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After a brief interregnum, the embers of sectarianism have once again leapt to flames in the Kerala CPI(M).

Indian Rupee (INR) has once again slipped past 56 per US Dollar (USD), for the first time since September 2012. The foreign exchange market trend, which reflects the overall movement of the country’s key economic indicators, suggests that INR is likely to inch closer to 60 per USD before the next year’s scheduled Lok Sabha election.

UPA-II’s performance, somewhat negative overall, had not matched the promises it had made in 2009 though the electoral arithmetic then worked in its favour, significantly boosting the Congress, which characteristically lost itself in complacency in due course. No doubt, the Congress-led UPA had immediately to contend with a global downturn in the wake of the worst financial crisis in 2008 since the Great Depression, and stimulate the economy, as other emerging markets did as well, inevitably generating medium-term budgetary imbalances.

After the ouster of Ram Jethmalani from BJP, Congress spokesman Shakil Ahmad was quick to react that it was the first move against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi by the parliamentary board of the Party. Is he right or he is just enjoying the infighting of the saffron Party?

New Delhi: Following Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh’s visit to Japan and Thailand the country’s Defence Minister AK Antony is scheduled to make a three-nation official visit to strengthen defence and security ties with the countries in the region of east Indian Ocean and the Pacific.

New Delhi: A three-day regional conclave of Overseas India is slated to be held in Sydney in Australia from November 10, this year.

New Delhi: India is slated to give final operational to the indigenously developed fighter aircraft - LCA Tejas - by the end of next year.

BHOPAL: If at all the Bharatiya Janata Party emerges victorious in the Vidhan Sabha elections to be held in November this year in Madhya Pradesh, the credit will go to the social engineering, on which Shivraj Singh has been laying emphasis from the day he took over as the Chief Minister in September 2005.

India’s growth, hesitantly picking up, should gradually recover to 5.7 per cent in fiscal 2014, as efforts to speed up approvals of large investment projects and partial deregulation of FDI take effect, according to OECD’s half-yearly Economic Outlook. Structural factors besides inflationary pressures have impeded growth, which was at its weakest in a decade in 2012, estimated at 3.8 per cent at market prices and on a calendar year basis.

The developing economic and strategic alliance among four Pacific and Indian Ocean giants – Japan, the US, Australia and India – seems to be driving China mad. The communist country’s latest verbal attack through its mouthpiece, People’s Daily, against Japan and its democratically elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe, and calling him and the Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh, currently in Japan, “petty burglars” display its growing frustration and intolerance towards other Asian powers and nervous reaction to growing Indo-Japan strategic ties.