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Devendra Saksena New DelhiThe Statesman |
In a poor country like India, public representatives had to appear poor to garner sympathy from their constituents. It was no accident that Mahatma...
Expressing his disappointment at bureaucratic non-performance, in a longish speech in Parliament, on 10 February 2021, PM Modi broke an unspoken...
Recently, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) refused to recognise the current geological time as the Anthropocene (Human) Epoch...
The General Elections, slated to begin shortly, have begun to resemble a roadside circus, if not theatre of the absurd. Ignoring pressing problems...
Looking at the ever-increasing size of the Union Budget, doubling every three years, Finance Ministers are hard pressed to generate resources to meet...
A former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) had described elections as ‘the dance of democracy,’ but unfortunately, according to the present CEC,...
The doctrine of separation of powers, which means that the legislature will lay down the law, the executive will implement the law and the judiciary...
Every year, a day before the Union Budget, the Chief Economic Adviser comes out with the Economic Survey for the year. This year, breaking with...
This being an election year, the Budget proposed by the Government had no new taxation provisions. Thus, the Income-tax Act that had been amended...
There was a time when devaluation of a country’s currency was a national tragedy; devaluation of the Indian rupee in 1949, 1966 and 1991 caused...
The sorry episode at Vatry airport, in the eastern Marne region of France, where a flight from Dubai to Nicaragua, carrying 303 Indian passengers was...
‘Human rights’ is probably the most abused phrase in the international political lexicon. The US, which is mindful of human rights violations in...
The visit of Dr Raghuram Rajan, a former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, and a former Chief Economic Advisor, has generated a great deal of...