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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…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
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 Lekha Rattanani |
It was only last week that the US State department added the option of a gender ‘X’ on its passport forms, giving…
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…
By Vandana Shiva |
Sri Lanka is facing a severe political and economic crisis. The crisis has multiple roots but has intensified in the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, on the completion of the first MPC meeting for the current fiscal, the policy repo rate was kept…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The upcoming MPC resolution of April 08, 2022 assumes critical importance on many counts. This will be the first…
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It is now common knowledge that NATO’s east-ward expansion towards Russia since 1999, adding 14 more members to the…