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What is happening in India from Kashmir to Mumbai is a spine-chilling crime thriller -- shady corporate-bureaucrat-political nexus, swinging deals and money-spinning rackets through devious routes. This is the inescapable conclusion one can reach going by allegations by high profile persons of the likes of...

With India achieving the milestone of administering 100 crore vaccines to contain the scourge of COVID-19, the government has gone on a propaganda blitzkrieg to ‘celebrate’ the event. The fact that the government’s inept handling of the pandemic since it broke out over a year...

India has administered one billion or 100 crore doses of vaccine and this is a fine achievement. Where did this 100 crore doses come from and what was the role of government in procuring them? This needs to be understood. August 7, 2020, the Serum...

The Air India sale is finally done with, fittingly, the Tatas back in the cockpit. But there is no rest for Tuhin Kant Pandey, Secretary of the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM). Already, he and his department colleagues are looking ahead at...

Elizabeth Drew When the election gods handed Joe Biden the presidency in 2020, they set a trap that he walked right into. The question – one that could define his presidency and affect the 2024 presidential election – is whether he can escape the trap...

India seems to be waking up, at long last, to the reality of maintaining good and workable relationships with its neighbours. Whether it is rather too late in the day or if the adage - better late than never – will hold good only the...

What has been happening in Bangladesh since the commencement of Durga Puja was only waiting to happen following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. The day the religious bigots captured Kabul and the Afghanistan government abjectly surrendered to them, it was clear to the...

Reports emerging from China suggest a fierce power struggle is being waged at the top of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Trouble is brewing as the wily President Xi Jinping plays his cards to get a controversial and unprecedented third term as General Secretary of...

In 2015, India’s ranking on the Global Hunger Index was 55. Last year, in 2020, it fell 39 places to land at 94. India went behind Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal. The index tracks undernourishment, child stunting (low height for age), child wasting (low weight for...

Jayati Ghosh There are many reasons to be critical of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, but the legitimacy crisis now confronting both institutions is not based on any of them. Instead, it has arisen for the wrong reasons, and this is serving...