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Middle-Class

Relief The Union Budget 2025-26 delivers a substantial tax break to India’s middle class, with the exemption threshold rising to Rs 12 lakh from Rs 7 lakh.

Tech Surge

For decades, the prevailing assumption in technology circles has been that the West, led by the United States, enjoys an unassailable dominance in advanced research and innovation.

Return of Oligarchs

Outgoing US President Joe Biden in his farewell address spoke of “dangerous concentration of power in the hands of very few ultra-wealthy people, and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power was left unchecked,” underlining threats to the institutions that govern American society by placement of plutocrats in bodies deciding public policy and the monopolistic control over personal data and misinformation campaigns by some wealthy individuals ~ which was shaping political discourse and public perception.

Verdict in Canada

The projected result will enable Trudeau to pursue the most left-leaning agenda the country has seen in at least a generation.

Prospect of implosion

A 2021 national survey by a leading US pollster found that as many as 46 per cent Americans believed a future civil war is likely

Hind Swaraj~I

During his return voyage to South Africa on board S.S. Kildonan Castle, Gandhi wrote his famous book entitled Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule ~ having about 30,000 words in Gujarati ~ on the steamer’s stationery within 10 days, in all 270 pages. He wrote at a feverish pitch, the pen racing across the page so quickly that the right hand grew tired, and about fifty pages were written with the left hand.

Dubai financing in Chandipur ITR espionage case: Odisha crime branch

The accused persons have been brought by the Crime Branch to its headquarters in Cuttack on a 7-day remand. The investigation has found a transfer of Rs 38,000 from Dubai. The amount was transferred to the account of one of the accused persons in two instalments, said Sanjeev Panda, Additional Director General of Police of the Crime Branch.