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From today, April 1, 2019, the Income Tax Department of the country officially begins using big data analytics — jargon for virtually looking at taxpayers’ private information without their knowledge or consent — to look for tax evasion. It is the latest addition in the...

In a few months, my term as the head of a large non-governmental organisation comes to an end. I thought I should write about the sector and inform readers of the things that I learned and discovered in my four years of doing the work....

Two weeks before the general elections 2019 kick off, Congress president Rahul Gandhi has announced, if voted to power, his party will provide Rs6,000 per month to 50 million poorest families of the country. This is the largest handout ever announced by a political party...

The term Aaya Ram, Gaya Ram was most probably born in Haryana in the 1980s. It is said that Bhajan Lall, the then Chief Minister of that State had defected en masse with his whole flock of MLAs from the Janata Party and joined the...

A recent cartoon depicted two squatting farmers discussing that with the PM-KISAN and KALIA type programmes, elections ought to be held every two years. The joke obviously was that almost all Indian politicians recollect the existence of the poor just prior to polls. Early 2019...

As election fever rises, the dissemination of fake and biased news is becoming a major factor that could affect electoral outcomes around the country. The government has tried to put its foot down and curb such activities. Prominent platforms like Facebook and Twitter, have assured...

Candidates to the first phase of the great Indian election will be busy filing their nomination papers, before the last date, which is Monday, March 25 (the deadline for nominations for phase 2 is Tuesday). I was interested at looking at some of the things...

It is partly an encouraging development that beleaguered businessman Anil Dhirubhai Ambani was forced to finally settle the Rs 550 crore (and interest) dues his company Reliance Communications owed Swedish telecom major Ericsson Monday. The other part is that he was incapable of coughing up...

It was after a long drag that the Union Government took the first decisive step this week for appointment of the Lokpal, a national level anti-corruption watchdog that will pursue complaints, recommend action against public servants and file cases in a special court as per...

Racial hatred is re-emerging as a major motivation for terror acts, as is exemplified in the mass killings at Christchurch in New Zealand this Friday. This time, the role of social media in this heinous act has added to the terror and pathos. The same...