Modi Government bewares absconding NRI Husbands
Beware absconding NRI Husbands – Indian Government is seriously considering crucial changes in the criminal laws, as it aims to amend CrPC, the marriage registration act and passport rules to tighten the law and bring the non-resident Indian offenders to book. Spurred by reports of several cases of “NRI husbands”, marrying women alluring an attractive […]
PM Modi delivers keynote address at Shangri-La Dialogue
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered keynote address at the prestigious geo-strategic event of the Shangri La Dialogue in Singapore at the 17th Asia Security Summit. In his address PM Modi unveiled India’s vision for the Indo-Pacific region. He said that India’s vision for the Indo-Pacific region is that of a free, open and inclusive […]
INDIA HAS MUCH TO SHARE … … INCLUDING LEADERSHIP …
The Indian Diaspora, over the past few centuries, has effortlessly managed to make an indelible mark on human society worldwide, as good citizens, society and opinion leaders, statesmen, and even as world leaders heading countries they mifrated to. To illustrate, it seems not too long ago when Chedi Jagan rose to became the president of […]
INDIANS UNSAFE IN DONALD’S US – THE WAY FORWARD
Has any cold-blooded murderer ever scoped out targets by asking their victim about their Visa status? In Kansas City, Adam Purinton did just that. He asked the victims Mr. Kuchibhotla and Mr. Madasani what type of Visa they held, before yelling at them to “get out of my country” and shooting at them. Kuchibhotla died […]
BEYOND DIPLOMACY – INDIA IN A POST-BREXIT WORLD
We excerpt here content sent our way by Red Ribbon India, on just how important India seems to be, to the United Kingdom. We are reproducing the mini-article verbatim for your reading pleasure … The Queen of England learnt a new dance this month – she was taught the Indian Mudras (hand gestures), by celebrated […]
INDIA RISING – NEW EQUATIONS IN A CHANGING WORLD
India’s onwards thrust is certainly impressive in today’s global context. she has emerged as the fastest growing world economy, and simultaneously also emerges as a rising world power that means business. Her thrust is bold, ongoing and purposeful. Geopolitics and the crafting of an innovative economic policy combine to become the main prongs of her […]
DEMONETISATION – A BLESSING IN DISGUISE ?
It’s been a couple of months now since PM Modi’s shock-treatment to the economy – by derecognising the large-denomination 500 and 1000 rupee bank notes, as a first step in the war against terror financing, corruption, shadow economy, tax evasion and circulation of fake notes. This ‘demonetisation’ rendered 86% of all circulating cash in the […]
JAYALALITHA – AN ICON IS NO MORE
It was only after her death that the rest of India has come to realize the true dimensions of Jayalalithaa’s greatness. A majority of the 88 million people of Tamil Nadu saw it, felt it and were under its spell for four decades. The tragedy is that, during her lifetime, the majority of her own […]
HEROES AND VILLAINS OF THE BANKING SYSTEM
The back-breaking burden on bank employees after demonetisation of high denomination rupee notes is a story of heroes and villains. On the one side is the incredible devotion to duty, working long hours to cope up with the pressures of dispensing cash to thousands of customers on a scale never experienced before. And on the […]
INDIA RISING
Today India is one of the most favoured destinations for foreign investment, with a high GDP growth level, progressive policy environment, predictability in tax matters, large pool of scientific and skilled human resource, and an environ where the ease with which businesses could be started and run is getting better and better. S Ravi pens […]
VLADIMIR PUTIN – GRANDMASTER OF STATESMANSHIP
Indian journalists had a rare opportunity to connect and interact with the Russian President Vladimir Putin and experience at first hand his razor-sharp wit and humour, his ability to be charmingly informal, the depth of his knowledge of world affairs and the force of his personality. Raman Swamy pens his impressions for our readers in […]
THE TATA AFFAIR
<p>News headlined by all major media houses of the country, of a major shake-up at the top of the country’s most respected corporate giant, the House of Tatas, took the corporate world and indeed the entire country, by surprise. The Board of Directors of Tata Sons had removed Cyrus Mistry from the post of Chairman […]
MODI’S SURGICAL STRIKE ON THE BLACK EMPIRE – CORRUPTION, BLACK MONEY AND TERROR FUNDING
In what can be seen as an unparalleled move by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a special address to the nation, he announced that currency notes of Rs 500- and 1,000-rupee denominations will be illegal starting 12 midnight on November 8. “Currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 will be just paper […]
DONALD TRUMPS IN THE US, SETS IN WITH A LANDSLIDE VICTORY
Donald Trump won the key swing states of Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Ohio early this morning, as he marched towards the White House. Florida was a key state with 29 electoral votes, largest of the “swing states” in which Hillary was projected to win following a surge in the Hispanic vote. Also, while the […]
CONGRESS TOP DECISION-MAKING BODY PICKS RAHUL GANDHI AS PRESIDENT, AWAITS OFFICIAL ENDORSEMENT
The Congress top decision-making body, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) has ‘unanimously appealed’ Rahul Gandhi, 46, to serve as President, a post his mother, Sonia Gandhi, has held since 1998. Senior party leader A K Antony said that the time is right for Rahul to take charge as president of the party, but the final […]
INDIA’S GROWTH STORY – THE TURNING POINTS
India is today the fastest growing economy in the world. Achievement of this status would not have been possible if India had not embarked on a reformation process in the 1990s. The past 25 years saw the launch of major structural reforms in the Indian financial landscape, with its transformative effects continuing today and reaching […]
INDO-PAK RELATIONS – TURNING UP THE HEAT
Pakistan has always remained a thorn in India’s flesh, right from the time the British carved up the subcontinent as a parting gift, a partitioning that saw much bloodletting and massacres, with estimates of the dead varying from the low 200,000s to the high 2,000,000s. Time healed wounds to the extent that India returned to […]
GST WHAT IS IT ?
The Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-Second) Amendment Bill 2014, unofficially and commonly better known as the ‘GST’ or the ‘Goods & Services Tax’ Bill, has been passed by both the upper house Rajya Sabha and the lower house Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament. The implementation deadline for this Act is the 1st of April […]