The severity, penetration and pervasiveness of the second wave of the pandemic opens new questions on the optimism of the authorities in India as also of the…
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By Vappala Balachandran |
The Maharashtra police-politician squabble is now being legally processed by the CBI under orders of the Bombay High Court. Hence this analysis is not on that specific…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like Turkey, USA and Brazil.
By Arun Maira |
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the other, vaccines. Lockdowns with social distancing were implemented in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to thrive and spread with impunity is the disease that we have had for long –…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide on the main policy interest rate. This is the rate at which the RBI…
By Lekha Rattanani |
So why is India surprised when Sachin Vaze, an assistant police inspector, was found camped in a five-star hotel, drove a Mercedes, and could walk into the Police…
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The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the same time improve India’s score in the ease of doing business.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The monetary policy announced on April 07, 2021 has been along expected lines, on the surface. But barely below the surface are some concerns that pose a host of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This week, April 7, is World Health Day, and we can expect discussions to be largely focused on the second wave of the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic that has hit the nation. When…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In its first meeting of 2021-22, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept unchanged the policy repo rate at 4 per cent and also said that the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An increase in minimum wage will remove the pro-employer bias of the wage…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
I have almost come to believe in the myth of corporate liberalism. And then comes Prof. Mehta’s resignation to remind us of the lurking reality of corporate…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The brew has significance in this election as among the five poll-bound States, four are the top contributors to the nation’s tea industry
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In Mumbai, there is nothing honest in the air as yet with allegations, wild and otherwise, flying thick in the wake of the scare caused by the discovery of dynamite…