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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicEconomic slowdown

Topic: economic slowdown

PM Modi ‘losing connection’ with economy and ‘lungi’ only for CMs, not truck drivers

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

V Katju on Trump’s Afghan policy, K Prasad on media in Kashmir & why bank mergers is wrong

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Modi govt’s blanket ban on plastics at this moment of economic slowdown is a bad idea

The single-use plastic ban is a disguised admission by the government that it has failed to put in place adequate garbage disposal mechanisms.

Car sales drop for the 10th month in a row, this time by a record 41%

The automobile sector is a key part of India's economy, employing millions of people directly or indirectly and contributing more than 7% to the GDP.

Truck drivers to contract engineers, lakhs are jobless in Gurgaon-Manesar auto hub

At Maruti, Hero, Honda facilities in the Gurugram-Manesar belt, young employees are being let go, others are worried they’ll follow.

Chidambaram won’t get bail under Modi rule. Everyone isn’t Salman Khan

It is the economy, stupid. Time Modi government listens to P. Chidambaram and Manmohan Singh.

Investors in Indian bonds should keep their eye on roads, not cars

Tax cuts for auto industry may cheer equity markets. Bond investors need to watch how much Modi govt can spend on roads, a high fiscal multiplier.

Cash crunch will worsen India’s bad loans mess, already the worst in the world

Failure to slash stressed assets, cash crunch in NBFCs, delays in bankruptcy process are adding to challenges faced by banks as they tidy up balance sheets.

Why people endorse Modi’s economic performance despite economic slowdown

We need to talk about the role of fake news and misinformation in Modi’s popularity.

On Camera

Zohran Mamdani’s New York win revives a forgotten history — of Gujarati Muslim cosmopolitanism

From Mughal ports to Dutch wars to Bombay’s merchant dynasties, Gujarati Muslims once shaped the Indian Ocean world — long before one of their descendants took New York.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.