Like Janus, the RSS and the BJP have two faces, one face has marks of the actions of the past on it. Some of these marks are too clear and deeply etched to allow a…
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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC in its second scheduled meeting in this fiscal raised the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.90%, which was in line with the median market expectation.
India’s ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) as well as the Indian media appear to be pleased that the nation’s Accredited Social Health Activists, or ASHAs as…
By Ajit Ranade |
As the Narendra Modi led government completed three years during this Lok Sabha, and cumulatively eight years since Modi first became Prime Minister in 2014, there have…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation should be shell shocked by the report of an eminent panel set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the death of four accused in the brutal rape and murder…
By Thomas Isaac |
The two southern States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which have a more robust public distribution system, have relatively much lower retail prices than rest of the country.
By Ajit Ranade |
There is a well-known debate among economic policy makers regarding a more effi-cient way of giving government subsidies. Should it be in-kind or in-cash? The proponents…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The April inflation number was probably a key trigger, or something more out on the horizon that caused the discomfort and indicated more pain is coming. Whatever the…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Large sections of the Indian subcontinent starting from Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan all the way to Odisha and Bihar in eastern India are experiencing extreme heat…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of deaths in India directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19 to be 4.74 million. This is the highest…
By Ajit Ranade |
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…
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…