Arul Louis(IANS)- There may be a golden lining for India in the dark clouds of the tariff war waged by US President Donald Trump against China, and it is likely to increase its exports by as much as $11 billion if the proposed tariffs go into effect next month, according to the UN’s trade […]
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Tesla CFO Deepak Ahuja quits, shares tank
IANS – After Tesla reported $139 million profit for the fourth quarter of 2018, generating a record $7.2 billion in revenue, its Founder and CEO Elon Musk dropped a bomb, saying the company’s Indian-origin Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja will be retiring. In an earnings call with analysts late Wednesday, Musk said that Ahuja’s […]
3 international organisations concur India’s economy world’s fastest growing
Arul Louis(IANS) – Three international organizations have endorsed India’s growth story recognizing it as the world’s fastest growing major economy for this and the next three years and in two reports raised some of their earlier projections. On Monday, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) report released in Davos estimated India’s gross domestic product growth […]
Indian American Congressman backs Trump on Afghan pullout
indica News Bureau – Indian American Congressman Ro Khanna has supported President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out troops from war-ravaged Afghanistan – a latest in series of abrupt changes to US military policy. “I support a responsible withdrawal of American military forces in Afghanistan. If we hope to end the security challenge posed […]
Parliamentary democracy holds back India
Justice Markandey Katju theprint.in has published Kumar Ketkar’s article ‘In Modi era intellectuals confess they are confused. My response is, one, almost all Indian ‘intellectuals,’ including professors in universities, mediapersons, writers, etc are pseudo-intellectuals who are puffed up with arrogance and bookish, sterile knowledge, which is no knowledge at all. No wonder they are confused. Two, there is no confusion […]
‘India, Pak must reunite under a secular govt’
Justice Markandey Katju India and Pakistan have been one country since Mughal times, and we share the same culture. When I meet Pakistanis I feel no different from them. We look like each other, we speak the same language, Hindustani, we have the same food habits, the common love for Urdu literature, etc. Indians and […]
Quake-hit Nepalis may be forced to return home
The Trump administration considers a plan to end their Temporary Protected Status Ritu Jha It was an earthquake that drove them out. But the Trump administration could drive them back. Thousands of Nepali immigrants in the US who came over after the devastating earthquake of April 25, 2015, may have to return […]