Economy
Modi and the art of the impossible
Politics, said Bismarck, is the art of the possible. That was then. But, in the era of the modern welfare...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Jun 2017, 11:30
Time to sell white elephant called Air India
The Narendra Modi government would do well to accept its think-tank Niti Aayog’s recommendation for the privatization of the loss-making...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 Jun 2017, 11:28
Moody’s exposes Modi
A day after the official data showed slowdown in the fourth quarter, Moody’s Investor Service’s latest observation about India’s “significantly”...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 02 Jun 2017, 12:34
Time to rein in FSSAI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen on improving India’s ranking in the World Bank’s ease of doing business index. But...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 31 May 2017, 08:24
Time to dump Swadeshi fogeys
By approving the commercial use of indigenously developed genetically modified mustard, a government panel has sent across a good signal;...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 May 2017, 07:07
Job creation calls for more than good intentions
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now reportedly turned his attention to employment generation. This is very good, but he must...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 10 May 2017, 06:30
Frenzied lamentations
Can a person be a mass murderer and a Gandhi devotee at the same time? A jihadist and a peace-lover...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 May 2017, 12:19
Fitch underlines the economic weaknesses of India
The rating agency Fitch’s refusal to upgrade India’s sovereign rating underlines the Narendra Modi government’s inability to galvanize the economy....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 08 May 2017, 08:36
Chidambaram is hypocrisy personified
That hypocrisy is second nature to politicians is a truism. The case of P. Chidambaram, however, is infinitely worse: he...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 24 Apr 2017, 11:08
Paswan’s idea spells hard cheese for restaurateurs
The Narendra Modi regime seems determined to make the lives of entrepreneurs miserable, notwithstanding its commitment to improve the ease...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 16 Apr 2017, 06:26
