Centre urges Bengal farmers to reduce use of chemical fertilisers

IANS | November 10, 2026 6:48 PM

Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) As part of the nationwide Khet Bachao Abhiyan to promote natural farming, the Minister of State (MoS) for Agriculture, Ram Nath Thakur, on Tuesday participated in a programme organised by the ICAR-National Institute of Natural Fibre Engineering and Technology (ICAR-NINFET) at Subhasnagar in Swarupnagar block of West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.

India's economic transformation is more than a manufacturing story

Vivek Y. Kelkar | November 10, 2026 6:32 PM

New Delhi, Nov 10: An assessment of Narendra Modi's 25 years in public office, published by The Economist in October, raised a familiar criticism. India has grown rapidly but has failed to achieve the structural transformation necessary to become a major manufacturing economy. The Economist’s comparison with China's Fujian province, particularly the movement of workers out of agriculture, risks measuring India's economic transformation too narrowly, overlooking changes in productive capabilities, infrastructure, technology and the country's position in a fragmenting global economy.

Mid-term elections internal matter of United States: MEA

IANS | November 10, 2026 6:17 PM

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday that the mid-term elections are an "internal matter" of the United States (US) and underlined that India-US ties enjoy bipartisan support in Washington.

'Dimagi Naxals' next on govt target, Kiren Rijiju tells Rahul Gandhi

IANS | November 10, 2026 6:13 PM

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Taking aim at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for eliminating Naxalism and warned the opposition leaders that days of "Dimagi Naxals" are also numbered.

No mention of Bofors scandal: BJP's swipe over Sonia's memoir

IANS | November 10, 2026 5:57 PM

New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Amid the escalating political storm over a gamut of revelations in former Congress President Sonia Gandhi's memoir, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took a swipe at the party brass questioning its corruption and vote-bank driven politics and also silence over the Bofors scandal that kept haunting the grand old party, even decades later, after it unfolded way back in the late 1980s.