Opinion

Dasarathi Mishra Bridging the infrastructure deficit is a major challenge for India. In the past, between 1948 and 1964, three financial institutions were established to provide long-term finance — the Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI), the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI)...

Anil Singh With four phases of the eight-phased election for 294-seat West Bengal Assembly having been over, both major contenders – TMC and BJP– are hoping of wresting power in the state. The bumper voting exceeding 80% in almost every phase thus far with large...

PSM Rao Why does the government of India want to sell the Public Sector Banks? Are they not serving the public purpose anymore? Will their profitability surely increase under private ownership, and who will apportion that profit?  Will the depositor’s money be safer under private...

Melvin Durai A couple of weeks ago, BBC News sent out a tweet that announced the death of a legendary American actress. “Emmy award-winning US actress Mary Tyler Moore dies aged 80, her publicist says,” BBC tweeted from its “Breaking News” account. When I saw...

Dhanada K Mishra Two years ago I moved into the household of my current hosts - an Italian and Chinese husband-wife couple in Hong Kong. I found them using AirBNB - a service that allows people to host complete strangers as paying guests in their...

Jayakrishna Sahu “Indian justice system has been ramshackled. Who goes to the court? You go to court and then regret. Big corporates who can afford to take chance, approach the court.” This is not any frustrated lamentation of any poor, helpless litigant who fails to...

Today on 1st April, when Odisha Day is celebrated by the state and the Odia community everywhere, it is propitious to make an introspection of the Odia identity. Thanks to the presiding deity of Odisha Lord Jagannath, the temporal and the spiritual Lord is now...

Melvin Durai Human beings are good at adapting and we've certainly adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic in many different ways. For example, before the pandemic, we would visit our friends whenever we wanted. During the pandemic, many of us have managed to stay in touch...

Kaushik Basu It feels strange to have known a country since its birth. For much of 1971, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) was engaged in a war for independence. With US President Richard Nixon standing firmly behind Pakistan as President Yahya Khan’s army tried to crush...

Shivaji Sarkar West Bengal elections may be a referendum for India’s economic policies. It will decide whether the politics of “reformist economy” will continue or force the country to search for a new model. The stakes are high for BJP as it is keen on...