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Bank failures have achieved a hattrick within a short period: the PMC Bank, the Yes Bank and now the Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB). To think that the LVB episode is an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is little doubt among many reasonably well-informed people that there is an ugly mix of the vaudeville and the vicious in the material aired by Republic TV. There…
By Karamatullah K. Ghori |
For nearly four days America, nay the world, held its breath waiting for the November 3 US presidential election results to become public. The nerve-wrecking suspense…
By Ajit Ranade |
Kamala Harris will become the first ever Vice President of America to have Indian ancestry. Senator Harris’s mother Shyamala Gopalan arrived in the United States at the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This looks like a nail-biting finish, with all the marks of suspense, swings, threats, bullies, claims and counterclaims.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The world’s most-watched election is today, Nov.03, with Joe Biden in the lead but pollsters still unsure if he will make it to the White House. The prospects of a…
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Robert Koch discovered tuberculosis (TB) bacteria nearly 140 years ago, making this one of the earliest diseases to have its causative agent identified by man.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The RBI annual State finances study, released this year on Oct. 27, comes with the special theme it has titled: “Covid-19 and its spatial dimension in India”. The 89-…
By Jagdish Rattanani, Saamdu Chetri |
A lot of economic frenzy that drives GDP has gone away, forced shut by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This means the way we live has changed in ways that we need to examine…
By Jagdish Rattanani, Saamdu Chetri |
For so many students sitting in their homes and not knowing when the lockdown will end for their particular schools or colleges, this is a difficult time. Opening up has…
By Ajit Ranade |
In September 2018 a five-judge constitution bench that included the Chief Justice of India, pronounced an important verdict on criminals in politics. The Supreme Court…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |

Very few people outside India’s North-East are familiar with the achievements and legacy of one of the most fascinating dynasties in the nation’s medieval history,…

By Arun Maira |
The Covid pandemic has highlighted the urgency for economists to find a ‘new normal’ economics, which they have been searching for ever since the global financial crisis…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as ways of pushing economic growth in the medium term. Speaking to…
By John Chelladurai |
‘Social distancing’ has become the phrase of the year, perhaps the decade. An essential practice in the given situation, it has evidently saved a million lives and is lik