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By Ajit Ranade |

It is not the time to teach basic international macroeconomics to the President of the United States of America.

By Himadri Bhattacharya |

In the immediate aftermath of the bi-monthly meeting of the MPC held in June this year, announcing a hefty 50 basis points cut in the policy rate coupled with a shift…

By Ajit Ranade |

Let’s look at three recent events which symbolise workers’ plight due to lack of safety at the workplace.

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At the Samvidhan Bachao (Save the Constitution) rally organised by the Congress in Bhubaneswar on July 11, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi called out the Election…

By Jagdish Rattanani |

India is in the midst of negotiations for a trade deal with the United States under an environment of unpredictability laced with unabashed and overt arm-twisting…

By Lekha Rattanani |

For nearly six decades since he founded the Shiv Sena in 1966, Bal Keshav Thackeray’s party has been the noisy epicentre of politics in a State that was traditionally…

By Ajit Ranade |

India’s sustained economic growth will not happen without parallel and steady increase in energy usage.

By Jagdish Rattanani |

It would be incorrect to categorise the coordinated RSS-BJP attack on the words “secular” and “socialist” in the preamble of the Indian Constitution as a “debate” in…

By Vappala Balachandran |

As this is written, Iran has mocked President Donald Trump’s call to “unconditionally surrender”:  "Iran does not negotiate under duress, shall not accept peace…

By Ajit Ranade |

The United States of America joined the war between Israel and Iran, by bombing three nuclear sites in Iran.

By Himadri Bhattacharya |

The quantum of dividend payments of the RBI to the Central government during the last few years has followed a rising trend not witnessed before.

By Jagdish Rattanani |

A wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) called the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) insures all deposits in RBI-…

By Himadri Bhattacharya |

In the days following the first MPC meeting for 2025-26 which concluded on April 9, 2025, it was widely expected that another policy rate cut of at least 25 basis…