Maharashtra has irked the BJP over the last few years and the Shiv Sena under Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister has been a troublesome thorn in its side. Other…
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By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the story of the blind men and the elephant, each touching a different part of the animal and quarrelling over what it is they have just “seen”, the message is that…
By Arun Maira |
NATO is in over-drive to save the world from autocracy and spread democracy around the world. The global trade system has collapsed as collateral damage of the US-led…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretariat, “condemned and de-nounced” statements made by two spokespersons of India’s ruling party, the Bhartiya Janata…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy is in the midst of some unprecedented challenges. A protracted war in Europe has introduced new strains even before the impact of Covid-19 has fully…
By Ganesh N Devy |
Like Janus, the RSS and the BJP have two faces, one face has marks of the actions of the past on it. Some of these marks are too clear and deeply etched to allow a…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC in its second scheduled meeting in this fiscal raised the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.90%, which was in line with the median market expectation.
India’s ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) as well as the Indian media appear to be pleased that the nation’s Accredited Social Health Activists, or ASHAs as…
By Ajit Ranade |
As the Narendra Modi led government completed three years during this Lok Sabha, and cumulatively eight years since Modi first became Prime Minister in 2014, there have…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation should be shell shocked by the report of an eminent panel set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the death of four accused in the brutal rape and murder…
By Thomas Isaac |
The two southern States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which have a more robust public distribution system, have relatively much lower retail prices than rest of the country.
By Ajit Ranade |
There is a well-known debate among economic policy makers regarding a more effi-cient way of giving government subsidies. Should it be in-kind or in-cash? The proponents…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The April inflation number was probably a key trigger, or something more out on the horizon that caused the discomfort and indicated more pain is coming. Whatever the…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Large sections of the Indian subcontinent starting from Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan all the way to Odisha and Bihar in eastern India are experiencing extreme heat…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of deaths in India directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19 to be 4.74 million. This is the highest…