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By Ajit Ranade |
The latest survey indicates that such conviction is ingrained among Indians, and it is for us to reinforce, and harness…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the order of nine lakh…
By Ajit Ranade |
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha Rao was sworn in as…
By T Jacob John, Dhanya Dharmapalan |
During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women could have serious…
By M A Kalam |
Blind ritualism does not lead to an understanding of what the religion teaches, and the deeper messages are often lost…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The “Look East” policy, targeted towards the economic development of North-East India in general and Assam in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A little known member of the Bharatiya Janata Party has set off a political storm in Lakshadweep, the tranquil…
By Lekha Rattanani |
K.K.Shailaja, known as “Shailaja Teacher” in Kerala, and hailed as the “Corona virus slayer” outside the State, has not…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the other, vaccines.…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to thrive and spread with…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This week, April 7, is World Health Day, and we can expect discussions to be largely focused on the second wave of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An increase in minimum…