Pakistan Features in Amritsar Campaign

Several candidates, including Taranjit Singh Sandhu, the BJP's Amritsar candidate, are promising resumption of India-Pakistan trade via the Attari-Wagah land route. IMAGE: Taranjit Singh Sandhu,......

What Is Gehlot Telling Modi?

What were our political leaders up to on the first day of November?   IMAGE: Is Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, left, telling Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi, second from left,......

What The World Looks Like At Mid-Year

The first five months of 2023 have witnessed at least six major events/trends that augur badly for global economic and socio-political prospects, points out Shankar Acharya, former chief economic......

How Ajay Banga Can Change The World Bank

The World Bank must become Archimedes' lever to help change the world into a more prosperous, inclusive, and sustainable planet in the 21st century.The change in leadership now provides that......

Imports of pulses may dip in FY25 on good monsoon

After climbing to the highest level in more than five years to 4.7 million tonnes in FY24, India might import fewer quantities of pulses this financial year at 4-4.5 mt on the back of good monsoon......

Hasten tariff reforms, urges ICRIER

Economic policy think tank ICRIER on Tuesday said that India had the third highest customs duty rates after Cambodia and Pakistan amongst 122 nations and suggested that the government hasten tax......

Higher tax to hit commodity markets: ICRIER

A higher transaction tax is likely to defeat the very purpose of commodity markets by forcing farmers and hedgers to exit due to greater cost, an ICRIER report said. "Any increase in transaction......

Accelerate reforms for 7.5% growth: ICRIER

Economic think-tank Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations has warned that higher economic growth of 7-7.5 per cent annually cannot be achieved in the next five years......