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By Jagdish Rattanani |
The developments in Afghanistan send out many complex messages but the one that is not in doubt is that an endless…
By Arun Maira |
Trouble is brewing between capitalist enterprises and national governments. An Indian cabinet minister has berated…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s 74 years of existence as a sovereign independent nation is a minor miracle. At its birth, not many outside…
By Tushar Gandhi |
While Delhi the national capital was being decked up for the grand celebration of independence and the transfer of…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The people of North-East India have been, in numerous ways, paying the price for geopolitical remoteness. The reality…
By Sudarshan Iyengar, Jagdish Rattanani |
The growing influence of large and powerful business conglomerates continue to raise concerns, not only in India but…
By Ajit Ranade |
In 2016 the government led by Prime Minister Modi said that farmers’ in-comes would be doubled by 2022. It was meant to…
By Tushar Gandhi |
To convert a shrine of our independence movement and the life of the couple who lived there into a tourist plaza, an…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely anticipated, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept the policy repo and reverse repo…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The argument that the data from this act of illegal snooping was available not to the Israeli company/group that sold…
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The Cooperative Credit Structure (CCS) in India is broadly made up of urban cooperatives and rural cooperatives. The…
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 Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The build-up in foreign exchange reserves to US$ 610.01 billion as on July 02, 2021, an increase of around US$ 33…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s young demography has been considered to be its structural advantage. Half the population is below the age of 27…
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Agriculture has all the pre-requisites to have the market-mechanism arrive at a pareto-optimal outcome, unlike in the…