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The writer, a policy analyst studying economic and security issues, held senior positions in government and industry. He also specialises in the Chinese economy

Opinion

False info, false testimony in Rafale dogfight

The Modi govt has begun to pay French vendor Dassault 7.85 billion euros for 36 Rafale jets, or an average-per-fighter...

16 Nov 2018 12:05 AM IST

To improve ease of doing business, a new scheme of self-assessment-based duty-free procurement of inputs required for exports has been introduced.

Opinion

Ease of doing biz: Get the right indexes right

In the real India, it still takes 156 days to get a building plan sanctioned, and 1,445 days in court to get a judicial...

2 Nov 2018 12:20 AM IST

Opinion

Looking back: Pandit Nehru vs Sardar Patel

Mr Modi has invested hugely in creating the illusion that the Congress Party's preferred leader was the Sardar and that...

31 Oct 2018 12:16 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi further said that the government has taken several measures for improving the ease of doing business in the country. (Photo: PTI)

Opinion

India need not choose between Japan and China

Right now the only countries with the cash reserves to be bankers to India's plans are China and Japan.

28 Oct 2018 4:52 AM IST

The senior Trump administration official said the United States will have a process to recognize same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats from countries where same-sex marriage is not legal, but which recognize American domestic partners. (Representational Image)

Opinion

America is central to the economy of drugs

The world's major cocaine production centres are all located in South America.

27 Oct 2018 12:31 AM IST

India had received two M-777 ultra-light howitzers in May, each worth around Rs 35 crore, after a gap of 30 years since the Bofors scandal broke out, and the accident took place in one of them. (Photo: File/Representational)

Opinion

Who got the Bofors money?

The GHN45 howitzers were indeed very good, and with base-bleed shells, had the longest reach of all howitzers available...

23 Oct 2018 12:20 AM IST

Opinion

Will India and China fight a war again?

The lesson of 1967 has been well learnt by China, just as the lesson of 1962 has been absorbed by India.

18 Oct 2018 4:43 AM IST

Opinion

Economics Nobel: From esoteric to practical

The Nobel Prize in Economics has mostly tended to go to scholars doing esoteric research in economics.

16 Oct 2018 12:49 AM IST

The statue of John Harvard at Harvard Yard

India

Of John Harvard and Veritas': An Ivy League campus tale

Harvard University was officially founded by a vote by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

12 Oct 2018 12:15 AM IST

An idol of elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesha is immersed in a lake. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

Tradition: The dead faith of the living

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown that he can appropriate other personas, as he has done with Mahatma Gandhi now.

11 Oct 2018 12:44 AM IST

Opinion

Spy meets spy on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge

Glienicke Bridge was where the first great spy exchange took place between the US and the Soviet Union.

5 Oct 2018 1:47 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: AP)

Opinion

The reality that is catching up with PM Modi

Demonetisation is described as the act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tenderâ€.

17 Sept 2018 1:30 AM IST