Cabinet also decides to relax the current FDI norms for single-brand retail and ease sourcing norms, apart from clearing a proposal for 75 new medical colleges.
African development is key to a stable world. For if it remains underdeveloped, Africa, with its exploding impoverished population, will fall prey to climate disasters and wars.
India’s industrial output growth saw a 10-month low in June, with Index of Industrial Production (IIP) growing by mere 1.5% as against 1.9% in May 2025.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
We all saw the two kids near their dad’s funeral pyre. Rahul will always have my sympathy, but he’s an idiot and he knows it too! Let him retire and be happy away from all the political nonsense and treachery.
It may sound fanciful for a party with fifty MPs, but perhaps the Congress needs a shadow Cabinet. Assigning responsibility for ten or so important portfolios to knowledgeable people, a few of whom may have failed to get elected. On issues of significance, there should be a clearly enunciated Congress position, formulated after internal consultations. The party has members who have held senior positions in government, there is no talent crunch. These are resources Shri Rahul Gandhi should tap into, before commenting publicly on sensitive issues. On a lighter note, the messaging should be, They have the lamp posts but we have the tube lights …
Bite the bullet, not merely marshmallows. 100% FDI in multi brand retail. Allow the world’s largest firms to buy directly from Indian farmers, process or market his produce. Consider how much FDI has actually come to the defence sector in the last five years, leaving us over dependent on imports. 2. Instead of pitching for reforms, a new narrative – I know The Print does not love this word – is being created over how 5% is the new normal, how high growth is no longer even a political / electoral imperative.
We all saw the two kids near their dad’s funeral pyre. Rahul will always have my sympathy, but he’s an idiot and he knows it too! Let him retire and be happy away from all the political nonsense and treachery.
It may sound fanciful for a party with fifty MPs, but perhaps the Congress needs a shadow Cabinet. Assigning responsibility for ten or so important portfolios to knowledgeable people, a few of whom may have failed to get elected. On issues of significance, there should be a clearly enunciated Congress position, formulated after internal consultations. The party has members who have held senior positions in government, there is no talent crunch. These are resources Shri Rahul Gandhi should tap into, before commenting publicly on sensitive issues. On a lighter note, the messaging should be, They have the lamp posts but we have the tube lights …
Bite the bullet, not merely marshmallows. 100% FDI in multi brand retail. Allow the world’s largest firms to buy directly from Indian farmers, process or market his produce. Consider how much FDI has actually come to the defence sector in the last five years, leaving us over dependent on imports. 2. Instead of pitching for reforms, a new narrative – I know The Print does not love this word – is being created over how 5% is the new normal, how high growth is no longer even a political / electoral imperative.