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People in Myanmar woke up February 1 to see the country’s hybrid democracy suffer a body blow with the generals taking over the administration in a coup. The citizens had learnt to live with military rule for decades, but they thought it was a thing...

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman read out her 10,500 worded Budget 2021-22 speech in slightly over 100 minutes. Media has labeled it one of the shortest budgets in recent memory. The times justify this brevity because, maybe, not much was to be said. The nation has...

The wounds inflicted on the agitating farmers during their tractor march to the capital on Republic Day are fresh and raw. The country is still unable to come to terms with the monumental assault on the sacred symbol of the republic, the Tricolour fluttering atop...

This will be the Modi government’s eighth budget. We are told that gross domestic product of goods and services this year, meaning from April 2021 to March 2022, will be 11 per cent more than it was in the period between April 2020 and March...

In a major reshuffle, the Centre has transferred and posted 18 secretaries to different ministries and departments while several have been promoted. As is often the case, there is a story behind many of the babus involved in the reshuffle. The Department of Personnel &...

The stock markets are into a tailspin these days after a whirlwind surge over last one month or so. Extending its losing streak for the fifth day in a row, equity benchmark Sensex plunged 536 points Thursday. From lows of 25,639 on March 24 last...

While several States of India roil under the latest outbreak of avian influenza, the strategy of mass culling of poultry birds, to contain the spread, is a knee-jerk reaction adopted by health authorities. This is not the first bird flu outbreak in India. Repeated outbreaks...

The country celebrates the 72nd Republic Day in the midst of a global pandemic-induced gloom, a ravaged economy and protests by farmers on an unprecedented scale against a controversial legislative exercise. The star attraction of the celebrations throughout the country is the magnificent parades by...

At a time when vaccines against Covid-19 are being rolled out in phases in many countries across the world, there are reports of palpable anger and dismay from Wuhan. Just about this time last year this Chinese city earned the opprobrium of being the villain...

We have entered the 13th consecutive quarter of economic slowdown in India. Gross Domestic Product, meaning the total value of services and goods produced in this country in the last 12 months, shrunk in 2020-2021 against 2019-2020. We made less than we did the previous...