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By Jagdish Rattanani |

The elections are behind us and a minority government styled as Modi 3.0 has taken office.

By Ajit Ranade |

This was the first budget of the government led by Prime Minister Modi in his third outing as the PM.

By Saugata Bhattacharya |

To an extent, the 2024-25 budget measures were influenced by the general election results.

By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The budget exhibits fiscal prudence, on the whole, and has not strayed from the trajectory of fiscal consolidation that was being followed in the post-Covid period.
By Ajit Ranade |

The world is in a turmoil. The Russia-Ukraine conflict is well into its third year with no end in sight.

By Saugata Bhattacharya |

The Budget exercise is a complex intertwining of political-economy compulsions with multiple policy trade-offs required to achieve often conflicting economic…

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.