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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…
We are into the New Year but the pandemic, it appears, will follow us into 2023. If the world thought this would be the…
By Ajit Ranade |
There have been a slew of reports and papers on the Indian economy in the past two weeks. The most important one was…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The stinging remarks by Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court in a case of the bulldozing of the house of a…
By Ajit Ranade |
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality. We must rededicate…
By Ajit Ranade |
Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment carving out a new…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Horrific stories are emerging from the factories complex in Zhengzhou in central China owned and operated by Foxconn,…
By Martin Macwan |
The successful agitation of Gujarat, the ‘Patidar Andolan’, demanding reservation brought us to the 103rd amendment to…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
Elaben Bhatt breathed her last on 2 November 2022 at the age of 89. She was quintessentially a Gandhian volunteer. She…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The election of Mallikarjun Kharge as the first non-Gandhi family President of the Congress in the 21st Century is good…
By Ajit Ranade |
The United Kingdom has had four Prime Ministers in the last six years. Their most recent Chancellor of the Exchequer (…