Deal with religious intolerance with an iron fist
By Amjad Ayub Mirza ‘Curfew has been imposed and the Army has been called in to conduct a flag march in Bhaderwah town of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district over attempts by some elements to…
Opinion
A ‘Cool-Headed’ Assessment: Monetary Policy Review June 2022
By Suyash Choudhary The MPC hiked repo rate by 50 bps to 4.9 per cent, as was widely expected by the market. However given that recent experience had significantly reduced market’s confidence in being able…
Will ECB be late to join the central banks’ party?
By Sreejith Balasubramanian European Central Bank (ECB)’s April meeting minutes and the blog post in May by its President seem to suggest an inflection point in the assessment of its appropriate monetary policy response. The…
Russian oil for American shores
By Asad Mirza A recent report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published on June 1, says that some oil companies have been supplying discounted Russian oil to the US and in this regard it…
Tough volatile week with downward bias
By Arun Kejriwal Markets behaved exactly as expected in the week gone by and opened with an upward gap on Monday. Markets moved with sharp volatility thereafter but failed to make further gains at the…
‘Vazul Vaav’: Pakistan rejigs its Kashmir gameplan
By Deepika Bhan Some time back, intelligence agencies intercepted a coded message ‘Vazul Vaav’ from Pakistan to its supporters in Kashmir. It could have meant anything, but the spate of terror attacks proved the intent….
World endorses PM Modi’s call for economic development for peace
By D.C. Pathak At the core of India’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the mandate that bilateral relations with all would be based on mutual security and economic interests, and that this…
Monsoon and its impact on inflation
By Sreejith Balasubramanian The IMD has declared the onset of monsoon and the next four months will be key for agriculture given the overlap of the kharif season crop sowing. This year, IMD expects monsoon…
PoJK/GB: The gathering storm of public discontent
By Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza In a hurriedly called meeting of the senior executive members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action Committee held in Gilgit this week, it was decided that if the government of Pakistan…
Taliban in a bind
By Asad Mirza The latest international conference to discuss the evolving situation in Afghanistan and also review the response of the neighbouring and regional countries to the latest Taliban decisions, took place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan,…
Quad may be incomparable to NATO, but it can bring together states to secure mutual interests
By Kavya Dubey The Quadrilateral Security Alliance may have gone through phases of void and little activity since its inception in 2007, but it has come to acquire greater significance in recent times. In the…
Kashmir and the sin of silence
By Deepika Bhan Two days after Rahul Bhat was killed in a government office in Jammu and Kashmir on May 12, the building was reopened and all his colleagues, officers and subordinates trooped in and…
Democratic India has to have a national identity
By D.C. Pathak The Preamble to the Constitution of India describes maintenance of ‘unity and integrity of the nation’ as its prime objective. Reference to India being a Union of States is for defining the…
ED to conduct parallel probe to track money trail in WBSSC scam
Kolkata, May 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) The CBI has now roped in Enforcement Directorate (ED) to track the money trail in the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment scam. CBI sources told IANS that since the…
Probe & sentence Yasin Malik for crimes against us: Kashmiri Pandits
By Deepika Bhan New Delhi, May 25 (SocialNews.XYZ) As the court sentenced Yasin Malik to rigorous life imprisonment on Wednesday for terror funding cases, the Kashmiri Pandits demanded that he should also be held accountable…
Not walking alone: A bond and macro update
By Suyash Choudhary The government announced a series of steps aimed at providing some relief against the unprecedented commodity price shocks being felt post the geopolitical escalations. Chief amongst these was a Rs 8 and…
Trade focussed Quad
By Asad Mirza The first in-person meeting of the leaders of the US, Australia, Japan and India, termed Quad, will be held in Tokyo on Tuesday. This is the first in-person summit of these leaders…
How much and how often should courts adjudicate matters of religous fervour?
By Adeel Ahmed New Delhi, May 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the old city of Jerusalem, there lies a 187-foot long ‘Western Wall, built by Herod on the western flank of the Temple Mount. Whilst the wall…
Some more steam before the inevitable correction steps in
By Arun Kejriwal The week gone by saw markets gain sharply on expected lines. However, the volatility witnessed must have certainly increased the number of heart patients in the marketplace. We saw markets have a…
Yasin Malik must pay for the genocide he masterminded
By Deepika Bhan Coming down the stairs of Delhi’s Rouse Avenue courts after being convicted for terror crimes, Yasin Malik wanted to speak to waiting mediapersons, but was not allowed to do so by the…