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By Lekha Rattanani |
The Director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Christopher Wray has now come out to say that the Covid-19 pandemic “most likely” started after a…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s relative fast pace of economic growth raises the question: when will India be-come a developed country? In 2002 Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had declared…
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For the politicians of this world who keep fighting over territories, who try to differentiate between us or draw dividing lines, I would challenge them to look at a…
By Arun Maira |
When the drumbeats of a $5 trillion and $10 trillion economy don't stir me, business leaders ask me, don't I want India to grow? I say, of course I do. I stand and sing…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Chief Justice of India, Dr. Justice D Y Chandrachud, has made some very timely and significant comments on the state of our elite institutions in the light of the…
By Vappala Balachandran |
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union Address, which is the annual message delivered by the President to a joint session of the United…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which consists of members from across all political parties, in its report of last April highlighted the importance of…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
India works with the principles of cooperative federalism under which expenditure made and taxes raised are both responsibilities shared between the Centre and the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It has happened before. A business grows, builds connections, grabs political patronage and thinks it can get away with anything. The game works for a while. The swell of
By Thomas Isaac |
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24, presented last week in Parliament, will ensure that the quality-of-life…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
At the end of its three-day meeting on February 8 – its last for the current fiscal – the MPC of the RBI resolved to raise the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.…
By Ajit Ranade |
The sudden and steep crash in Adani group stocks took away some of the glow of the Union Budget news headlines. The total loss of wealth in market capitalisation was a…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union budget for 2023-24 came against a backdrop of economic recovery and optimism in the medium-term growth outlook despite persistent global recessionary winds
By Ajit Ranade |
This is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget, and the last full plan be-fore the general elections of 2024. There was an expectation that it would be a…