There is reason to believe that China is transitioning to a more mature stage of economic growth through manufacturing and tech, rather than going down a slope of decline. It would be wrong for India to fashion plans based on any assumption of Chinese economic decline.
In the interest of the Palestinian people, and in the interest of all developing countries, whose economies are stunted by higher oil prices caused by the Gaza war, Iran should repress the urge to retaliate.
The West is urging Tehran to hold its hand and not strike back against Israel for its fatal attack, albeit unacknowledged, on an Iranian embassy building in Damascus, Syria, on April 2. Not just Iran’s traditional enemies but also its traditional friends should also ask Tehran not to open another front in the ongoing deadly conflict in the Middle East. Such an attack would precisely deliver the response Israel’s beleaguered prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to provoke.
RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, making his monetary policy statement, said inflation – the elephant in the room – is under control. Has he ignored the other elephants in his office - lagging private investment, structural rigidities in the economy, real growth rate?
As India races to achieve the target of drawing half its energy from sources other than fossil fuels by 2030, this very green energy drive also threatens
In a culture of creativity, AI can be used to open up far more job opportunities than it shuts down. And this culture can only flourish where individual liberties do, too.
If the attacks on Opposition parties and leaders continue on the pretext of correcting economic wrongs, the fig leaf covering the truth of India’s democracy would wither and drop off.
The punitive actions by India’s tax authorities and the Enforcement Directorate against Opposition political parties and leaders, especially after the general elections have been notified, amount to election interference. The statutory body charged with holding free and fair elections is the Election Commission of India. It has powers to issue directives to the executive to act in a manner conducive to the conduct of free elections. Failure to check the intimidation of Opposition parties and leaders by agencies of the central government amounts to abdication of its responsibility by the Commission. If the Commission does not realise this and make amends, the Supreme Court should, suo motu, direct the Commission to act.