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The successful surgical operation in terrorists’ camps across the borders in Pakistan has suddenly boosted the plummeting stock of the BJP. The general perception among people is that this is, perhaps, for the first time, that Indian forces went inside an enemy country, destroyed the militants shelters and training camps. Initially, the Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the government’s bold step. The Congress, however, claimed that such strikes had taken place when Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister, and the only difference was that it was not publicized at that time and kept a secret.

NEW DELHI: In a significant development towards digitization of non-corporate sector, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) at a Conference held here launched a wider forum 'Alliance for Digital Bharat' consisting of national organisations of traders, transporters, farmers, truck operators, SMEs, consumers, self-employed groups, women entrepreneurs & other verticals of non-corporate sector.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu's most charismatic leader, with an overwhelming renewed mandate in 2016, Chief Minister Ms. Jayalalithaa (68) has been hospitalised for over two weeks now, and imprecise information on her ailment has kept the state in tenter-hooks.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It does not pay to be too clever by half in politics. This is the bitter lesson the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) has learned from its failed agitation on the self-financing medical colleges fees issue. The Opposition’s determined attempt to extract huge political capital out of the issue came a cropper thanks to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who outsmarted the Congress-led Opposition.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party is facing worst ever crisis in the party ever since family battles started in Mulayam Singh Yadav family involving his brothers and chief minister son Akhilesh Yadav.

In a surprise revelation, a Chinese daily Global Times rang an alarm bell of a threat to Chinese manufacturing due to Make in India drive. It portended loss of job opportunities in China owing to Make in India drive. The recent decision of Chinese largest telecom company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to set up smart phone manufacturing plant in India irked the Chinese daily. It beaconed that China would be losing competitive edge as global workshop and forecasted India to be on the way to become the world’s new hub for manufacturing. It is irony that while a foreign media, and particularly a Chinese media, lauded the Make in India drive, the domestic media and think tanks are embroiled in dichotomy.

The monetary policy of the new governor of the Reserve Bank of India turned out to be a kind of a damp squib. One really missed the flair of the immediate past governor, Raghuram Rajan. There was no free-wheeling discussion or an opening tour de force statement.

India’s surgical operation in Pakistan occupied Kashmir has boosted the personal image of the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, but it has also given rise to controversy about the real intention of Modi and his government in over playing this sensitive issue.

BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Government is now determined to launch yet another bid to attract investors, entrepreneurs, corporate partners, and venture capitalists to its fifth annual Global Investor Summit scheduled in Indore on October 22 and 23, 2016. The theme of the summit would be 'Make in Madhya Pradesh'. The summit will unveil a more liberal and favourable investment policy, hoping the response will be better. The conference will host a large number of presentations from different departments to build the next generation of tech and infrastructure giants in the State.

NEW DELHI: With less than a week left for the holding of the India-Russia bilateral summit at Goa on October 15 coinciding with the BRICS meeting, hectic negotiations are on to open up a new chapter in energy relationship between India and Russia taking into account the potential of both the economies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is understood to have given green signal to the long pending Russian proposal for an energy bridge between two countries comprising among others the setting up of a gas supply pipeline.