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By Vidyadhar Date |

Baburao Shelar was a corporator for 17 years in working class Sewree in Mumbai from 1968 to 1985.

By Jagdish Rattanani |
Father Stan Swamy has died. He has found peace and eternal rest and has at last been freed of the tyranny unleashed on him by a hate-filled power machinery that thinks…
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The dictionary meaning of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar) is “reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than those of others.” Accordingly, there are two ways of…
By Ajit Ranade |
The latest survey indicates that such conviction is ingrained among Indians, and it is for us to reinforce, and harness that conviction, and not magnify or exploit the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the order of nine lakh crore rupees. The precise gross NPAs figure…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The rate of real economic growth measured in terms of GDP at constant market prices (base year 2012) has revived in 2020-21 and entered into a positive territory in Q3 (…
By Ajit Ranade |
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha Rao was sworn in as India’s ninth Prime Minister, and his tenure…
By Ishan Chauhan |

A human has rights. We understand that. To what extent we have understood that is a very good question.

By Vidyadhar Date |

The Lokmanya Nagar housing society near Matunga road station in Mumbai is using water from its well for the last seventy years for its members.

By Vidyadhar Date |

Busybee or Behram Contractor, the well known humorist, had a heart.

By T Jacob John, Dhanya Dharmapalan |
During the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic in India, we had not realised that pregnant women could have serious problems with the COVID-19 disease.
By M A Kalam |
Blind ritualism does not lead to an understanding of what the religion teaches, and the deeper messages are often lost in the din of the sounds that ring out loud, day…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The “Look East” policy, targeted towards the economic development of North-East India in general and Assam in particular through providing land connectivity to the ASEAN…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s export of goods has been clocking a healthy performance for the past three months. It has been 34, 30 and 32 billion dollars in March, April and May re-…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the MPC of the RBI kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent in its second bi-monthly meeting in the current fiscal