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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 Sanjana Brahmawar Mohan |

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 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…

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 GN Bajpai |

The results of the Parliamentary elections-2024 have unfolded quite a surprise.

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.
By Kingshuk Nag |

Swings in fortune have seen him in and out of power over the last four decades.

By Himadri Bhattacharya |

At the conclusion of its second bi-monthly meeting for the current financial year on June 7, 2024, the MPC of RBI kept the policy rate unchanged for the eighth time…

By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is now evident that the people of India have rejected the Modi-ised version of the BJP, which is now well short of a majority in the incoming Lok Sabha.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |

The surplus transfer to the Central government from the RBI under Section 47 of the RBI Act, 1934, has often evoked scepticism and raised many questions on the amount…

By Arun Maira |

Global climate change is running ahead of solutions to mitigate it.