During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women could have serious problems with the COVID-19 disease.
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By M A Kalam |
Blind ritualism does not lead to an understanding of what the religion teaches, and the deeper messages are often lost in the din of the sounds that ring out loud, day…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The “Look East” policy, targeted towards the economic development of North-East India in general and Assam in particular through providing land connectivity to the ASEAN…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s export of goods has been clocking a healthy performance for the past three months. It has been 34, 30 and 32 billion dollars in March, April and May re-…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the MPC of the RBI kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent in its second bi-monthly meeting in the current fiscal
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In the context of quasi fiscal operation, it is important to address RBI’s role and function as debt manager of the government and banker to the government.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A little known member of the Bharatiya Janata Party has set off a political storm in Lakshadweep, the tranquil archipelago of coral islands and reefs that makes up India…
By Lekha Rattanani |
K.K.Shailaja, known as “Shailaja Teacher” in Kerala, and hailed as the “Corona virus slayer” outside the State, has not been given a place in the new cabinet of Pinarayi…
By Ajit Ranade |
The official economic data for the first quarter will be published by the end of May. Last year from October onwards the mood was upbeat and anticipating a sharp V-…
By GN Bajpai |
The Covid -19 pandemic has mercilessly pummelled the health system globally. The human toll exceeds many times the number of those killed in the atomic bombings of…
By Arun Maira |
75 years after its Independence, India is shining at the top—the rich at the top have done very well post liberalisation. Local solutions, even small solutions,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is a steady echo of voices asking for the Prime Minister to step aside, many demanding that he take responsibility for leading us straight into the mouth of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of Covid-related drugs and vaccines be suspended. This…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It is only but very rarely that a central bank announces emergency liquidity and other measures whose ‘immediate objective is to preserve human life and restore…
The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum Institute of India) is in India.