An all-party meeting on the turmoil in Sri Lanka has been called on Tuesday evening, with briefings by Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Dr S Jaishankar, the government said on Sunday, following appeals by Tamil Nadu-based parties to intervene in the crisis. At a meeting of parties ahead of the Monsoon Session of parliament, the […]
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By K Raveendran It is becoming increasingly clear that the western sanctions against Russia for its Ukraine invasion is hurting Europe more than these were meant to harm Moscow. While a guaranteed energy crisis is staring Europe on its face due to the stoppage of gas flow from Russia, even creating the scare of rationing […]
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By Arun Srivastava For rightist Conservative Party, choosing a visionary and able administrator as the prime minister in place of Boris Johnson has indeed become a major combative task. This was for the first time that party was deprived of a talented leader. After coming to power three years ago, Boris decapitated his party of […]
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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has sent his resignation — first by email and a hard copy flown in from Singapore. The authenticity of the resignation has been verified and it has been accepted as authentic. The Parliament Speaker, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, officially announced the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday. […]
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By Krishna Jha India’s unemployment rate has risen to 7.80 percent in June. Haryana and Rajasthan are at the top. The other worrisome data point about the rate of unemployment, seen in June, 2022,was a fall of 2.5 million jobs among salaried employees. Unemployment has risen mainly in the agrarian sector, according to data released […]
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Matein Khalid My strategy recommendation to my friends was to short Brent crude at or above $120 for the $65 target I got from the world’s pre-eminent oil economist/OPEC watcher Ed Morse. The short Brent idea has been a money gusher now that Brent has plunged 7% in today’s session to 99 as I write. The fall in oil prices was inevitable. King Dollar is at 20 […]
By K Raveendran The rupee hitting new lows has become a monotonous regularity. The currency has fallen in the relentless climb by dollar, subjugated any resistance offered by other currencies, including the euro, which has fallen to its 20-year low, fast approaching the highly embarrassing parity in the wake of a crippling energy crisis brought […]
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By Sushil Kutty ‘How many children does Elon Musk have?’ is old-hat. The question tagging this fellow now is ‘how many more children does he plan to have?’ On world population day, a camera panned the faces of 19 Indian children born of two women and their common hubby. Ranged against the father of 19, […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India is entering into a major cost of living crisis due to multiple domestic and international crises, which included soaring food and energy prices, rising poverty, joblessness, endangered food security, disincentive to farmers growing food articles, and lopsided policy interventions. The way the government is responding to the issues lack holistic […]
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Sri Lanka’s embattled president flew out of his country early Wednesday to Maldives, in a probable prelude to his resignation after months of widespread protests over the island nation’s worst-ever economic crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday and clear the way for a “peaceful transition of power”, after fleeing […]
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By Arun Srivastava The presidential election to be held on July 18 in the real sense is a royal battle between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the former BJP minister Yashwant Sinha. It would be wrong to construe that Sinha has a tough challenger in Draupadi Murmu. But there is no doubt that by […]
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A day after firefighting in Goa to keep its flock together, leaders of the Congress, off the record, described the “Operation Lotus” the ruling BJP allegedly attempted. Sources said the BJP had a chartered flight ready to move six Congress MLAs out of Goa — all the MLAs had been incommunicado on Sunday, setting alarm […]
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By Mohan V Katarki An unprecedented political crisis has arisen in Sri Lanka, leading to the breakdown of constitutional governance. Unorganised angry protesters, who are deeply affected by economic meltdown, have forced two Prime Ministers Mahinda Rajapaksa and his successor Ranil Wickremesinghe to resign, and have driven out the executive President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to high […]
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By Arun Srivastava Number of the claimants for the office of the prime minister in Britain is quite alarming. Every fourth law maker of UK is striving to grab the post. If the present trend is any indication, it can safely be said that Conservative leadership election is quite open with candidates from almost every […]
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By Sushil Kutty One, the Bharatiya Janata Party does not need the current kerfuffle in Goa. It is already in power there. But the fact that Goa is a neighbouring state to Maharashtra does betray that the disease is contagious. If Maharashtra was engineered to overturn a post-poll “unnatural” alliance, Goa is a straightforward attempt […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Most of the experts feel that pushing Gig and Platform Economy, in place of formal sector, would further deteriorate working conditions and throw the workforce into exploitative conditions, and therefore, NITI Aayog had to furnish a difficult task to portray worker perspective seemingly so rosy that could soften stiff resistance of […]
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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s bravado and brinkmanship turned fatal last Saturday. Not only was he reported missing from his office and residence, but the palatial President’s house in Colombo was also invaded by the protestors. Twitter is flooded with amusing pictures and videos of the incident. Protestors taking a plunge […]
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The anti-government protesters in Sri Lanka who broke into embattled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s official residence have claimed to have recovered millions of rupees inside his mansion, according to a media report on Sunday. A video is being shared on social media showing the protesters counting the currency notes that were unearthed. The recovered money was […]
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By Dr. Soma Marla Taking clues from finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s last year’s budget speech on the government’s intention to privatise a few PSU banks, media reports appeared last week on the government’s intention to introduce a Bill during the coming monsoon session to privatise them and relax the cap on foreign equity holdings I […]
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Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence today as thousands of anti-government protesters barged into his residence demanding his resignation. Amid the chaos, videos emerged of suitcases being loaded on a Sri Lanka Navy ship. Local media claims that the suitcases were of President Rajapaksa. The visuals show three men carrying large suitcases […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak India finds itself in an unenviable position. Choosing an option has become ever more difficult. Financial sector crisis continues and the country has been suffering from negative shocks to credit growth which pushes up the macro vulnerability and increases downside risks to the growth in GDP. However, as the economy recovers […]
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By Gyan Pathak Social protection for rural workers in ‘remains a dream’ though 80 per cent of the poor of the world live in rural areas. Inadequate safety at work, low wage, lack of stability and security, and excessive working hours are the grinding stones for them in which women and young workers are the […]
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The Regional Youth Co:Lab Summit, jointly organized by Citi Foundation and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) celebrates 5 years of positioning young people front and center to solve the region’s most pressing challenges SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 7 July 2022 – Close to 250 participants representing 20 countries and territories gathered in Singapore to discuss how they can help tackle the world’s most pressing challenges […]
By D. Imran Khalid Indubitably, Pakistan is nowadays passing through one of the most turbulent periods in its recent history. On the surface, it is a serious political turmoil. But, intrinsically, it is an amalgamation of financial and political tribulations which are dragging the country into the slough of uncertainty. The whole saga started in […]
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