With an eye of creating jobs and MSMEs as a key provider of these jobs, the budget speech of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman noted that PSU banks “will build…
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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The budget exhibits fiscal prudence, on the whole, and has not strayed from the trajectory of fiscal consolidation that was being followed in the post-Covid period.
By Ajit Ranade |
The world is in a turmoil. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is well into its third year with no end in sight.
By Saugata Bhattacharya |
The Budget exercise is a complex intertwining of political-economy compulsions with multiple policy trade-offs required to achieve often conflicting economic…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Some indications of a BJP unravelling are coming in at least from two key States, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, both where the BJP took heavy losses in the Lok Sabha…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Brazil has fired up the G20 with a sharp focus on wealth inequality within a few months of taking the presidency of the influential grouping from India in December…
There is a growing voice on the “commercialisation” of healthcare, with stories surfacing time and again - the recent reports around kidney transplantation being a…
By Ajit Ranade |
The reader might think that this column is a proposal for a new fighter aircraft development project in partnership with Russia, especially as this is the time the…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
India’s geo-economic and geopolitical ambitions are growing, and with it has come a shift that challenges long-held, time-tested positions and alignments that have…
By Ajit Ranade |
About twenty-five years ago, when Professor Suhas Sukhatme had just completed his term as Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, his interview was…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A lot has been written about how the speech of the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur on the 2024 elections points straight to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
By Ajit Ranade |
A new government has been sworn in, with Narendra Modi taking charge as Prime Minister for the third time.
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In 1989, the Congress won 197 seats with almost 40% of the vote, against 143 of the Janata Dal. Rajiv Gandhi preferred to sit in the Opposition. Times now have changed.
