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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC in its second scheduled meeting in this fiscal raised the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.90%, which…
India’s ministry of health and family welfare (MoHFW) as well as the Indian media appear to be pleased that the nation’…
By Ajit Ranade |
As the Narendra Modi led government completed three years during this Lok Sabha, and cumulatively eight years since…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation should be shell shocked by the report of an eminent panel set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the…
By Thomas Isaac |
The two southern States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which have a more robust public distribution system, have relatively…
By Ajit Ranade |
There is a well-known debate among economic policy makers regarding a more effi-cient way of giving government…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The April inflation number was probably a key trigger, or something more out on the horizon that caused the discomfort…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Large sections of the Indian subcontinent starting from Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan all the way to Odisha and…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the number of deaths in India directly or indirectly attributable to…
By Ajit Ranade |
The bulk of India’ electricity comes from burning coal. This coal has to go from the minefields to the electricity…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In an off- cycle meeting on 2nd and 4th May 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) increased the policy repo rate (…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Prashant Kishor is the focus of political attention again as he talks to join or at least work with the Indian National…
By Vandana Shiva |
The theme of the 2022 Mother Earth Day, which is on Friday, April 22, is “invest in our planet”. The original meaning…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economic crisis in Sri Lanka has been in the making for several years. Hence all of it cannot be blamed purely on…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The decision of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) earlier this month to institute a new instrument called the…