Programmers: taking films to the cleaners!
By Vinod Mirani The way films are promoted and released lately is rather mechanical! The whole thing about releasing a new film pertains to number of screens. There is no clarity on how that is…
Commentary
India’s balancing act
By D.C. Pathak With India, the largest democracy of the world, rapidly rising to its potential as a global player during the Modi regime, its natural placement in the international arena is attracting the limelight…
Final countdown begins at 2019 World Cup
By Yajurvindra Singh The cricket World Cup in England has reached its final countdown. Australia, India, England and New Zealand have emerged victorious from the group stage to reach the semi-finals. None of these sides…
Budget 2019: Kickstarting India’s Developmental Journey
By Amit Kapoor Since the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a bold target of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024 at a NITI Aayog meeting early last month, the conversations in…
PSUs must maximise ‘time value of money’ to boost growth
By Taponeel Mukherjee As news regarding recapitalisation of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) and the need to improve credit availability come to the fore, one crucial issue that is assuming increasing importance is the need to…
The elephant in the room in growing Indo-US ties
By Frank F. Islam US President Donald Trumps trip to the DMZ to meet with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and his conciliatory get together with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20…
Diversifying Indo-Saudi ties: A strategic shift beyond energy
By Cauvery Ganapathy Bilateral relations, where the indices of energy or economic needs and strategic considerations coincide, exhibit a robustness which usually outlives the everyday flux of international politics. Indias relations with Saudi Arabia represent…
Budget 2019-20: Waiting for Directions
By Vinod Nair Ever since the new government assumed office at the Centre, the market is looking for directions and hopefully the Union Budget slated to be presented on July 5 as a norm will…
US out, Australia in: The new education pillar in Canberra-Delhi ties
By Amit Dasgupta Australia is fast emerging as the preferred higher education destination for meritorious Indian students and there is credible speculation that it would challenge the traditional preference for the US before long. There…
Skills at risk
By K. Yatish Rajawat and Shivam Kaushik Absorbed with their to-do lists and set of tasks, professionals have little time to worry about the wider relevance of their skills. There is no time to stop…
Taking stock: Box office January-June 2019
By Vinod Mirani As the first half of the year 2019 comes to an end, it is that time of the year; the time to take stock of the box office status in general vis…
Crisis of accountability
By D.C. Pathak The rise of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister in 2014 was chiefly attributable to the confidence he inspired among the people on two counts – his personal integrity as a leader…
Focus Area within New Education Policy
By Amit Kapoor Even though India boasts of universalisation of primary education, with almost 100 per cent Gross Enrolment Rate (2014-15), quality of education in the last decade has gone down. While ASER 2008 revealed…
Security agenda for Modi 2.0: A national security doctrine
By Kamal Davar India, the worlds largest democracy, has again elected a government brutally strong in numbers with no encumbrances of coalition politics to peg it down from its intended goals or the fulfillment of…
Budget 2019: Boosting new investments through tax-strategy
By Taponeel Mukherjee All eyes are on what policy mechanisms will the Hon. Finance Minister of India use in Budget 2019-2020, to boost consumption and investments in India. Amongst the wide variety of available strategies,…
Cricket World of Uncertainties
BY YAJURVINDRA SINGH The cricket World Cup 2019, which was heading towards, what looked like a four-country affair, has turned into a battle for survival. A true example of cricket uncertainties, the very ingredient that…
India needs to update its climate targets
By Damandeep Singh The extreme heatwave that recently saw temperatures soar across India was a stark reminder that this region is one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. As countries start…
Can Endstate of US-Iran Clash be better than JCPoA, 2015?
By Maj Gen (Retd) S.B. Asthana President Trump signed an executive order on June 24, imposing additional economic sanctions on Iran. Apparently its in retaliation to shooting down of the US Drone by Iran over…
Markets will remain volatile, trade cautiously
By Arun Kejriwal Markets continued to remain choppy and volatile on expected lines. On the very first day of the week, they traded for quite some time in the band of 11,700-750 and once that…
This terror is different
BY D.C. PATHAK Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done well to push India’s campaign against Pak-instigated terror in Kashmir and elsewhere to a new level internationally by bilaterally telling President Xi Jinping of China at…