On one hand, South Indian states have been complaining about denial of a proportionate portion of the sharable funds from the Centre, based on population. On the other hand, they stand to lose Lok......
A potent combination of sweltering summer and acute coal shortages have triggered blackouts across many parts of the country as states struggle to manage the record demand for electricity and low......
Silverline seems symptomatic of how Kerala -- its claimed education, awareness and all -- overlooks its real problems, notes Shyam G Menon. Photograph: Kind courtesy Kerala Rail Early April, 2022,......
'As of now, it is hard to see how the stalemate can be broken.' 'For the Sikh Jat farmers who constitute the core of the protest are a simple-minded but stubborn lot.' 'They are unlikely to call......
All laws have been modified to omit the domicile clause for property rights in the valley.This effectively means that anyone with enough money to spend can now technically buy property there,......
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was a net seller of the US dollar in August, reversing its net buying position from July. Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters During the current financial year up......
The cumulative rate hikes of 2.5 percentage points by the central bank since May 2022 negatively impacted headline inflation by 1.60 per cent, a paper by senior RBI staffers said on Monday.......
The rupee remains overvalued against the currencies of India’s trading partners, even as it hit record lows against the dollar in August and September. Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com......
At the heart of Paytm's slide lies the abject failure of its Super App strategy, notes Indrajit Gupta. IMAGE: Vijay Shekhar Sharma. Photograph: ANI Photo For more than three weeks now, the......
The challenge for the RBI in 2024 is likely to be less about containing elevated inflation and more about curbing excessive financial market exuberance and a 'problem of plenty', notes Sajjid......
Manjummel Boys gets so many things right, applauds Arjun Menon. Manjummel Boys, the directorial outing from Chidambaram of Jaan E Man (2021) fame, is a self-contained friendship story, punched up......
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani packs in abundant entertainment and hat tips to the KJo brand, observes Sukanya Verma. Karan Johar has tried something new in Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani. On the......
As an exercise, Ray is an effort worth encouraging.As a collaboration, it is a hit and miss, notes Sukanya Verma. Edgar Allan Poe once said, 'A short story must have a single mood and every......
'What was previously buried in the sands of time now gets buried by the weight of banality,' notes Sreehari Nair. Each episode of The Forgotten Army opens with Shah Rukh Khan's......
If Tubelight had a real story and wasn't just flip-flopping between monotonous episodes of fluky coincidences treated like divine intervention and cursory battle scenes devoid of danger, urgency or......
IMAGE: Belgium's Alison Van Uytvanck celebrates winning her second round match against Spain's Garbine Muguruza at Wimbledon on Tuesday. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters Garbine Muguruza,......