By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: Indian parliament’s upper house (Rajya Sabha) on Sep 20 passed two of the three contentious farm bills amidst an uproar by opposition parties’ members and protests by farmers at several places. The two bills – Farmer’s Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, […]
By Deepak Sharma New Delhi: Most Indian business are pinning their hopes on the forthcoming festive season to overcome the challenges posed by the muted demand in the aftermath of the spread of COVID-19, which forced the consumers to cut down spending and the government to implement lock […]
New Delhi: Communist Party of China’s Xi Jinping is a major threat to global peace and the world needs to follow India in fighting his expansionism, an exiled Chinese student leader who had led the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has said. Zhou Fengsuo, the president of Humanitarian China, […]
By Dr Pranav Kumar and Dr Tapan Kumar Bihari After a considerable gap of 34 years, the country has received its new National Education Policy (NEP), being hailed as a game changer policy for 21st Century India. However, some commentators have argued that the National Education Policy fails […]
(Editor’s Note: The views are that of the authors’. For the writers’ other interests, read the credit line at the end of the article.) By Dr Pranav Kumar and Dr Tapan Kumar Bihari Declining Gross Enrollment Ratio through the primary and secondary stages has proven to be an […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India today reached out to old friend Nepal and carried out a comprehensive review of bilateral economic and development cooperation projects in an attempt to counter China’s efforts to expand its footprints in the Himalayan nation. The reach out took place two days […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: To provide a booster shot to its pandemic-hit economy, India will invest over Rs 110 lakh crore (Rs 110 trillion/$1.5 trillion) in the National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) comprising more than 7,000 projects across sectors. Among the major focus areas are the construction of […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India’s newest and strategically important Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir could soon have a new chief minister, ending a yearlong suspense over the restart of the political process in the region that has a border with Pakistan. Addressing the nation from the […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: In order to counter China’s influence in the strategic Indian Ocean Region, India today announced a slew of projects in Maldives to deepen its relations with the maritime neighbour. The relationship was not cosy till two years ago. Former Maldives President Abdullah Yameen […]
By Amit Agnihotri New Delhi: India‘s Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone for a grand temple for Lord Ram, a revered human-god of the Hindu community. A Nov. 2019 judgment from the Supreme Court of India has paved the way for the Ram temple construction […]