TheJaggi

It is a pity that national accounts statistics (NAS) have become a political football and subject to biased commentary.

The other day, at a party-organised Chhatron ki Goonj event in Pune, Rahul Gandhi fired a cheap shot to indirectly put Hindus on the defensive.

The signing of a mutual defence pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan, all Sunni Islamic countries, is a small signal that there is something to Samual Huntington’s Clash of Civilisations thesis.

By letting Dharmendra Pradhan go, albeit reluctantly, the Modi government may have bought itself some time to recoup political capital and rework its political calculations.

Eggs are back again on the national menu of heated public debates, this time because the new BJP government in West Bengal plans to give the job of providing mid-day meals to Akshaya Patra, an Iskcon affiliate, which does not serve eggs.

The film Satluj has drawn a lot of heated arguments from multiple sides of the political divide.

The glee with which some opposition politicians and “secular” commentators have received news about “chanda chori” at the Ayodhya Ram Mandir is nauseating.

Priyank Kharge, Karnataka’s Home and IT Minister, believes that he has the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on the ropes with his letter dated 13 June addressed to Mohan Bhagwat.

It is just over a month since the last round of state assembly elections ended, but we are already back in election mode.

By most non-political assessments, the 21 June National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), which is the entry point for a course in medicine, went off more or less without incident.

One has said this before, and one must say it again: there is no rogue state more roguish than the United States of America.

If you are an investor in shares or equity mutual funds, there are basically two approaches.

Indians demonstrate the correctness of Murphy’s law repeatedly: if something can go wrong, it will.

The Narendra Modi government, after 12 years in power, needs a significant (and non-cosmetic) makeover.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that she is willing to listen to investors on what they have to say about reducing taxes on long-term and short-term capital gains (LTCG and STCG).

In all the euphoria over the BJP’s massive win in West Bengal, the Modi government should not forget that good ties with Bangladesh are important.

There is an Indian story revolving around a king who asked his advisors to invent something where his feet would never get dirty when walking around.

The world’s idea of what constitutes a “world war” has been shaped by two massive wars in the first half of the 20th century.

At a time when the country faces huge economic disruptions due to the Gulf war and also artificial intelligence-related technology, the Modi government should evaluate and reorient the scheme where companies have to contribute two percent of their net pro…

It is interesting that Chinese supremo Xi Jinping should invoke the “Thucydides Trap” during Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing, indirectly suggesting that the US should not fret too much about China’s rise and instead seek to partner with it.

The rise of the Tamizhaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), a political party set up by actor Joseph Vijay in Tamil Nadu, implies the slow uprooting of Dravidianism in the state.

If India is to meet its main economic, social and geopolitical challenges, Muslim politics has to change.

India regularly gets listed as a country a country of “particular concern” by the US Council for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

India’s governments have always fretted about the average citizen’s love for gold, a love that has to be paid for in dollars.

The high voting percentage (92.6 percent) in the first phase of the West Bengal elections could be the result of two factors: first, the clean-up of the electoral rolls with the removal of dead, duplicate and migrated voters, with several lakh voters still