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As a year of despair ends
27 Dec 2016 9:36 PM GMT2016 – the Modi Government in third year – is ending in a state of near-paralysis of India’s financial system with its total failure to discharge...
2017: Disorder, global headwinds
19 Dec 2016 9:38 PM GMTThe Modi-inflicted demonetisation of higher value notes totalling 86 per cent of money in circulation on November 8 continues to take its toll...
TN needs greater focus on development
15 Dec 2016 9:30 PM GMTThe demise of charismatic Jayalalithaa, at the height of her glorious stewardship of Tamil Nadu, cast a gloom for her adored millions while her...
Undergoing acute financial stress
12 Dec 2016 8:12 PM GMTThe distress for the millions worsens –getting cash from banks, even within the weekly limits set by RBI, to meet their urgent needs – into the second...
Govt coffers swell with people's money
6 Dec 2016 10:11 PM GMTIt will be no surprise if December 7 sees a second consecutive rate cut from the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which has effectively substituted...
Modi trying to control irreversible damage
1 Dec 2016 9:44 PM GMTBarring the infamous emergency of 1975 enforced by Indira Gandhi, India's millions had not been thrown into a convulsion on a scale wrought by Prime...
Making a mess of 'demonetisation'
19 Nov 2016 10:45 PM GMTPrime Minister Narendra Modi's 'astra' (demonetisation) has misfired, his "maximum governance" failing to ensure an orderly exchange of illegalised...
Jaya's appeal from hospital for by-poll wins
17 Nov 2016 9:41 PM GMTChief Minister Jayalalithaa's extended stay in Apollo hospital for recuperation has put her Government rudderless in tackling major policy issues, as...
Desperate to attack black money
11 Nov 2016 10:04 PM GMTHaving failed to fulfil a major May 2014 poll promise to end the black money menace within a month, let alone the “achhe din” now quietly buried,...
No shine on development agenda
24 Oct 2016 8:45 PM GMTA few weeks before the brutal cross-border terrorist attack on Uri, Prime Minister Modi had sensibly warned that India's defence spending might have...
TN governor’s order welcomed by most parties
15 Oct 2016 9:50 PM GMTDMK leader Karunanidhi has been making the most of the political opportunism in an unexpected predicament in governance for the ruling AIADMK, with...
Morale boost for Indian economy
5 Oct 2016 9:28 PM GMTThe Modi Government looks set to improve upon its mixed record in growth and reform thus far, as the economy enters the crucial second half of fiscal...