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Parliament’s Standing Committee Report On Pharma Attracts Global Attention
By T N Ashok In a windowless committee room on Parliament Street, Indian lawmakers have lit a fuse that threatens to detonate the business model of the world’s most profitable industry. The numbers are stark, even obscene. A common allergy pill that costs distributors two cents to procure sells...
US Power Play In The Caribbean: Washington’s New Monroe Doctrine
By Roger McKenzie LONDON: We have grown used over the years to client regimes in the Middle East and parts of Africa doing the bidding of the various colonial rulers. Sadly, these “misleaders” are not restricted to those regions. We are seeing the same spectacle playing out across the...
India’s Push For Self-Reliance In Rare Earth Magnet Making Is Laudable
By Nantoo Banerjee It is encouraging to note that the government has decided to invest large sums of money in support of rare earth magnet manufacturing and substantially improve the country’s rare earth-based metals production to escape China’s global chokehold in this strategic sector. Presently, there are a few...
Trump’s Venezuela Gambit: A Drug War Or A Geopolitical Power Play?
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers NEW YORK: When President Trump declared Venezuelan airspace “closed in its entirety” last Saturday, threatening imminent land-based military strikes against what he described as drug trafficking operations, the announcement marked a dramatic escalation in a campaign that has increasingly strained credulity among foreign policy experts...
India’s Silent Debt Time Bomb: When Households Borrow Faster Than They Save
By R. Suryamurthy There is a number in the government’s latest disclosures that should unsettle anyone paying attention to India’s economic trajectory. Household financial liabilities — the debt Indian families owe to banks, NBFCs and other lenders — have soared 76% in just four years, rising from ₹77.7 lakh...
Narendra Modi Has To Exercise His Finest Diplomatic Skill In Talks With Putin
By T N Ashok When Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in India’s capital on December 4 for the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit, he will bring more than proposals for weapons systems and energy contracts. The visit represents a pivotal moment in global realignment, one that could determine whether India...
Congress Dilemma Over Succession In Karnataka Remains Despite A Temporary Truce
By Kalyani Shankar After the recent setback in Bihar, the Congress Party is now grappling with a power struggle in Karnataka between the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his Deputy D.K. Shiv Kumar. Within political circles, especially among Congress members, there is rampant speculation about a possible leadership change later...
Traditional Knowledge And Modern Knowledge: Is There A Binary?
By Dr. Ram Puniyani While delivering Ramnath Goenka Lecture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that we should take a ten-year pledge to root out colonial mindset. In ten years, it will be 200 years when Lord Macaulay introduced the pattern of education in English. As per Mr. Modi “…Macaulay...
Anatomy Of A Demolition In Prem Nagar Basti In Gurugram In New India
By Tulip Banerjee Forty-year old Kamlesh sat on a broken charpai by the road in Gurugram’s Prem Nagar II locality, waiting for her mehendi to dry while staring into the wreckage of the only home she has ever known. Two days after their homes were demolished, women huddled together,...
Strengths And Weaknesses On Display At Your Party’s Founding Conference
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party’s founding conference brought thousands of people to Liverpool at the weekend. Many more of the party’s 50,000 members participated online. They voted for collective leadership; for dual membership with other parties to be permitted; for the party to be explicitly socialist...
Asset Monetisation Target May Rise To Rs 11 Lakh Crore
NEW DELHI: The government is likely to raise the public sector asset monetisation target to around Rs 11 lakh crore for FY26–FY30, compared with the earlier estimate of Rs 10 lakh crore, signalling a stronger push for recycling brownfield infrastructure assets over the next five years. According to sources,...
SEBI Board Meet May Centre Around Brokerages Rules
MUMBAI: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) board meeting on December 17 – the 212th – will discuss several reforms, majority of them linked to equity brokerages. It will review mutual funds’ rules, create more ease for foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), improve the stock lending and borrowing...
RBI Likely To Slash Interest By 25 Basis Points In Forthcoming MPC Meet
MUMBAI: The RBI may trim the benchmark lending rate by 25 bps in its forthcoming monetary policy meeting, as inflationary pressures are subdued, though some experts believe the central bank is likely to keep the rate unchanged in the backdrop of better-than-expected GDP growth of 8.2 per cent in...
Corporate Loan Growth To Hit Double Digit In FY26: SBI Chief
NEW DELHI: With the pick-up in economic activity, State Bank of India (SBI) is seeing a clear revival in corporate credit demand and expects the segment to hit double-digit growth over the remaining two quarters of the current financial year, the bank’s Chairman C S Setty said. As far...
Private Equity, Venture Capital Investments Hit $5.3 Billion In October, Says EY-IVCA
NEW DELHI: Private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) investments in India touched $5.3 billion across 102 deals in October 2025, marking a 9 per cent rise year-on-year, according to the EY-IVCA monthly roundup. “The number of deals decreased to 102 in October 2025, a 9 per cent year-on-year (112...
Delhi Summit To See A New Strategic Reset In India-Russia Partnership
By K Raveendran An evolving convergence of political intent and economic pragmatism is giving fresh momentum to the India–Russia relationship, placing the forthcoming summit in New Delhi as a significant moment in a partnership that has already weathered decades of geopolitical shifts. The visit of President Vladimir Putin, framed...
India’s GDP Is Booming — But The Fiscal Math Is Becoming A Fantasy
By R. Suryamurthy India’s second-quarter GDP print has triggered the kind of chest-thumping usually reserved for election night or a cricket victory. Real GDP surged 8.2% in July–September, the strongest among major economies and, predictably, a cause for unrestrained celebration across ministries and television studios. Manufacturing accelerated, construction stayed...
Labour Codes Snatch Numerous Rights And Protections Of Workers
By Dr. Gyan Pathak India has implemented the four controversial Labour Codes on November 21, 2025, with a theoretical promise to the workforce of the country more benefits and greater protection. Nevertheless, it is highly uncertain to what extent the promises made will be realised on the ground, especially...
