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The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The severity, penetration and pervasiveness of the second wave of the pandemic opens new questions on the optimism of…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the other, vaccines.…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide on the main policy…
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The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the same time improve…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The monetary policy announced on April 07, 2021 has been along expected lines, on the surface. But barely below the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This week, April 7, is World Health Day, and we can expect discussions to be largely focused on the second wave of the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In its first meeting of 2021-22, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept unchanged the policy…
By Ajit Ranade |
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An increase in minimum…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
I have almost come to believe in the myth of corporate liberalism. And then comes Prof. Mehta’s resignation to remind…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The brew has significance in this election as among the five poll-bound States, four are the top contributors to the…
By Rashmi Sawhney |
Subhash Kapoor’s new film, Madam Chief Minister (2021) has been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. Although a…
By Ajit Ranade |
There seems to be a sudden epidemic of sorts, to legislate jobs for locals, in various States of India. Most recently…
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Assam’s tea industry is mostly confined to the tea supply chain's unremunerative plantation activities.