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Arriving at consensus over key reforms?
29 May 2015 3:56 AM ISTWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s political tiff with the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) may garner all the attention in the State, but...
India’s changing mediascape
27 May 2015 1:42 AM ISTFor serious news readers quickly shuffling through catchy print media headlines before reading the items they are interested in, it could be often...
Inflation falls, GDP surges ahead
22 May 2015 6:35 AM ISTOne year may be a short period in the life of a nation. For a democratic country like India, it means almost a quarter of its lifespan. The...
Playing politics over farmer suicides
8 May 2015 3:59 AM ISTIf the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data is to be taken seriously, on an average over 15,000 farmers commit suicide every year in India. Many...
Regulate foreign funded NGOs
1 May 2015 3:31 AM ISTThe United States government has no business to be concerned about how India’s Ministry of Home Affairs reacts to undesirable activities of...
Problems multiply for India’s growth story
24 April 2015 3:59 AM ISTThere is something genuinely wrong with the way our nation’s affairs are being run. How else can one explain India’s emergence as the world’s largest...
The steep cost of healthcare
20 March 2015 4:09 AM ISTWhen the wife of the chief executive of India’s biggest public sector health insurance company recently visited a private medical specialist to cure...
FM’s pro-growth symphony prevents jarring Oppn notes
2 March 2015 5:11 AM ISTThe unemployed youth, aspiring small entrepreneurs may find the Budget providing a basket of hopes. The salaried middle class carries more money into...
Rush for LED bulbs upsets local makers
28 Feb 2015 4:43 AM ISTThe planned switch from non-Light Emitting Diode to Light Emitting Diode (LED) bulbs, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Domestic Efficient Lighting...
AAP shadow over the Union Budget
20 Feb 2015 3:25 AM ISTThe Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) stupendous victory in Delhi seems to have put pressure on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre’s first annual...
O for Oil; O for Optimism
23 Jan 2015 4:37 AM ISTThe plunging price of oil is the biggest energy story in the world right now. In June the price of a barrel of oil was almost $115. However, it soon...
UPA wanted to rob public sector of Rs 2 trilion cash reserves
19 Jan 2015 5:37 AM ISTBecause, both are dishonest acts as they could put such cash-stripped companies to great financial risk choking their growth and threatening their...