Category: Commentary

India’s lifeline for stressed realty industry

By Vinod Behl The government's latest policy package to revive and boost the cash-strapped construction and realty sector by putting…

8 years ago

Governance deficit makes access to healthcare elusive

By Amit Kapoor Access to healthcare is important in developing countries like India. This is because apart from treatment of…

8 years ago

Ahead of G20, India sent down a ‘littoral’ message

By C. Uday Bhaskar Global attention that is both transient and fickle is currently focused on the G20 summit at…

8 years ago

Erdogan can’t win against Gulenists without purging civil liberties

By Saeed Naqvi Sometimes, important events take place after stories connected with them have been taken off the front pages,…

8 years ago

The Mahatma’s murder: Battle lines drawn between Rahul, RSS

By Amulya Ganguli A Belgian admirer of India's saffron brotherhood, Koenraad Elst, said in his book, "Mahatma Gandhi and His…

8 years ago

Why India needs 35 tankers of blood

By Silvio Grocchetti India is 35 tanker-trucks short of the blood it requires for medical procedures, yet some areas of…

8 years ago

Kolkata will take a century to recover from Mother Teresa

By Aroup Chatterjee If Mother Teresa, to be canonised at the Vatican on September 4, is to be named a…

8 years ago

Nearly 60 mn Indians suffer from mental disorders

By Prachi Salve At least 60 million Indians -- a number more than the population of South Africa -- suffer…

8 years ago

India short of 500,000 doctors, bodies on shoulders reminders of health crisis

New Delhi, Sep 1 (IndiaSpend/IANS) In Odisha, a man slung his wife's body over his shoulder and carried it 10…

8 years ago

27 Indian journalists investigating corruption murdered over 24 years

New Delhi, Sep 1 (IANS/IndiaSpend) As many as 27 journalists have been murdered in India in direct retaliation for their…

8 years ago

Urjit Patel could herald climate change-financial world links

By Rajendra Shende Historically, central bank chiefs have overlooked the risks due to climate change and focused on tinkering with…

8 years ago

37% districts short of rain despite average monsoon; September crucial

By Abhishek Waghmare After two consecutive droughts, India received average rainfall -- 2 per cent less than the 100-year average…

8 years ago

Is all lost for Mehbooba Mufti and her party?

By Sheikh Qayoom The trail of death and destruction left behind by nearly four weeks of unrest in the Kashmir…

8 years ago

More male foeticides than female: Government data indicates vast under-reporting

By Chaitanya Mallapur More male babies were victims of foeticide than female in 2014, the latest year for which data…

8 years ago

The way to win Kashmir’s hearts and minds

By Arnab N. Sengupta In this age of bloody bomb attacks on soft targets ranging from wedding parties in Turkey…

8 years ago

The downfall of US competitiveness and the lessons for India

By Amit Kapoor A recent book by Time business columnist Rana Foroohar offers interesting insights about economies in general in…

8 years ago

Freedom from noise pollution will be true independence

By Anil K. Rajvanshi Last week a person who gives out on hire his Dolby music truck for marriages and…

8 years ago

Lucknow’s ‘shining star’ and model of a shayar

By Vikas Datta Do you have to be born in a place renowned as a cradle of poetry to be…

8 years ago

A big-hearted gesture needed in Kashmir

By Amulya Ganguli While sections in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to believe, as Bal Thackeray did, that the…

8 years ago

How incurable Japanese Encephalitis threatens emerging India

By Charu Bahri Panic gripped Manipur in July, 2016 when a four-year-old girl -- after suffering high fever, convulsions, and…

8 years ago



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