The bulk of India’ electricity comes from burning coal. This coal has to go from the minefields to the electricity generating plants. It travels by rail and road, mostly…
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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In an off- cycle meeting on 2nd and 4th May 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) increased the policy repo rate (PRR) to 4.40 per cent, a jump of 40 basis points.…
By Lekha Rattanani |
It was only last week that the US State department added the option of a gender ‘X’ on its passport forms, giving official recognition on US passports to transgender,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prashant Kishor is the focus of political attention again as he talks to join or at least work with the Indian National Congress, while at the same time signing to work…
By Vandana Shiva |
The theme of the 2022 Mother Earth Day, which is on Friday, April 22, is “invest in our planet”. The original meaning of the word “invest”, from the root “vest” and the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economic crisis in Sri Lanka has been in the making for several years. Hence all of it cannot be blamed purely on the pandemic or on the war in Ukraine. These two…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) earlier this month to institute a new instrument called the Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) as the floor in the…
By Vandana Shiva |
Sri Lanka is facing a severe political and economic crisis. The crisis has multiple roots but has intensified in the last two years with issues related to Covid, climate…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In an unrelated 2018 investigation, the NPPA reported “unethical profiteering in a failed market system”, with some material and drugs being charged by hospitals to…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, on the completion of the first MPC meeting for the current fiscal, the policy repo rate was kept unchanged at 4%. The accommodative stance was also…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The upcoming MPC resolution of April 08, 2022 assumes critical importance on many counts. This will be the first meeting of the current fiscal after the release of the…
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It is now common knowledge that NATO’s east-ward expansion towards Russia since 1999, adding 14 more members to the existing 16 since the end of the Cold War, has been…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s export performance this year will be very impressive. The manufactured goods exports will cross 400 billion dollars, the highest ever. This is more than 40…
By Pavitra Mohan |
India ushers in World Tuberculosis day in 2022 on 24 March with mixed feelings. As the COVID pandemic (hopefully) wanes, how are we seeing the other major infection that…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A deputy commissioner of police in Mumbai has gone missing and has now moved the courts for anticipatory bail after complaints that he sought to extort Rs. 10 lakhs a…