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PM Narendra Modi led BJP government in India, and BJP led governments in the states are now tabling “Developed India”, “Developed Delhi”, “Developed Madhya Pradesh” etc budgets as hypnotizing technique, to make people believe that the country has actually developed under their rule. Deception is being spread, the latest example being, with such headline as “India’s 100 per cent GDP growth in 10 years stuns the world.” It is a hype, to politically benefit the ruling establishment by concealing the stark realities that India is still housing the largest number of poor in the world, and GDP growth rate is heavily benefiting handful of the rich and impoverishing majority of the people resulting in stark increase in inequality level placing India the 7th worst country in the world with wealth inequality.

March 30 is going to be the momentous day in the lifecycle of the RSS. On this day the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat would not only be meeting his ostensible bete noire Narendra Modi to sort out the issue of selection of the future president of the BJP, but on the same day he would also be mediating between Modi and his die hard enemy, senior RSS leader, Sanjay Joshi to resolve their decades old animosity.

The Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development, Better known as the OECD, has produced its global debt survey for 2025, which paints a rather grim picture of overall indebtedness of countries across the development and income spectrum.

What is ‘Saugat-e-Modi’? The literal translation is 'Modi's Gift'. It’s a gift scheme for members of "minority communities" during this festive season, even if it sounds like unmistaken "Muslim appeasement." Dig a little deeper and ‘Saugat-e-Modi’ is cultivating the Modi Cult and the question should be asked, "Who is paying for 'Saugat-e-Modi'?"

Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province in terms of area has been rocked by multiple massive attacks recently. These attacks by Baloch insurgents, especially the attack on the Jaffar Express by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) have raised a very valid question: Is the Pakistani Army really in control of Balochistan?

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge is adamant that nobody (does “nobody” include Congress?) can “change the Constitution drafted by Babasaheb Ambedkar” and that nobody "can finish reservation" either. The question then boils down to can anybody give Muslims reservation, i.e., reservation on the basis of religion?

The total GDP loss due to climate change under median climate change scenario in 2070 is found to be 16.9% in Asia and the Pacific, with all economies experiencing losses. Changes are in GDP are most pronounced in Bangladesh (-30.5%), Viet Nam (-30.2%), Indonesia (-26.8%), India (-24.7%), Rest of Southeast Asia (-23.4%), Higher Income Southeast Asia (-22.0%), and Pakistan (-21.1%).

KOLKATA: With international assistance to Bangladesh on account of its feeding and sheltering a million Rohingyas to be sharply reduced from next month (April), Bangladeshi interim caretaker regime is lobbying hard to secure more help from abroad.

NEW YORK: In a big win for senior citizens, federal workers, and anyone else Social Security covers or who pays payroll taxes, a federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., tossed Elon Musk—Donald Trump’s puppeteer—and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency out of Social Security’s offices and its files. Thousands also marched in 150 cities across the country yesterday demanding an end to Trump efforts to privatize the U.S. Postal Service.

NEW YORK: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has never faced a revolt like this before. The broad left has never pulled its punches when it comes to the eight-term senator, suspicious of his Wall Street ties and unhappy with willingness to strike deals with Donald Trump. But it’s not the Left that Schumer has to worry about these days. Over the past week, Schumer has faced an unprecedented barrage of often public criticism and rebuke from within his own party, longtime Democratic loyalists, and party-aligned media outlets.