After its terrible performance in last week’s byelections, some analysts are predicting doom for the BJP in the 2019 general election. In the byelections, it won only two of 14 parliamentary and assembly seats at stake, and its ally in […]

Corporate social responsibility typically means that companies spend 2% of their profits supporting NGOs in health, education, rural development, and similar causes. R A Mashelkar, former head of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, takes a different approach. In his

Narendra Modi was voted to power on a platform of accelerating job creation and slashing corruption. He has disappointed on the jobs front. And his political machinations in Karnataka, trying to grab power by hook or crook, now imperil his

The attack on May 2 by the Hindu Yuva Vahini on Aligarh Muslim University — for having a photo of Mohammed Ali Jinnah in the students’ union hall — has provoked much debate in the wrong direction. The core issue

Almost all opinion polls predict a hung assembly in Karnataka. Yet let me stick my neck out and say the BJP will probably form the next government, on its own or in collaboration with the Janata Dal(S). One reason is

After years of senseless protectionist battle, India has deservedly lost to the US in a trade dispute in the WTO on chicken exports. So, cheap American chicken legs, kept out for years, are now arriving in India. This will cut

Global oil prices have risen to a four-year high of $75/barrel. Domestic petrol and diesel prices have soared. The Narendra Modi government abolished subsidies and price controls in late 2014, taking advantage of the crash in world prices at the