The Times of India

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 […]

Kala azar cases have crashed 98.7% — from 44,533 in 2007 to just 834 in 2022 — but completing the last mile has proved difficult Covid and malaria affect the rich and poor alike and so make headlines. Many readers may not

The BJP fielded 391 Muslim candidates in the UP municipal polls and 61 of them won. This successful experiment may become part of the BJP’s strategy for the 2024 general election. For me, the most unexpected change in the ninth

When the US, which is at the very forefront of anti-Russian sanctions, is okay buying diesel from India, why is the EU objecting? Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, complains that Indian refiners

A population-based guarantee will offer more to the majority than to minorities and will sanctify religious majoritarianism Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has coined an unfortunate new election slogan, “Jitni abadi, utna haq” (the rights of any group are proportionate to its population share).

From its inception, India provided voting rights for all regardless of class, caste, religion or gender. Some stalwarts of the ruling party seem to think that ancient India was the first in everything. Indian mythology tells us that Shiva cut

The release of Anand Mohan at the behest of Nitish Kumar is being seen as a bid to capture the Rajput votebank ahead of the next election. India’s remission policy definitely needs a rethink. We can’t just free killers It

BJP politicians castigate the western media for anti-Indian bias, accusing people with a colonial mindset of thwarting India’s rise. BJP vice-president Jay Panda, has bashed them saying, “The western media’s abandonment of objectivity in the pursuit of a preset narrative

It may be better to forget production-linked incentives and focus on service exports where India’s future lies Politicians and economists emphasise merchandise over services exports. Vast subsidies and tariff protection are offered to attract manufacturing companies to shift from China to India.

Poverty declined in the Congress era as well as under BJP rule. However, it was not just subsidised food but rapid GDP growth that made the difference. An International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper by Bhalla, Bhasin and Virmani (henceforth