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By M Damodaran |
At the heart of the matter is the failure of a multi-state cooperative bank, which is no more than a cooperative…
By now, there is consensus among economists that there is a serious crisis in India’s economy. Public debate on the way…
By Ajit Ranade |
On the eve of the formation of the Indian republic, Dr.Ambedkar made a prophetic statement. This was part of his…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Last weekend, as the authorities began felling trees, swarms of riot police descended in the wooded enclave that is…
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Actions do speak louder than words. The Indian government has for several months now been blowing its own trumpet at…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
With a fourth successive policy rate cut of 25 basis points on October 4, 2019, the cumulative reduction of rate cuts…
By Ajit Ranade |
The freezing of accounts, and stoppage of lending and deposit taking activity of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
I read Gandhiji’s Hind Swaraj when I was 34. I should have read it when I was 17. But at that impressionable age, given…
By Xavier Raj |
Gandhi lived in a time when technology, science, education and energy were reshaping economic growth and world war…
By Ajit Ranade |
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged the government of India to do more to enhance the spirit of cooperative…
By Aseem Shrivastava , Aryaman Jain |
In early August, as the Indian Government imposed a comprehensive blockade in Kashmir, snatching its political agency,…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The yawning gap between the mischievous claims and verified data is exactly as it was in the case of ‘black’ money…
By Ajit Ranade |
If many car factories find themselves running idle, or with surplus inventory it could be because there was over-…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
If the changes to article 370 of the Constitution of India were meant “to bring J&K truly into India's fold”,…
By Ajit Ranade |
India is possibly the only country in the world which mandates that a profit-making company spend two percent of its…