In Focus: Elections 2024

By Jagdish Rattanani |
The noise and confusion being created over an inheritance tax in India is an attempt by the BJP to recover ground in an election that was believed to be in the bag but
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is never easy or safe to read the mood of the nation, particularly in the midst of a national election that is well spread out, this one running over 40 days and in
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be charitable
By Haresh Jagtiani |
The Enforcement Directorate (ED), widely believed to be the hand maiden of the BJP has arrested Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for his excise liquor policy whi
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The noise and confusion being created over an inheritance tax in India is an attempt by the BJP to recover ground in an election that was believed to be in the bag but
By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be charitable
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It was an easy bet that the MPC of RBI would keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50 per cent – seventh pause in a row – in its first bi-monthly meeting for 2024-2
By Ajit Ranade |
The India Employment Report 2024 was published last week.

Politics

By Jagdish Rattanani |
The noise and confusion being created over an inheritance tax in India is an attempt by the BJP to recover ground in an election that was believed to be in the bag but
By Jagdish Rattanani |
It is never easy or safe to read the mood of the nation, particularly in the midst of a national election that is well spread out, this one running over 40 days and in
By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be charitable

Business

By Jagdish Rattanani |
The noise and confusion being created over an inheritance tax in India is an attempt by the BJP to recover ground in an election that was believed to be in the bag but
By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It was an easy bet that the MPC of RBI would keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50 per cent – seventh pause in a row – in its first bi-monthly meeting for 2024-2
By Ajit Ranade |
The India Employment Report 2024 was published last week.

Economy

By Jagdish Rattanani |
The noise and confusion being created over an inheritance tax in India is an attempt by the BJP to recover ground in an election that was believed to be in the bag but
By Ajit Ranade |
For the first time in thirty-three years, a foreign nation State attacked Israel on Saturday April 13.
By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This much should be now clear and settled to any reasonable person: the scheme of electoral bonds was an extortion racket, even if it is granted that (to be charitable

Society

By Jagdish Rattanani |
The noise and confusion being created over an inheritance tax in India is an attempt by the BJP to recover ground in an election that was believed to be in the bag but
By Arun Maira |
Modern economists don't understand how societies and economies function. The time has come for a new economics that will bring humanity back into capitalism.
By Ajit Ranade |
The India Employment Report 2024 was published last week.
By Ajit Ranade |
A factory using a water intensive chemical process in Gujarat had a problem. It was the onset of summer. The assured industrial supply of water was not forthcoming.

Diaries

By Vidyadhar Date |
A valuable treasure trove of art work, murals, frescoes and paintings lie in a 16th century…
By Vidyadhar Date |
Recently I went to the redeveloped, commercialised Mahim bus station with 24-storey building…
By Vidyadhar Date |
The then Home Minister R.R. Patil pleaded helplessness of the government. He said the government…
By Vidyadhar Date |
In a way, Kala Nagar and adjoining buildings are highly privileged because of the Thackeray…

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