Shakil Ahmed India’s criminal justice system confines 4,34,302 of its 5,73,220 prisoners without conviction the largest undertrial population in the world. This article examines the structural governance failures driving this crisis: an acute judicial capacity deficit, a bail framework that punishes poverty,…
TK Arun India promised tax certainty through grandfathering. The Supreme Court’s Tiger Global verdict undermines that. It’s the government that must restore credibility. It is a mystery why the government did not address, in the Budget, the damage done to India’s tax credibility…
Launched by the Prime Minister in October 2016, the National SC-ST Hub (NSSH) was established to foster an ecosystem that supports SC/ST entrepreneurs in fulfilling the mandates of the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) Order, 2012. This policy stipulates that Central Ministries, Departments, and Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) must procure a minimum of 25% of their total annual requirements from MSEs, with a specific sub-target of 4% earmarked for SC/ST-owned enterprises.
TK Arun Trump lied about everything—inflation, jobs, economic growth, tariffs, immigration, and Democrats’ disposition towards the US—in his State of the Union speech. At a campaign speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi once said that King Purushottam (Porus, the Greeks called…
T K Arun AI will enable new human activity not imagined hitherto, to realise that potential, education must train young minds to develop critical thinking and imagination Israel has bombed the 365 sq km of Gaza into death, devastation and…
TK Arun AI sovereignty is not about apps or agents. It rests on GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, chip fabrication, political will, and the capital to fund long-term risk. The Artificial Intelligence Impact summit is on in Delhi. There is natural interest…
T.K. Arun Data-centre tax holidays represent oodles of government cash to favoured Indian businesses for little public benefit The 21-year tax holiday doled out by the Union Budget to foreign firms that do data centre business in India should be rolled back,…