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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…
By Jagdish Rattanani, Pavitra Mohan |
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…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
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…