The idea of a national population register isn?t new. It has been floating around since the multipurpose national…
The Supreme Court has stopped iron ore mining by the Reddy brothers along the AP-Karnataka border, the charge being one…
The Cabinet has cleared the Foreign Educational Institutions Bill, 2010. The UPA-2 announced big-bang 100-day agendas and only three elements…
UNDP has just (International Women?s Day) brought out an Asia-Pacific Human Development Report, with a focus on gender equality.
At 7.2%, the advanced estimate of real GDP growth in 2009-10 looks respectable. The last quarterly estimates are still for…
Will we do 6.8% or better in 2009-10? The answer will be known on February 26. 6.8% isn?t a reference…
The World Bank has just released Global Economic Prospects 2010. Indian real GDP growth is expected to be 7.6% in…
There is a pre-1977 Jyoti Basu, a Jyoti Basu from 1977 to 2000, and a Jyoti Basu from 2000 to…
The President?s address is the more basic manifesto of the UPA government.? Only time will tell the seriousness of intent…
There has been a slight misreporting in some sections of the media about 2008-09 real gross state domestic product growth…
Laws can mean statutes and they can also mean administrative law. In both cases, there can be Central laws as…
The Q2 figure for GDP growth is 7.9%, exceeding all expectations, both within the government and without. Before Q2 figures…
There is a background to Q2 2009-10 real GDP growth figures of 7.9% and that is growth of 6.7% in…
We have a deadline of April 2010 for GST a deadline first promised in budget for 2007-08. On November 10,…
What was the size of India?s stimulus package after September 2008? It is impossible to give a clear answer. IMF…
Here is a story from the treasure-trove of the Net. It is the month of August, on the shores of…
Since reforms started in 1991, there have been five finance ministers?Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Jaswant Singh, Yashwant Sinha and Pranab…
The last part of this series on legal reform discusses some solutions to the crisis in dispute resolution. There are…
