The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards but it was not short on praise for the economy, particularly for the…
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By Jagdish Rattanani |
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term, scheduled to be presented to Parliament on Wednesday, comes amid some…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
This budget is a bold one that builds on the confidence of the government gained from the healthy GDP growth and turnaround in its finances in the post pandemic period…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Budget for 2023-24 coming up next week will be the fourth budget for NDA II. The budget will be presented against the backdrop of weak private investment…
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into unseemly opposition from private hospitals and doctors, a group that…
By Ajit Ranade |
On the first day of the Davos summit in Switzerland this year, Oxfam International published a report titled “Survival of the Richest”. The timing of the publication is…
By Vappala Balachandran |
As a writer on intelligence for the last 27 years, my objective has been to demystify and deglamourise the subject for the public. Like any other branch of governance,…
By Ajit Ranade |
India has had a tradition of conducting a national census, every ten years, for more than a century.
By GN Bajpai |
India has taken over leadership of the G-20 and has said it wants to lead with a presidency of “healing, harmony and hope”, with the theme of “One Earth, One Family, One…
We are into the New Year but the pandemic, it appears, will follow us into 2023. If the world thought this would be the first Covid-free year since 2019, when Covid-19…
By Ajit Ranade |
Christmas brought good cheer to 81 crore Indians as the government announced that it was making all food grain distributed under the Public Distribution System (PDS)…
By Indira Hirway |
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month. The win is no doubt historic, and it feeds on the image of a model…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, two of Hindi filmdom’s biggest stars, have come out to make statements of the kind they have never made before. Speaking at the Intern
By Arun Maira |
Civilisational values are conflicting while national soccer teams compete in Qatar’s stadiums. Qatar bans alcohol while Europeans want their beer when they cheer.…
By Ajit Ranade |
There have been a slew of reports and papers on the Indian economy in the past two weeks. The most important one was the government’s own release of data on the economy.