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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last week reduced the benchmark lending rate by 25 basis points. This was on top of a similar rate cut in February by the central bank. In response to the February policy rate cut, a number of lenders such...

Hate crimes are not only continuing but also increasing in India. The latest of them has been reported from Assam. It is reported that a man, a Moslem, was accused of transporting beef, heckled and forced to eat pork. The incident reported from Biswanath, however,...

The Income Tax (IT) Department has become super active and is on an attack mode now. While election process is on, IT sleuths are busy investigating and raiding homes and offices of leaders of different political parties. Some people connected to certain leaders of opposition...

There is some confusion about the meaning of the message sent by LK Advani to Narendra Modi through his blog. The former Deputy Prime Minister and former BJP president wrote a farewell blog a few days after his safe seat in Gandhinagar (which he has...

Closure of the Srinagar-Jammu highway is inflicting more pain on an already alienated state. Reports suggest that the ban on civilian traffic on the National Highway connecting Baramulla and Udhampur on Sundays and Wednesdays till May 31 is bound to adversely affect business and cause...

Election manifestos seem to have lost their relevance over the years for the simple reason that most promises made in them by virtually all parties and their leaders often do not get mentioned at all during the following five year term and remain on paper...

It is one thing to bring to light the audacious actions of the country’s armed forces and their capabilities, and quite something else entirely to use them as props for political ends. Using the achievements of the armed forces, which often come at the cost...

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...