CDS Is A China Specialist

In an army that favours officers who have spent the bulk of their service years doing counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir, General Anil Chauhan is that rarity: A China specialist who......

'We can't expect the virus to disappear'

'Since the Covid virus has a tendency to mutate, we can continue to expect new variants of the virus to emerge and keep circulating and recirculating in the communities.' IMAGE: A healthcare......

20 Minutes Of Half Truths

Jyoti Punwani decodes Modi's Covid Vaccine speech. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi addresses the nation a day after India crossed the 1 billion COVID-19 vaccination milestone,......

Budget ignores women and children

Women and children have been given short shrift with these crucial sectors facing substantive budgetary cuts, discovers Rashme Sehgal. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   The Budget......

7 things SBI's Arundhati Bhattacharya will be remembered for

Is the SBI chairman leaving the bank in a stronger and better position than what it was? Abhijit Lele finds out. State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya's four-year term,......

Digital India: Work in progress

While Digital India, a signature initiative of PM Narendra Modi, took off soon after NDA came to power, it peaked after demonetisation in November 2016 Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Even as......

Budget reflects a strong sense of political will for reforms

The Budget is remarkably coherent in specifying the aims of specific public investment proposals, notes Rathin Roy.   I looked for answers to three important questions in Budget 2015. First:......

Budget 2013: What the India Inc has to say

Finance Minister P Chidambaram announced the Union Budget 2013-14 in Parliament on Thursday.Is it a good Budget, a bad Budget or plain, simple dull. Let's take a look at what India Inc has to......