Opinion
Fear of China’s Evergrande Contagion Spreading to Global Commodity Markets Looms Large
The international commodity and domestic consumption markets are the most crucial places right now. If the contagion starts, these are the ones which will show clearer signs.
Air India Sale: Nationalisation as Tool for Economic Repression is Past Its Use-by Date
Air India is to be shifted to the Tata Group by December after 68 years.
Vaccine Row Again Shows India-UK Ties Marred by Lack of Trust—Brits Have to Fix It
There are many foundations to build on provided the British are able to discard some entrenched attitudes and shed historical bias in favour of Pakistan at India’s cost.
Narendra Modi Has Proved Being Pro-poor and Pro-business are Not Mutually Exclusive
Being in power for 20 years, first as Gujarat CM and then as India’s PM, Modi’s biggest strength remains his ability to focus on processes without worrying about end results.
On Semiconductors, India Needs to Reboot Trade Policies, Ecosystem to Build a TSMC
India must look at the opportunity to build a robust semiconductor supply chain and grant concessions to governments and companies who are willing to invest here.
Bureaucrat of a Different Mould: Unassuming and Gentle, Shakti Sinha Inspired Young Minds
Shakti Sinha did lay a lot of emphasis on the right kind of economic thinking to be engrained in today’s youth, international markets, and the way it impacted one’s country.
Wildlife Conservation Must Start with Planting Trees, Rebuilding Destroyed Habitats
Trees provide shelter to 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. A single tree can be the habitat of different kinds of fungi, insects, moss and mammals.
Opinion: Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav and a Promise to Fight Climate Crisis
It has been established beyond doubt that human behaviour has led to glacier retreats and acidified oceans and caused the world to heat up at unprecedented rates.
Shiv Sena, AAP, Now TMC, Everyone Wants to Win Goa. But Often It’s a Story of Grand Failure
Goa has only two seats in Lok Sabha and the smallest of Assemblies and can in no way add significantly to any party’s numbers either in Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha.
Looking beyond China, Quad is Playing the Long Game. It Will Not Meet NATO’s Fate
Even in the absence of a China challenge, the Quad likely won’t experience the kind of existential crisis that NATO is going through.
Finally, India Tells Pakistan at UN to Vacate Occupied Areas of Jammu and Kashmir
India has finally taken the stand it should have taken seven decades ago.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Big Message to US Industry—India is Open for Business
Mohandas Pai writes: In the last few years, the government has made it easier to do business in India. But this message needed to go out to the world.
Alibaba to Tencent, Why China’s Big Tech is Waking up to ‘Common Prosperity’
China’s current strongman Xi Jinping is moving beyond Deng Xiaoping’s famous dictum—“Let some people get rich first.”
Telangana Liberation Day: Our Right to Remember the Fight for Freedom from Nizam
Union Minister for Culture and Tourism writes: Between 1946 and 1948 horrendous brutalities were perpetrated on citizens of Hyderabad State by Razakars and Nizam’s army.
Battle of Rezang La: How 120 Indian Soldiers Fought Off 5000 Chinese in 1962—and None Believed It
The Army had initially refused to accept the account of the survivors, who were merely following the last order of their commander, Maj. Shaitan Singh.
The Threat of Islamic Terrorism Has Only Increased In 20 Years After 9/11
The future of the now fast evolving and developing Islamist terrorism threat can be investigated from three fronts: Strategic, tactical, and political.