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Mohan Guruswamy
About the AuthorMohan Guruswamy
The writer, a policy analyst studying economic and security issues, held senior positions in government and industry. He also specialises in the Chinese economy
    Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    India-China talks in Agra: No give nor take

    Aksai Chin lies between Jammu and Kashmir, and China’s Xinjiang province, both regions that are also riven by...

    20 Dec 2019 1:50 AM IST

    The projection is lower than 6.1 per cent that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had forecast in early October.Opinion
    2010-2020: The decade that India has ‘lost’-'

    The decline in the promise is amply evident by the change in the make up of the economy during this decade.

    17 Dec 2019 12:35 AM IST

    It affirmed the Baa2 foreign-currency and local-currency long-term issuer ratings for India.Opinion
    Rajaji had sounded the first warning on a ‘planned’ economy

    In 1957 Rajaji broke with Jawaharlal Nehru over his economic and political prescriptions for India.

    10 Dec 2019 1:38 AM IST

    Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah (1580-1611 CE), the fifth sultan of the Qutb Shahi dynasty of Golconda, laid the foundation of the iconic Charminar to symbolise the founding of Hyderabad. He was a contemporary of both Akbar and Jehangir.Opinion
    Will Hyderabad get 5 acres to build a new Charminar?

    Several magazines and newspapers have published old photos that show the temple never existed.

    4 Dec 2019 1:10 AM IST

    A resolution to the BJP-Shiv Sena stalemate over government formation is expected and a new dispensation may take office before the term of the outgoing Assembly ends, sources said. (Photo: File)Opinion
    Democracy wins? The losers take it all

    The people of Maharashtra had spoken and under normal circumstances their wishes should have been respected.

    27 Nov 2019 12:50 AM IST

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    Sharp economics offers glimpse of Subramanian Swamy we never had

    When he was teaching economics at Harvard, Swamy caught the attention of a RSS ideologue, Madhavrao Mulay, who invited...

    24 Nov 2019 1:17 AM IST

    Supreme CourtOpinion
    Rafale dogfight: Exoneration of process, not graft

    Though the Defence Procurement Procedure 2013 (DPP) very clearly lays out the sequence of steps, the AON came as an...

    16 Nov 2019 12:16 AM IST

    Five Supreme Court judges Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi (centre) flanked by Justice Ashok Bhushan (left), Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde (second from left), Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud (second from right), Justice S. Abdul Nazeer (right) pose for a photograph after delivering the verdict on Ayodhya land case in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    A Solomonic verdict, but not quite closure

    Advani is still the popular villain of the liberal set because he set off on his Rath Yatra wanting a Ram Mandir built...

    10 Nov 2019 2:39 AM IST

    The UN has grown much since then, reflecting the changes in the world mostly due to decolonisation, fragmentation of the USSR, and the division of some founder member states like Yugoslavia.Opinion
    It’s high time to push UN’s democratisation

    The UN now has 191 members, and Switzerland was the last to join on September 10, 2002.

    6 Nov 2019 6:01 AM IST

    Air pollution contributes substantially to premature mortality and disease burden globally, with a greater impact in low-income and middle-income countries than in high-income countries. (Representational image)Opinion
    Winds of climate change blow across South Asia

    According to the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, Pakistan officially crossed the water scarcity line in...

    30 Oct 2019 4:40 AM IST

    The major components of air pollution are ambient particulate matter pollution, household air pollution, and to a smaller extent ozone in the troposphere, the lowest layer of atmosphere.Opinion
    Winds of climate change blow across South Asia

    Due to excessive pumping, it is estimated that water tables could fall by as much as 20 per cent by 2025.

    29 Oct 2019 1:16 AM IST

    The debate on electoral reforms focuses almost entirely on the funding of political parties and the expenses incurred in campaigning as if just taking care of these would ensure a clean polity.Opinion
    To reform politics, ensure inner-party democracy

    Having periodic elections alone doesn’t make a nation democratic. Democracy also means government by discussion.

    24 Oct 2019 12:29 AM IST

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