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With the Modi government running a second term and Amit Shah taking charge as Home Minister, Kashmir is high on the agenda. Friday, the Lok Sabha approved a statutory resolution to extend central rule in the harried state for another six months. This is not...

At the fifth meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog earlier this month, Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi revealed his wish to see India transforming to a $5 trillion economy by 2024, the year when his current term ends. The desire sounded soothing, but...

We have been duly reminded by the all powerful of today that 44 years have passed since the declaration of the state of Emergency by late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. We are also being told that the people of India did not accept the authoritarian...

Encephalitis has claimed 152 lives in Bihar. It is extremely distressing that such a large number of children have ‘succumbed to the disease’. Equally worrying is the fact that the physicians themselves are reported to be equivocal in many cases about whether encephalitis is behind...

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, known for her aggressive postures, is on the defensive after the hits her party took at the recent LS polls. She has her flaws, but praise must be due to her for the way she responded to a people’s...

Monsoon has delayed progressing after it hit Kerala nearly a week past its usual time. The amount of rain in June has already been over 40 per cent less than usual. Agricultural activities in most parts of the country are sorely dependent on monsoon and...

Circular economy is a term gaining currency in India. NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said at a symposium organised by FICCI June 17, 2019, Monday, that the country has the potential to generate 1.4 crore jobs in 5-7 years by focusing on circular economy. The...

Retaliatory tariffs that India is imposing on 28 American products have kicked in June 16, 2019, Sunday. It is a move that India has made after much consideration and eight postponements, but may not achieve anything significant. The US had raised tariffs on aluminium and...

The new Parliament starts its session Monday even as the Opposition has yet to reconcile to the unexpected sweep of the BJP in the Lok Sabha polls. The despondence is most evident in the Congress party where nothing seems to move, faced as it is...

Former Chief Economic Adviser to government of India, Arvind Subramanian, dropped a bombshell earlier this week by revealing that the Centre kept inflating growth numbers and the new GDP series had overestimated the real GDP growth by 2.5 percentage points. According to him, if we...