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By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is possible to argue that the BJP has not risen to power, it has fallen in power and may be taking the nation down…
By Ajit Ranade |
The International Monetary Fund recently in its report raised a concern about India’s sovereign debt, i.e. the total…
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Frequent landslides, the Kedarnath tragedy, a sinking Joshimath and the most recent Silkyara tunnel collapse are among…
By Nachiket Mor |
Just over five years have now passed since the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), launched in 2018, came into…
By GN Bajpai |
As the sanctum sanctorum of India’s democracy, the Parliament, moved house from the historic structure to a new…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Food inflation, which was in double-digits in July, fell to 6.2 per cent in October, 2023, with a correction in…
By Ishan Chauhan |
Conventional calculations of the cost of war seldom include a major casualty: the environment. The toll is huge and…
By Ajit Ranade |
Sovereign gold bonds were introduced by the Union government eight years ago. Since then, these bonds, sold through the…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Last month, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar unveiled a statue of Rabindranath Tagore at the International…
By Ajit Ranade |
Earlier this month, at an election rally, the Prime Minister made an important announcement. That the free food…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is something very 19th-century, Bombay mill-owner type of flavour to the comment by N R Narayana Murthy that the…
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A study of older (45+) Indian adults recently published in the journal Preventive Medicine finds that while several…