Author: Tirthankar Mitra

United States President Donald Trump has imposed 25 per cent tariff on India’s goods. The imposition will start from August 1 Trump cited India’s “high trade barriers” and purchase of arms from Russia in a message in his X-handle. India is a “friend”, the US President stated who has imposed some of the highest tariffs on United States and maintained “obnoxious” non-monetary trade barriers. Continuing in the same vein, Trump stated ” Remember, while India is our friend, we have over the years done relatively little business with them because their Tariffs are far too high among the highest in…

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Four decades and a couple of years have gone by since Uttam Kumar’s passing. And yet July 24, when he journeyed to the land of shadows remains a day of mourning among his fans, a tribe which is increasing though many in it were born years after his death.

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