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A week before the mega event in New Delhi, China’s President Xi Jinping announced that he would not be able to make it…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS) is a prestigious deemed Indian university and a pioneering 63…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A lot has been written on the normalisation of what have come to be called “encounter killings”, the extrajudicial…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last week we celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr. Ambedkar, an occasion to dis-cover and rediscover a giant of…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It was not very long ago that spam messages and forwards used to be not about the veracity of Prime Minister Narendra…
By GN Bajpai |
The nation is going through a tough debate on the merits of a new pension scheme versus the old scheme that offered…
By Nachiket Mor |
It is true that we cannot ignore the more commen ailments which, too, cause death and devastation in families, but…
By Thomas Isaac |
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24, presented last week in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The sudden and steep crash in Adani group stocks took away some of the glow of the Union Budget news headlines. The…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term, scheduled to be…
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into unseemly opposition…
By Ajit Ranade |
On the first day of the Davos summit in Switzerland this year, Oxfam International published a report titled “Survival…
By Vappala Balachandran |
As a writer on intelligence for the last 27 years, my objective has been to demystify and deglamourise the subject for…
By GN Bajpai |
India has taken over leadership of the G-20 and has said it wants to lead with a presidency of “healing, harmony and…