By Taponeel Mukherjee & Poornima Vardhan Indian National Rupee (INR) has not been in news for the right reasons so far this year. It has been dragged down by the perfect storm of international pressures…
By Asad Mirza The reset of diplomatic ties between Turkey and Israel may result in some new paradigm shifts at the regional level besides helping both to focus more on bilateral economic gains. Recently there…
By Neeraj Dhankher Here is a guide to the week ahead for you. This is your forecast for August 29 to September 4. Aries This week, the working environment will continue to be favourable, and…
By D.C. Pathak ‘Work from home’, zoom meetings and a drastic cut down on physical interactions across the table have compelled business organisations to search for a ‘hybrid model’ of running the enterprise, resetting the…
By Asad Mirza Following the Supreme Court’s order in 2017, Muslim religious leaders had shown willingness to outlaw the Triple Talaq — a completely unIslamic practice, but alas even after five years they have not…
By Vinod Mirani The film industry in Mumbai is in doldrums and guess who all have delivered it to its near doom? The industry’s own people. The very people who are here to do business,…
By Neeraj Dhankher Here is a guide to the week ahead for you. This is your forecast for August 22-28. Aries This week will be lucky for you and full of opportunity. To attain your…
By D.C. Pathak There is a spate of writings from former diplomats, bureaucrats and think-tank analysts insisting that India must announce its National Security Policy and the strategy of implementing it. Security by definition entails…
By Seema Singh As we celebrate 75 years of Independence, it is a high time to introspect and contemplate about the gains and losses we made in past this much of years. We got Independence…
By Vineet Goenka Back in 1859, Macaulay’s education system came into effect intending to colonise education and create a class of anglicised Indians. Post-Independence, India tried to bounce back in major sectors and education was…
By Amjad Ayub Mirza On August 7 a so-called All Parties Conference was held in the capital city of Muzaffarabad in Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK). It was initiated by the former puppet Prime Minister…
By Sourish Bhattacharyya New Delhi, Aug 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) It is a sad commentary on the divisive times we live in that films get trolled, and the patriotism of their makers questioned, even before they are…
By Mohan Kumar It was in May 2020 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the clarion call for a Bharat that was ‘Aatmanirbhar’. It is important to clarify what this meant and what it did…
By Arun Kejriwal Markets have a mind of their own and the best-off predictions do go wrong. In the week gone by, markets chose to climb a wall of worries and also ignored global cues….
By Vinod Mirani On Friday, August 11, two big films will hit the cinemas simultaneously: Akshay Kumar’s ‘Raksha Bandhan’ and Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’. This of course won’t be the first time that two…
By DC Pathak There is a widely shared view that the All India Services, which provided the ‘steel frame’ of governance in a democratic India, granting Constitutional autonomy to the state administration, particularly on the…
By Suyash Choudhary The MPC hiked policy rates by 50 bps, thereby taking the repo rate to 5.40 per cent, while retaining stance as ‘focussed on withdrawal of accommodation’. While the action was unanimous, Dr….
By Andrew Korybko The 7th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) will take place in Russia’s Far Eastern port of Vladivostok from 5-8 September and represents a grand strategic opportunity for India. These two Great Powers have…
By Asad Mirza The Tashkent Conference on Afghanistan has highlighted the need for the regional players to play a constructive role for reconstruction of Afghanistan, in collaboration with the West. Tashkent Conference Uzbekistan hosted an…
By Arun Kejriwal The week began on a quiet note and markets lost ground on the first two trading days. They then rose quite sharply and gained on the remaining three. BSESENSEX gained 1,498.62 points…