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NK Arya, the new Chief Secretary of Rajasthan, is not the first choice of state Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot for the position. Until the last moment, the last working day of outgoing Chief Secretary Rajeev Swarup, the Gehlot government hoped to push for a tenure...

In the economic history of the world, one would clearly observe that gold has always been a sensitive barometer of fear. Its value invariably runs up in proportion to people’s fear quotient. The fast upward rally in the value of the yellow metal has been...

The more meat eaters are pushed onto the back foot by the thousands of people turning vegan every day, the harder they are fighting back. Meat is no longer called meat. It is called protein, and a variety of myths are spread about plant eaters;...

At a time when several BJP-ruled states are mulling legislation against ‘love jihad’, a term often used by right-wing groups to target relationships between Moslem men and Hindoo women, which, they say, is an elaborate ruse to forcibly convert the women, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen...

From Hathras in North India to Poland in Europe, women, in general, seem to be going through a tough period in human history. Not that history has any other period known or recorded that had given that gender a kinder treatment. Recent past, especially the...

As coronavirus wreaked havoc across Europe early this year, two French doctors’ suggestion that Africans could be used as human guinea pigs for testing vaccine against COVID-19 drew widespread condemnation. The ‘deeply racist’ comments produced angry reactions not only from the World Health Organization (WHO)...

The prime minister has given an extraordinary interview to the business newspaper the Economic Times. It is confident in outlook, breezy in tone and out of place with our reality. He assumes he had done not only the right thing in managing Covid but done...

The countdown to the annual Budget for 2021-22 has started amid the urgency to push economic growth badly mauled by the Covid-19 pandemic. There is already talk of a third stimulus soon, going by the recent utterances of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The Budget-making babus...

Skyrocketing prices of kitchen essentials continue to harass the common man. Most vegetables have remained out of bounds for the poor. Onions and potatoes are getting less visible in kitchens. Only the upper-middle class and the ultra rich from amongst us can afford to buy...

Why would any government make policies that make its people poorer and unhealthier? I can only put this down to a complete ignorance of real economics due to which policies have the worst effect on the economy and on health. Let me briefly give you...