Opinion

Dasarathi Mishra The paramount task of financial institutions or financial intermediaries is to mobilise savings of the community and ensure efficient allocation of these resources for productive investment. The financial institutions that garner deposits from the public, namely commercial banks, co-operative banks, deposit-taking NBFCs, and...

SN Misra The NDA has ensured passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill in both houses of parliament despite its lack of majority in the Rajya Sabha. The Bill (now Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA) grants citizenship to those Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians...

Bhala Chandra Shadangi The declared objective of the recent amendment to the Citizenship Act is to provide citizenship to people forced to seek shelter in India owing to religious persecution or fear of persecution in their home countries, primarily Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and...

Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu & Sabyasachee Dash A silent revolution is happening in India; the country is changing rapidly right before our eyes. This is an India significantly powered by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The SME sector, with about 36 million units, is being touted,...

Nikunja Bihari Sahu After the Vikram Lander of Chandrayaan-2 crash landed while making a soft descent on Moon, ISRO bounced back to demonstrate its capability with the success of Cartosat-3, November 27. The satellite is India’s most advanced Earth imaging satellite built so far; it...

RK Pattnaik The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its resolution December 5, 2019, kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.15 per cent with a unanimous decision. This is in sharp variance with the market expectation of a 25 basis points reduction. On the face...

DC Pathak Uddhav Thackeray’s roller-coaster ride to chief ministership of Maharashtra reaffirms the supremacy of the democratic principle in electoral politics that a party or a coalition commanding majority in the legislative house alone should be constitutionally allowed to assume power. But, the Maharashtra episode...

Saeed Naqvi Ellen Barry of the ‘New York Times’ walked into my study and, wasting no time, came straight to the point. What did I know about the last “Begum of Oudh”? She had a quizzical, amused look like she knew what the answer would...

Manoj Das Safety is a highly subjective condition. What might appear safe to someone, might not be perceived as safe by someone else. Nonetheless, every sentient being on this planet craves safety. Public safety as a construct in modern day India needs to be examined...

Sudha Devi Nayak Salman Rushdie, the internationally acclaimed writer, won the Booker Prize for ‘Midnight’s Children’ in 1981, the Booker of Bookers in 1993 for the same novel and again the Best of the Booker in 2008. His novels have also been shortlisted for the...