The halo effect
THE National Accounts Committee has provided a provisional estimate for overall growth in the economy for the outgoing fiscal year. At 3.94 per cent, the estimate has surprised everyone, especially…
Us Fda Warns India’s Sun Pharma Over Standards At Halol Plant
India's largest drugmaker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd has been warned by US health regulators for violating manufacturing standards at its Halol plant in India, even as it has been working…
Jinnah’s Pakistan is back?
With the fall of Hasina Wazed, the Prime Minister (PM), Bangladesh has started to move outside the Indian Halo. Once the dust settles, future course of action will unfold as…
Poll verdict slams cancel culture
PAKISTAN’S voters have reprimanded anti-democratic power centres for seeking to ‘cancel’ political opponents. Voters ensured that Imran Khan’s popularity increased in inverse proportion to the reported repression he and his…
Bangladesh coup
The more than one month long agitation in Bangladesh against the quota policy has finally ended in a military coup. Army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman led the army action, giving Prime Minister…
India’s new birth
INDIAN elections are no less than a nightmare for psephologists: election experts. To begin with, the scale of the exercise is mind-boggling. Every sixth adult walking on earth is registered as a…
Poll verdict slams cancel culture
PAKISTAN’S voters have reprimanded anti-democratic power centres for seeking to ‘cancel’ political opponents. Voters ensured that Imran Khan’s popularity increased in inverse proportion to the reported repression he and his…
The pain of Dardistan
Borderline communities are badly affected when new empires and states are made. New borders while making new national states often divide these communities, even families and clans. These newly formed…
Making the world hotter: India’s expected AC explosion
Ratan Kumar once battled India's brutal summers with damp bed sheets and midnight baths. Now he is among millions upon millions of Indians using air conditioning - helping make the…
Strikes in India
The Indian working class has once again flexed its muscle and organised a general strike of more than 250 million workers against the anti-workers, anti- people and anti-farmers policies of…
