The Congress Party’s victory in the elections to the State Assembly of Karnataka is the highest it has been in the past thirty-four years. It is a decisive and sweeping…
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By Jagdish Rattanani |
Without delving into what the Karnataka elections hold and which way the wind will blow, it can be safely said that this is an election that has significance well beyond…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
As F.Y. 2022-23 ended, the RBI issued a press release which said that “in consultation with the (Central) Government, the limit for WMA for the first half of the…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Last month a film released in theatres here recounting an immigrant Indian mother’s struggle to win back the custody of her children from the Norwegian foster care system
By Ajit Ranade |
The Chief of Kotak Bank, Uday Kotak has called the U.S. dollar the biggest financial terrorist. Such a comment from one of Asia’s pre-eminent and very successful bankers…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A lot has been written on the normalisation of what have come to be called “encounter killings”, the extrajudicial assassinations by men in uniform that are now taking…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last week we celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, an occasion to dis-cover and rediscover a giant of modern India. His incredible life itself was his…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
According to the RBI, during Q3: 2021-22, the natural rate of interest was worked out to range of 0.8% and 1% as against 1.6% percent and 1.8% estimated earlier for Q4:…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It was not very long ago that spam messages and forwards used to be not about the veracity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's university degrees but about the plethora of…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
No change in the current stance of the policy aimed at ‘withdrawal of accommodation’ was also announced, albeit with one dissent vote. Both the equity and government…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Prime Minister on Tuesday tweeted a message announcing the government’s latest efforts to strengthen the MSMEs by revamping the Credit Guarantee Scheme to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The swift disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha following a “bizarre” (to quote the lawyer Kapil Sibal) two-year sentence by a court in Surat in a…
By Vappala Balachandran |
On March 18, 2023 The New York Times published a story “A Four Decade Secret: One man’s story of Carter’s re-election”. The story set off a flurry of reports all over…
By Ajit Ranade |
In November 2008, just weeks after the Lehman crash, at a high-profile briefing by top academics at the London School of Economics, the Queen asked a simple question.…
By GN Bajpai |
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered defined benefits to retirees. There is much pull for…