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As a year of despair ends
28 Dec 2016 3:06 AM IST2016 – the Modi Government in third year – is ending in a state of near-paralysis of India’s financial system with its total failure to discharge...
2017: Disorder, global headwinds
20 Dec 2016 3:08 AM ISTThe Modi-inflicted demonetisation of higher value notes totalling 86 per cent of money in circulation on November 8 continues to take its toll...
TN needs greater focus on development
16 Dec 2016 3:00 AM ISTThe demise of charismatic Jayalalithaa, at the height of her glorious stewardship of Tamil Nadu, cast a gloom for her adored millions while her...
Undergoing acute financial stress
13 Dec 2016 1:42 AM ISTThe distress for the millions worsens –getting cash from banks, even within the weekly limits set by RBI, to meet their urgent needs – into the second...
Govt coffers swell with people's money
7 Dec 2016 3:41 AM ISTIt will be no surprise if December 7 sees a second consecutive rate cut from the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which has effectively substituted...
Modi trying to control irreversible damage
2 Dec 2016 3:14 AM ISTBarring the infamous emergency of 1975 enforced by Indira Gandhi, India's millions had not been thrown into a convulsion on a scale wrought by Prime...
Making a mess of 'demonetisation'
20 Nov 2016 4:15 AM ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi's 'astra' (demonetisation) has misfired, his "maximum governance" failing to ensure an orderly exchange of illegalised...
Jaya's appeal from hospital for by-poll wins
18 Nov 2016 3:11 AM ISTChief Minister Jayalalithaa's extended stay in Apollo hospital for recuperation has put her Government rudderless in tackling major policy issues, as...
Desperate to attack black money
12 Nov 2016 3:34 AM ISTHaving failed to fulfil a major May 2014 poll promise to end the black money menace within a month, let alone the “achhe din” now quietly buried,...
No shine on development agenda
25 Oct 2016 2:15 AM ISTA few weeks before the brutal cross-border terrorist attack on Uri, Prime Minister Modi had sensibly warned that India's defence spending might have...
TN governor’s order welcomed by most parties
16 Oct 2016 3:20 AM ISTDMK leader Karunanidhi has been making the most of the political opportunism in an unexpected predicament in governance for the ruling AIADMK, with...
Morale boost for Indian economy
6 Oct 2016 2:58 AM ISTThe Modi Government looks set to improve upon its mixed record in growth and reform thus far, as the economy enters the crucial second half of fiscal...