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Leaders of the group of emerging economies, BRICS, are meeting in Goa and India being the host country has rightly planned and outreach programme with the leaders of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral and Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC). The initiative of inviting regional leaders for outreach programme began with South Africa in the 5th BRICS summit, followed by Brazil by inviting Latin American leaders in the next summit and subsequently Russia invited leaders of SCO and Eurasian Union at Ufa summit. The practice has given an unique opportunity to the leaders of BRICS that constitute Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa and represent four continents to interact with regional leaders of the host country.

The Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) 2016 to facilitate those opt to file declarations under it that was in vogue for four months from July to September 2016, as announced in the 2016-17 Budget by the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, fetched Rs 65,250 crore. The Finance Ministry has said that 64,275 people have declared black money, availing of the opportunity with the average amount of black income per declaration being at about one crore of rupees.

How long will Akhilesh Yadav accept the humiliation meted out to him by his father and uncle ? Or does he have a plan up his sleeve?

Despite a lot of publicity of India’s so-called ‘look east’ policy originally framed by the UPA government almost 12 years ago and pursued more seriously by the Narendra Modi-led NDA government since 2014, the country’s east still appears to be the least visible in India’s radar of economic and political diplomacy. The policy seems to have rather enthused the People’s Republic of China to expand its strategic presence in the whole of the region located in India’s immediate east – Bangladesh and Myanmar, in particular.

Road and river connectivity between India and Bangladesh has increased steadily following recent transit agreements and border trade is expected to increase substantially, according to West Bengal-based exporters.

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.