Indian forces have killed the Maoist rebel chief and dozens of other fighters, the country’s home minister says, calling it a decisive blow in a decades-long conflict. India has been waging an all-out offensive against the last remaining groups of the Naxalite rebellion, a far-left Maoist-inspired fighting movement that began in 1967. Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah announced on Wednesday that Nambala Keshav Rao, alias Basavaraju, was among 27 rebels killed by security forces in central India’s Chhattisgarh state. Shah identified Rao as the general-secretary of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist group and the “topmost leader and the backbone” of the…
Usama Nisar
India overtakes Japan to become the fourth largest economy in the world, Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam has said. Subrahmanyam says the overall geopolitical and economic environment is favourable to India. “We are the fourth largest economy as I speak. We are a USD 4 trillion economy as I speak,” he said. Citing International Monetary Fund (IMF) data, Subrahmanyam said, India today is larger than Japan. Till 2024, India was the fifth-largest economy in the world. “It is only the US, China and Germany which are larger than India, and if we stick to what is being planned and what is…