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The Economist is a magazine though it refers to itself as a newspaper. It is over 175 years old and sells about 10 lakh copies a week. Its readers are mostly professionals, highly educated and with higher incomes. It is one of the very few...

Kerala’s Chief Secretary Vishwas Mehta came under fire from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) over the continued ineffective solid waste management in Kochi. According to sources, the tribunal made scathing remarks against the state government while criticizing the affidavit filed by Mehta and threatened to...

A refrain in this year’s Budget was ‘spend’. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, during her 100 plus-minute speech, was at pains to state that ‘We have spent, we have spent and we have spent’. In fact, the government claimed it spent Rs 4.1 lakh crore...

In 2013, India started using Neonicotinoid pesticides in order to protect a crop that Monsanto had promised the Indian farmer he would not have to use pesticides on. These are the worst pesticides in the world and they have been indicted for having killed billions...

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...