The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The Indian Government will file an affidavit in the Supreme Court today asking for work to progress on Sethusamudaram project. The Government is also planning to submit that ASI survey is not important. The government's turnaround will come as a major boost to DMK. DMK has been pushing for the …
The Union government is likely to go ahead with the contentious Sethusamudram Project. Sources disclose that the government will defend the project when the case comes up for hearing on Tuesday and will reply to petitions demanding that the Ram Sethu or the Adam's Bridge be declared as a national …
On April 11, the union cabinet gave the go-ahead to conservation authorities to sign an mou with international counterparts to protect the dugong and its habitat. Indian efforts to conserve this virtually unknown sea creature will get international recognition as a result. But this initiative has probably come too late. …
C. Jaishankar Work under way off Nagapattinam coast extremely satisfactory No dredging work in the north of Adam's Bridge Port in Rameswaram to come up at a cost of Rs.95 crore RAMANATHAPURAM: Dredging work of the Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project (SSCP), except in the north of Adam's Bridge area, will …
Rajeev Khanna Dehradun : The BJP has embarked upon a special programme to regain its hold over the Hindi belt. The party is galvanising its cadres in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha and Assembly elections. Senior party leader and Rajya Sabha member …
Those opposing it are anti-Tamil, says Union Minister Union Minister for Shipping, Road Transport and Highways T.R. Baalu (second from left) releasing a book on Sethusamudram project, written by Congress leader A. Gopanna (left) in Chennai on Friday. Also in the picture are Union Minister G.K. Vasan, Congress leader S.R. …
R.K. Radhakrishnan She answers criticisms against Karunanidhi and DMK government MAKING HER POINT: Kanimozhi, MP, addressing the DMK women's wing's first conference in Cuddalore on Sunday. CUDDALORE: After organising an impressive rally that lasted over five hours on Saturday, the DMK women's wing switched gears to debate on issues that …
FORGET his earlier controversial remarks on the existence of Lord Rama, atheist Karunanidhi went to the extent of naming the controversial Sethusamudiram Shipping Canal Project as
THE Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project will be implemented through the cordial relationship between the Centre and the state, said State Electricity Minister, Arcot N Veerasami, said today. Speaking at a function as a part of Chief Minister, M Karunanidhi's birthday bash, he said that the existing cordial relationship between the …
The Supreme Court has ordered the union government to "explore the possibility' of an alternative alignment (a route) for the Sethusamudram project and asked the Archaeological Survey of India to find out if Rama Setu was a man-made structure. The direction, which came on May 8, has given a respite …
On April 11, the union cabinet gave the go-ahead to conservation authorities to sign an mou with international counterparts to protect the dugong and its habitat. Indian efforts to conserve this virtually-unknown sea creature will get international recognition as a result. But this initiative has probably come too late. The …
A Sin hala scholar's remark that Mahendra, son of Emperor Asoka, reached the island nation by land from South India has further substantiated the existence of Ram Sethu, the controversial structure in the Indian Ocean. "Mahendra preached Buddhism in south India for some time before embarking on his Sri Lanka …
Accusing the US of having ill-inten tions of damaging India's rich thorium deposits and Union minister for shipping and roads T.R. Baalu of having personal interest in the Sethusamudram project, VHP supremo Ashok Singhal on Monday said, Ramsethu will be the "burning issue" in the coming general elections. He demanded …
Continuing his arguments in the Ramar Sethu case, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy told the Supreme Court on Thursday that the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project would not be economically viable and the whole economic calculation was a "fraud.' Justice Raveendran intervened and said, "Even if it is a foolish project …
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to explore the possibility of an alternative alignment or any other route for the Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project without damaging Ramar Sethu and to consider whether an archaeological study could be conducted to declare Ramar Sethu a national monument. Chief Justice K.G. …
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to consider conducting an archaeological survey to ascertain whether the Ram Sethu can be declared an ancient monument. The Supreme Court also wanted the government to explore the possibility of pushing the Sethusamudram project through other alignments which would not damage the …
The Sethusamudram Shipping Channel Project should be scrapped altogether if the government cannot proceed further without destroying Ramar Sethu (Adam's Bridge), Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy argued in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. "It is established and admitted by the respondents that a structure, that is natural or constructed and …
Fresh attempts on religious grounds to oppose the Sethusamudram project evoked sharp reactions from the Indian Supreme Court, which expressed its displeasure for calling
The BJP pushed the Sethusamudram project it now rails against. Government records reveal just how DARSHAN DESAI WHEN THE Bharatiya Janata Party hits the campaign trail for Assembly elections in 10 states this year and the Lok Sabha poll in 2009, its brand image might come to rest on the …
