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By Ajit Ranade |
Antyodaya is one of the key principles that animates India’s constitution. It means uplift of the last. It was M. K.…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There was a time when 2020 was far away, and the nation could write a grand vision statement of the new and liberalised…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The ministry of Home Affairs issued an order that authorised security and intelligence agencies to intercept, monitor…
By Arun Maira |
The chapter on smart cities says, “Smart cities is an approach to urban development characterised by area-based…
By Ajit Ranade |
The year began with great optimism about economic growth. The previous year i.e. 2017 had concluded with actual growth…
By Ajit Ranade |
Just when lakhs of farmers marched to the nation’s capital demanding relief for their distress, another smaller set had…
By Y.V. Reddy |
The Balance of Payments crisis in 1991 prompted economic reforms in India. The reforms included fiscal stabilisation,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
After every election, one of the commonest remarks of the teams and the leaders that lose is that they would introspect…
By Ajit Ranade |
This December 12 is the third death anniversary of Sharad Joshi, founder of the Shetkari Sanghatana, the farmers’…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This column appears on the morning a lot of us will be glued to our television screens, watching the results of…
By M A Kalam |
If the American national, John Allen Chau, has been killed in the North Sentinel island, in the Andaman and Nicobar…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The RBI Governor Urjit Patel has reiterated before a Parliamentary panel the central bank’s well-known position that…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The penultimate monetary policy for fiscal 2018-19 has maintained status quo on the policy repo rate at 6.5 per cent…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The fifth bi-monthly meeting of the MPC of the RBI in the current fiscal was billed to be a non-event since just about…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In his own strident way, never giving an inch and always straining to milk dry the argument for his side, Finance…