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

    Looking back: Pandit Nehru vs Sardar PatelOpinion
    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

    India and China flags (Photo: PTI/File)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

    Paul Romer (Photo: AFP)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 YardIndia
    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

    Glienicke BridgeOpinion
    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

    The government has denied the Congress charge that there is a huge scam in the procurement of 36 Rafale fighter jets from France. (Photo: Representational | AP)Opinion
    Serving air marshals join the Rafale dogfight

    The Rafale was chosen after a gruelling process to pick a fighter out of six contenders for the original 126 multi-role...

    11 Sept 2018 12:10 AM IST

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