By Dr Arun Mitra Much was expected from the budget presented by the Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on February 1 2023. As this was the last budget of the present government before the upcoming elections to the parliament next year, people had high hopes of relief in various...
By Sushil Kutty The day after, and Budget 23-24 stands out in stark relief, warts and all. February 1, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was the picture of animated tranquillity when she read out Budget 2023-24 dressed in red, both the minister as well as the country’s ‘bahi-khata’. She...
By P. Sudhir A small US investor firm has challenged the Indian behemoth, the Adani group, and shaken it to its foundations. The Hindenburg Research, a short selling firm, brought out a 129-page report on the Adani group marshalling evidence of all the funding operations and offshore activities of...
By Krishna Jha Mahatma Gandhi was shot by Nathuram Godse on January 30, 1948, when he was coming to his prayer meeting and had succumbed to the bullets. The killing itself was an expression of the ultimate fear, a fear of getting uprooted from the mass consciousness. The very...
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s economy posted a strong recovery in 2021-22. Growth rate of Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP), at constant (2011-12) prices increased from (-) 8.43 percent in 2020-21(P) to 12.01 per cent in 2021-22(Q).This is the fastest growth since 2012-13. Indian economy grew by 8.7percent in...
By John Ellison Eighty years ago, on February 2 1943, the Soviet Union’s sustained defence of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd), ended with the surrender of 91,000 soldiers of the German 6th Army under General von Paulus. The battle for the city had raged since the previous September....
By Jacob Buckner Cuba is a terrorist state—at least in the opinion of the U.S. Department of State. In 1982, President Ronald Regan added Cuba to the U.S. roster of countries that supposedly promote international terrorism. That designation, stamped on Cuba in the midst of the Cold War, imposed...
By Nantoo Banerjee The massive boost in infrastructure spending proposed in the 2023-24 budget is expected to be the biggest growth driver of the county’s economy with several sectors such as steel, coal, power, engineering, automobile and banking are expected to do well. The infrastructure spending along with the...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak “The fundamentals of the Indian Economy are sound as it enters its Amrit Kaal, the 25-year journey towards its centenary as a modern, independent nation. Policies pursued carefully and consciously to ensure …” was of course noisy and highly opinionated statement of the Economic Survey...
By Sushil Kutty What does the 2023-24 budget mean for the BJP in fighting the coming polls, including the nine in 2023, and the one in 2024? A simple question, with a simple answer: Budget 2023-24 has been drafted as a saviour! The BJP wants to win as many...