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From September 1 we will have Unlock 4.0. I have lost track of what this means and I do not think anybody really understands it. What the Indian government has done is to try and manage the spread of Covid through keeping things shut. If...

Former Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar has been named the new Election Commissioner. He replaces Ashok Lavasa, who is leaving to join the Asian Development Bank as vice-president. While Sunil Arora is the Chief Election Commissioner, the other Election Commissioner is Sushil Chandra. The importance of...

Real estate is one of the most battered of the lot in India in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. The economic slump stretching over a decade compounded by faulty economic policies by the Centre such as demonetisation and a rushed-through GST had already taken...

In the last two months, three people -- two working in a newspaper and one in a magazine -- have savagely attacked lakhs of animal feeders who have risked their own health to keep animals alive, and claimed that their feeding has alienated the whole...

When it comes to a mention about underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, Pakistan, that harboured him for nearly 20 years, has famously and always been in a state of denial. India too, in a different manner, is in a state of denial about his actual whereabouts....

Life in India is into hard times. The COVID-19 is adding a lethal punch to the already difficult economic difficulties to people across the board. What comes as an added shock is the wayward manner in which fuel prices are hiked – an indulgence of...

The 2014 General Election was proof enough that the average Indian voter had become sick and tired of a corrupt and inefficient Congress-led UPA government at Delhi. That vote catapulted Narendra Modi, an unknown entity outside Gujarat state, to the national political play ground. It...

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has deputed five teams to investigate the death of an actor who killed himself. I do not know why the CBI is investigating it nor do I understand why there is such great public interest in this issue. I...

Two years after his highly publicized ouster from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), its former Special Director Rakesh Asthana has been named Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF). Interestingly, he continues to hold additional charge of Director General, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB)....

The goods and services tax (GST) regime, especially its architecture and implementation, continues to bug the authorities. Fraudsters keep exploiting the loopholes in the system. In our state alone, GST frauds worth thousands of crores of rupees have come to light. In the latest of...