G-7 Summit Aspiration For Tokyo to Strengthen Geopolitical Ties
For Tokyo, the G-7 Summit was driven by the need to define and devise the means of navigating the complex geopolitical landscape of the Indo-Pacific
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The Top 5 Email Marketing Applications for India: Empower Your Business!
Email marketing is an essential tool for businesses in today’s digital age. It allows you to connect with your customers, build relationships, and drive conversions. With the ever-increasing popularity of email marketing, numerous applications have emerged, offering a wide range…
New Parliament Defiled by Inaction on Sexual Harassment
Monday’s cartoon by EP Unny in the Indian Express compares the geometry of the new Parliament building with that of Jantar Mantar, for long the national capital’s favourite protest site. The juxtaposition is more than appropriate, given the recent developments. Even as the new Parliament building was being inaugurated, women wrestlers and their supporters protesting against alleged sexual harassment were roughed up and their protest site at Jantar Mantar cleared.
₹2,000 notes: Another Costly Mistake
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) announcement of withdrawal from circulation of the ₹2,000 currency notes has caused much incredulity. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin quipped, “500 doubts, 1,000 mysteries and 2,000 blunders”, and Rajya Sabha member P. Chidambaram said, “Demonetisation has come full circle”. The Union government has distanced itself from the decision by letting the RBI announce it.
SC Committee on Adani Matter Has Failed The Nation
The corporate members of the expert committee could have exposed much more of the wrongdoings but they have chosen to be formalistic. So, an opportunity to expose and clean up corporate manipulations has been missed.
The Importance of Addressing Inequality and Poverty in Society
Arun Kumar Recently, after my talk on the current economic situation in India at a private university, I was asked, why those students should be concerned about inequality and poverty. I had raised these as major issues of concern. The…
Taxing gaming is no child’s play
Indian agriculture is a gamble on the Monsoon. This cliché would have been sufficient ground for the Goods and Services Tax authorities to slap a tax of 28 per cent on the value of crop output if agriculture had not been kept out of the ambit of GST.