BY PRADIP BAIJAL India always had problems in dealing with spectrum. — We wasted valuable wireless spectrum for fixed line services in 1995, unlike any other country, after the erroneous decision that expensive mobile phones…
By Arun Kejriwal Markets are witnessing extreme volatility and while day traders may be happy with the kind of movement, it is unnerving investors. BSE SENSEX lost 506.35 points or 1.48 per cent to close…
BY SAEED NAQVI Pictures of unrelieved despair everywhere on TV and, that too, in the course of an extended house arrest (lockdown), does leave one, to use Faiz’s words, with “pain where the heart once…
BY D.C. PATHAK It is interesting that both the US and India have apparently chosen a similar strategy of economic revival by way of relaxing the Corona lockdown even when the fight against the pandemic…
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, June 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Reconstruction Period (1865-77) that followed the conclusion of the American Civil War gave rise to the pejorative term Carpetbaggers to describe politicians and financial adventurers from…
By Yajurvindra Singh The racist remark brought to the fore by the West Indians, Jason Holder and Darren Sammy, on being called “Kalu” in India by their teammates and the crowd does make one feel…
BY DEEPIKA BHAN The killing of Ajay Pandita, a sarpanch from the minority community in Kashmir, has jolted the Kashmiri Pandits who, of late, had started to believe that their dream of returning to their…
BY FRANK F. ISLAM Since the brutal death of 46-year-old African American George Floyd at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, the United States has witnessed civil strife…
BY AJAY SURI Now that the ‘grand reset’ is in place, the world which we always took for granted has started slipping away from our grasp. But don’t just lose heart. Maybe it’s the best…
By Arun Kejriwal Covid-19 has thrown up new challenges in every walk of life and one is seeing various stakeholders reacting to the need of the hour in different manners. Even regulators have become bold…
By Sonia Gandhi The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), 2005 is a shining example of a radical and rational systemic change. It is radical because it transferred power to the poorest of…
By Arun Kejriwal Markets were on a roll last week and gained on four of the five days of trading. They just did not gain, they galloped. The BSESENSEX was up a massive 1,863.14 points…
BY SAEED NAQVI A passionate appraisal of the widespread anger at George Floyd’s murder by a white policeman that newspaper columns are full off, inspires no lasting change in race relations. Establishments have entrenched themselves…
BY TAPONEEL MUKHERJEE As we look to restart the economy and build on India’s competitive advantages in the future, it is time for Indian businesses and investors to focus on building Indian brands for the…
BY D.C. PATHAK It is extremely thoughtful of the Modi government to designate the next phase of counter corona measures as Unlock 1 in which the basics of lockdown observance at the personal level and…
By Pradip Baijal The opening lines of the recently-released ‘United States Strategic Approach to The People’s Republic of China’ are: “Since the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) established diplomatic relations in…
By Suyash Choudhary Moody’s blues? A macro update Global rating agency Moody’s downgraded India’s sovereign rating by one notch to the threshold of investment grade. The outlook assigned continues to be negative, which is somewhat…
By Arun Kejriwal Markets were on a roll last week and registered sharp gains in tune with the rest of the world. They were virtually flat on Tuesday with Monday being a holiday and rose…
BY HIMANSHU MANGLIK Consumers and businesses are in flux, especially during the past many months, as they stagger around trying to react to the rogue virus Covid-19. Many companies who have tentative mindsets and lean…
BY SAEED NAQVI When the US signed the peace agreement with Afghan Taliban on February 29 in Doha, mutual recriminations were obviously brushed under the carpet but some of these must be remembered for historical…