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
United abroad, divided at home
How does one then make sense of a political milieu which is stoutly batting for India on foreign soil but…
Literate Goa: Showing way to others
A fully literate workforce, as is envisaged, can potentially increase Goa’s GDP growth by 3% and more annually, as there…
No future for Mapusa without river
The river flowing past the town is encroached, polluted, silted, eutrophicated with poor tidal flushing, and appears almost dead, and…
No future for Mapusa without river
The river flowing past the town is encroached, polluted, silted, eutrophicated with poor tidal flushing, and appears almost dead, and…
Remembering Ahilyabai Holkar
Strategic relations of the Maratha queen of Indore with the neighbouring rulers and the flexible religious policies led to the…
Decades of Rohingya persecution
A turning point in their marginalisation was the 1982 Citizenship Law in Myanmar, which excluded them from the definition of…
Rabindranath Tagore on Nation
His views on the nation reflected upon the political, social and metaphysical life of India. Hence, his idea of India…
China in catch-22 situation
The communist country’s policymakers and analysts do not see any problem with Pakistan, nor is much stock placed on democracy,…