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New Zonal Manager of LIC

J S Tolia has taken charge as the new zonal manager in charge, LIC of India, Eastern Zone. Mr Tolia Joined LIC in 1989 as direct recruit officer.

The true cost of what we buy

Every year, India sees the launch of over 1,000 new retail brands, adding to millions of brands globally. Each brand, on average, creates approximately 1,000 new styles annually, with about 30 per cent of old stock often ending up as waste.

CS Anuj Saraswat assumes role as chairman

New office bearers of the Eastern India Regional Council of ICSI elected for the year 2025 are CS Bishal Harlalka, vice chairman, CS Satish Kumar, secretary and CS Santosh Kumar, treasurer.

Dhaka factor in Indo-US ties

This threat created an unprecedented political maelstrom in Bangladesh and pulled out many forces from dormancy, including radical Islamic outfits which nearly turned the Muslimmajority nation of 165 million Bengalis into a new Afghanistan merely a decade ago.

Indo-Pak ties

A commentary in Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper notes “Today, the power imbalance between Pakistan and India has rendered Pakistan almost irrelevant in India’s strategic calculus. A failing, fragmented state ~ if not a ‘twice failed state,’ as former diplomat Ashraf Jahangir Qazi puts it, begging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the revival of its deal is hardly a threat anymore to a rising giant like India.”