There is no place for the boast that, at 8.7 per cent, India is the fastest growing large economy.
On May 21, the Finance Minister announced that the government had decided to reduce the “excise duties” by Rs 8…
In the last 30 years since a Congress-led government ushered in the era of liberalisation, the country has reaped enormous…
Firstly, the good news. 88.6 per cent of children were born in an institution (meaning under some kind of medical…
The ‘State’ is no more than the collective name to citizens who choose to organise themselves and constitute a ‘State’.
I understand the spirit in which the Prime Minister may have used the word, but the choice of the word…
There is no shame in counting accurately — except, it seems, in counting the dead. The coronavirus pandemic caused death…
Until the BJP entered Karnataka. The BJP has ruled Karnataka for a few terms, in a coalition or alone. In…
The purpose of the Bill was to expand the ambit of persons covered under the law; use of modern techniques…
The main sources of revenue of the government were GST and the taxes on fuel. In the latter, the government…
Despite India’s convincing victory in the 1971 war, India and Pakistan remain bitter rivals locked in a territorial dispute.
The report of the MoF is understandably upbeat and self-laudatory but for a solitary warning: “Recent geopolitical developments have introduced…
The common thread in the election narrative in UP, Punjab and Goa was ‘change vs continuity’. By and large, the…
In the election campaign in Uttar Pradesh, Mr Narendra Modi spoke approvingly of the need to elect ‘tough’ leaders.
The per capita income of UP is less than half of India’s average income. Between 2017-18 and 2020-21, the per…
Where are the jobs for the unemployed? They are hidden in plain sight. On March 31, 2021, there were 8,72,243…
This is a Budget driven by one engine: government capital expenditure. The rub, however, lies in the numbers.
The gravest economic challenge facing India — a young nation where the median age is 28.43 years — is unemployment.
