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
India and Russia stand close
The visit by Russian President Vladimir Putin was strategically significant for both countries. Right since the war in Ukraine started,…
SIR fuels social anxieties in Bengal
The eastern state shares a border and millennia of history with Bangladesh; political mudslinging about undocumented Bangladeshis and Rohingyas reaching…
Decoding IndiGo meltdown
December crisis in the airline was not ‘bad luck’ or a ‘perfect storm’. The roots go back to 2019 when…
Growing global income disparity
For any country to grow and sustain itself today, a certain level of social and political awareness among its people…
Star waiting to be discovered
I recently watched the hindi film ‘Jolly LLB 3’ on Netflix here in London, and what struck me the most…
Labour laws lack worker support
It has long been argued that India’s labour laws hold back business, particularly the manufacturing sector, from roaring into action…
Partagali colossus of Lord Shriram
The seventy-seven-foot bronze statue offers one of the most complete, disciplined, and textually faithful renderings of Raghava in contemporary India…
The long arm of Bangladesh’s law
A domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh has sentenced the country’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to death in absentia…