By Prabhat Patnaik The BJP-led government has just got parliament to pass a legislation permitting up to 100 percent foreign equity-ownership in India’s insurance sector. This, the Prime Minister has announced, marks the beginning…
By Ashis Biswas Within the South Asian context, a noticeable coarsening of diplomatic discourse among four countries has occurred, following the…
By Nantoo Banerjee It does not make sense for India to deplete its hard-earned foreign currency reserves to temporarily protect the…
By K Raveendran Gold’s surge has turned a long-running Indian household instinct into a global macro trade. With spot prices pressing…
By Dr Arun Mitra The new nuclear bill, titled Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI), passed…
By K Raveendran As 2026 approaches, the global oil market is heading into a year that could decisively reshape price dynamics,…
By Ashis Biswas How serious is the slogan for wresting the seven sister states in India’s northeast region, raised by Islamic…
By Nantoo Banerjee US President Donald Trump may have problems with Russia, Venezuela and a host of other states and has…
By Nitya Chakraborty The political developments in Bangladesh including violence against any one opposing the fundamentalists are having dangerous consequences for…
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Two decades old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) 2005 is finally replaced by Viksit…
By Nitya Chakraborty Something incredible is happening in Beijing as also in other cities of China in the last five days.…
By K Raveendran Oil prices slipping below $60 a barrel for the first time since February 2021 and a sharp easing…
By Nitya Chakraborty Is Bangladesh’s pre-election scenario is being repeated in Nepal which was the seat of a two day revolt…
By Nantoo Banerjee It is difficult to explain why the government took nearly 17 years to decide on launching a bill…
By Nitya Chakraborty The results of the local polls in Kerala covering corporations, municipalities as also gram panchayats declared on Saturday…
By Nitya Chakraborty The announcement by the Bangladesh Election Commission on the holding of general elections in Bangladesh on February 12…
By Nitya Chakraborty For rich European nations, especially the troika Germany, France and Britain, the geopolitical situation that is unfolding in…
By K Raveendran Trade negotiations between Washington and New Delhi have moved into a critical phase as senior American trade officials…
By Satyaki Chakraborty After a gap of 80 years since the fall of fascism in 1945, Germany is once again agog…
By Nantoo Banerjee India’s domestic civil aviation market, the world’s third largest after the United States and China, nearly collapsed last…
By Nitya Chakraborty The India-Russia joint statement issued on December 5 after two days of talks between President Vladimir Putin and…
By T N Ashok NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India Thursday evening for a two-day state visit that…
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When Indian rupee was falling in the Mumbai market against US dollar on Wednesday, December 3, 2023…
By K Raveendran The steady erosion of trust between political parties and the Election Commission has become one of the more…
By Nitya Chakraborty What is happening to the INDIA Bloc which gave just a big jolt to the Prime Minister Narendra…
By Nantoo Banerjee It is encouraging to note that the government has decided to invest large sums of money in support…
By K Raveendran An evolving convergence of political intent and economic pragmatism is giving fresh momentum to the India–Russia relationship, placing…
By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers SILICON VALLEY / SAN FRANSISCO / CALIFORNIA: The numbers are staggering. Microsoft has spent over $20 billion…