For decades, India’s maritime sector has incurred substantial financial losses due to dependency on foreign shipping companies, primarily from China. With a current reliance on Chinese shipping to transport imported and exported goods, India spends approximately $85 billion on maritime trade annually, with $60-70 billion funnelled directly into Chinese shipping companies’ pockets. Recognizing this economic…
Movie Review After a long pause of a few months, I could venture into a theatre, not the multiplex, to watch this movie. Having read positive reviews besides good feedback, I felt it was worth the visit to a theatre. One can have a richer experience in a multiplex with luxury as add-on value but…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent statement is a reality check for political parties peddling the promise of religious reservations. As the Maharashtra assembly elections approach on November 20, Shah didn’t mince words. Addressing a rally, he ridiculed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s electoral promises, asserting that even Gandhi’s “next four generations” couldn’t deliver on his…
……..Contd) Later, Sonia Gandhi also visited China on quite a few occasions. In 1996 she paid a visit, but her planned trip in 2003 was cancelled. However in 1987, Sonia Gandhi, after taking over as the Congress president, accompanied by her son and AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi paid a five-day visit – first by…
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New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan on Tuesday underlined the evolving nature of warfare and said a combat has always been between humans but now the world is going to enter an era in which it may be between a machine and human being and later between machines. During an interaction session…
New Delhi: Retail inflation breached the Reserve Bank’s upper tolerance level, soaring to a 14-month high of 6.21 per cent in October mainly on account of rising food prices. Inflation based on the consumer price index (CPI) was 5.49 per cent in September and 4.87 per cent in the year-ago month. Retail inflation trended below…
New Delhi: India is confident of achieving USD 100 billion in annual bilateral trade with Russia well ahead of the timeline of 2030 and a more substantive relationship between the two nations has a larger global resonance, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday. There have been challenges to trade, especially with regard to…
New Delhi: Elon Musk-owned Starlink will have to comply with all norms to get licence for services in India, Union telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Tuesday. The minister said the satellite internet services provider is in process of completing all the requirements and they will get licence once they complete the process. “They (Starlink)…
Ranchi: The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided multiple locations in poll-bound Jharkhand apart from West Bengal in a money laundering investigation linked to alleged illegal infiltration of Bangladeshi nationals, official sources said. A total of 17 places are being covered in the two neighbouring states by the Jharkhand office of the federal probe agency. The…
