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The Indian economy is going through a significant slump. Industrial output contracted 3.8 per cent in October from a…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation is in a sorry state. Parts of the sensitive North East are in flames. The fire is spreading to West Bengal,…
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The Union government in India led by Modi has passed in the Lok Sabha the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which…
By Ajit Ranade |
It is a great irony of history that the Hyderabad encounter killing by the police of the four alleged rapists and…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its resolution on December 05 2019 kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.15…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It was one of those rare events where the ex ante probability of the actual outcome was close to zero. A rate cut in…
By Nawshir Mirza |
Even the continuous blare of a Trump-et cannot divert attention from the existential risk posed to humankind and to the…
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It has been several weeks since the students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in the national capital started…
By Ajit Ranade |
November 26 is celebrated as Constitution Day for the past five years. Earlier it was recognised as National Law Day…
By Arun Maira |
The power of new technologies must be used to benefit the lives of many, rather than maximise the wealth of a few
By Ajit Ranade |
India was a founder member of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), which eventually became the World…
By M Damodaran |
At the heart of the matter is the failure of a multi-state cooperative bank, which is no more than a cooperative…