By P. Sudhir The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Sacred Heart Cathedral in New Delhi on Easter day was notable, as it was his first visit to a church since becoming prime minister over nine years ago. On the same day, Easter Sunday, BJP leaders conducted an outreach in different places by […]
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By Sushil Kutty Following opposition parties’ feelers to each other, and after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s meeting with Congress party’s disqualified Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi in the company of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav, the Bharatiya Janata Party was in some degree of nervousness as was apparent […]
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By Debabrata Biswas from Boston On April 4, citizen Trump surrendered, formally arrested and arraigned in a mundane court room on the 15th floor of Manhattan Criminal Court in New York .He was spared of procedural mug shot and handcuff as a courtesy to a former president. And with this, ‘a new, dangerous chapter of […]
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Arabian Post Staff The IMF announced in the World Economic Outlook’s press briefing that the baseline forecast for global output growth is 0.1 percentage point lower than predicted in the January 2023 WEO Update, before rising to 3.0 percent in 2024. “The world economy is still recovering from the unprecedented upheavals of the last three years, and the recent banking turmoil has increased uncertainties. We expect global output […]
By Tirthankar Mitra No stranger to intra-party squabbles, BJP leaders of West Bengal unit have often differed over internal matters of the party. But fissures are now discernible in the state saffron camp leadership over actions of governor, CV Anand Bose in the recent communal violence which erupted in the state. Disagreement between leader of […]
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By Ashis Biswas There has been a mixed diplomatic response from various foreign countries attending the recent G20 sessions in different states of India’s lush-green Northeast. Most among the attending foreign ministers and diplomats preferred discussing local/regional development and tourism-related matters. This was in consonance with the generally agreed upon format of the G20 sessions, […]
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After losing the national party status, the Trinamool Congress is exploring legal options to challenge the decision of the Election Commission, a party source said. The EC withdrew the national party status of the TMC, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) on Monday. “The party is exploring legal options to […]
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In a big boost to its national ambitions, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday was officially recognized as the “national party” by the Election Commission. The Nationalist Congress Party, Trinamool Congress and CPI lost the “national party” tag. Meanwhile, sources said that the TMC is exploring legal options to challenge the EC’s decision. Lok Janshakti […]
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By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative to substantially boost India’s manufacturing industry has impacted little on the country’s growing dependence on merchandise imports and large trade deficits. It is no wonder that the government and its commerce minister say little on the country’s growing annual merchandise imports bill and trade deficit while highlighting […]
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By James M Dorsey America is in decline. Eclipsed by China’s rise, it is shifting attention from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. That is one refrain in the analysis of three seemingly paradigm-challenging developments in the past month: a Chinese-mediated restoration of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the kingdom’s association with the […]
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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) thinks it has made a prize catch by getting the elder son of senior Congress leader A K Antony, Anil Antony to join the party. But the ground reality being what it is, the party will realize sooner than later, that such tinkering won’t fetch the […]
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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unemployment rate in India rose in March 2023 to its highest level in the last three months. It rose from 7.14 per cent in January to 7.8 per cent in March. Over 26 lakh people have lost their jobs in the meantime, and many more are likely to lose theirs in […]
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By Sushil Kutty Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar has come to the aid and rescue of Adani Group. He asked the Opposition to stop targeting the Adani Group. This is not what the Congress and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wanted. For Gandhi, Gautam Adani is in the eye of the fish and direct beneficiary […]
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By Sushil Kutty The Congress party says the BJP-led Modi government “tutored” Padma Shri awardee Shah Rasheed Ahmed Quadri of Bidar in Karnataka to praise Prime Minister Narendra Modi in lieu for the Padma Shri, which had been eluding the master Bidri craftsman for years despite investing Rs 12,000 every year, for 10 years in […]
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By Prabir Purkayastha The British saw the Mysore Kingdom of Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali as a significant obstacle to the British Empire in India. The British lost the first three Anglo-Mysore wars before defeating Tipu in the fourth war. The British allies were the Nizam of Hyderabad and the Peshwas. Cutting to the present, […]
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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 6 April 2023 – Today, IX Asia Indexes Company Limited (“IX Asia Indexes”) announced the launch of ixCrypto Stable Coin Index. The ixCrypto Stable Coin Index is launched to complement with the IX Digital Asset Industry Classification System (“DAICS® “) which was published in September 2022. DAICS® covers both cryptocurrencies and asset-backed tokens. On cryptocurrencies side, there is a three-tier […]
By James M Dorsey A Gulf investor with an analytical and artistic bent, Ali al-Salim pinpointed the long-term challenges Saudi Arabia faces as it re-establishes relations with Iran. While most analysts focused on the immediate reduction of regional tensions and the possible opening for an end to the eight-year-long Saudi military intervention in Yemen as […]
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BANGKOK THAILAND – Media OutReach – 31 March 2023 – Thailand has set up an anti-bribery service centre to provide knowledge and guidelines to the private sector concerning the laws on offering bribes to government officials. The establishment of Anti-Bribery Advisory Service (ABAS) Center, which falls under the supervision of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), is part of Thailand’s attempts to level up its Corruption Perception Index […]
By K Raveendran With the US Federal Reserve set to continue raising interest rates to combat record inflation rates, the highest in 40 years, there are calls that the Reserve Bank of India deviate from its traditional policy of mirroring the US interest rate hikes. The RBI has effected six consecutive rate hikes despite an […]
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By Harihar Swarup As we head into another massive electoral season, starting with Karnataka assembly polls on May 10 and ending with the Lok Sabha 12 months later; two parallel political processes are at work. These processes will play out in the coming months as the main actors figure out which way the voters can […]
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The Gujarat High Court on Friday imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, citing how the AAP convener had persisted with the matter about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree certificates from Gujarat University despite them being public since 2016. “Despite the degree in question being put on the website of […]
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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The verdict of Lok Ayukta Justice Cyriac Joseph in the case of alleged misappropriation of the Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund (CMRDF) during Pinarayi Vijayan Government’s previous term from 2016 to 2021 has come as a big relief to the Chief Minister. Any adverse verdict in the case would have left […]
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