Torrid summer, acute coal shortage trigger blackouts in many states

A potent combination of sweltering summer and acute coal shortages have triggered blackouts across many parts of the country as states struggle to manage the record demand for electricity and low......

Does Kerala Need Silverline?

Silverline seems symptomatic of how Kerala -- its claimed education, awareness and all -- overlooks its real problems, notes Shyam G Menon. Photograph: Kind courtesy Kerala Rail Early April, 2022,......

How Govt can win over farmers

'As of now, it is hard to see how the stalemate can be broken.' 'For the Sikh Jat farmers who constitute the core of the protest are a simple-minded but stubborn lot.' 'They are unlikely to call......

Plan to buy land in J-K? Read this first

All laws have been modified to omit the domicile clause for property rights in the valley.This effectively means that anyone with enough money to spend can now technically buy property there,......

What Are RBI's Challenges In 2024?

The challenge for the RBI in 2024 is likely to be less about containing elevated inflation and more about curbing excessive financial market exuberance and a 'problem of plenty', notes Sajjid......

India Tops On Crypto Adoption

'India's emergence as a top crypto market comes despite a regulatory and tax environment that can be challenging for the industry to navigate.' Photograph: Edgar Su/Reuters   International......

'The real GDP was captured better'

'Revision of the base year for both CPI and GDP are long overdue.''The basic data that went into the 2011-2012 series were mainly from surveys done in 2011 or earlier.''We have since seen the......

How India Can Defend Economy From Global Spillovers

While India won't be immune to global spillovers, we need to create the macro preconditions for sustained growth.Policy agility, prudence, and resilience will be key, suggests Sonal Varma, chief......

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani Review: Soch Nayi, Swad Wahi

Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani packs in abundant entertainment and hat tips to the KJo brand, observes Sukanya Verma. Karan Johar has tried something new in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani. On the......

Ray review

As an exercise, Ray is an effort worth encouraging.As a collaboration, it is a hit and miss, notes Sukanya Verma. Edgar Allan Poe once said, 'A short story must have a single mood and every......

The Forgotten Army review

'What was previously buried in the sands of time now gets buried by the weight of banality,' notes Sreehari Nair.   Each episode of The Forgotten Army opens with Shah Rukh Khan's......

Tubelight Review: Salman tries to be cute, too hard

If Tubelight had a real story and wasn't just flip-flopping between monotonous episodes of fluky coincidences treated like divine intervention and cursory battle scenes devoid of danger, urgency or......

Wimbledon PIX: Muguruza, Thiem stunned; Federer, Nadal, Serena through

IMAGE: Belgium's Alison Van Uytvanck celebrates winning her second round match against Spain's Garbine Muguruza at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Garbine Muguruza,......