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India needs a fresh set of structural reforms, or be ready for slower growth

The momentum created in the past has run out of steam, and there is an all-encompassing slowdown because there has been so little reform in the last 15 years.

Everyone knows not to take on Mamata Banerjee, like Modi & Amit Shah did, on her home turf

Mamata Banerjee knew much before Modi and Shah that politics is not a tea party. It needs blood, sweat & tears.

‘Foreigners’ in Assam tribunals are just unlucky Indians fighting cruel paperwork demands

As more people are forced into Assam's uninhabitable detention camps meant to keep ‘illegal Bangladeshis’, detainees look up to Supreme Court for relief.

Making Mayawati India’s prime minister in 2019 will fix its casteist past and present

Whites in the US showed their humane side by twice electing Barack Obama, a black minority. Can India’s upper castes ever support a Dalit PM?

2019 is EC’s Year of Accessible Elections but what we want is a disabled MP in Parliament

We urge the President of India to nominate people with disabilities to the Rajya Sabha to bring about tangible change in our lives.

Amit Shah has more than rattled Mamata Banerjee in Bengal

BJP president Amit Shah’s winning spree in state after state has brought BJP in direct confrontation with Mamata Banerjee in Bengal.

Why India would do well with a coalition govt: Pro-poor policies, less inequality

Coalition governments redistribute resources proportionately while countries with majority governments witness rapid rise in inequality.

The TINA factor & flailing opposition means Modi will win again, writes Arun Jaitley

Union minister Arun Jaitley said the opposition's promises will be responsible for its rout for it effectively shows 'there is no alternative' (TINA) to Narendra Modi.

Supreme Court just destroyed the ‘merit’ argument upper castes use to oppose reservations

Before this judgment, there was confusion among policymakers on the scope of reservation in promotion policies.

Vidyasagar started fight between EC & Mamata but he won’t matter in Bengal’s Sunday polls

Bengal is perhaps the only major non-BJP state where BJP is aggressively confronting a strong regional party, Mamata Banerjee’s TMC, at every step.

On Camera

Manipur has seen too much pain to be seduced by promises

Nehru learned the truth the hard way when 3,000 Nagas walked out of his 1953 rally. The people of the Northeast aren’t easily seduced by baubles.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.