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Corporate capitalism in India is today in the grip of crisis. Economy keeps falling deeper. Data predicts further sliding to be a four year low of 6.4 per cent in 2024–25, mainly on account of a poor showing in the manufacturing and services sectors, according to government data released on January 8, 2025.

United States of America’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard will be visiting India early next week in the concluding part of his tour of the Asia Pacific nations including Japan and Thailand. This will be the first visit to India of such a high ranking official of the Trump 2.0 administration to India since Trump took over the presidency on January 20 this year. Gabbard’s talks with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi will have special significance in the context of the present developments in Bangladesh.

Character and quality of education and health are the basic indices to comprehend the true nature of empowerment and growth of a community. Otherwise too it is known fact education is the Most Powerful Weapon which you one use to change the world. Education provides the wing to fly. A person, irrespective of being male or female, without education is just like a bird without wings. Resorting to euphemism would temporarily conceal the unpleasant scenario in which Muslims survive, but it certainly cannot be a permanent panacea.

The issue of a separate Kosal state in Odisha has got a fresh impetus after senior BJP leader Jayanarayan Mishra called the merger of Odisha’s western region named Kosal with the state a ‘historic blunder’, though the opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJP) has accused the ruling BJP of trying to “divide the state” and BJP has distanced itself from its senior party leader’s remark regarding merger of Kosal region with Odisha.

President Trump’s repeated assertions that India has agreed to reduce tariffs “way down” have sparked a predictable wave of denials from New Delhi, underscoring the fraught and often opaque nature of trade negotiations between the two countries. While Trump’s tendency to make exaggerated or even unverified claims is well-known, in this particular case his statements may hold more weight than the official denials coming from the Indian government. This is not without precedent.

As part of his pan-India vision, Rahul Gandhi has executed his ambitious programme to weed out BJP’s sleeper cells within Congress ranks and hand over the functioning of the party into the hands of the ideologically-oriented young leaders.

In India, archaeological practices and conservation are regulated by a network of bureaucratic mechanisms, legal authority, and disciplinary conventions. The primary institution at the helm of these practices is the Archaeological Survey of India.

Ajit Pawar, Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Finance in Maharashtra, has made a new promise on empty poll promises, that the promises will be implemented as and when funds are available. Soon after tabling of the Maharashtra’s Mahayuti government’s Budget 2025-26 on February 10, the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) had called Mahayuti’s poll promises bogus.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 24th State Conference of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) concluded with a ringing reiteration of its intent to build on the spectacular gains the Pinarayi Vijayan-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government has made during the nine years it has been in power.

We are at a critical juncture in the relationship between the citizen and the State in India. The concept of individuals as rights-bearing citizens has been overshadowed by the State’s authority in every sphere, effectively reshaping the very foundation of democracy.