July 25, 2024, 8:03 AM IST
Among those disappointed by the budget, are onion growers and traders. What they had hoped for was that the crop’s minimum export price and export duty would be removed or reduced. With their discontent having…
July 25, 2024, 8:03 AM IST
July 25, 2024, 7:54 AM IST
India’s challenge since 1947 has not been unemployment (a low 4-9%) but employed poverty – the poor cannot afford to be unemployed. Putting employed poverty in the museum it belongs to needs three solutions: productive…
July 25, 2024, 7:54 AM IST
July 25, 2024, 7:44 AM IST
By Ashok Vohra Saints are an integral part of all religions. Saints are conduits through whom the divine power reveals itself. A saint has eliminated his base passions through diligent worship and selfless deeds. He…
July 25, 2024, 7:44 AM IST
July 25, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
That SC refused a retest is no cause for relief. This year’s controversy makes clear how flawed system is SC’s refusal to order a UG-NEET retest, on the ground there wasn’t evidence of a ‘systemic…
July 25, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 25, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Budget indicates that the most important data-gathering exercise will be further delayed That the budget has further cut outlay for India’s much-delayed Census 2021 is message enough that GOI is in no hurry to carry…
July 25, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 24, 2024, 9:19 AM IST
The standout feature of the first budget of Modi-led NDA govt is its emphasis on employment. Before analysing this, last decade’s good track record on job creation needs to be recognised. High-quality data provided by…
July 24, 2024, 9:19 AM IST
July 24, 2024, 9:15 AM IST
If, before LS elections, a confident BJP was happy to present an interim budget with nothing additional for the electorate, the first full budget of the new govt rushes to compensate for this lack by…
July 24, 2024, 9:15 AM IST
July 24, 2024, 9:12 AM IST
With just 8 months left for this fiscal, the budget tracks the interim version – with a twist. It underscores govt’s focus on four aspects to raise growth potential – fiscal rectitude – spending responsibly,…
July 24, 2024, 9:12 AM IST
July 24, 2024, 9:07 AM IST
Let us get this straight. This budget is sound on macroeconomic grounds. It keeps the fiscal deficit down at 4.9% of GDP, projects a shrinking of the primary deficit, indicatinga shrinking trend for debt financing,…
July 24, 2024, 9:07 AM IST
July 24, 2024, 8:47 AM IST
The budget reflects some of the concerns of a bruising electoral battle. It has several pointers to govt’s approach to coalition politics, and to the challenge of employment that made its presence felt in the…
July 24, 2024, 8:47 AM IST
July 24, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
When politics changes, so does budget-making. But can employer incentives create enough jobs? The budget is the first clear proof that BJP has understood the election message. Not only are its numbers down in LS,…
July 24, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 23, 2024, 9:04 AM IST
July 14, 2024 will be a date to remember in Spain. Carlos Alcaraz’s victory in Wimbledon and the unexpected success of the Spanish squad at the Euros were something more than a breath of fresh…
July 23, 2024, 9:04 AM IST
July 23, 2024, 8:52 AM IST
By Vijay Vancheswar The core teaching of Ramana Maharshi focuses on dissolving one’s sense of individual volition or doership, kartitvain Sanskrit. The sage mentions that the biggest mental tapas is to subsume one’s sense of…
July 23, 2024, 8:52 AM IST
July 23, 2024, 8:23 AM IST
A week is a long time in politics, a British politician once said, but he was speaking well before the arrival of the internet and the age of social media, when even 24 hours is…
July 23, 2024, 8:23 AM IST
July 23, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
SC order banning display of names at eateries along Kanwar route removes a govt-created blot The Supreme Court’s interim order putting a pause on UP, Uttarakhand and MP govt directives – for food stalls, shacks…
July 23, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 23, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
How an American president has played out a classical tragedy, palace coup included Every tragedy falls into two parts, a complication is followed by an unraveling or a denouement. Aristotle said this 23 centuries ago….
July 23, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 22, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
Living through one IT outage, prepping for the next Last week a global tech outage saw us come apart pixel by pixel. Here we were, expecting bots to be at our beck and call to…
July 22, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 22, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
More NEET-UG data, more questions about testing agency’s capacity and vision As SC continues hearing the plea for RE-NEET today, the key question remains whether irregularities in the May 5 exam total up to “the…
July 22, 2024, 5:00 AM IST
July 21, 2024, 5:25 AM IST
The string of terrorist attacks in J&K merits a widening of the frame to look at what is happening in Pakistan. The announcement that a ban on the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and trying Imran Khan…
July 21, 2024, 5:25 AM IST
July 21, 2024, 5:15 AM IST
As another political drama unfolds in Kathmandu, Nepal’s transition from a constitutional monarchy to a federal democratic republic looks unending as well as chaotic. It has been marked by frequent changes of govt, opportunistic switching…
July 21, 2024, 5:15 AM IST
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