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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In its first meeting of 2021-22, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept unchanged the policy…
By Ajit Ranade |
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An increase in minimum…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
I have almost come to believe in the myth of corporate liberalism. And then comes Prof. Mehta’s resignation to remind…
By Lekha Rattanani |
The brew has significance in this election as among the five poll-bound States, four are the top contributors to the…
By Ajit Ranade |
There seems to be a sudden epidemic of sorts, to legislate jobs for locals, in various States of India. Most recently…
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Assam’s tea industry is mostly confined to the tea supply chain's unremunerative plantation activities.
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India is one of the worst affected countries in terms of the number of detected COVID-19 cases and suspected undetected…
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There was widespread celebration as Kamala Harris became the first female US Vice President. But beyond the borders of…
By Arun Maira |
Governments sometimes bury their heads in the sand, like ostriches, to avoid uncomfortable realities. The pandemic…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation is sailing through very turbulent times. The ship rocks wildly these days, so much so that one may worry of…
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The Finance Minister has ticked all the boxes except splurging direct cash and tax reductions. The direct cash…
By Indira Hirway |
A majority of Indians suffered in multiple ways during the last year. The crisis that started before Covid came to…
By Ajit Ranade |
The government cannot spend even a rupee without the consent of parliament. hence its annual spending plan, called the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The finance minister, by swiftly replacing with a tablet, the red-coloured cloth bag containing budget documents that…
By Saugata Bhattacharya |
"I want to see a post-pandemic budget never seen before in 100 years," Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s Finance…