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By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is not a secret that the pharmaceutical sector, for all that it has achieved in India, has created rather than…
By Ajit Ranade |
There was an extraordinary heat wave in March in northern India which caused wheat yields to go down. The heat wave in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Seventy-five years of Independence marks a significant milestone in the history of a nation rising. We can quibble over…
By Ajit Ranade |
India has been managing the world’s largest and longest running free food program since April 2020. This is called the…
By Lekha Rattanani |
It is now more than a month since the Maharashtra government led by Uddhav Thackeray of the Shiv Sena was ousted after…
By Ajit Ranade |
The third week of July marks two anniversaries of events in 1969, one national and the other international. The latter…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana and the Supreme Court have offered a wake-up call to the nation on the…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the past eight months, foreign portfolio investors have moved out nearly 40 billion dollars out of India, by selling…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 in Nara City reminds me of my first lessons in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Uddhav Thackeray will have to take his case to the people very fast, and take on the role of Maharashtra’s wounded…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the story of the blind men and the elephant, each touching a different part of the animal and quarrelling over what…
By Ajit Ranade |
As the Narendra Modi led government completed three years during this Lok Sabha, and cumulatively eight years since…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation should be shell shocked by the report of an eminent panel set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the…
By Ajit Ranade |
There is a well-known debate among economic policy makers regarding a more effi-cient way of giving government…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The April inflation number was probably a key trigger, or something more out on the horizon that caused the discomfort…