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Opportunities and Growth-drivers of Infrastructure Development in India: Union Budget 2018
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Tribute to Usha Shrivastava
17 February 2018TRIBUTE
Dr Usha Shrivastava, a lifelong Marxist and an eminent medical professional, passed away in New Delhi on February 6, 2018 at the age of 62 after a long and brave battle with cancer. She was currently serving as the Vice-President of the (...) -
My fond memories of Dr Usha Shrivastava
17 February 2018by Amarjeet Kaur
I lost my very good friend for the last 46 years, Dr Usha Shrivastava, who breathed her last on February 6, 2008. I felt a vacuum somewhere within me with the news of her demise I was not prepared for. Our work together as AISF (...) -
Abominable Cruelty in the ‘Developed’ World
17 February 2018, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS
Just as I’d begun writing this week’s column focusing on the brutal murder of Delhi’s Ankit Saxena—a young man murdered by the parents of the Muslim girl he loved—I realised that we are not the only country where young innocents are hacked (...) -
Tribute to Professor Arun Mohanty
17 February 2018TRIBUTE
Professor Arun Mohanty, 64, who held a Ph.D degree in Economics from the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, passed away in New Delhi on February 3, 2018 after suffering a brain stroke in November last year. Prior to his appointment as a (...) -
The Disconcerting Economic Reality
13 February 2018POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
As the Prime Minister was reeling off in the Lok Sabha yesterday a long list of never-before achieve-ments of his government during the last three-and-a-half years (with a liberal dose of anti-Nehru venom thrown into his (...) -
Maldives in Crisis
13 February 2018COMMENTARY
The picturesque Indian Ocean archipelago, Maldives, is gripped by a serious political crisis and turmoil.
On February 5, Maldives President Abdulla Yameen declared a state of emergency in the country for 15 days. This followed a (...) -
Union Budget 2018-19: Creating a Crisis and Missing the Opportunity to Resolve it
13 February 2018, by Arun KumarThe Union Budget 2018-19, presented on February 1, 2018, has confused the lay public. It purports to give something to every section and yet it is being criticised by the Opposition and the media has largely called it an election Budget. The (...) -
Review of Economic Survey 2017-18
13 February 2018by Sunil Ashra
One of the important features one notices about the new Economic Survey 2017-18 is that it has been restructured almost entirely. Most of the chapterisation of the earlier Economic Survey has been done away with. So a comparative (...) -
Economics of Politics
13 February 2018, by Kuldip NayarIt’s understandable that this year’s Budget should have an eye on rural India which constitutes some 70 per cent of voters. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had no compunction in mixing politics with economics. In the past whenever the Budget was (...)
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