By Ajit Ranade |
President Donald Trump’s electoral victory last November was decisive and sweeping. He now has majority control over both legislative houses, i.e.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
After keeping the status-quo of the policy repo rate at 6.50 per cent since April 2023, for as many as 10 consecutive bi-monthly cycles, the MPC has turned.
By GN Bajpai |
In recent months, the slowdown of the Indian economy in the last quarter rattled policymakers and led to a quiet squabble among pundits.
By Indira Hirway |
The Indian economy today is facing serious problems from the international and domestic fronts.
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As always, the union budget for 2025-26 also has multiple themes and highlights.

Politics

By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met Donald Trump, the 47th US President who is busy executing his wild project to reorder the world.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to a dramatically different and somewhat unstable United States this week for a meeting with the newly elected President Donald Trum
By Ajit Ranade |
The challenge for any Finance Minister in presenting a Union Budget is to balance multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives of growth stimulus, subsidies for the d
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The world watches aghast as Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States, runs riot.

Business

By Indira Hirway |
The Indian economy today is facing serious problems from the international and domestic fronts.
By Ajit Ranade |
The challenge for any Finance Minister in presenting a Union Budget is to balance multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives of growth stimulus, subsidies for the d
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The world watches aghast as Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States, runs riot.
By Lekha Rattanani |
SNS, as the 60-year-old L&T Chairman & Managing Director S. N. Subrahmanyan is known within the company, has raised quite a firestorm. 

Economy

By GN Bajpai |
In recent months, the slowdown of the Indian economy in the last quarter rattled policymakers and led to a quiet squabble among pundits.
By Indira Hirway |
The Indian economy today is facing serious problems from the international and domestic fronts.
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As always, the union budget for 2025-26 also has multiple themes and highlights.
By Ajit Ranade |
The challenge for any Finance Minister in presenting a Union Budget is to balance multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives of growth stimulus, subsidies for the d

Society

By Indira Hirway |
The Indian economy today is facing serious problems from the international and domestic fronts.
By Ajit Ranade |
The challenge for any Finance Minister in presenting a Union Budget is to balance multiple and sometimes conflicting objectives of growth stimulus, subsidies for the d
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The world watches aghast as Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States, runs riot.

Diaries

By Vidyadhar Date |
A valuable treasure trove of art work, murals, frescoes and paintings lie in a 16th century…
By Vidyadhar Date |
Recently I went to the redeveloped, commercialised Mahim bus station with 24-storey building…
By Vidyadhar Date |
The then Home Minister R.R. Patil pleaded helplessness of the government. He said the government…
By Vidyadhar Date |
In a way, Kala Nagar and adjoining buildings are highly privileged because of the Thackeray…

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