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The Securities and Exchange Board of India’s clean chit to the Adani Group over allegations raised by the Hindenburg report has hardly surprised anyone who has followed the regulator’s history. For decades, SEBI has functioned less like an independent watchdog and more as an extension of the Establishment, sensitive to the political and corporate hierarchies that shape the Indian economy.

Given the significant discrepancies in job descriptions across nations, the Government of India and the International Labour Organization (ILO) have signed an agreement on 16 September to fund a feasibility study on an international classification of occupations based on skill and qualification requirements.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala has decided to strongly oppose the Election Commission’s move to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the State. As a first step to protest against the EC’s decision, the State Assembly will pass a unanimous resolution against the rolls revision.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to avoid confronting United States President Donald Trump, while the former real-estate developer with business interests worldwide including in India, harasses India with stupidly high tariffs and now by horrendously increasing the H-1B visa fee. Instead, PM Modi's response was as follows: "Our real enemy is 'dependence', we've to be atmanirbhar".

LUCKNOW: There is no doubt that Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan plays a larger-than-life role in Muslim politics of Uttar Pradesh.

The Twenty-Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of India will convene in Chandigarh from September 21, 2025, at Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy Nagar (Kisan Bhawan). We gather at a moment of extraordinary circumstances. Punjab is reeling under devastating floods. Fields are submerged, homes are damaged, and livelihoods are disrupted. Yet, our comrades in Punjab rise to the occasion with remarkable determination, hosting this Congress with warmth, discipline and revolutionary enthusiasm. Their spirit embodies the resilience of the Left—the certainty that no flood or calamity can drown the collective will of comrades bound by the ideals of justice and equality.

For quite some time now, India heard the Congress’s and BJP’s points-counterpoints on saving Indian democracy in their own way. Congress alleged that the ruling BJP establishment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi not only undermined the Election Commission of India (ECI) as an institution but also used it as a tool. BJP on the other hand says that ECI was used as a tool by Congress led governments in the past, and their leader Rahul Gandhi is now delegitimizing Indian democracy by alleging ECI conspiring with BJP in “vote theft”.

The Reserve Bank of India has a limit of 15 per cent on ownership by non-residents of the equity of an Indian bank, a limit that is augmentable on a case-to-case basis but remains on the statute books to this date. And yet in 2018, the Mauritius-based Holding Company of the Canadian company Fairfax was allowed to purchase 51 per cent of the equity of the Catholic Syrian Bank of Kerala. Neither the central government, nor the Reserve Bank has explained why the 15 per cent limit was violated in 2018, while in the year 1994 (within the neo-liberal period itself) the attempt made by the Thailand based S S Chauwala group to acquire control over 34 per cent of the equity of the same bank was, quite rightly, rejected.

When the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) released its State Finances 2022–23 report, the numbers confirmed what many economists have long feared: India’s states are not just borrowing, they are borrowing badly. The façade of buoyant Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections has concealed deep imbalances in state budgets. Behind every headline of fiscal buoyancy lies a sobering truth — subsidies, salaries and political giveaways are swallowing tax revenues, leaving little for the capital investments that actually fuel growth.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at his hydrogen bomb presser made a mention of Gen Z and since then there's talk that Gandhi was thinking of Nepal and the Nepalese Gen Z overthrowing the Nepalese government, wishing aloud his frustration of not being able to win his way to 7, Lok Kalyan Marg through elections.