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By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
The world’s second largest market for vaccines is India. The world’s largest vaccine producer (the Pune-based Serum…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The Maharashtra police-politician squabble is now being legally processed by the CBI under orders of the Bombay High…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the other, vaccines.…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
COVID-19 is a terrible disease that is killing us but the disease that allows this disease to thrive and spread with…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide on the main policy…
By Lekha Rattanani |
So why is India surprised when Sachin Vaze, an assistant police inspector, was found camped in a five-star hotel, drove…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This week, April 7, is World Health Day, and we can expect discussions to be largely focused on the second wave of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An increase in minimum…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In Mumbai, there is nothing honest in the air as yet with allegations, wild and otherwise, flying thick in the wake of…
By Ajit Ranade |
There seems to be a sudden epidemic of sorts, to legislate jobs for locals, in various States of India. Most recently…
By Ajit Ranade |
The third-quarter data on India's GDP showed that it has come out of the recession. The data shows a substantial…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The farmers agitation has grown and sustained over a long enough period of time to become the most potent and powerful…
By Ajit Ranade |
The very foundation of a robustly functioning democracy is a high degree of social capital and trust. Let us not…
By Indira Hirway |
A majority of Indians suffered in multiple ways during the last year. The crisis that started before Covid came to…