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G20 summit shows world’s trust in India

02 Jan 2023

A big event on India’s 2023 calendar is the G-20 summit it will host in September. This will be the first time such a large number of world leaders are...

High optimism on growth of India’s economy

26 Dec 2022

After financial bodies and agencies repeatedly readjusted their forecasts about India’s economic growth during 2022, there was a note of high optimism as the year drew to a close. In...

Politicking over face-off on China border

19 Dec 2022

An occasional skirmish between patrol teams of India and China on their un-demarcated 3,440-kilometre-long border should ordinarily cause no alarm. But there are circumstances which require the two sides to...

Last polls of 2022 offer no clues to 2024 prospects

12 Dec 2022

A wide range of election results from different parts of India became available last week. The way political parties and analysts look at these results brings to mind the story...

Congress party in process of re-inventing itself

05 Dec 2022

Will the 2024 Lok Sabha elections see a turnaround in the fortunes of the Indian National Congress, which has been down and out since 2014? This is a question that...

Modi-Shah plan for hat-trick in 2024 under way

29 Nov 2022

India’s next parliamentary elections are more than 15 months away. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is already working on a plan to win a third successive term...

Modi wants G20 to be catalyst of global change

21 Nov 2022

Going by statistical data, G20, of which India became the president last week, is the world’s most powerful group of nations. Together, these countries account for about 85 per...

Economic reservation sparks questions

14 Nov 2022

The Supreme Court has, wittingly or unwittingly, boosted India’s hierarchical caste system by giving its nod to a constitutional amendment, which permits reservation in educational institutions and government service on...

States fight for control of universities

07 Nov 2022

In the early years of Independence, the Congress, which was in power both at the Centre and in the States, decided to make the Governors the Chancellors of state-owned universities....

Delhi’s pollution problem cries for solution

31 Oct 2022

With the onset of winter, India’s capital, New Delhi, is once again in the news for its mounting level of air pollution. Every October air quality drops sharply not...

BRP Bhaskar

Indian journalist with over 50 years of newspaper, news agency and television experience.

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