Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has just announced an urban employment scheme as part of an overall plan for a minimum guaranteed income. He calls it a pioneering breakthrough. Opposition parties in other states will now promise a similar guaranteed income. […]
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The government should not hide behind security concerns and facilitate the entry of Chinese EV maker BYD, which has proposed to invest $1bn to expand its operations in India When a multinational company (MNC) with cutting-edge technology proposes a $1bn
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GDP, personal income stagnated during historical era of Hindu rule. India’s ruling Bhartiya Janata Party has long garnished its Hindu nationalist agenda with the claim that its homeland was the world’s richest region during a glorious millennium of historical Hindu rule.
India’s Golden Era Does Not Lie in the Past. It Has Just Begun Read More »
The big climate threat for India is heat wave. More rain may just help us to blunt the effect of high temperatures. The floods that hit Delhi in the last two weeks were the worst in 45 years. Climate experts
Rain caused mayhem to crops and cities but clouds have a silver lining Read More »
Modern India has abolished terrible practices such as female infanticide, sati and stoning to death for adultery, and created a uniform criminal law. Why not a uniform civil law then too? As a secular fundamentalist, I welcome Prime Minister Modi’s
India needs UCC but it can’t be rushed through Read More »
What would India and the U.S. get out of a stronger relationship? Is that even likely? Cato’s Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar comments.
Mr. Modi Goes to Washington Read More »
Operational flexibility makes more sense in a multipolar world that will one day accept India as a pole in its own right. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the first to say India and the US were natural allies. Narendra Modi has
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the United States for a state visit that is expected to highlight India’s importance as a rising economic and military power, and the only country in Asia that can be a counter to China in the
Modi’s India Is Better in Economics than History Read More »
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promotes its Hindu nationalist agenda by claiming that India was the world’s richest region under glorious Hindu rule for thousands of years before being conquered by Muslim invaders in the 11th century and British
Indian Nationalism and the Historical Fantasy of a Golden Hindu Period Read More »
Hong Kong billionaire, 75-year-old Jimmy Lai is behind bars for demanding that China honour Deng Xiaoping’s pledge of ‘one country, two systems’ which it promised Britain when it took over the colony in 1997 I am a journalist, so you
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