As widely expected, the MPC of RBI, on conclusion of its first bi-monthly meeting for 2025-26, lowered the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 per cent and…
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By Ajit Ranade |
Thirty-two years ago, the 73rd amendment to the Constitution, called the Panchayati Raj bill came into force on April 24.
By Vappala Balachandran |
A blunder caused while preparing the member list for a top-secret chat assembly named the “Houthi PC Small Group” among senior American security leaders in the Donald…
By Ajit Ranade |
This year marks the twentieth anniversary of a landmark statutory right established by Parliament. This is the right to work, or right to employment.
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
India is getting hot as the summer season takes hold. But the hot weather, this year arriving earlier and feeling hotter comes with a chill in the economy.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The decision to allow Madhabi Puri Buch to exit SEBI as the Chairperson at the end of her three-year term is to be welcomed.
By Ajit Ranade |
President Donald Trump has a way with words. America’s federal income tax department is called Internal Revenue Service.
By Lekha Rattanani |
On Feb. 19, the United States White House posted a 41 second video showing deportees being put in shackles as they are herded into an airplane for deportation
By Jagdish Rattanani |
On March 21, 2003, ITN network’s John Irvine reported from Baghdad the launch of “shock and awe”, the US Pentagon’s encoding for immeasurable death and destruction…
By Ajit Ranade |
President Donald Trump’s electoral victory last November was decisive and sweeping. He now has majority control over both legislative houses, i.e.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has met Donald Trump, the 47th US President who is busy executing his wild project to reorder the world.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to a dramatically different and somewhat unstable United States this week for a meeting with the newly elected President Donald…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
After keeping the status-quo of the policy repo rate at 6.50 per cent since April 2023, for as many as 10 consecutive bi-monthly cycles, the MPC has turned.
By GN Bajpai |
In recent months, the slowdown of the Indian economy in the last quarter rattled policymakers and led to a quiet squabble among pundits.