In the days following the first MPC meeting for 2025-26 which concluded on April 9, 2025, it was widely expected that another policy rate cut of at least 25 basis…
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By Ajit Ranade |
Around 1990, India and China had roughly the same economic size and per capita income in dollar terms. China’s per capita income was lower than that of India.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation stands with the Prime Minister in saluting the defence forces and condemning the barbaric terrorist killings in Pahalgam that led India to strike Pakistan…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s response to the Pahalgam terrorist attack was carefully calibrated, measured, precisely targeted and intended to not escalate or spin out.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The wild run of the Donald Trump brigade in the United States is already bringing negative fallouts: the US economy contracted in the first quarter of 2025, tourist…
By Srikanth Kondapalli |
Indian armed strikes as part of Operation Sindoor on nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir on May 7 in the aftermath of the attack on tourists in…
By Vappala Balachandran |
In the wake of the massacre in Baisaran (Pahalgam), some reports claimed that it was an “intelligence” or “security” failure.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has passed away on Easter Monday, aged 88.
How does a woman in labour walk five kilometers across a hill to reach a clinic at night?
By Ajit Ranade |
Even as we celebrate his one hundred and thirty fifth birthday, Dr. Ambedkar continues to be extremely relevant to India’s society and polity.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is the view held by some that the America we see today in all its ugliness is one passing phase, a rough patch the world has landed in because the country chose…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the MPC of RBI, on conclusion of its first bi-monthly meeting for 2025-26, lowered the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6 per cent and…
By Ajit Ranade |
Thirty-two years ago, the 73rd amendment to the Constitution, called the Panchayati Raj bill came into force on April 24.
By Vappala Balachandran |
A blunder caused while preparing the member list for a top-secret chat assembly named the “Houthi PC Small Group” among senior American security leaders in the Donald…