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India’s GDP Growth Has Slowed Down But Overall, The Trends Are Positive

By K R Sudhaman India’s economic growth might have dipped to 6.3 per cent in July-September quarter of this financial year but the good news is the slide is not going to be as pronounced in the whole year. The year 2022-23 may still end up with GDP growth...

Dec 1 · >

Serious Implications Of Mainpuri Lok Sabha Polls For Akhilesh Yadav

By Pradeep Kapoor Aware of the serious implications on his political future of the results of Mainpuri by-polls for Lok Sabha, Akhilesh Yadav has mobilised the support of his family and party leaders to retain the seat won by his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who recently passed away. Samajwadi...

Dec 1 · >

One In Every Three Persons Lives In Digital Darkness

By Dr. Gyan Pathak “Future will be digital. But the future of digital must be human-centred,” said the UN Secretary general Antonio Guterres in a video message on the occasion of the 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), that begun on November 28 in Addis Ababa and will concluded on...

Dec 1 · >

Fissures Threaten To Widen Into Big Cracks For West Bengal BJP

By Tirthankar Mitra Fissures threaten to widen into cracks in West Bengal BJP as leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari is trying to justify an invitation to tea with chief minister, Mamata Banerjee. Implosions are being reported in the saffron camp of the state, after the leader of the...

Dec 1 · >

Oil Price Behaviour Surprises With A Turnaround Despite Bullish Undertones

By K Raveendran Deductive logic has gone for a toss when it comes to forecasting international oil price behaviour. Defying all expectations of a spike, crude prices have hovered just about the same level as last year this time, which means the commodity is trading in the $70s range....

Nov 30 · >

Hacking Of AIIMS Servers Exposes Incompetence Of IT Professionals

  By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, suffered hacking of its servers on November 23. Over 50 of these servers that store patient data and run hospital management software were out of order. It resulted in a complete shutdown of computers at...

Nov 30 · >

G20 Presidency Has Given A Golden Opportunity To India To Emerge As A Leader

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has the opportunity of his lifetime to make a global difference to India’s status on the world stage when India assumes the G20 presidency on December 1 for a period of one year. The Prime Minister himself has called it a “huge...

Nov 30 · >

Protests Emerge As Mixed Blessing For World Cup Host Qatar

By James M Dorsey Protest on the soccer pitch has proven to be a mixed blessing for World Cup host Qatar, exposing double standards in the Gulf state’s position as well as that of its critics. Qatar embraced protest when it supported Qatari policies, such as the Gulf state’s...

Nov 30 · >

Sri Lankan Booker Prize Winner Shehan Karunatilaka Is A Chronicler Of His Time

By Harihar Swarup Up until October, Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, 47, was quite content living in the quiet life. Cocooned in his room at his Colombo home, surrounded by books and his stories, he’d at most of his day talking to no one apart from himself and his...

Nov 30 · >

Elon Musk, Claims He Is A “Free Speech Absolutist,”, But He Is Not

By Branko Marcetic No one should’ve honestly believed Elon Musk would use his ownership of Twitter to champion free speech. Besides the fact that the man is a professional bullshitter, it was always dubious that a guy who slaps employees with gag orders and bars them from wearing pro-union...

Nov 30 · >
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