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It is not enough to have a strong govt; you need a strong country

While the govt has done many things right, it has also made mistakes that have weakened India. It should acknowledge challenges, reverse economic slide, and build national cohesion, writes T N Ninan

OBC sub-categorisation is caught up in bad politics

Anyone interested in social policy should demand that the Justice Rohini Commission findings be released as soon as the coronavirus pandemic subsides

Bureaucratic reshuffle: P Amudha appointed joint secretary in PMO

Keshav Chandra has been appointed as the Director of Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO)

FDI inflows on the rise, great time to invest in India: PM to IBM CEO

In a virtual interaction with Krishna, the prime minister noted that while the world is witnessing a slowdown, FDI inflow in India is increasing

Statsguru: India staring at grim future as Covid-19 count tops 1 million

Despite imposing one of the strictest lockdowns in the world, India is witnessing a rapid rise in cases

PM Modi dials CMs, discusses Covid-19 situation amid spike in cases

During the conversation, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami apprised the PM that 48,000 Covid-19 tests - a national high - were being done daily

India is likely to see a wave of peaks in Covid-19 cases, say experts

Looking at India numbers makes little sense, as handful of states dominate growth in cases

Fond hopes of a lean govt

How long can Modi keep the size of his council of ministers as lean as it has been so far?

India will have to pay huge price for govt's cowardly actions: Rahul Gandhi

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has slammed the Modi govt over the LAC face-off with China in Ladakh

Shekhar Gupta: Strategic wake-up call

Modi govt's strategic policy-making remains a prisoner of historic obsessions and BJP's electoral politics. Ladakh shows it needs hard introspection, realism, and course correction

Mr Modi's last chance to jump start the economy

Economic historians will judge him by this, just as they judge P Chidambaram by his bold cuts in income tax rates in 1997 and Manmohan Singh by his 1991 reforms

Equalisation levy on e-commerce firms: Govt says tax in line with WTO rules

It emphasised that the levy was applicable prospectively, and could not be said to have 'extra-territorial' application

Fiscal realities: Why govt cannot respond to Covid-19 crisis more fully

The problem is on both revenue and expenditure sides - the former is shrinking in relation to GDP, and the latter is rising despite a sharp drop in petroleum-related subsidy bills - writes T N Ninan

Amid many crises facing India, govt is in need of professional experts

In any governance structure, particularly in a democracy, the elected political leadership has to be in the forefront of all decision-making processes

Covid-19: PM Modi chairs meet to review vaccine planning, preparations

PM Modi chaired a high-level meeting to review planning and preparations for vaccination against Covid-19 and highlighted four guiding principles that will form be foundation of the national effort

Deep Dive with AKB: Modi govt's GDP maths thrown out of gear. What next?

The coronavirus pandemic, which has had nearly the entire world in its grips for at least three months now, seems to have thrown the Indian government's #GDP maths out of gear

Covid-19 big picture: Brace for a disaster much bigger than you expected

If the business of doubling rate continues as it is currently, be prepared for bad news not just from the perspective of the coming medical challenge but also for the economy, cautions T N Ninan

Govt mulls tax holiday for companies making new investments in India

The finance ministry is considering a commerce ministry proposal on this, according to a Bloomberg report

Why Modi's PM CARES is more democratic than PM National Relief Fund

With a constitutionally sound trust in place, expectations would be that PM CARES becomes a war chest India can readily rely on in emergencies when the future of an entire country is at stake

From Kohli to Tendulkar: Cricket fraternity backs PM's 21-day lockdown

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly also urged all to stay at home and said that citizens across the world should listen to what their government says