Despite improvements, if one looks at scores, relatively weak areas are dealing with construction permits, registering property, enforcing contracts and…
Linking job losses to demonetisation is trivialising the serious issue of unemployment by confusing correlation with causation.
We have been repeatedly warned against blindly believing everything we read or are forwarded. With that dash of sodium chloride,…
While PISA 2009, in which India participated, and its methodology have been debated, in both English and vernacular, Indian students’…
Bibek Debroy speaks up in defence of Thomas Macaulay, slams droll trolls; here is what he has to say
There can be a debate on teaching English versus the vernacular, though the postulated trade-off may be non-existent.
As of June 2017, in LIMBS database, there are 1,35,060 government cases pending, with 369 contempt cases. The Railways has…
A recent government decision has the potential to blur the difference between public and private recruitment.
Estate factories that use their own leaf for processing run losses. Cultivation, as opposed to manufacturing, by organised tea estates…
Joseph Nye coined the expression “soft power” a bit later, in 1990. Several AB-s are supposed to provide content that…
What is a good and simple tax and why is the present indirect tax structure bad and complicated? There are…
GST has begun the process of unifying indirect taxes. Small saving rates have been reduced. For MSMEs, there is MUDRA…
The primary thrust of the 1981 Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act is on industrial and automobile-related pollution. But…
The next step is automation of supply-chain management— delivery orders, release orders, truck challans, gate passes, receipts and issuance of…
The oldest existing statute is Bengal Districts Act of 1836. It is a statute with a single sentence and says…
Not realising there are thresholds, irrespective of whether it is agriculture or non-agriculture, is a deliberate attempt at obfuscation.
Most people have read, or heard of, the Lynne Truss book, Eats, Shoots & Leaves (2003), about importance of correct…
Supreme Court of India issued a notice on March 23, 2017.
There is a dashboard for Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM) Gramin. This isn’t only about toilets. On toilets, at the time…
