The RBI draws its powers from several Indian statutes, the most significant of them being the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934. (AFP)

The design of RBI limits its abilities

The time has come to repeal the central bank's antiquated 1934 legal architecture

15 Mar 2020 10:37 PM

A book value in a sense represents a historical cost, or the purchase cost adjusted for depreciation while market value is the true value of the enterprise that can be realised in the open market.

The govt’s grand garage sale of Air India

The book value of an enterprise can be markedly different from its market value.

01 Mar 2020 4:21 AM

The LIC was established in 1956 with a capital of Rs 5 crore and is today estimated to be valued around Rs 8-10 lakh crore.

India’s public sector is going downhill

PSUs not only play a pivotal role in the economy, but also contribute overall to nation building.

16 Feb 2020 4:52 AM

The economic slowdown was evidenced in the export sector too, with India’s exports contracting for a fifth straight month in December 2019 by 1.8 per cent to $27.36 billion.

Budget 2020: India is cruising for a bruising

Unemployment is rising sharply, consumption, savings and investment are down and inflation is rearing its ugly head again.

02 Feb 2020 6:39 AM

Soleimani was the glue of Resistance Axis

The contested lands now labeled as the “Palestine question” were once a part of Ottoman Syria.

19 Jan 2020 5:11 AM

The NPR is a register of the usual residents of the country that ostensibly facilitates targeted policy interventions and reduces leakages in the welfare system.

The link between NPR & NRC is obvious

Not only is the link between the NPR and the NRC very obvious, but the BJP-led government’s ideological commitment to it is also unwavering.

05 Jan 2020 2:53 AM

Students and local residents protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act outside Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi on Wednesday. (Photo: Asian Age)

CAA, NRC will complete divide & rule agenda

Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University’s initial conception of India, was plaited with secular instincts.

22 Dec 2019 12:05 AM

The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.

Is othering a people the object of NRC?

The general census while counting people on the basis of religion in addition to other indices has not stressed upon citizenship.

08 Dec 2019 7:04 AM

As many as 71 per cent of India's senior citizens reside in rural areas while 29 per cent live in urban areas almost mirroring the rural urban mix of our population.

Bring seniors back into policy discourse

The most conjoint disability among the aged persons is locomotor and visual disability.

24 Nov 2019 7:05 AM

Unpacking Fascism’s biggity architecture

The principal focus of Fascist architecture was public buildings and boulevards.

11 Nov 2019 12:32 AM

Airlines pay several charges to airport operators, both private airports and Airport Authority of India-operated airports, for landing, parking, route navigation and royalty. (Representational image)

Maharajah can rule, given a fair chance

The sell-off effort was revived again by the NDA/BJP government in 2017 but found no takers

27 Oct 2019 12:14 AM

The terminal drawback of the academicians was their incapacity to recognise Adolf Hitler as a real menace. (Photo: AFP)

Stand up and resist the education police

A Nazi commissar was appointed to bludgeon the University into submission.

13 Oct 2019 12:05 AM

The willing participation of the bureaucracy in the Nazi criminal enterprise reached a nadir at the Wannsee Conference on January 24, 1942. In a villa in south Berlin over a sumptuous two-hour lunch laced with fine wines, Nazi apparatchiks, aided by what in the Indian parlance would be joint secretary-level officers drawn from across the German bureaucratic space, firmed up plans for the final solution to the Jewish question. The conference was the equivalent of an inter-ministerial consultation in the Indian context. (Photo:Pixabay)

Bureaucracy and the fascists

When the Nazis seized control in 1933, this permanent establishment formed the core of the German state.

29 Sep 2019 7:18 AM

Media and fascists: Lessons of history

The Fascists believed that this aspect was critical to reshaping their intrinsic internalisation of Fascism in perpetuity.

15 Sep 2019 12:00 AM

Before the Nazis first appropriated dominance in 1933, Adolf Hitler did not wax eloquent against the judiciary. (Photo: AFP)

If courts are vigilant, democracy will be safe

Almost any crime that could be described as political opposition to the Nazi regime ended up before them.

01 Sep 2019 12:28 AM

Kashmiris walks past paramilitary troops patrolling a street in Srinagar on Saturday. (Photo: AP)

50 shades of grey in ‘reintegration’ of J&K

The government needed to apply the healing touch rather than alienate the Kashmiris at this juncture.

18 Aug 2019 12:19 AM

US special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad (Photo: AP)

How India has been outplayed in Af-Pak

Indians would like to fault the US for dealing with the Taliban arguing that Washington has done a number on India.

04 Aug 2019 1:06 AM

For Pak, Jadhav verdict face-saver, opportunity

The Court notes that the obligation to provide effective review and reconsideration can be carried out in various ways.

21 Jul 2019 12:18 AM

The treasure trove in fact is the core biometrics and the intimate personal data of 1.22 billion citizens collected over nine years under the Aadhaar programme. (Photo: PTI)

Is your Aadhaar data about to be monetised?

It is another matter that even what the Economic Survey is proposing is also a non-sequitor.

07 Jul 2019 12:14 AM

The online world then took on a more discernible shape in 1990, when computer scientists developed the World Wide Web.

The case for regulating social media in India

The time has come to seriously evaluate the role played by social media in spreading disinformation and hate speech in election season.

23 Jun 2019 1:42 AM

Manish Tewari