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By Sudarshan Iyengar |
The New Education Policy announced after 34 years claims to make way for large scale transformational reforms in…
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 Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
Counting data accurately and communicating it transparently is an important part of responding to COVID-19 and refining…
By Ajit Ranade |
The border conflict in eastern Ladakh has claimed twenty brave soldiers, killed in an unimaginably brutal way. This 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 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…
In the last fortnight, Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar had two meetings in quick succession…
By Ajit Ranade |
What if you lose your job, but not health insurance? What if you lose your monthly income but get paid unemployment…
By Ajit Ranade |
Almost five weeks into the lockdown, it is clear that we are going to have a long hard summer. The economic hardships…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
There is no one to lend to, since economic activity is down, and so the funds end up in the vaults of the RBI to earn…