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By Ajit Ranade |
Sovereign gold bonds were introduced by the Union government eight years ago. Since then, these bonds, sold through the…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar unveiled a statue of Rabindranath Tagore at the International…
By Ajit Ranade |
Earlier this month, at an election rally, the Prime Minister made an important
announcement. That the free food…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is something very 19th-century, Bombay mill-owner type of flavour to the comment by N R Narayana Murthy that the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The three most important macroeconomic variables for a country are the foreign ex-change rate, the inflation rate and…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Economics Nobel prize this year went to a single individual, Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University. She is…
By Vappala Balachandran |
How does terrorism originate? For the last 15 years or so I have been giving yearly lectures on terrorism to students…
By Vappala Balachandran |
How does terrorism originate? For the last 15 years or so I have been giving yearly lectures on terrorism to students…
By Ajit Ranade |
It is a truism that reduction in poverty needs higher economic growth, which can cre-ate jobs and incomes. India’s per-…
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Health services have traditionally been understood to be about patients reaching a clinic, hospital or a defined place…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The abusive and communal epithets hurled by the BJP MP from South Delhi Ramesh Bidhuri against the BSP MP Kunwar Danish…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s fiscal situation is more dire than is acknowledged. If we compare the debt service ratio, i.e. how much of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
ONOE is not likely to make a dent, and that is its very purpose. Much debate and discussion are expected in the coming…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India is over the moon, having landed its craft on the south pole and becoming only the fourth country to land on the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The biggest reform of 1991 was the dismantling of the license permit raj. In one swoop the industries minister,…