Despite bitter political bickering, the United States passed its highest ever relief package to support the economy. It is valued at 2.2 trillion dollars, and another…
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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In times like never before, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has acted like never before.
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC has done a good job in presenting an analysis of the situation arising out of the Covid-19 pandemic in a very clear and candid manner. It has shown its firm…
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The idea that washing hands is an important step in fighting disease may seem common sense now but it didn’t come as easy as that.
The fight against COVID19 has been likened to fighting a war with an insidious, dangerous but invisible enemy.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The complete lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fight the coronavirus threat has generally been welcomed.
By T Jacob John |
The pandemic is spreading like wildfire. What started surreptitiously sometime in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, has engulfed 172 countries and regions by March 25, 2020.…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
Corona, speculative mischief suggests, must be of divine provenance. She has the intelligence to slumber, to awaken, to migrate, to disappear, to influence, to provoke,…
By T Jacob John |
The government took charge of the fight against Covid-19 right from the beginning — the first week of February. The first port of virus entry happened to be Kerala.…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Of Bharat bandhs, the days it was a form of potent protest, it used to be claimed in officialdom that they passed off peacefully.
By Lekha Rattanani |
The decision of the Maharashtra government announced by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray earlier this week to stamp all those “home-quarantined” for exposure to the…
By Nawshir Mirza |
For a society that claims several thousand years of civilisation, why are our cities so ugly? When we travel overseas, to any country, rich or poor, the ugliness of our…
By Ajit Ranade |
One of the most telling episodes in the aftermath of the failure of Yes Bank is the scramble by State governments to move their deposits to public sector banks. It…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The dramatic developments in the case of Yes Bank will bring new shock waves to a financial sector that is already shaken and bruised. It will further pull-down…