President in the doghouse
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek,â€
Arrest the fall...soon
Several pundits have projected that the Indian economy will be back on track in 2013.
Big Brother with you, always
The post 9/11 world has seen the security apparatus spread its tentacles through use of surveillance technology in military, business and social establishments of the United States.
Mixed reactions to the bill
The Cabinet nod for the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Bill 2013 is expected to bring in transparency in the real estate sector, promote fair trade practices and safeguard the interest of end users and investors.
Dawn of a new era
In the 1950s, Myanmar (formerly Burma) was considered as one of the strongest economies in South-east Asia.
Talks fail to address the faultlines
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang recent visit to India on Sunday was predictably ho-hum, and ended without any breakthrough that could have helped to resolve the contentious border dispute between the two neighbours.
A whiff of social change
Iran’s social and culture conservatism has for long served as grist to the popular mill of western media consumption.
What an expensive way to die
Successive governments in India have acted too magnanimously in allocating public land worth crores of rupees for building memorials for political leaders.
A double-edged sword for the US
US President Barack Obama has defended America’s controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. At the same time he has also acknowledged that the targeted strikes are no "cure-all†and has admitted to a deeply felt anguish over the deaths of civilians killed unintentionally.
Is oil bad business?
In last few decades, the OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) has had minimal manufacturing and industrial share in their GDP. Oil and gas have been contributing around 60 per cent of GDP of Gulf countries that command considerable influence on global oil markets.
Disappearing diplomats
"There are some 25 diplomatic positions in Missions/Posts abroad currently vacant,†was the response given by Preneet Kaur, the Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs to the ‘Unstarred Question No. 2024’ asked in Lok Sabha on December 05, 2012.
Deaths in farms, again!
Agriculture is the bed rock of Indian. But the sector has been besieged with a number of problems that has become an ignominy and blight to our country’s progress chart. One such acute agrarian crisis is of farmer’s committing suicide.
The textual mistake!
"India's formal education system is failing and government school system is failing - government is not delivering the goods.†This concern was voiced by India’s Chief Economic Advisor, Raghuram Rajan after witnessing the apathy toward the education system of our country.
Overhaul the intelligence set-up
ndia faces complex security challenges, which have the potential to derail its economic and social progress. But there does not seem to be any broad-based exercise to reform the country’s intelligence apparatus and make it more pro-active and in line with the pursuit of the nation’s internal and external policies.
On a sick bed
India is lucky to have two able technocrats at the helm of its economic affairs: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is an Oxford alumnus while Finance Minister P.Chidambaram is a graduate from Harvard. Yet despite their helmsmanship, the economic horizons of the country have remained cloudy for some time now.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
