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An introspection of foreign direct investment flow in India reveals that FDI fell on the lowest ebb in 2023-24 within 5 years. This is despite the fact that country achieved one of the highest growth in the economy. It dropped to US$ 44,423 million in 2023-24, from US $ 59,636 million in 2020-21. This is in contrast to spur in GDP growth, viz, 9.4 per cent in 2021-22, 6.7 percent in 2022-23 and 7.2 percent in 2023-24.

If winning the assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand is crucial for the political survival of Narendra Modi, the electoral victory in these two states has wider connotation for the RSS, as it would reinvent the philosophical importance of its politics of Hindutva and reaching to its destination of turning India into a Hindu Rashtra.

With less than three weeks to go before November 13 when six Assembly segments will witness by-elections in West Bengal, the principal Opposition outfit BJP does not seem to have got its act together yet though they are contesting in all six constituencies. It applies equally to Left Front and the Congress as these Opposition outfits with no member in the assembly, condemned the incident of rape and murder of the woman doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in one voice thereby bringing themselves to the public eye as big supporters of the 71 day old doctors movement in the state.

Recently, the Indian government's Department of Consumer Affairs announced that 1600 metric tons of onions procured by the National Cooperative Consumers Federation of India Ltd was shipped by the railway from Nashik to Delhi. The quantity of 42 BCN (Bogie Covered New) was enough to fill 53 trucks. The initiative was taken under the price stabilisation fund, and it's the first time that onions were transported in bulk by railway under this programme. The shipment was expected to reach Delhi on October 20 and be released in Delhi-NCR, increasing the availability of onions in the market and stabilising the price in the festive season.

Recent unveiling of a changed Lady Justice statue in the Supreme Court of India by the Chief Justice of India Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, traditionally depicted with a blind fold and a sword, now opens with eyes wide open, holding the Constitution of India in place of a sword. However, the scale of justice remains as usual. While inaugurating it, Justice Chandrachud said, “Law is not blind. Justice sees everybody equally," critics see in it a linkage with RSS ideology.

Successive pronouncements by the Supreme Court have revealed a growing judicial sense against the potential for abuse in the draconian anti- money laundering laws. This has an important bearing on the pending petitions for the review of the apex courts verdict in the 2022 verdict by a three-member bench upholding all the provisions of the controversial Prevention of Money Laundering Act.

In 2019, M.K. Ranjitsinh Jhala, the renowned wildlife conservationist, joined hands with other conservationists to file a writ petition before the Supreme Court of India (SC) against the government of India regarding the protection of the great Indian bustard. They argued that the overhead transmission lines used for the supply of electricity generated through wind and solar energy resulted in the loss of the population of the great Indian bustard in Gujarat and Rajasthan.

People of India’s National Capital Delhi rose to see the city covered is such a suffocating thick layer of smog that almost all weather-monitoring stations fell into red zone in the morning on October 23, 2024. With it more areas moved into severe level of air pollution. By noon, the Supreme Court of India pulled up Centre for framing ‘toothless’ environmental laws, apart from criticizing Haryana and Punjab for failing to control stubble burning, one of the chief causes of yearly worsening of air pollution in Delhi.

KOLKATA: “We have no inhibition in socialising over a bowl of soup or a cup of tea or coffee; but thereafter it is ‘thus far and no further for us’. We have our long-standing demands and we are firm on pursuing those”, important Kuki and Naga leaders told IPA when asked about the meeting the Union home ministry held in New Delhi on Tuesday, October 15 with Manipur MLAs representing the Kuki-Zo-Hmar, Meitei and Naga communities in the strife-torn state. The brief statement of the ministry on the meeting called it a quest for peace but it was very economical on details. The statement was silent on the absence of chief minister N Biren Singh from the meeting.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin wants eligible Tamilians to have larger families. He said he was speaking in jest, but such childish jokes don't draw genuine laughter. Who is Stalin to offer unsolicited advice, asking "why not have 16 children"? He wasn't alone, his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Chandrababu Naidu spoke first, saying couples having more children will be rewarded.