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By Ajit Ranade |
The right to stand for elections is neither a divine nor a human right. It is not even a fundamental right as per the…
By Martin Macwan |
‘Dalit’ is a popular identity in India as it is in Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other parts of the world. Further, ‘…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
At the root of India's failing system is a health network that has become a money-spinning racket.  Anecdotal…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are two wings on which scandals of the Rafale and Bofors variety take flight. One is plain fact and the other is…
By Ajit Ranade |
The big news this week was on two key prices. One is the price of the almighty dollar, and the other is the price of…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
One obvious casualty of widespread restructuring was the supervision of banks. The examiners of banks never had a clear…
By Ajit Ranade |
On August 31, it reported that India’s GDP growth rate for the April to June quarter was a solid 8.2 percent, well past…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In analysing the situation, it is important to note that episodes of volatility are not a new phenomenon in India and…
By Ajit Ranade |
The floods in Kerala and the quantum of aid it needs versus what is on offer from the Centre has brought back the…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the medium to long term, the rupee will always depreciate against the dollar. The reason for this is that the rupee…
By Ajit Ranade |
The trust capital in India lags far behind the Scandinavian countries or even in East Asia. This trust deficit is the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The largest public sector bank and the largest private sector bank have announced losses for the first quarter (Q1) of…
By Arun Maira |
There are great expectations about the growth in the size of the Indian economy: that it has already exceeded the size…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The policy repo rate, which (over time) drives the rate at which banks lend to customers, has moved up from 6 per cent…
The annual study of State budgets released this month by the RBI comes amid important developments in the fiscal…