By Taponeel Mukherjee Events in India’s credit market over the last one year have once again shown that debt used well is a value creator, but excessive debt can lead to severe problems. The crucial…
By Siddhartha Upadhyay Im a sportsperson first. Anyone who pursues a hobby with some seriousness or plays a sport with certain dedication would understand, as I did at the age of 15-years, that sports is…
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) The RSS on Tuesday hailed the Indian Air Force’s air strike on the Jaish-e-Mohammed’s (JeM) biggest training camp at Balakot killing “a very large number” of terrorists, saying it was…
By Yajurvindra Singh The attack on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF)men in Pulwana by an Indian born and bred Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) militant has aroused a feeling of hatred and revenge in the mind of each…
By D.C. Pathak We live in the Age of Knowledge that set in with the success of the information technology (IT)revolution at the beginning of the Nineties — 1991 is, in fact, acknowledged as the…
By Vinod Mirani The regional film industries were always marginal to the mainstream Hindi films. This was especially so in the Hindi knowing states from the Hindi belt to the states of Maharashtra, Rajasthan and…
By Saeed Naqvi Prem Shankar Jhas column in The Wire caused my mind to wander in an unlikely direction: Kanpur riots soon after the demolition of Babari Masjid. Jhas piece headlined “In Pulwama, Narendra Modi…
By Taponeel Mukherjee The availability and usability of land to many investment sectors are essential, and yet these are areas that do not get the attention they deserve while making investment decisions and formulating policies….
By D.C. Pathak A national Intelligence organisation — like that of India — earns the respect of the countrymen because it helps the State in discharging its sovereign function of safeguarding national security, stays completely…
By Vinod Mirani The film industry during the 70s and 80s consisted mostly of prospect hunters. There were established production houses but more coming every day to give a shot to filmmaking. The Hindi film…
By Taponeel Mukherjee The recent NBFC (Non-Banking Financial Company) crisis in India has brought to the fore the funding and low equity capitalisation issues, especially of the housing finance company (HFC) sector. The problems are…
By Saeed Naqvi The ghastly news from Kashmir did cast a shadow, otherwise Lucknow has had a festive February. The first week was filled with the five-day annual Sanatkada jamboree with fabled Baradari as the…
By Amulya Ganguli One of the most disturbing aspects of the February 14 terror attack in Pulwama was that the suicide bomber was a local, Adil Ahmad Dar, who lived in a village near the…
By Amit Kapoor The last four years of the Narendra Modi government have seen trajectory-altering policies and programmes covering a broad spectrum of areas, from Sagarmala targeting the waterways and coastline for enhancing port development…
By Saeed Naqvi Two parallel peace processes on Afghanistan are underway. In Doha, Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan, has held extensive round of talks with Taliban leaders, spread over several days last month….
By Dr. K.S. Parthasarathy The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention has found that in North Carolina, 61 children of Asian descent (specifically, Indians, Pakistanis and Afghans) have elevated blood lead levels (BLLs). They…
By Amulya Ganguli When the Marxists were striving to establish their hegemony in West Bengal, one of their favourite targets was the Central Reserve Police (CRP), which they castigated as the centre’s “occupation” force. Something…
By Taponeel Mukherjee With 2019 underway, it would serve us well to look at some of the most pressing needs of Indian infrastructure. Trends in global capital markets and the needs of Indian infrastructure have…
By Amit Kapoor Considering the significant role played by Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in increasing access to higher education in India, the Indian government last year announced it would recognise degrees, diplomas or certificates…
By Frank F. Islam 2018 was not a bad year in general for India. GDP growth has been relatively good, the Modi administration has launched several new initiatives, and Indias status and world image has…