For nearly six decades since he founded the Shiv Sena in 1966, Bal Keshav Thackeray’s party has been the noisy epicentre of politics in a State that was traditionally…
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By Ajit Ranade |
India’s sustained economic growth will not happen without parallel and steady increase in energy usage.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It would be incorrect to categorise the coordinated RSS-BJP attack on the words “secular” and “socialist” in the preamble of the Indian Constitution as a “debate” in…
By Vappala Balachandran |
As this is written, Iran has mocked President Donald Trump’s call to “unconditionally surrender”: "Iran does not negotiate under duress, shall not accept peace…
By Ajit Ranade |
The United States of America joined the war between Israel and Iran, by bombing three nuclear sites in Iran.
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The quantum of dividend payments of the RBI to the Central government during the last few years has followed a rising trend not witnessed before.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
A wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) called the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) insures all deposits in RBI-…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
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…
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…