[ad_1] This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve today's most pressing policy challenges. It has been condensed and edited.Bobby Ghosh: India is suffering the world's worst…
[ad_1] A huge victory for an embattled single woman in a wheelchair who stood for an India and a Bengal for all. And an equally big defeat for a juggernaut so hungry to crush obstacles…
[ad_1] Alarm bells have started to ring for the BJP. But not because the results of the five assembly polls - Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal - have been apocalyptic for the…
[ad_1] Mamata Banerjee will be Chief Minister of West Bengal again - for a historic third time - after defeating the BJP in a thriller of an election.The BJP had made it Mamata vs Modi;…
[ad_1] They counted the votes before they counted the bodies. After huge super-spreader assembly election campaigns in several states, the results finally came in as India was gripped by an even deadlier wave of Covid.…
[ad_1] The result of the West Bengal election will cause anguish to Modi but make Mohan Bhagwat happy. This may sound intriguing to many, but those who understand the ideology of the RSS will accept…
[ad_1] The long-drawn ongoing assembly elections in West Bengal close amidst the alarming nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases. In about a week, we will find out whether the ruling Trinamool Congress can hold on to…
[ad_1] George Floyd's last words, "I can't breathe", resonated across the world to symbolize the brutal reality of a racist police force in the US. Today in India, there is a different context: these tragic…
[ad_1] The Economic Times of Thursday April 22 gives figures of the rise of the second wave of Covid in India. According to it, daily cases were below 10,000 on January 25. February saw the…
[ad_1] Covid-19 is going to kill more people in 2021 than it did last year. If you want to see why, look at what's happening in India.Cases have been surging in the country of 1.37…
[ad_1] I have been involved in elections in India from the third general election for the Lok Sabha held in 1962 as a young magistrate and then in 1967 as a Collector. Then there was…
[ad_1] Singur. Faded brown fields stretch outside the ramshackle town. A broken wall here, piles of concrete water pipes there. It was here, in this once fertile land, that the Tata Nano automobile factory was…
[ad_1] The recent announcement by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) that Mathematics and Physics will no longer be mandatory for eligibility to get a spot in engineering undergraduate programmes came as a…
[ad_1] Bright red Che Guevara and hammer-and-sickle flags flutter on the long Calicut beach. In Ermeli on the foothills of Sabarimala, the Vavar masjid sits in age-old co-existence with the Ayyappa temple opposite. Vavar, the…
[ad_1] Nicknamed "Little Sparta" by American generals like former U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, the United Arab Emirates is widely acknowledged as a small country that punches far above its weight in military terms. But…
[ad_1] Amit Shah's statement that "not everything can be made public" is being interpreted as affirmation of the fact that on Saturday night, he met Sharad Pawar for dinner at the home of a billionaire…
[ad_1] It took a year of the pandemic but finally one of the world's biggest banks has acknowledged the huge toll that working remotely is taking on its staff. Jane Fraser, Citigroup Inc's chief executive…
[ad_1] Why has the Harry-Meghan 2-hour interview to Oprah Winfrey not evoked gut-wrenching sympathy in India for this biracial royal couple? Why haven't the descriptions of racism and Meghan's suicidal thoughts stirred white-hot loyalty for…
[ad_1] Hello and welcome to Episode 203 (or is it Episode 406?) of the Congress's civil war. Like some long-running serial that began with a flurry of excitement but has now settled down to daytime…
[ad_1] 'Metroman' Sreedharan, a former Railways official known for building many complex bridges and much more famously, the Delhi metro system, has now joined the BJP. He is 88, but that has not deterred him…
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