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The economy in our country has been sliding down even deeper in New Year of 2025. 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.

The 2025 Global Talent Shortage Survey by ManpowerGroup reveals alarming trends in talented workforce shortage in India that is worse than the global average. About 80 per cent of employers in India are struggling to find out the right talent for the works available, as against the global average of 74 per cent. Such an alarming level of talent shortage needs urgent attention in the fast-changing world of work with deployment of new technologies requiring special skills.

The international migrant is a global pariah, if the takes on them of US President Donald Trump and some of the leaders of far Right political outfits in Europe are anything to go by. Both have immigrants on their radar.

Arvind Kejriwal is the man to beat in the Delhi Assembly elections. Kejriwal isn't the spent force one thought after the stint in jail and the ouster from the Delhi Chief Minister's post. Jail does things to the toughest of people and not everyone has a father of the stature of Motilal Nehru to spring a son out of jail, cut a sentence short with one call to the Gora-Sahib!

KOLKATA: Found guilty of the rape and murder of a doctor in RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, Sanjay Roy has been sentenced to life term imprisonment. The sentence pronounced by Sealdah district and sessions court on Monday has been found unacceptable by many.

Voters list manipulation has become a serious issue in Delhi Vidhan Sabha election, more so after the publication of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituency wise number of electors as on January 17, 2025. Shrinkage of number of electorates in ‘one in five’ Vidhan Sabha constituencies compared to 2020, shows the shifting demography, which is likely to impact the poll outcome.

Corporate sector pitching for an increase in the working hours and paying less wages, disproportionate to the value of their labour, sends a terrifying message that character of the Indian economy is experiencing changes and has come full circle to acquire the silhouette of the capitalist industrial relation.

There’s a lesson for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in President Donald Trump’s inaugural address on the morning he took the oath to become the 47th President of the United States: Make sure, you keep the promises made to the electorate. President Trump himself did not wait, his slew of executive orders were prompt. Unlike Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is a laggard in keeping poll promises, if at all.

Indians are travelling abroad like never before. Last year, over 30 million Indians travelled abroad, mostly on leisure trips. The number is nearly 15 percent more than that in 2023. The total expenditure rose by 25 percent. Rich and upper middle-class Indians are also increasingly sending their children for foreign studies. Over 1.33 million Indian students are currently pursuing education abroad. Some Indians are going for groovy overseas sites for weddings. Inviting international celebrities to attend marriage ceremonies in India has become trendy. Lavish foreign exchange expenditure is a non-issue for this class of Indians. The Reserve Bank’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme allows Indian residents to send up to $250,000 abroad per year without prior RBI approval. Rapid fall of Indian Rupee (INR) vis-à-vis other popular foreign currencies such as US$, Euro, Singapore$, British Pound, Swiss Franc, and Japanese Yen in recent years had little impact on foreign spending by the fund flush Indian upper class.

True to their word, after the Centre’s invite for talk, 121 farmers ended their fast-unto-death hunger strike at Khanauri border of Punjab and Haryana on November 19, while their leader Jagjit Sigh Dallewal who has been on fast-unto-death hunger strike since November 26, 2024, has agreed to take treatment to pave the way for fruitful talk. An immediate crisis has thus been averted, but the farmers’ predicaments are far from over. February 14 is decided for talk, and the Centre and the Farmers’ unions are getting ready for tough negotiations.