Category: Commentary

Torrent shutdown brings cheer for video-streaming players in India

By Nishant Arora New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) The sudden demise of the two biggest BitTorrent players -- website Kickass…

8 years ago

Modi criticises Pakistan, its 15-year terror bill Is $118 bn

By Chaitanya Mallapur As Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised Pakistan -- without naming the country -- for supporting terror groups,…

8 years ago

India yet to realise its economic freedom

By Amit Kapoor It has been just over 69 years since the stroke of the midnight hour when India awoke…

8 years ago

Fact check of Prime Minister’s 70th Independence Day speech

New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS/IndiaSpend) A fact check on claims made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day…

8 years ago

8 promises Modi made on I-Day 2015: Some met, some works-in-progress

By Devanik Saha Speeding up financial inclusion, toilets in every school, reducing LPG subsidy and electrification of villages were some…

8 years ago

Modi: Facing up to the threat within

By Amulya Ganguli The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has given its guarded approval to Narendra Modi's criticism of the cow…

8 years ago

321 medical stores for poor in 8 years, government promises 3,000 in 8 months

New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS/IndiaSpend) The government promised parliament it would open 3,000 medical stores for the poor in the…

8 years ago

4 years after Nirbhaya, Delhi rapes triple, police reforms fail

Manisha Chachra Four years after the December 16, 2012, gang-rape of a physiotherapy student that India knows as Nirbhaya, the…

8 years ago

Why previous all-party Kashmir meetings have failed

Dear politicians, I hope you will read this before you huddle on Friday to discuss the deadly situation in the…

8 years ago

India’s farm-produce losses at Rs 92,000 cr, thrice the agriculture budget

By Charlie Moloney Harvest and post-harvest loss of India's major agricultural produce is estimated at Rs 92,651 crore ($13 billion),…

8 years ago

Achieving solar targets while complying with WTO norms

By Manmeet Singh and Saptak Ghosh The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India's Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for…

8 years ago

Achieving solar targets while complying with WTO norms

By Manmeet Singh and Saptak Ghosh The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India's Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for…

8 years ago

Achieving solar targets while complying with WTO norms

By Manmeet Singh and Saptak Ghosh The World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against India's Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) for…

8 years ago

Governance is about people, not Arvind Kejriwal

By M.R. Narayan Swamy It is a remarkable commentary on the state of the nation that the Delhi High Court's…

8 years ago

Indian population growth less dependent on religion, more on development

By Shreya Shah Fertility rates in India are more closely related to education levels and the socio-economic development within a…

8 years ago

Substantial issues on India’s future economic development

By Amit Kapoor The fable of the hare being defeated by the tortoise sounds familiar and is near universal. It…

8 years ago

10,932 companies default on PF payouts

By Nikhil M. Babu It should have taken 30 days for Sanjaya Kumar (27) from Odisha to withdraw his father's…

8 years ago

How violence contributes to diseases among sex workers

By Sumit Chaturvedi A fifth of female sex workers live with violence, attacked four times a month, on average, according…

8 years ago

The Cursed Father – Harry Potter and his last outing?

By Vikas Datta It has been over a week since the "last" Harry Potter story came, with the "Boy Who…

8 years ago

Twentyfour Indian monuments ‘missing’, half from UP

New Delhi, Aug 7 (IANS/IndiaSpend) As many as 24 monuments under the charge of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)--…

8 years ago



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