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Indonesia is entering a critical test of its fiscal resilience. Beneath the government’s optimistic narrative of a stable economic growth rate of around 5% lies a structural anomaly carrying significant systemic risks. The accumulation of central government debt, now edging toward the psychological threshold of 10 quadrillion rupiah (US$572 billion), has pushed the country into a phase where the budgetary discipline long touted by policymakers is beginning to show serious cracks. Historically, Indonesia has been praised for adhering to the statutory fiscal deficit ceiling of 3%. Yet by 2026, the legitimacy of that praise is beginning to erode as financing…

NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu chief minister Thalapathy Vijay’s swearing-in ceremony triggered a controversy after the state song ‘Tamil Thaai Vaazhthu’ was relegated to third place after the National Song and National Anthem during the event.This raised eyebrows as government events in Tamil Nadu begin with the rendition of the state song and conclude with the National Anthem. Watch Vijay Faces Political Storm After Vande Mataram Played Before Tamil Thaai VaazhthuThis comes as the Union Cabinet approved a proposal to amend the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act to place ‘Vande Mataram’ on par with the national anthem ‘Jana Gana…

A Dutch expedition cruise ship, the MV Hondius, docked in Tenerife on Sunday after weeks adrift with three deaths and eight hantavirus cases on board. The strain involved is the Andes virus, the only hantavirus known to transmit between humans. The World Health Organization has called the cluster serious but assessed the global risk as low. A hantavirus scare is not a pandemic. That is precisely why it is useful. When a frightening pathogen surfaces, public conversation usually swings between panic and dismissal. Hantaviruses deserve neither. They can be deadly, but in most settings, they do not spread the way…

Representative image (PTI) NEW DELHI: Daily wage earners accounted for 31% of all suicide deaths in 2024, the highest share in a decade (2015–2024), according to the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data. A total of 52,910 daily wage earners died by suicide during the year, marking a sharp rise from the previous peak of 26.4% recorded in 2022.Casual labourers, a category that largely includes daily wage earners, constituted nearly one-fifth of and the biggest share of India’s total workforce. The total number of suicide deaths in the country rose to 1.7 lakh in 2024, compared with 1.34 lakh…

When President Donald Trump arrives in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the choreography will almost certainly be familiar: firm handshakes, oversized rhetoric, carefully calibrated symbolism and declarations about “historic” economic opportunities. But beneath the spectacle will lie a much more consequential reality for Asia. Trump’s return to office has not produced a coherent new Indo-Pacific doctrine so much as a louder, more transactional version of America’s existing strategic anxieties. Washington continues to frame China as its principal competitor, but increasingly through the language of tariffs, industrial rivalry and economic punishment rather than sustained alliance-building or…

NEW DELHI: The ministry of electronics and information technology on Monday refuted Congress’ claim that Instagram “blocked” Rahul Gandhi’s reel and photo with newly appointed Tamil Nadu chief minister Vijay, alleging that the ministry was actively restricting the voices of opposition leaders in the country.Sources told news agency ANI that the ministry had nothing to do with the action and that the platform’s internal system had mistakenly flagged the post for blocking.”It has been wrongly claimed by certain social media handles that certain posts of the LoP were restricted by MeitY. It is clarified that MeitY had nothing to do…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Investigators in California found evidence of possible human remains at a home connected to the man convicted of killing Kristin Smart, according to officials.In an earlier Facebook post, the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office said investigators executed a search warrant at a property on the 500 block of East Branch Street in Arroyo Grande on Wednesday, which is related to Smart’s disappearance and her convicted killer, Paul Flores. His mother, Susan Flores, occupies the home, according to public records and a podcast that first broke news about the search.”The San Luis…

NEW DELHI: BJP’s super-majority win in a string of assembly polls, capped by its maiden victory in West Bengal with over two-thirds seats, and its rising number in Rajya Sabha will all but allow the party to dictate terms in next year’s presidential election, after its loss of majority in Lok Sabha polls had raised doubts over its dominant run since 2014.Its overwhelming domination of assemblies with allies in big states, like Maharashtra, Bengal and Bihar – three assemblies with maximum weight among states after UP in the electoral college for president – will be effective in neutralising the loss…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Judge Tony Graf Jr. pushed accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing into July and rejected a bid to ban cameras from the courtroom, marking significant pretrial developments in the high-profile case.Graf moved the preliminary hearing to July 6 through July 10, and denied Robinson’s motion to ban cameras and electronic media from the courtroom, allowing continued media coverage as the case moves forward.The delay comes as both sides continue to receive and process a large and growing volume of evidence. Prosecutors told the court discovery is ongoing, including materials from…

The Indian Embassy in Spain on Sunday said the two Indian crew members onboard the hantavirus-hit Dutch cruise vessel MV Hondius are “healthy and asymptomatic” and have been evacuated to the Netherlands for quarantine under health safety protocols. In a statement, the embassy said the Dutch-flagged vessel carrying around 150 people, including two Indian nationals, had arrived in Spain after anchoring off the Canary Islands following the hantavirus outbreak onboard. “The 02 Indian nationals are healthy and asymptomatic. As informed by the Spanish National Center for Emergency Monitoring and Coordination (CENEM), the 02 Indian nationals who were travelling as crew…