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Amit Shah is the ‘prime’ minister in Modi cabinet & he hits where it hurts

Amit Shah as the home minister in Narendra Modi government will now be answerable for any terror attack in the country.

My mother was wrongly jailed for ‘waging war’ on India. A professor with bad knees, no bed

Our Supreme Court sings paeans to the supremacy of ‘human liberty’. What good is ‘liberty’ if you have drained a human’s life even before a trial has begun?

60 years ago, a Right liberal Swatantra Party had challenged Nehru’s socialist Raj

It was a sign of Swatantra Party's political acumen that many of its policies would be adopted by Narasimha Rao 17 years after its demise in 1974.

To fix the economy, Modi govt needs to first get its basics right

Modi govt’s new cabinet committees to deal with economy and unemployment won’t be of much help without a change in mindset & a bit more humility.

India must shun Nehruvian metropolis bias & turn to small cities for urban economic growth

India’s urban policy attributes the messiness to migrants, slums and poverty, and its preferred antidote is a Chandigarh-like order.

Message from RBI: Expect more rate cuts this year

RBI changing its monetary policy stance to accommodative indicates it will bear a greater burden of expansionary macro-economic policies.

RBI is becoming the model central bank to the world

RBI’s clear messaging & rate-cut path offer a lesson to peers. There’s no point targeting inflation if growth is waning & the thing you’re aiming at is dormant.

2019 mandate: Governance measures at state levels helped this government return to power

The surge in vote share of the winning party shows not just the limitations of arithmetic alliances, but also its side effects.

India’s problem is its policy to pamper China while treating weak Pak as full-blown threat

India needs disruptive foreign and security policies. Modi government’s most difficult decision will be to resume nuclear testing.

From Jinnah’s family to Nawaz Sharif: Pakistan thinks everyone is a foreign agent

Those who differ with the state in Pakistan aren’t people with opposing viewpoints but foreign agents.

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Iran war has given India a blueprint for the next conflict

Pakistan would be itching to do an Iran on us and China would be planning to execute an air campaign without allowing us asymmetrical escalation. India has no choice but to transform.

Haryana’s new industrial policy in the works, but industry says old problems remain unsolved

Increase in employment subsidy, Rs 500 crore for estate revamp, new townships in pipeline—but land cost, power breakdowns and inspector raj top among key worries for industry leaders.

Military pushes for private participation in space, more Indian satellites. ‘Can’t rely on single entity’ 

CDS Anil Chauhan says future space capability will not be built by government agencies alone. ‘It will be co-developed with industry, start-ups, and technology innovators’.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.