ADVANTAGE TO INDIA IN TRADE DEAL WITH THE U.S.
NEW DELHI,3 Feb 2026 : India and the United States have agreed to a trade deal under which Washington will slash its tariff on Indian goods to 18 per cent from the current 50 per cent in exchange for New Delhi halting Russian oil purchases and lowering trade barriers, US President Donald Trump said. The […]
PM BRIEFS NDA MPs ON INDIA-US TRADE DEAL
NEW DELHI,3 Feb 2026 : In a closed-door meeting of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) parliamentary party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke about the implications of the newly announced India-US trade deal, sources said. The session, held amid ongoing parliamentary proceedings, saw PM Modi urge MPs to engage actively in legislative debates and to communicate […]
“AMERICAN COLONY?”: OPPOSITION SLAMS MODI GOVT ON US-INDIA TRADE DEAL
NEW DELHI,3 Feb 2026 : The Congress on Tuesday criticised the Narendra Modi-led BJP government for the trade deal struck with the United States on Monday, calling on the government to take the country into confidence about the deal’s details. United States President Donald Trump announced a “trade deal” with India on Monday after speaking […]
MAMATA TO APPEAR BEFORE SUPREME COURT ON FEB 4 IF SIR CASE IS LISTED
NEW DELHI,3 Feb 2026 : West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee is expected to appear before the Supreme Court on February 4 for the hearing of her petition challenging the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state, sources said. According to sources, Banerjee is expected to attend the […]
INDIA’S BUDGET RUNS A PLAYBOOK THAT KEYNES WROTE IN 1933
NEW DELHI,2 Feb 2026 : Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s union budget presented on Sunday runs a manufacturing playbook that Keynes wrote in 1933. Liberal economists hated that ‘Self-sufficiency’ essay. India just budgeted ₹12 lakh crore on it. They’re just not calling it that. Economist John Mynard Keynes had developed a macroeconomic theory in 1930s arguing […]
MAMATA MOVES SC AGAINST REVISION OF ELECTORAL ROLLS
NEW DELHI,2 Feb 2026 : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has taken her battle against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to the highest court, filing a personal writ petition in the Supreme Court on Sunday. The move marks a dramatic escalation in the standoff between the Trinamool Congress-led state […]
RAHUL CLASHES WITH DEFENCE MINISTER ON EX-ARMY CHIEF’S BOOK ON LADAKH STAND-OFF
NEW DELHI2 Feb 2026 : As soon as Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi began quoting from former Army chief’s book on the Ladakh stand-off, a swift interjection followed from Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who objected to it. Rahul began his reply to motion of thanks to the President’s address by holding out a magazine article on […]
MARKETS FIRST: MODI 3.0 BUDGET SIGNALS REFORM PUSH
NEW DELHI,31 Jan 2026 : The second General Budget of the Modi government’s third term is shaping up less as a welfare-heavy political document and more as a market-calibrated economic statement, reflecting the administration’s urgency to steady growth in an increasingly hostile global environment Faced with an escalating US-led trade and tariff confrontation, weakening foreign […]
MIRA NAIR, MOTHER OF NEW YORK MAYOR MAMDANI, MENTIONED IN EPSTEIN FILES
NEW DELHI, 31 Jan 2026 : New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mother, Mira Nair, attended an afterparty at convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s house for her 2009 film “Amelia”, reveals a new set of Epstein files. The US Justice Department on Friday released over three million pages of documents, including 2,000 videos and 1,80,000 […]
AJIT PAWAR’S WIDOW SUNETRA TO BE DEPUTY CM
NEW DELHI,31 Jan 2026 : Sunetra Pawar, widow of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, is set to step into her husband’s massive shoes after he died in a plane crash on Wednesday morning. The decision was taken by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Pawar family was not consulted, said Ajit Pawar’s uncle […]
