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By Ajit Ranade |
In the Union Budget of 2021, the finance minister had announced that the new la-bour laws would come into effect from…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The vote-getting Prime Minister may have cost the BJP a lot of votes as a result of a series of mis-steps during his…
By Ajit Ranade |
India takes great pride in her Election Commission, an independent authority en-trusted with the conduct of free and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The repeal of the three farm bills is in the headlines. A little beneath the surface and reportedly all set for the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Prime Minister in a pre-election address made the rather unexpected announcement that the three contentious farm…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are many ways to see the sudden change of the Prime Minister’s position on the farm laws that have led to farmer…
By Ishan Chauhan |
It is absolutely essential to drastically cut down short term climate pollutants. Black carbon which is one of the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Shah Rukh Khan once said: “First get rich, then become a philosopher.” It’s now time for him to look up to Balraj Sahni…
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It would not be out of line to see New Delhi as a physical representation of colonial India. The body of the city was…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The overriding of legitimate claims and demands in the name of a great nation waiting to happen signals not progress…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
After a firestorm over the article in the RSS-aligned Panchjanya magazine that called Infosys anti-national, the RSS…
By Ajit Ranade |
Seen in the light of an acute fiscal crunch, the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) is an ambitious idea. It aims to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The argument that the data from this act of illegal snooping was available not to the Israeli company/group that sold…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The official death count due to Covid-19 in India stood at over 400,000 around mid-July. It is widely understood and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The draft bill by the Uttar Pradesh government to enforce what is commonly referred to as the two-child norm has caused…