Modi government for copy-pasting from the Congress manifesto while formulating the new budget. Looking at the issue from another perspective, they must be happy that the finance minister has given Congress their best campaign point for the coming […]
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Early this week, Indian writer Pankaj Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award. The $75,000 award is given to an international non-fiction writer based outside Canada by The Writer’s Trust of Canada. “Through a compelling and essential body of work that braids memoir, philosophy, history, sociology and criticism, Mishra proves he […]
By Sushil Kutty Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is still to recover from defections of NCP (Ajit Pawar) leaders to the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) faction of Ajit Pawar’s uncle Sharad Pawar. Four Pune-based NCP (Ajit Pawar) leaders resigned and rejoined Sharad Pawar’s NCP and a week later the faction led by Ajit Pawar is […]
By Subrata Majumder For the first time, the Indian annual budget for 024-5 focused on the aim of manufacturing from the perspective of job creation, rather than boosting GDP. Manufacturing has been a failure in the earlier years to drive the GDP growth. The , BJP led NDA government, vowed to give a new shape […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak G20 has made a history to agree on working together to ensure ultra-rich are taxed effectively, even after the United States dismissed the need for an international accord on the matter for now. The agreement was reached on July 25 at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Rio de Janeiro. […]
By P. Sudhir The Indian economy is at a critical cross-road, where the GDP growth is in no way boosting the employment generation capacity. Even within the jobs created, 57.3 per cent are self-employed, 18.3 per cent are unpaid household workers and more than 45 per cent are employed in agriculture. The Production Linked Incentive […]Arabian Post Staff Cybersecurity firm KnowBe4 has encountered a significant breach following a controversial hiring mistake. The company, known for its employee security training and simulated phishing attacks, inadvertently brought on board a hacker with alleged ties to North Korea. This lapse has led to an infostealer attack that compromised sensitive company and client data. The hacker, whose identity has not been officially disclosed, was reportedly hired […]
By K Raveendran Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has provided a theoretical framework, explained in the acronym EMPLOYMENT, for her budget formulation: E for Employment and Education, M for MSMEs, P for Productivity, L for Land, O for Opportunity, Y for Youth, M for Middle Class, E for Energy Security, N for New Generation Reforms, and […]
By Nantoo Banerjee The annual government budget is all about the expenditure and its direction. Income is generated generally through tax and non-tax revenues and borrowing to take care of the expenditure. Normally, the expenditure part comprises seven main aspects – the government’s own maintenance cost, defence, healthcare, social security, education, elderly care, and debt […]
By Arun Srivastava The battle for dominance between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya, believed to be the protégé of the Modi-Shah duo, is only the prelude; the ‘big fight’ is between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat for the ‘Hindu Hridaya Samrat’ crown, though post […]
By D.L. Lang OKEMAH (USA): The revolutionary spirit of Woody Guthrie permeates his birthplace of Okemah, Okla., where the 27th Annual Woody Guthrie Folk Festival was held July 10-13. There attendees celebrated Woody’s 112th birthday, and modern musicians added their voices to the folk canon. A sense of camaraderie flowed throughout the festival as musicians […]
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh units of both the BJP and the Congress have decided to initiate massive reforms in their respective organisations. The BJP has been asked by the RSS to apprise Congress leaders, who have joined the BJP, of the saffron party’s style and culture. This message was given by Arun […]
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP played aggressive Hindutva card by asking the shopowners of districts from where kanwariya yatra is taking place keeping by-elections for 10 assembly seats in the state in mind . Although Supreme Court has stayed the order of Yogi Adityanath government asking the shopowners […]
By Anjan Roy Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget presented to Parliament on July 23 is a deeply political statement post the polls, containing though sound economic logic as well. As it is by now amply clear to the public, the Union finance minister, has laid out a development budget for Bihar and partly for Andhra Pradesh, while […]
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Taking lessons from the outcome of Lok Sabha Election 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led government has made a clever move for the next generation of economic reforms in the Union Budget 2024-25, which forms the core of the budget though mentioned as the last of the nine priority areas it […]
By Kalyani Sankar The United States could elect its first female President in 248 years. As America celebrated its birthday on July 4, it’s important to note that the country has never had a woman as its head of state. Hillary Clinton almost won the Presidency but ultimately failed. The uncertainty surrounding the Democratic Party’s […]
By K Raveendran Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stepped up to her budget rostrum in the Lok Sabha with a resolute demeanour, a symbolic gesture marking the unveiling of what many had anticipated as a transformative federal budget for the fiscal year 2024-25. Yet, what unfolded before the nation on July 23 was not a conventional […]
By Kalyani Shankar The Bharatiya Rashtra Samithi, formerly the Telangana Rashtra Samithi, sets itself apart from other declining political parties. Led by the ambitious K. Chandrasekhar Rao, or KCR, the party’s national expansion has been marked by setbacks, including its failure to retain power in Telangana. This fate is shared by many political parties and […]
