By Amit Kapoor, The much-dreaded trade war has come dangerously close to fruition after the tit-for-tat exchanges between the United States and China over the course of the past week. Last Tuesday, the US, blaming China for intellectual property theft, released a list...
By C. Uday Bhaskar, The four-day DefExpo 2018 that opens outside Chennai on April 11 has been innovatively and generously showcased as "India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing Hub" and a large number of platforms and military inventory items manufactured in India...
By Amulya Ganguli, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) owes much of its woes to the reluctance of its core constituency of urban, upper caste, conservative, anti-minority, middle class supporters to accept Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "sabka saath, sabka vikas" mantra...
By Taponeel Mukherjee, Recent statements by the chief of the Banks Board Bureau (BBB) that public-sector banks (PSBs) have a role in creating Indian infrastructure considering the support they have provided the sector over the last decade, merit discussion. PSBs did...
By Vatsal Srivastava, With the crypto currency universe hitting fresh 2018 lows over the long Easter break, the question on everybodys mind is whether they buy this dip, or book their losses, or simply stay put - or "HODL", as the crypto community likes to put it....
By Amit Kapoor, Our chief economic advisor very succinctly put it recently that India is both a story of revival and risks. It was further noted that although the level is still below potential, the economy seems to be picking up resiliently in terms of direction....
By Amulya Ganguli, Since there is no dominant leader with a countrywide appeal in the opposition camp at the moment, it is natural that the most energetic opponents of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will take the lead in trying to bring together the different...
By Frank Islam, The Washington D.C. March for Our Lives is over. Does the beat go on? Will this fledgling movement continue and have a lasting impact resulting in new gun laws nationally and in states across this country? In our opinion, it will. That’s because the...
By Saptak Ghosh, The World Economic Forum annual meeting last month revealed some startling facts about India and the world's economy. The Oxfam survey highlighted that the richest one per cent in India accounted for 73 per cent of the wealth generated in the country,...
By Yash Mishra, Protectionism has suddenly become the refuge of India's internet entrepreneurs. Some of them, and their investors, cite the emergence of big (if not disruptive) internet companies from China to encourage the Indian government to go down that road. But...