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While until now, the Reserve Bank has maintained a more nuanced view of the current slow-down and tended to attribute it to cyclical factors, the fine print of RBI’s policy statement on Friday betray its concerns about the future.

The U.S. response to the Mideast crisis is not about protecting the world’s oil supply. It is to tighten control of the world’s oil supply, to protect profits for the U.S. oil monopolies, and to further control by U.S. global financial, military, and other corporations. This comes at the expense of the world’s working people, including those of the United States; it also comes at the expense of humanity’s future.

With the floods situation continuously getting grim, the future of Nitish Kumar as the chief minister of Bihar is at the stake. Even his close aides and friends interpret the intensity of floods as a warning sign for Nitish Kumar.

BHOPAL: Mystery shrouds the reasons behind frequent changes in the Special Investigation Team (SIT), constituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government to probe, what has come to be know as the ‘Honey trap case’. Within less than a week, the government has changed the head of the team twice, besides overhauling it. Initially, IGP Rajendra Kumar was appointed the head of the SIT. Within 24 hours, he was replaced by Sanjvee Shami, also of the IG rank. Six days later, he, too, was shunted out and Rajendra Kumar, an ADGP, took his place.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With the candidates of the three major political fronts filing their nominations, the state is set for an absorbing contest for the five Assembly by-elections from the State.

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court has allowed the Modi government’s review petition against the dilution of powers of arrest under the controversial SC-ST Act, which had caused disquiet across a wide spectrum, including the affected class. This had even led to a certain Dalit alienation from the BJP as it was felt that the ruling coalition was not doing enough or was late in its response. To that extent, the latest Supreme Court verdict must gladden the hearts of the saffron elements.

Charities have called on the British government to take urgent action on the homelessness crisis after a record number of people died on Britain’s streets last year.

The National Open Mass Convention of Workers held in New Delhi on September 30, 2019, decided to conduct extensive campaign for next three months amongst working people in all sectors of our economy formal & informal to make the call given from this convention for National wide General Strike on 08th January a grand success.

To state or assume that as the Prime Minister of India Narendra Damodardas Modi and the maiden speech of the first secretary of Indian mission at the United Nations Bidisha Moitra together edged out the PM of Pakistan Imran Khan Niazi at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in diplomatic duel reflects refusal to recognize the ground reality in the queer arena of international politics that is habitually volatile.

In many ways, it doesn’t really matter who—Houthis in Yemen? Iranians? Shiites in Iraq?—launched those missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia. Whoever did it changed the rules of the game, and not just in the Middle East. “It’s a moment when offense laps defense, when the strong have reason to fear the weak,” observes military historian Jack Radey.