Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) selection committee chief Ajit Agarkar seems to be on his way out, with the selection meeting for the white-ball series against West Indies likely to be held on Wednesday (September 16). There has reportedly been no discussion between Agarkar and the BCCI top brass over his…
Washington: The US House of Representatives passed a bill that would authorise President Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russia and steep tariffs on its trading partners in oil and gas, including India and China. The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, passed by the US Senate last month, was approved…
New Delhi: SEBI on Wednesday barred stock broker Prrsaar Sampada, its related entity Chaubara Eats and four others from the securities market and ordered the impounding of alleged wrongful gains totalling Rs 28.12 crore in a case involving alleged cross-segment price manipulation using stock futures and options. In an ex-parte interim order, Sebi said the alleged…
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to curb illicit poppy cultivation even as he identified India, China and Pakistan among 23 major drug transit and illicit drug producing countries and urged their respective leaders to address the issue. In a Presidential Determination to the US Congress, Trump said…
MS Shanker Orangenews9 greets a Prime Minister who transformed the aspirations of the ordinary Bharatiya on his 76th birthday today. Can any political leader change the way an ordinary citizen looks at his or her own possibilities? Narendra Modi’s remarkable journey from Vadnagar to the Prime Minister’s Office offers perhaps the most compelling example in…
BG Srinivas The Ministry of Finance notification of 14 September 2026 has triggered a familiar cycle: alarm on social media, talk of a “UPI tax”, and a flood of AI-generated explainers dressed up as government releases. Some of what is circulating is accurate, some is not, and the actual picture deserves a sober reading. What…
The growing chorus for caution on artificial intelligence can no longer be dismissed as the anxiety of technology pessimists. Nor should it be interpreted as a call for the United States or China to surrender their race for technological leadership. The message from several of the world’s most influential technology leaders is much simpler: do…
Watching history as it unfolds: Remembering September 16, 1984. My Sunday siesta was rudely shattered by an office call asking me to rush to the Raj Bhavan. Governor Shankar Dayal Sharma, I was told, invited N.T. Rama Rao to form the Government. He was back in power a month after he was undemocratically toppled by…
Money laundering is no longer just an economic crime; it has become a significant financial backbone for organized crime, corruption, drug trafficking, terrorism, and illegal trade. Simply put, money laundering is the process by which criminal proceeds are presented as legitimate or legally obtained, concealing their true source. Criminals understand that simply earning money illegally…
European sovereign yields have broken out to their highest levels since the euro crisis. The German 10 year Bund is trading near 3.4%, its highest since 2011, the French OAT is above 4.2%, its highest since 2008, and the OAT/Bund spread sits near 85 basis points. This is happening while the ECB is hiking, not…
