IN RETROSPECT: TWO YEARS OF MODI GOVERNMENT
ON TRACK TO BRING ‘ACHHE DIN’ Despite facing several challenges on the political and economical front, Narendra Modi- led NDA government, riding high on its development agenda, has successfully put the country on the path of social development and economic growth. There were multi- faceted challenges – two years of successive droughts and suicides by […]
Assembly elections 2016 in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry
BJP OR CONGRESS – WHO WILL WIN? The Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam and Union Territory of Puducherry will be held between April 4, 2016 and May 16, 2016, spread over 43 days. In Kerala total seats are 140, Tamil Nadu 234, Assam 126, West Bengal 294 and Panducherry 30. […]
Indo-Russia Equations Modi Waiks the diplomatic Tightrope
One of Narendra Modi’s most endearing qualities as India’s Prime Minister has been his ability to strike up an immediate personal rapport with other world leaders. Whether it is Shinzo Abe of Japan, Xi Jinping of China, Barack Obama of the United States, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, Dilma Rouseff of Brazil, Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri […]
One Ring to Rule them all…
Within days of Arun Jaitley taking over as the Finance Minister of the new BJP government, the buzz in ministerial corridors was that the post of Chief Economic Advisor, which had been lying vacant for more than a year, would soon be filled in. The name doing the rounds was that of Dr. Arvind Subramanian, […]
COMFORT ZONE FOR NDA? AN OPPORTUNE TIME FOR PUSHING THROUGH REFORMS
With public mandate in Haryana and Maharashtra boosting the morale of the NDA government at the centre, what with the BJP getting a simple majority in the northern state of Haryana, and sitting pretty in Maharashtra as the single largest party with the NCP offering unconditional support from outside and the Sena mellowing down to […]
Arvind Subramanian Portrait of an Economist as an Iconoclast
Arvind Subramanian, a native of Tamil Nadu, is an US-based economist who’s just been made the new Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. He took charge on 16 October 2014, succeeding Raghuram Rajan who moved to the RBI last September to helm the regulator as its governor. Subramanian has served as the Dennis […]
THE BLACK MONEY CONUNDRUM
Justice Manharlal Bhikhalal Shah is one of India’s most eminent and experienced judicial personalities. Even at the advanced age of 78 years, he strongly believes in hard work, fast work and doing his job without fear or favour. Having devoted 52 years of his life to the Bar and Bench, out of which he has […]
India Looks East Presaging An Asia Resurgence
In the context of India’s renewed ‘look-east’ policy and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on a regional development agenda, there is no gainsaying that all of Asia in general stands to profit much from India taking its foreign policy seriously and fleshing it out to be more in keeping with it’s geopolitical importance in the […]
INVESTMENT – THE KEY TO REAL ESTATE REVIVAL
This year’s budget refl ects the Indian government’s concern and priority to improve the investment climate with the express view to stimulate growth. In a far reaching policy decision, the 2014-15 budget has met the long-standing demand to liberalise FDI norms for the construction sector by reducing built-up area requirement from 50,000 sq. mts to […]
modi at 100.days THE BUCK STOPS HERE
STOPS HERE Th e Modi government has just about completed its 100 days, and media is a buzz with polls, analyses, commentaries and opinions, as news competes with views for a judgement of the biggest game of the week, namely, how Modi Sarkar has performed during the past three plus months. NRI Achievers trawled the […]
JAITLEY'S BUDGET IN TUNE WITH POLL PLAN?
It seems the Narendra Modi-led NDA government’s maiden Budget has been finalised with an eye on upcoming polls in states like Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Jammu Kashmir as these states have been identified for the setting up of top technical institutes such as AIIMS and IIMs. The Budget unveiled last fortnight by Union Finance Minister […]
SPRING CLEANING THE GOVERNMENT BASTIONS
India’s new Prime Minister is quickly getting the image of being the new “Mr. Clean”– in the literal, not political sense. Those around him, including Ministers, bureaucrats and party MPs, are beginning to take serious note of his fascination with hygiene and cleanliness, his love of neat and orderly work places, and his grand vision […]
A TOUGH BUDGET AHEAD ?
With just about a week to go before he presents his government’s fi rst Budget, FM Arun Jaitley takes to the media to send forth a strong signal that his July 10 Union Budget will shun populism, averring that ‘mindless giveaways’ would not only burden the exchequer but also lead to a high-tax society. Even […]
TRACKING NARENDRA MODI ONE MONTH OF NDA
It has been just a mite more than a month since the NDA government under the helm of Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister assumed office. While a lot has happened since then, the overall sentiment in the country remains optimistic, despite some disappointment over the ‘bitter pills’ that the aam aadmi has had to […]
TIME FOR RESUMING PUBLIC CONNECT ?
When a new Prime Minister takes over the reins of power in a country of more than a billion people, he would normally be entitled to a bit of breathing space to settle down, gather together a team of ministers and aides, study the challenges, formulate the strategies and get down to implementing them. But […]
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
SAARC AFFAIRS INDIA STYLE Starting this issue, we bring you a guest column that chooses to be irreverent and satirical at best, and takes a dig at powers that be, just for the sake of some healthy humour. Lampooning personalities and leaders is a genre that is part and parcel of evocative journalism, and we […]
NEIGHBOURSPEAK
NEW DAWN FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION ? A mere 10 days after the results of the longest polls in Indian electoral history were announced and pundits were still absorbing the paradigm change that has happened in Indian politics, the new government pulls off a diplomatic coup of sorts even before assuming office, which sends all the […]
CAN MODI REBOOT INDIA?
<p>Moot points really, only history can provide meaningful answers to such questions. Crystal gazing is best done in hindsight. Right at this point of time, all we know and all we need to know is that the 2014 parliamentary elections have catapulted Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) into power with a thumping […]