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• ‘Impossible To Shake India’s Secular Instincts’: Sanjay Manjrekar

  By nargisbano on January 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Amid the ongoing protests over the vandalism in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), former Indian cricketer and current commentator Sanjay Manjrekar has put out a tweet in which he says that Indians have given boundless love to their heroes without caring… Read More ›

• The Most Important Question: Is India Still A Democracy?

  By nargisbano on January 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Narendra Modi has bullied critics and suffocated the press into endorsing his Hindu-nationalist version of modern India. Narendra Modi received a letter last summer. It was signed by 49 writers, filmmakers, scholars, and artists. Describing themselves as “proud Indians”, they beseeched… Read More ›

• India: What’s Going On With Modi’s Economy?

  By nargisbano on January 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  India’s economy isn’t doing well during Prime Minister Modi’s second term. Major economic indicators released recently point to a major slow-down that parallels that of the early 1990s. Real GDP is growing at 4.5%, the lowest in the last five… Read More ›

• JNU violence: TOI, Express, HT & Hindu strongly criticise VC and Delhi Police for inaction

  By nargisbano on January 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Students protest against Sunday’s violence on JNU campus in New Delhi | Photo : Suraj Singh Bisht | ThePrint Front Page Mainstream newspapers Tuesday lead with various follow-up stories on the violence in JNU Sunday. The Indian Express carries a six-column headline… Read More ›

• India’s Students Are Angry And Restless, Where’s The Government Stand

  By nargisbano on January 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pitching India’s students against the state with a series of heavy-handed decisions that have resulted in unrest and revolt across some of the country’s best-known university campuses.   Jawaharlal Nehru University is… Read More ›

• Does JNU Campus Attack Mean India Is Failing Its Young?

  By nargisbano on January 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Its list of alumni includes a Nobel-Prize winning economist, former prime ministers of Libya and Nepal, and many leading politicians, diplomats, artists and academics. It is also an internationally renowned centre for teaching and research and is among one of… Read More ›

• INTERNATIONAL ADVISER: Protests Are ‘Mixed Blessing’ For India Economy

  By nargisbano on January 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Fiscal boost more likely in February’s Union Budget according to consultancy Capital Economics   The direct economic impact of the protests that began in opposition to the citizenship amendment bill is likely to be small, says Shilan Shah, senior India… Read More ›

• The Crisis In The Middle East Is Bad News For India’s Economy | India Today Insight

  By nargisbano on January 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The new developments in the Middle East could not have come at a worse time for India. With the economy languishing at a sub-five per cent GDP growth for the past two quarters, and inflation overshooting the five per cent… Read More ›

• “India’s $5 Trillion Goal”, What Former RBI Governor Rangarajan Says

  By nargisbano on January 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  India’s aim to become a $5 trillion economy by 2025 is not possible with the current economic growth rate, former Reserve Bank of India governor and former chairman of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council C Rangarajan said here on Sunday…. Read More ›

• Farooq Abdullah’s arrest leaves India with few allies in Kashmir

  By nargisbano on September 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Arrest of a veteran politician under the stringent Public Security Act shocks the region undergoing a crippling lockdown. Abdullah at an all-party condolence meeting organised for former Indian PM and BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee [File: Getty Images] Srinagar, Indian-administered… Read More ›

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