Union budget: Why the real impact on India's economy lies beyond the headlines

New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- The date of 1 February for the announcement of the Union budget precedes by a month the release of the advance estimate of India's gross domestic product (GDP) based on three quar... Read More

Better governance across India is a must for our Viksit Bharat goal to be achieved by 2047

New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- Delhi is unravelling. The Graded Response Action Plan (Grap) for the annual air pollution crisis starting in mid-October triggered its higher stages in a capricious on-off patter... Read More

Affordability versus public goods: Why politics tends to put everyone on the losing side of this divide

New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- It finally happened. Effective 13 November 2025, President Donald Trump of the United States of America exempted 225 agricultural items, fresh and processed, from tariffs termed '... Read More

RBI's banking regulation rejig: Some proposals might need tweaks for the sake of systemic stability

New Delhi, Nov. 6 -- The monetary policy announcement of 1 October 2025 was noteworthy for the changes to India's banking regulation rules proposed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), more than for th... Read More