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By Ajit Ranade |
After the exit polls on May 19 predicted a landslide victory for the National Democratic Alliance, the stock market in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economic growth for the past three years has declined from 8.2 to 7.2 to 7.0 percent. The latest quarterly growth…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are a host of considerations that rule, and not all of them are easily fathomed by city folk who tend to prefer…
By Ajit Ranade |
In less than a month we will have elected the seventeenth Lok Sabha. The seat tally across parties will determine who…
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India is dealing with a serious crisis of employment despite achieving higher than global average rates of GDP growth…
By Ajit Ranade |
The latest data for March shows the inflation rate to be 2.86 percent. The average inflation during the last fiscal…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The headline retail inflation measured in terms Consumer Price Index —Combined (CPI-C) has trended downward since…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Monetary Policy Committee in its first bi- monthly resolution on April 4, 2019 for the current fiscal has reduced…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
There was no surprise this time. As widely expected, the MPC of the RBI cut the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Congress party announced that if elected to form the next government, it would implement a Nyuntam Aay Yojana (NYAY…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
One of the important objectives of demonetisation was to discourage the use of cash and to check the amount of “…
By Ajit Ranade |
The ball has been set rolling for the world’s biggest election. About 900 million voters, will go to a million booths,…
By Hormuz P. Mama |
The MiG-21 has been in the news again – for all the wrong reasons. That aircraft has been the mainstay of the Indian…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The story of Nirav Modi leading a rather comfortable life in London appears to have galvanised Indian authorities to…