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How does a woman in labour walk five kilometers across a hill to reach a clinic at night?

By Jagdish Rattanani |

There is the view held by some that the America we see today in all its ugliness is one passing phase, a rough patch the world has landed in because the country chose…

By Himadri Bhattacharya |

As widely expected, the MPC of RBI, on conclusion of its first bi-monthly meeting for 2025-26, lowered the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 per cent and…

By Ajit Ranade |

Thirty-two years ago, the 73rd amendment to the Constitution, called the Panchayati Raj bill came into force on April 24.

By Vappala Balachandran |

A blunder caused while preparing the member list for a top-secret chat assembly named the “Houthi PC Small Group” among senior American security leaders in the Donald…

By Ajit Ranade |

This year marks the twentieth anniversary of a landmark statutory right established by Parliament. This is the right to work, or right to employment.

By Sudarshan Iyengar |

India is getting hot as the summer season takes hold. But the hot weather, this year arriving earlier and feeling hotter comes with a chill in the economy.

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By Ajay Patnaik

By Jagdish Rattanani |

The decision to allow Madhabi Puri Buch to exit SEBI as the Chairperson at the end of her three-year term is to be welcomed.

By Ajit Ranade |

President Donald Trump has a way with words. America’s federal income tax department is called Internal Revenue Service.

By Lekha Rattanani |
On Feb. 19, the United States White House posted a 41 second video showing deportees being put in shackles as they are herded into an airplane for deportation
By Jagdish Rattanani |

On March 21, 2003, ITN network’s John Irvine reported from Baghdad the launch of “shock and awe”, the US Pentagon’s encoding for immeasurable death and destruction…

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 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…