Going Up in Smoke That Never Was: A USD 100 Million from UAE
UAE ambassador to India Ahmed Albanna confirms that no aid offer of Rs 700 crore was made by the UAE. This places the Vijayan government in Kerala, the state...
India Wage Report of ILO: Some Hits, Many Misses
The ILO report estimates that the real average daily wages in India almost doubled between 1993–94 and 2011–12 but fails to mention that the Indian GDP quadrupled between 1991...
2019 Election Launch Pad of BJP is Out
Arun Shourie, like one BJP spokesperson says, is cursed with “too many grey cells for his own good” – he loses himself in the labyrinth. What to make of...
Why is Arun Jaitley Wrong on Petrol Tax?
The Narendra Modi government’s oil policy has been so convoluted that it punishes the consumers when international crude oil prices move both ways. When prices go up, the dynamic...
The Straw That Broke the Back of the Camel
Aurangzeb’s father Mohammad Haneef took Modi’s name several times and warned that if Modi failed to deliver his son’s killers, his family would do the honours – “72 hours...
Creamy Layer Turns Messy and Uncanny: Supreme Court Bench Skips Most Contentious Issues
The decision by a vacation bench of the Supreme Court in a case about reservation in promotions for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes last week may not have been...
GDP Growth Looking Up, But Serious Problems Remain
The high growth does not reflect the whole story. There is significant jobless growth. Only 8 lakh new jobs have been created against the requirement of nearly 50 lakhs...
Humbled Modi-Shah Duo on Survival Strategy
The emergence of the new Congress-JD(S) coalition in Karnataka after BJP’s failed manoeuvre to form a government without the numbers, depending on the Governor’s patronage, has given an impetus...