By Harihar Swarup From a fiscal point of view, the state governments are in a strong position to emerge key drivers of economic growth this year. But while the availability of funds doesn’t appear to be a constraint, surprisingly, actual spending by states so far has been muted. Their...
By K R Sudhaman There is a general euphoria with a PIO Rishi Sunak becoming Prime Minister of United Kingdom. This is natural as India being a vibrant democracy, politics is at its best even on a non-issue. In this, there is some case for celebration with Sunak being...
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The provisional payroll data of EPFO released in October 2022 reveals that formal job creation in August sharply dropped by 7 per cent compared to a month earlier in July, though the government press release preferred to claim that the organisation added 16.94 lakh net...
By Sushil Kutty Perhaps the Election Commission wants to give Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi more time to dog-whistle the Gujarat electorate with election-oriented development projects, like the Tata-Airbus C-295, and bombard voters with election-winning poll-promises which may or may not be kept. Gujarat is Narendra Modi’s home-state....
By Arun Srivastava Only after six days of the Supreme Court passing stringent orders to the police chiefs of Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh to file suo motu cases against hate speeches made by people from any religion, and warned of contempt action if the orders of the court...
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayawati is busy these days to enlarge the support base of her party to face civic polls and later on Lok Sabha polls in 2024. After worst ever performance in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls held in March this year,...
By James M Dorsey The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. Rising anti-Semitism among Christian nationalists, together with Evangelicals, the mainstay of US grassroots support for Israel, threatens to drive...
By Clara E. Mattei Beneto Mussolini took over effective power in Italy in October 1922Just over a month after the Italian fascists’ March on Rome in October 1922, the parliamentary votes of the National Fascist Party, the Liberal Party, and the People’s Party (or the popolari, a Catholic party...
By Nitya Chakraborty Latest reports that the BJP leadership has offered a few legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti a total of Rs. 1,00 crore has created furore in the state capital Hyderabad and as usual the BJP leaders have denied this. But, this type of move...
By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has handed the prestigious and precious C-295 Tata-Airbus project to Gujarat, his home state which will go to polls any time before the year is out, but the election date for which hasn’t been announced yet! Could it be that the...