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By Jagdish Rattanani |
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term, scheduled to be…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
This budget is a bold one that builds on the confidence of the government gained from the healthy GDP growth and…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Budget for 2023-24 coming up next week will be the fourth budget for NDA II. The budget will be presented…
By Jagdish Rattanani, Pavitra Mohan |
A landmark piece of legislation that promises to make healthcare a fundamental right has run into unseemly opposition…
By Jagdish Rattanani, T Jacob John |
We are into the New Year but the pandemic, it appears, will follow us into 2023. If the world thought this would be the…
By Indira Hirway |
The BJP has won for a record seventh term in the Gujarat Assembly elections held earlier this month. The win is no…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan, two of Hindi filmdom’s biggest stars, have come out to make statements of the kind…
By Arun Maira |
Civilisational values are conflicting while national soccer teams compete in Qatar’s stadiums. Qatar bans alcohol while…
By Ajit Ranade |
There have been a slew of reports and papers on the Indian economy in the past two weeks. The most important one was…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
During the period May - December 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has increased the policy repo rate (PRR)…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The stinging remarks by Justice Sandeep Kumar of the Patna High Court in a case of the bulldozing of the house of a…
By Ajit Ranade |
The founding principles of our Constitution lay stress on justice, liberty, fraternity and equality. We must rededicate…
By Ajit Ranade |
Nearly four years ago, in January 2019 the Parliament passed the 103 rd constitu-tional amendment carving out a new…