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The consistent undermining of multilateralism by the U.S. must be countered This week has seen rounds of tit-for-tat tariffs between the U.S. and China, set off by U.S. President Donald Trump levying import duties of 25% and 10% on American steel and aluminium imports, respectively, in early March. Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly used the U.S. [...]

India is set to emerge as the world’s fifth largest economy by overtaking Britain and France, a report by a global forecaster showed on Tuesday.And, India will emerge as the world’s third largest economy by 2027, the report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) said. “The World Economic League Table shows that despite temporary setbacks from [...]

Making triple talaq a criminal offence is unnecessary: The Centre’s proposal to make instant triple talaq an offence punishable with three-year imprisonment and a fine is an unnecessary attempt to convert a civil wrong into a criminal act. By a three-two majority, the Supreme Court has already declared, and correctly, that the practice of talaq-e-biddat, or instant [...]

Weighing about 5,854 kg, the GSAT-11, built by ISRO, is to enable much faster Internet services than now to users down home over the next 15 years. As most of India slept, its heaviest and most advanced communication satellite, GSAT-11, was shot to space from a European spaceport in faraway South America.The mission of the [...]

Dr Aditi Sen De is the only female winner this year On the occasion of its foundation day, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.(CSIR) has put out the list of recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for 2018. Every year, several scientists below the age of 45 are selected from various institutions across the country and [...]

Why the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is so contentious in the Northeast What is the Bill about? More than 33 years after an anti-foreigners’ agitation from 1979 to 1985, Assam is in turmoil again — this time because of the Modi government’s bid to get the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 passed in Parliament. Assam and the [...]

NACO’s HIV Estimations 2017 report shows there are still 21.4 lakh infected people in India India’s long battle against AIDS is not likely to end any time soon, if the latest figures released by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) on Friday is any indication. The data revealed that, as of 2017, there were still [...]

Report : Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways released the annual report on road accidents in India. Which shows a daily average of 1,280 road crashes and 415 deaths. This translates into 53 crashes and the loss of 17 lives every hour. Road traffic injuries constitute the eighth [...]

The upcoming budget for the Chicago Public Schools will rely on $500 million in yet-to-be-enacted pension savings by Illinois, school officials said on Monday.