Minhaz Merchant
@MinhazMerchant
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Biographer: Rajiv Gandhi, Aditya Birla. Ex-TOI, India Today. Founder: Sterling Newspapers Pvt Ltd, acquired by Indian Express Group. Jeejeebhoy physics scholar.
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Joined December 2008
This is the data my earlier post referred to.
India continues to be the fastest growing economy despite all the global headwinds Inflation reducing below 2% Good days for the economy Thanks to the govt for the focused efforts. @narendramodi @MinhazMerchant
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Killing animals, cooking them, eating them, causes more animal cruelty.
This TeamSaath page run by @sushant_says is posting that bursting firecrackers on Diwali causes animal cruelty And now look at their tweet on Eid. Sushant Singh is openly running anti-Hindu propaganda.
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Why do they build mosques on illegal land? Wasn’t demolishing thousands of temples during Mughal rule enough? Now wait for the wimp Hindu brigade to wring its hands & cry bulldozer justice
🚨 BIG ACTION! Yogi Adityanath’s administration DEMOLISHES an ILLEGAL mosque built just 150 meters from Kalki Dham in Sambhal. UP Police confirmed the structure stood on ENCROACHED park land.
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This is the data my earlier post referred to.
India continues to be the fastest growing economy despite all the global headwinds Inflation reducing below 2% Good days for the economy Thanks to the govt for the focused efforts. @narendramodi @MinhazMerchant
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India continues to be the fastest growing economy despite all the global headwinds Inflation reducing below 2% Good days for the economy Thanks to the govt for the focused efforts. @narendramodi @MinhazMerchant
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Dealing with China & the US. #Reup
#America faces long-term economic decline & China a future demographic catastrophe. Both see #India as an unwelcome interloper in the US-China duopoly & seek subtly to slow its rise. My @Openthemag column
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Thanks for forwarding the data. I believe IMF projections for #India are too conservative. India’s GDP growth in HY26 (April-Sept 2025) is already 7.5%. We should end FY26 near 7% not 6.4%. If trade issues are settled, FY27 could be 7-7.5%.
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It’s just as well PM Modi gave Trump’s Gaza peace summit a miss. Netanyahu didn’t go. Nor did China, Russia or Brazil. Pakistan PM Sharif’s treacle-laden speech managed to embarrass even Trump. @Utpal_Kumar1 dissects the pantomime that unfolded.
firstpost.com
Skipping the Gaza peace summit in Egypt was not a ‘missed opportunity’ but a diplomatic masterstroke
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Donald Trump’s targeting of India is not subtle like Xi Jinping’s. But Washington and China are in agreement that India’s rise must be stalled. While China worries about demographic catastrophe, the US confronts its declining global power, writes @MinhazMerchant
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#America faces long-term economic decline & China a future demographic catastrophe. Both see #India as an unwelcome interloper in the US-China duopoly & seek subtly to slow its rise. My @Openthemag column
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“They came at 20 minutes notice,” Trump says to an embarrassed British PM & Italian PM.
Look at this clown show…smart move by PM Modi to steer clear.
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False equivalence as usual.
Chamchagiri of the powerful has always been a trait on both sides of the LOC. Here Pakistan PM @CMShehbaz takes it to another level.
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#America faces long-term economic decline & China a future demographic catastrophe. Both see #India as an unwelcome interloper in the US-China duopoly & seek subtly to slow its rise. My @Openthemag column
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Peace summit on Israel-Hamas #Gaza war without Israel or Hamas in attendance. Hamas won’t disarm. Israel won’t accept a Palestinian state.
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President Trump’s 100% tariffs on Chinese exports in effect blocks all Chinese goods from the US market. Here’s how the escalating US-China trade war can benefit India. My @firstpost column
#FPOpinion | Head-on | Why Trump’s 100 per cent tariff strike on China could benefit India With a new US ambassador set to take charge in New Delhi, and a potential Modi-Trump meeting on October 26 in Malaysia, things remain optimistic, ✍️@MinhazMerchant
https://t.co/7AMzRVGZGP
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#FPOpinion | Head-on | Why Trump’s 100 per cent tariff strike on China could benefit India With a new US ambassador set to take charge in New Delhi, and a potential Modi-Trump meeting on October 26 in Malaysia, things remain optimistic, ✍️@MinhazMerchant
https://t.co/7AMzRVGZGP
firstpost.com
With a new ambassador about to take charge at the US embassy in New Delhi, the Modi-Trump meeting in Malaysia on October 26, if it happens, could deliver critical forward momentum
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What I’ve been writing for years—India’s economy can & will grow at 8% per year. Indians underestimate their own country. Some out of self-doubt. Others out of ulterior motives.
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After Kuldeep Yadav’s brilliant performances in Asia Cup 2025 & Test series against the West Indies, selection chief @imAagarkar & head coach @GautamGambhir must be kicking themselves for ignoring advice to play Kuldeep in the England Tests. If he’d played, we’d have won 3-1
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And @BCCI vice-president @ShuklaRajiv is the main culprit, playing both sides. A Congress loyalist & former journalist who wrote the Rabaru column for ABP-owned Sunday & Ravivar magazines in the 1980s.
If @ICC chairperson @JayShah had courage, he would have ensured @ACCMedia1 chief Mohsin Naqvi is sacked for theft of Asia Cup trophy & ordered the trophy to be returned to @BCCI. But courage is not a quality BCCI or Indian heads of ICC are known for.
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