Why can't the Indian government propose to the Chinese a corridor circumambulating the Holy Mountain where people from both sides could perform the yatra again? asks Claude Arpi. IMAGE: India's......
A freebie once granted can hardly be discontinued. All that can happen is to substitute it with a bigger freebie, notes A K Bhattacharya. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra D Modi presents a cheque to......
The government needs to answer the critical question of whether it has accepted any restrictions on its infrastructure creation activities, asserts Ajai Shukla. Photograph: @adgpi/X In May and......
The House of Representatives approved a $95.3 billion foreign-aid package for Ukraine, Israel, and other American allies on Saturday. IMAGE: US President Joe Biden departs St Joseph on the......
Acknowledging Israel's right to self-defence in the face of Hamas' attacks of "unprecedented brutality," Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasised the "creation of an independent Palestine state......
The Federal Reserve's gradual exit plan from printing money has shifted the world's central bank landscape and thrown financial markets into a spin. The US central bank has pumped $85 billion a......
The Chinese authority hasn’t entirely sold its stake but just trimmed it below 1 per cent. Stock exchange shareholding disclosure captures names of public shareholders who own more than 1 per......
Gold prices slumped for the second straight session by Rs 1,150 to Rs 78,350 per 10 grams in the national capital on Monday on frantic selling by stockists and retailers, the All India Sarafa......
The Chinese central bank has increased its stake in mortgage lender HDFC Ltd to over 1 per cent at the end of the March quarter, as per statutory disclosures. People's Bank of China's holding......
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was a net seller of the US dollar in August, reversing its net buying position from July. Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters During the current financial year up......