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India’s Confusing GDP Growth Projections For 2021-22

  By Nantoo Banerjee   It appears to a big relief that most rating agencies — local as well as global — are high on hope that Indian economy will be among the fastest growing major economies in the world in 2021-22. However, growth projections vary widely — from...

Dec 7 · >

Twitter India Suspending Salil Tripathi’s Account Is An Outrage

  By Annie Domini   When writer-journalist Salil Tripathi, who’s a universally-renowned free speech activist and the Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee of the PEN International, posted a 2009 poem titled ‘My Mother’s Fault’ on the Babri Masjid demolition, Gujarat and 1947 on Twitter, he soon realised...

Dec 7 · >

RBI Working Panel Pushing Someone’s Dangerous Agenda

  By K Raveendran   The widespread resentment over the RBI internal working group (IWG) recommendation to allow leading industrial and business houses to own banks has prompted Governor Shaktikanta Das to clarify that it does not amount to the apex bank’s views. He has promised that a decision...

Dec 7 · >

BJP’s Hindu Card Boosts Its Tally In The Hyderabad Municipal Polls

  By Amulya Ganguli   The renaming of Hyderabad as Bhagyanagar, as suggested by U.P. chief minister Yogi Adityanath, has had to be put on hold for the time being because the BJP failed to come out on top in the municipal elections despite faring exceedingly well.   The...

Dec 7 · >

Hatching The Conspiracy To Denigrate The Farmers Agitation

  By Arun Srivastava   Public Interest Litigation (PIL) which so far has been most effective instrument for a dissenter to register his disagreement to consent. Is ironically behind used by the supporters the Modi government to criminalise the dissenters and urge upon the judiciary to punish them on...

Dec 7 · >

UK Lawmakers Extend Support To The Agitating Farmers In India

By Arun Srivastava   A day after 36 cross party lawmakers led by the Labour Party’s Tanmanjit Singh Dhesi, expressed their solidarity with the agitating farmers in India, and wrote to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to raise the matter with the Indian government, thousands of Diaspora Indians have...

Dec 7 · >

Providing Vaccines To Billion Indians Will Be The Toughest Task For Govt

By Harihar Swarup   The last nine months have tested our collective resilience like no other period in recent human history. A virus, the size of a fraction of human hair, has ensured that countries across the world are put under varying levels of lockdown, movement of people and...

Dec 5 · >

Economic Recovery Signs Are Too Fragile At The Moment

By Nitya Chakraborty   The Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das’s projection about the trends in the Indian economy in the remaining four months of the current fiscal, has some sense of objectivity about the sectoral pattern of the industry’s operations but the analysis has some false sense of complacency...

Dec 5 · >

Maharashtra Poll Results Give A Big Boost To Uddhav Thackeray’s Image

By Sushil Kutty   It’s a fact now: The majority of graduates and teachers of Maharashtra prefer Maha Vikas Aghadi over Bharatiya Janata Party. Uddhav Thackeray over Devendra Fadnavis. Sanjay Raut over Arnab Goswami. And, Uddhav’s Shiv Sena over Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena. Uddhav’s ‘secular Shiv Sena,’ that is,...

Dec 5 · >

A Bruising Battle In Kerala For Control Of Local Bodies

By P Sreekumaran   THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The local body elections, billed as the Semi Final is well and truly on, with the campaign shifting into top gear in the final lap.  The three main contenders – the CPI-M-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), the Congress-headed United Democratic Front (UDF) and the...

Dec 5 · >
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