Google’s Fees: Fact vs Fiction for App Developers
Play Store fee may be steep, but it's levied only on apps with revenue of at least $1 million; fledging startup pay little and Google should publicise this.
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
MPCE Data: Aesthetic Appeal with Substantial Insights
MPCE data accounts for just 49 per cent of the consumption reported by GDP estimates. The destination weddings, designer clothes, fancy dining and wining, and exotic holidays probably remain Instagram posts, without finding mention in answers to pesky surveyors.
Addressing Unaccounted Political Funding Beyond Electoral Bonds
Recorded contributions, whether via electoral bonds or plain contributions for which parties issue receipts, form only a part, probably a tiny part, of the total spending by political parties.
Hollow Claims?: Examining Modi Government’s White Paper on the UPA Administration
The UPA era witnessed the fastest rate of growth in India’s history but the government failed to tom-tom many of its achievements | File photo of former PM Manmohan Singh with UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.
Victories and Verities: Interpreting India’s Budgetary Challenges
As the fastest-growing large economy of the world, India is a beacon of light
Nitish cracks BJP’s grip in Bihar: Modi’s guarantee falters?
It is easy to find fault with Nitish Kumar for his fickle loyalties and variable commitment to all things other than his own political well-being. This is facile, and implicitly forgives the voters and allies who take defections in their stride and keep voting for or befriending individual leaders and parties, regardless of what company they keep and what policies they, thereby, foster.