Commentary
UPI fees threaten digital shift
New MDR charges could undermine digital payments, burden merchants and users, and weaken India’s shift away from cash despite the system’s remarkable nationwide success The mandarins in the finance ministry…
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SIR: Advani, Jaishankar, others get notices over ‘discrepancies’
Foreign secy Misri, Election Commissioner Sandhu also issued notices New Delhi: Former deputy prime minister…
Pitch for sustainable growth in Goa
It has been a case of rampant degradation and destruction of the state’s environment which…
Give hope a chance Â
As New Year kicks in, government and people must resolve to improve happiness index There…
EDM death: Report points to mix of drugs, alcohol
Panaji: The preliminary report into the death of Delhi youth, who died in a hospital…
Lasted Commentary
Audit exposes Goa’s governance gaps
The evidence clearly shows that most of these failures continued well into the post-2019 period, with unresolved inspection reports, recurring…
Real cost of de-globalisation
United States’ President Donald Trump’s renewed threat to impose higher tariffs on India is not an isolated event. It follows…
Preserving fruits of Opinion Poll
Through the only opinion poll held in independent India, Goa secured its geographical and cultural identity on this day in…
India needs refined foreign policy
When social media outrage begins to influence sensitive foreign policy choices, then it enters a very dangerous terrain So who…
Libraries adapt beyond books alone
The argument that waning reading habits are a ‘bane’ to libraries is an oversimplification of a complex issue, as libraries…
Message in Mamdani’s dramatic win
Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office as the mayor of New York, the largest and the most important city…
Swami Vivekananda’s Panaji visit
When in Goa, in 1892, standing firm, absorbed in meditation, with his eyes fixed on the Mandovi’s flow, he said,…
India rolls out export incentives
The twin schemes rolled out by the Modi-led coalition government on the second day of the New Year as part…