-PTI * Mahathir said Malaysia may now need to find another solution after the boycott of its palm oil by Indian palm oil refiners and traders * India, the world's largest importer of vegetable oils, buys nearly 15 million tonnes annually KUALA LUMPUR: With India restricting the import of refined palm oil that has hit Malaysia, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Tuesday said he was concerned about it but that would not stop...

-Livemint.com * PM Modi allegedly stated that top pharma companies are bribing doctors to get ahead * Indian Medical Association asked for proof or an apology from the PM New Delhi: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking clarification over his alleged statement that top pharmaceutical companies bribe doctors with women, and said that Modi should apologise if his comments are based on unverified information. “IMA takes strong...

-Scroll.in The Assam NRC was not an anti-Muslim project. But an all-India NRC based on the NPR will allow the executive to pick whose citizenship it wishes to question. Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed to the people of India on Delhi’s historic Ramlila Grounds on December 22 that his government had never since 2014 even considered implementing a nation-wide National Indian Register of Citizens. But the NRC was part of the President’s...

-Business Today Brazil, a major sugarcane producer, has been against India's existing scheme to support sugarcane farmers claiming that it was beyond the permissible limits under the WTO regulations Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government's decision to invite Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro as the chief guest of India's Republic Day celebrations on January 26 has been criticised by All India Sugarcane Farmers' Federation (AISFF), an affiliate of CPIM's farmer body All India...

-The Hindu PM Modi must address the concerns about the CAA instead of misinterpreting them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, or CAA, 2019, intended only to grant citizenship to a certain class of people, and not to deny citizenship to anyone is factually accurate. But his extrapolation that hence the Act’s critics are misinformed is unfounded and misleading. The concern expressed by many is not that...