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U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of reciprocal tariffs on India starting April 2 has caused serious concern in New Delhi. India's high import taxes on American goods have long been contentious, now affecting trade partners.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, March 10, 2025, raided several premises of former Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel as part of probe into a money laundering case involving his son Chaitanya Baghel, which Congress has alleged a part of BJP’s political conspiracy. Bhupesh Baghel’s office has said, if someone is trying to stop Congress in Punjab through this conspiracy, then it is a misunderstanding.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin’s protest against imposition of Hindi and his assertion that the state is “ready for another language war” is not merely politics, it is rather manifestation of assertion of Tamilian sub nationality. For him the move of Modi government to impose Hindi is a direct assault on the cultural and social ethics of the Tamilians.

United States President Donald Trump’s abusing global trade by tariff retaliation with countries having trade deficit has raised much hue and cry. However the magnitude of trade deficit with India is insignificant due to low stake (5 percent), as compared to Vietnam and China.

The Bihar assembly elections are still months ahead but why waste time? The Bharatiya Janata Party is in a hurry much before the elections. And it doesn't matter if Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to cultivate his ‘Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas’ narrative, there is little evidence to prove that the Haryana, Maharashtra, the Uttar Pradesh bypolls and the Delhi assembly elections weren't won by fanning Hindu sentiments.

As if the tariff war against almost the whole world, leading among them China, Mexico, Canada, and India, hots up, it portrays the leading hero, Trump in this case, frothing at the mouth and cursing and cussing everyone, if he does not get what he wants, and shows a completely new and unacceptable face of the American democracy and diplomacy.

NEW YORK: Last week on March 2 , ordinary Brazilians have been jubilant at the news that I’m Still Here pocketed an Oscar — the first ever Brazilian film to do so. Walter Salles’s work, which stars Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello, is a powerful exposition of the human cost paid by those who opposed Brazil’s military dictatorship, with its focus on the family of Rubens Paiva, an opponent of the junta who was tortured and murdered in 1971. I’m Still Here does not focus too deeply into the background of Paiva, a sometime social democratic politician who had lived in Yugoslavia and Paris following the dictatorship’s 1964 seizure of power but returned home to continue family life. It is, ostensibly, a story about the Paivas’ experience of state persecution and their fight for justice — particularly that of Rubens’s wife Eunice, who died at the age of eighty-nine in 2018.

Oil prices have hit their lowest since October and by all indications the downward move is far from over. Brent has already dipped below 70 dollars per barrel as the market is feeling the weight of a supply overhang, with OPEC+ barrels set to flood an already well-supplied system, keeping a lid on any meaningful price recovery.

On a business-as-usual basis, achieving gender equality in employment rate will take another two centuries, says the new brief given by the International Labour Organization, which was released on March 8, International Women’s Day. The brief, which also marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action, noted that progress has been uneven and insufficient with the global gender employment gap narrowing by only 4 percent in the last three decades. Women remain underrepresented in employment, overrepresented in informal work, and face persistent pay gaps.

A huge campaign is going on across the country about India aspiring to become a developed country in 2047. There is nothing wrong in targeting something big with the hope that even if it fails, we could still reach somewhere near to what had been the goal. The goal, however, should not be so unrealistic that people think it infeasible to begin with. India is currently the fastest growing economy in the world and there is a possibility of maintaining the relatively high growth in the coming years compared to global average.