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The writer is a former IAS officer, and a governance and economic regulation expert

While the Maharashtra government is planning to bring in an Act banning naming of liquor shops after gods and goddesses, there is no such proposal to bring in a similar Act in Telangana. (Representational image)

Tame killer highways, liquor ban just optics

In the plains of India, most regular tipplers are men as drinking is done outside our homes.

8 April 2017 12:23 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photo: PTI)

Basic income transfer: Modi's next big thing?

PM Modi is not one to be hesitant about funding innovative ideas in the public interest.

31 March 2017 12:09 AM IST

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. (Photo: PTI)

Are safeguards possible to prevent theocracy?

Much of the angst against Adityanath is drawn from the colonial â€œbrown sahibâ€culture of political correctness.

22 March 2017 12:32 AM IST

BJP workers play holi with a giant cut-out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they celebrate the partys victory in the UP and Uttarakhand Assembly elections, at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)

If BJP can uplift UP, all of India will gain

The Narendra Modi performance juggernaut can be rolled out uniformly across the state.

13 March 2017 1:04 AM IST

A physically challenged person shows his voter identity card as others wait to cast votes at a polling station during the final phase of Assembly polls in Mirzapur. (Photo: PTI)

In politics, like in biz, bulk up to beat rivals

Multi-party politics has become a fetish, far beyond its usefulness to the average voter.

9 March 2017 12:33 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally in Maharajganj district. (Photo: PTI)

Can Modi revise social compact? 2019 will tell

The mantra is that the government must focus on economic inclusion and social inclusion will follow.

2 March 2017 1:18 AM IST

Reserve Bank of India

To raise resources, give and take needed

The RBI cautions against thinking that inflation has been tamed.

14 Feb 2017 1:06 AM IST

Finance minister Arun Jaitley

Red flags that FM must not ignore

The investment red flag must be raised if targeted investment in 2017-18 is below two per cent of GDP.

1 Feb 2017 12:32 AM IST

revenue records are fuelling corruption (Representational Image)

Safeguard poor, bring India back on track

If the ongoing jihad against corruption is extended indefinitely, business sentiment will collapse.

20 Jan 2017 12:26 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2017, in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. (Photo: PTI)

To create new India, 3 initiatives overdue

PM Modi fell into the same rhetorical trap of belting out a preachy sermon but chose the wrong words.

11 Jan 2017 1:14 AM IST

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. (Photo: PTI)

Fiscal love for a sullen electorate

The FM must provide a package' to soften the hard landing at home for returning migrant labour.

20 Dec 2016 12:56 AM IST

Income tax department on Thursday recovered at least Rs 73 crore cash, including Rs 8 crore in the new currency, and 100 kgs of gold bars in searches at multiple locations in Chennai, as per agency reports.

Next, use Budget to target black money

The ability to tax and to punish citizens as per the law is the best metric of sovereignty.

10 Dec 2016 1:00 AM IST