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By Ajit Ranade |
This past week saw the near simultaneous publication of two books by senior former Central bankers. Former RBI Governor…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is not difficult to see that the economy is in bad shape. Most Indians know this, experience it and can feel it in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The pandemic has caused the world to go into a deep recession this year. India is no exception. The Indian economy will…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
There is much to criticise the ICMR for its recent diktat to deliver a vaccine for COVID-19 caused by SARS-Cov-2, by…
By Ajit Ranade |
Forty years ago India and China had roughly the same economic size, measured as GDP in dollars. Today China is five…
By Lekha Rattanani |
On March 23, as the country faced a complete lockdown that left millions of migrant workers stranded without food and…
By Pavitra Mohan |
In the times of ongoing pandemic, one of the solutions to prevent deaths that has attracted the largest attention is…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the big cities of India, and less prominently in the smaller towns, private hospitals are now imprinted in the…
By T Jacob John |
The Confederation of Medical Associations of Asia and Oceania met on 6 June 2020 to discuss the pandemic. One of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The pandemic and lockdown have deeply hurt the economy. This year the world’s economy will shrink by 3 percent,…
By Vappala Balachandran |
It is disappointing to find Indian websites not easily yielding the text of the epoch making 1993 “Agreement on the…
By Ajit Ranade |
When the national lockdown was imposed on March 24, with four hours notice, the country had less than 200 positive…
In the last fortnight, Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar had two meetings in quick succession…
By Thomas Isaac |
The global economy and the national economy are facing a crisis which by scale and nature is unprecedented in modern…
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The heart-wrenching ghastly incident of 16 migrants being mowed down under a running goods train in Maharashtra on May…