Daily Briefing: It’s Trump’s town now

‘Liquid gold’: Trump made 1 happening clear: “We volition drill, baby, drill”. The President has vowed to ramp up America’s lipid and state production, depletion and exports. This tin beryllium bully quality for India, which depends connected crude lipid and state imports to conscionable its vigor needs. Trump’s determination tin bring down planetary lipid prices. Realistically, the incoming medication would privation to settee for a balanced planetary lipid marketplace to support accumulation viable for American producers arsenic well.

‘Tax’ing times: After months of tariff threats, Trump has seemingly opted for a much measured approach. He did not instantly hike tariffs connected long-standing trading partners similar Canada, Mexico, oregon adjacent India, which helium erstwhile dubbed “tariff king”. However, helium kept the sword hanging with plans to overhaul the commercialized system. Trump’s medication volition besides found an “external gross service” to cod tariffs from overseas countries exporting goods to America.

Delhi’s challenge: While India’s ties with the US person been connected an upward trajectory implicit the past 2 decades, it indispensable present hole to woody with a transactional Trump, who wants to enactment America first. Read our contributing editor, C Raja Mohan’s analysis.

Also read: Fears of a Trump presidency are greatly exaggerated — by Sanjaya Baru

On that note, here’s what other we person for you today.

Only successful Express

The residents of Hyderabad are fed up with onshore grabbers and encroachers. So far, seeking remedy has meant trips to gross officials and aggregate constabulary stations. But there’s a caller kid connected the block. Hyderabad has acceptable up a one-of-its-kind constabulary presumption exclusively to support lakes, parks, unfastened lung spaces, authorities onshore and different assets successful the authorities capital. Under the nonstop supervision of the Chief Minister and the arguable Hyderabad Disaster Response and Asset Protection Agency (HYDRAA), the constabulary presumption is definite to invitation Opposition scrutiny. The Indian Express took a sneak peek inside its functioning.

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Delay: Local assemblage elections person been owed since January 2034 successful Jammu and Kashmir. What is the hold-up? The caller dispensation nether Omar Abdullah insists connected restoring statehood earlier these elections are held.

All set: Uttarakhand is acceptable to go the archetypal authorities to rotation retired a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) aft the authorities furniture approved the manual of rules connected Monday. The codification sets guidelines for live-in relationships, marriages, divorces and succession. It besides introduces a state-of-the-art portal for citizens’ ease.

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Capital case: Many were disappointed aft a sessions tribunal successful Kolkata sentenced Sanjoy Roy to beingness imprisonment. It wasn’t a “rarest of rare” case, the tribunal declared portion denying superior punishment to the antheral convicted of the rape and execution of a doc astatine RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. But what makes a transgression the “rarest of rare”? Well, there’s an exhaustive database of “aggravating” and “mitigating” circumstances laid down by the Supreme Court. The communicative is not implicit yet. CM Mamata Banerjee has promised an appeal successful the High Court.

🎧 For much connected the RG Kar lawsuit verdict, tune successful to the latest occurrence of our ‘3 Things’ podcast.

Capital elections: Arvind Kejriwal has an representation problem. He is retired connected bail aft helium was jailed successful a wealth laundering case. The Bharatiya Janata Party doubled down with allegations of exorbitant expenditure astatine the CM’s residence. The upcoming Delhi elections could enactment Kejriwal and his enactment successful an existential crisis. Our contributing editor, Neerja Chowdhury, tells you what to ticker retired for in the conflict for the nationalist capital.

And Finally…

A drawstring of atrocious luck has struck Goa. Earlier, it was the allegations of declining footfall, outrageous prices and wide touting. The authorities blamed antagonistic publicity. Now, a caller “multi-crore scam” has travel to light. At slightest 500 tourists were conned by 4 persons who offered “non-existent” villas and different properties for rent connected online booking platforms. The bully quality is that the perpetrators person been caught, but tin Goa crook the tide?

That’s each for contiguous folks. Until tomorrow,
Sonal Gupta

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