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The Central Vista project being initiated by the Modi government is drawing sharp criticism, and correctly so. This is mostly going unnoticed in the present scenario of COVID-related lockdown and social and mental paralysis but needs serious attention and public intervention if only to avert...

Let’s have a look at the economic fallout of the current lockdown today and why measuring it will be easier than such shocks have been in the past. One of the problems India has as a modern economy is that of data. This is something...

The state government has thrown open its purse strings to deal with the spread in COVID-19 positive cases in the state. Till today, it has had a decent report card vis-a-vis many other COVID-affected states'. In the process, the state government claims to have achieved...

When people were restricted to their homes since March 25th, I thought it would be an opportunity for everyone to discover the best of themselves: they would read books, cultivate pot plants, play cards with the family, laugh a lot, breathe better air, play with...

The government has more than egg on its face – that too in these bad COVID times. The reference is to the way the Union Government, or the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), had to hurriedly cancel a large consignment of Chinese rapid anti-body...

Reports in the media indicate to certain troubling factors emerging out of the video conference held Monday 27 April 2020 wherein Prime Minister Narendra Modi consulted only nine Chief Ministers. It seems these politicians were unanimous in their opinion on extending the COVID-19 related national...

A report by news agencies claims a group of senior Indian Revenue Officers (IRS) has suggested certain remedies and quick cures to the Union government to effectively face the fiscal difficulties that will arise in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic in India. Most probably...

Our good and bad qualities as a nation and as a people, the shortcomings and peculiarities of our culture, the incompetence of our government and state, all of these are being exposed by COVID-19. We are facing as a species the same problem across the...

NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has downplayed China’s criticism of the Modi sarkar’s decision to tighten its Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy, which is seen as an attempt to wall off the Chinese dragon from making further inroads into India’s economic ecosystem amid the COVID-19...

Earlier this week, US crude futures crashed into a sub-zero level – a historic development, for never did crude oil price hit a negative territory. What that meant was that oil producers had to pay the buyers to take the commodity off their stocks amid...