By Sushil Kutty Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, before she left for the United States to defend the Narendra Modi government on a number of charges levelled against the nine-year-old government, spent some time in poll-bound Karnataka and explained the special bond her party and her government shared with...
By Anjan Roy The bi-annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington when the policy wonks of these institutions for meet with finance ministers of the participating countries are important occasions for findings solutions to the world’s economic ills. This year’s meet, currently being...
By Harihar Swarup Wearing a spotless white safari suit and a dot of vermillion on his forehead, B S Yediyurappa walked out of the puja room through the corridor of his Bengaluru home. He glanced at the verandah and meeting rooms full of people, but headed straight to the...
By K Raveendran Fractional ownership of real estate is catching up fast in India, particularly among the tech-savvy investors. As a concept, fractional ownership has democratized real estate investment in that it has given small investors access to commercial properties which otherwise remained the exclusive domain of high and...
By Ashish Khetan No constitutional democracy can sustain without a constitutional dialogue between the non-judicial forces. American legal scholar and constitutional expert Alexander Bickel, in his work The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics (1962) referred to a “continuing colloquy” between the Supreme Court,...
By James M Dorsey Renewed controversy over Saudi ownership of English Premier League club Newcastle United suggests the kind of opposition the kingdom may encounter as it bids for hosting rights to multiple global and regional sporting mega events. The controversy may also become a bellwether of how Saudi...
By Kalyani Shankar When Arvind Kejriwal launched his Aam Admi Party in 2012 and bid for power the following year for Delhi assembly in 2013, no one thought he would find political space and sustain himself for long years. Now, on Monday, the Election Commission has granted AAP national...
By Arun Srivastava “We will win all the 40 seats” is the clarion call of the BJP Chanakya Amit Shah to his cadres and sympathisers in Bihar. But the task ahead is arduous. Riding on the shoulders of the RSS, Narendra Modi and his lieutenant Shah may talk of...
By Ashis Biswas There has been a mixed diplomatic response from various foreign countries attending the recent G20 sessions in different states of India’s lush-green Northeast. Most among the attending foreign ministers and diplomats preferred discussing local/regional development and tourism-related matters. This was in consonance with the generally agreed...
By Satyaki Chakraborty Ten national governments of Latin America including a few left wing regimes are having discussions to evolve a common strategy in dealing with the economic issues facing the countries. Most of the countries are facing the problem of high prices of essential commodities and there are...