By Saeed Naqvi It is true that there are no permanent enemies or permanent friends in politics. But this Machiavellian law is clearly not applicable when a coalition of parties is in the midst of…
BY Amit Kapoor The Indian elections that kicked off on Thursday are a democratic exercise the likes of which the world has never seen. In the worlds largest democratic practice, around 900 million voters -…
By Taponeel Mukherjee It is crucial for the government to keep pushing towards more effective growth-oriented policy framing and implementation in India. The focus must be on creating both “hard” and “soft” infrastructure while facilitating…
Islamabad, April 12 (IANS) At least 20 people were killed, almost half of them belonging to the Shia Hazara minority, and 48 injured when a bomb hidden in a sack of potatoes exploded in a…
Cooch Behar (West Bengal), April 11 (IANS) Despite all their woes, the residents of the 51 former Bangladeshi enclaves in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district exercised their franchise in a peaceful manner amid instances of…
By Vinod Mirani When a fad invades India, it does so in hordes. May it be mobile manufacturers, car makers, and so on and so forth. But, now, we have a line-up of streaming content…
By Jayanta Ghosal After I finished reading the 55-page Congress manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, I suddenly remembered a scene in the famous political satire British sitcom, ‘Yes Prime Minister’. It was set…
By D.C. Pathak I had the benefit recently of listening to a well established American IT expert on the challenges for security strategists in these times of a literal tsunami of technological advancements. He brought…
By Taponeel Mukherjee The importance of the flow of capital into the power and housing sectors in India cannot be overemphasised. Recent developments in both sectors once again bring to the fore the critical issues…
By Amulya Ganguli It would have been better if L.K. Advani had given his excellent advice to his party men about their attitude towards other parties before being denied a Lok Sabha ticket. Now, it…
By Amit Kapoor & Manisha Kapoor The idea of launching Nyuntam Aay Yojana, a cash transfer scheme that intends to provide Rs 72,000 per year to the poorest 20 per cent Indian families, by the…
By Saeed Naqvi Rahul Gandhi’s choice of Wayanad as his constituency in south India has set tongues wagging. Is this an insurance just in case there is a shock reversal in Amethi? Since he is…
By Jayanta Ghosal Separate, seemingly unconnected pieces, combine to make up an inseparable home. This is true of our lives, as it is of our political system. Now, as India is consumed by electoral frenzy,…
By Vinod Mirani Finally, somebody with standing and honourable track record in the entertainment industry has decided to take on the might of the multiplex chains. Unlike the old fashioned single screen exhibitors and distributors…
By D.C. Pathak Pakistan unsurprisingly occupies a predominant place on our foreign policy turf for the reason that our approach to this hostile neighbour is impacted not only by India’s strategic partnership with the US…
Banda (UP), March 30 (IANS) Absent voters, those who have left the Bundelkhand area of Uttar Pradesh in search of livelihood in other states, are giving the administration, which is striving to improve the voting…
By Amulya Ganguli Unlike 2014, the economy is no longer the focal point of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaign. While five years ago, the party’s emphasis was on a market-driven pursuit of across-the-board economic…
By Taponeel Mukherjee The slowdown in real estate over the last few years and the constraints that India’s infrastructure sector have faced due to non-performing assets (NPAs) have had a significant impact on allied industries,…
By Subhash K. Jha Whenever I think of Urmila Matondkar, I think of a lot of warm food and conversation. Urmila talks a lot. If you know her, you’d know what ‘nineteen to the dozen’…
By Amit Kapoor The benefits of diversity in the workforce are known to give companies a competitive edge and this, in turn, enables higher growth. A 2018 McKinsey & Company Report, “Delivering through Diversity”, found…