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
The dilemma of Goan voices
Although the next scheduled state polls are officially expected in early 2027; with strong suggestions that the Election Commission could…
Faith, language and Mumbai’s divide
Rising communal overtones and regional resentment over public space usage disrupt neighbourhoods, fracturing the city’s secular fabric An unseemly and…
India’s risky AI dependence
Foreign AI is powering India’s banks, ministries and utilities, raising concerns over data control, sovereignty, security, strategic autonomy and national…
When social media fuels unrest
Footage of a horrific knife attack in Belfast began to circulate on social media on Monday evening. A Sudanese asylum-seeker…
India’s population paradox
India’s population growth reached a unique landmark when the United Nations estimates in April 2023 proclaimed India had surpassed China…
ESIC: Fix it, don’t sell it
The latest Sample Registration System data should worry every policymaker. In 2024, nearly half of all recorded deaths in India…
The rise of Chinese economy
With China holding fort both in the traditional manufactured goods and in modern hi-tech chip-based industries, robots and electric vehicles,…
Supreme Court empowers SIR
History will decide how the Supreme Court judgment on the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) that has led to…