The Money Trail As the date of the #G20 Summit is drawing nearer, the Union Government is becoming more and more intolerant. Its clampdown on the We20 Peoples’ Summit is the latest. When the...
The Money trail The Indian government is celebrating G 20 Summit as the panacea for all maladies and the proof of its global acceptance. But behind the hype and fanfare lies a murky reality...
Flood alerts have replaced the heatwave alert within weeks. The climate disaster is no more a distant threat for India. It's time to give more attention to terms like carbon emission and global warming....
Nobody expected SEBI to complete its Adani investigation in 2 months. Now they have requested a six-month extension. The question is, will this be the last of such requests? Meanwhile the 8 key sectors...
Ignoring warning signs, whistle-blowers and clear visible facts and acknowledging them later when a disaster strikes is human nature. But even that reckoning will be limited to the extent of the disaster, and not...
The Money Trail Will our Finance Minister align with the common people this time? Will she accept that the economic slowdown is predominantly a demand crisis and not because corporates are not motivated enough?...
It has been more than 9 months since inflation broke the 6% ceiling. As per the law, RBI is going to write to the government explaining their failure to contain it, but both parties...
The Global Hunger Index has placed India at 107th position below Pakistan, Nepal and even Sri Lanka. The Indian government reacted with a strong rebuttal, alleging flawed data collection, poor methodology and conspiracy to...
Smart Cities Mission, the first mega project of the NDA government, has turned out to be a flop. The 2 lakh crore project even after 7 years of work is far from completion, with...
Take loans as much as you want and expand your empire' – this seems to be the new corporate mantra. A study by CreditSights, affiliated with the credit rating agency Fitch warns about over...
From the Prime Minister to the Supreme Court, there seems to be consensus against freebies. Free or subsidised food grains, electricity or health care for the poor has suddenly become the root cause of...
Pandemic, climate change and now war! The world is struck by a perfect storm, and hunger is spiralling. While the crisis dates back to the international treaties which opened the national borders for free...
From a simple and cheap tax, GST has metamorphosed into a tax on everything. Nothing happened as expected since its inception.
Dropping the Electricity Amendment Bill was one of the conditions for withdrawing the farmer’s struggle. Yet the government is bringing it back. Filled with a bunch of dangerous proposals, the bill will shut shop...
The Union Govt has cancelled 1,94,000 defence jobs while keeping one-fourth of the total Govt jobs vacant. It hid data about the vacant posts. We need to look beyond the Agniveers; it's just a...
