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By Arun Maira |
JRD Tata was chairman of Tatas, India’s largest industrial conglomerate for 51 years, from 1938 to 1989. He steered the group through several regimes hostile to Indian…
In the last fortnight, Union Labour and Employment Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar had two meetings in quick succession –- one with central trade union organisations and…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
There has been an unprecedented outflow of funds from the open-ended, closed-ended debt/fixed income schemes and hybrid schemes of mutual funds (MF) in India.
By Thomas Isaac |
The global economy and the national economy are facing a crisis which by scale and nature is unprecedented in modern history. On one side, the pandemic and lock downs…
By Indira Hirway |
We are witnessing a great humanitarian tragedy unfolding right in front of our eyes: large groups of hungry and jobless migrant labour struggling to go home and the…
There are unanswered questions around the origin, spread and transparency of communications about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the new coronavirus disease that…
There is belated realisation among health experts, policymakers and elected representatives that the SARS Coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is here to stay. It will…
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The heart-wrenching ghastly incident of 16 migrants being mowed down under a running goods train in Maharashtra on May 8 raises several questions on the mobility of…
By Ajit Ranade |
What if you lose your job, but not health insurance? What if you lose your monthly income but get paid unemployment insurance? What if your livelihood collapses, but…
By Lekha Rattanani |
A highly strained relationship between Maharashtra and New Delhi is being tested by the recent decision of the Modi Government to set up the International Financial…
There have been concerns about how the Centre itself records these numbers, given that the official narrative is that the epidemic curve will now be headed downward.
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In a surprise move, the Government of India (GoI) in consultation with the RBI has enhanced the magnitude of its gross market borrowing programme to ₹12 lakh crore for…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
Workers left to starve to death, while air force jets generously spray hospitals with rose petals from the air. (Oil prices have clearly crashed, with much else). A…
By M A Kalam |
Covid-19 is a jolt to the way we work and live. The response, what the IMF has called “The Great Lockdown”, was a different kind of jolt. Now, the lifting of the…