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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is almost half a century old now. It describes itself as “the international organisation…

A star at WEF this year was David Attenborough, the legendary advocate of care for our planet. He fears it may already…

The burning issue of the so-called illegal migrants in Assam and some other States in the North East has assumed…

This may be the information age but the lure of brick and mortar is not diminished. Donald Trump and his idea of a “…

The immanence of Industry 4.0, a new economic paradigm, in which machines with artificial intelligence will be able to…

Antyodaya is one of the key principles that animates India’s constitution. It means uplift of the last. It was M. K.…

There was a time when 2020 was far away, and the nation could write a grand vision statement of the new and liberalised…

The ministry of Home Affairs issued an order that authorised security and intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor…

The chapter on smart cities says, “Smart cities is an approach to urban development characterised by area-based…

The year began with great optimism about economic growth. The previous year i.e. 2017 had concluded with actual growth…

Just when lakhs of farmers marched to the nation’s capital demanding relief for their distress, another smaller set had…

The Balance of Payments crisis in 1991 prompted economic reforms in India. The reforms included fiscal stabilisation,…

After every election, one of the commonest remarks of the teams and the leaders that lose is that they would introspect…

This December 12 is the third death anniversary of Sharad Joshi, founder of the Shetkari Sanghatana, the farmers’…

This column appears on the morning a lot of us will be glued to our television screens, watching the results of…