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India and China are progressing. India at snail’s pace and China in gazelle mode. Since the turn of the Century, China’s growth story has been astounding, while India’s is dismal in most respects. The more China gains economic clout, the more its capacity to take...

The Jet Airways crisis has drawn first blood. One employee of the airline, it is suspected, ended his life as a result of mounting pressure from the non-receipt of salaries for the past many months and his own medical condition. Shailesh Kumar Singh was a...

Aakar Patel When you log on to www.bjp.org, there is a message that says ‘welcome to the website of the world’s largest party’. The BJP has 10 crore members. About 1 in 10 adult Indians is a member of the BJP. This is a staggering...

The US has decided to end the six-month waiver it had allowed on sanctions against Iranian oil. The decision will directly affect eight countries – China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, Italy and Greece. India meets 80 per cent of its oil needs through...

Sri Lanka is in a state of absolute chaos, its leadership found wanting in the face of a terrorist mayhem that killed about 300 people in coordinated suicide bomb blasts. We had written about this subject earlier in this column and had wondered whether these...

The series of coordinated blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday — which killed nearly 300 innocents across churches, luxury hotels and other key installations — exposed the vulnerability of the island nation to a “new brand of terror,” suspectedly linked to Islamist terrorism. The...

The highest seat of Indian judiciary is again under a cloud – something that should not be happening in an atmosphere where faith on the judiciary seems to be dwindling. Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi, who, along with senior justices Jasti Chelameswar, Madan B...

Aakar Patel Twenty-five ago, Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi was contesting elections in Mumbai. Standing on a Samajwadi Party ticket, he was opposing the sitting MLA from Bandra East, Madhukar Sarpotdar of the Shiv Sena. Sarpotdar, who died in 2010, was active in the post-Babri...

Every political party worth its salt wants to win polls. This gets all the more obvious in an election year when it becomes expedient for parties, especially those in power, to step up their populist programmes. Ruling parties loosen their purse strings to ensure that...

It is well-known that Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya are not the only ones who fled the country after committing financial frauds of Himalayan proportions. Even now, the Union government is not ready to put on record the number of such sharks who fooled the...