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By Jagdish Rattanani |
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards but it was not short…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term, scheduled to be…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
This budget is a bold one that builds on the confidence of the government gained from the healthy GDP growth and…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Budget for 2023-24 coming up next week will be the fourth budget for NDA II. The budget will be presented…
By Ajit Ranade |
On the first day of the Davos summit in Switzerland this year, Oxfam International published a report titled “Survival…
By Vappala Balachandran |
As a writer on intelligence for the last 27 years, my objective has been to demystify and deglamourise the subject for…
By GN Bajpai |
India has taken over leadership of the G-20 and has said it wants to lead with a presidency of “healing, harmony and…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
We are into the New Year but the pandemic, it appears, will follow us into 2023. If the world thought this would be the…
By Indira Hirway |
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month. The win is no…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, two of Hindi filmdom’s biggest stars, have come out to make statements of the kind…
By Arun Maira |
Civilisational values are conflicting while national soccer teams compete in Qatar’s stadiums. Qatar bans alcohol while…
By Ajit Ranade |
There have been a slew of reports and papers on the Indian economy in the past two weeks. The most important one was…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
During the period May - December 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has increased the policy repo rate (PRR)…