Not all of the bad loan problem that Indian banks are going through is because of fraud
It is quite perplexing that the government has secured all the premium schemes only for the top of the pyramid institutes that constitute only about 2% of student enrolment in higher education in the country.
Technology solutions exist today, it depends on us how we use it effectively to handle the man-made environmental challenges.
The days of Budgets being policy statements and media events are over. Budget 2018 does what it is supposed to: balance the books — the fiscal deficit target of 3.5% for FY2018 and 3.3% for FY2019 are in the right direction, give or take — ...
The Economic Survey 2017-18 celebrates the GST and gives us four lessons.
India’s link with the Southeast Asian region has been deep and in many of the members of ASEAN like Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and Burma, there are symbolic remnants of India’s influence on their art and culture.
Shrill debates will tighten Aadhaar. But finally it would need to situate itself within a larger framework, as part of wider rights.
If 2017 saw the rise of the ‘spin’ — any event or news was butchered and battered until it yielded a pre-determined narrative — 2018 will see it multiply.
Dinakaran, once Jayalalithaa’s troubleshooter, has emerged as the inheritor of Jayalalithaa’s legacy. It means that the two factions of the ruling AIADMK have lost political credibility in the pubic eyes.
The FRDI Bill creates a process, with early-warning systems in place to alert regulators and the government about the risk on financial institutions, with which to address and fix failure.
Banking is the only prominent sector within the Indian economy where private corporations are dwarfed by public entities. The sector needs to be rectified for the continued health of the Indian economy.
India has to compete with ASEAN and others around the world in increasing its share of global trade. It is promoting its own free trading arrangement with its immediate neighbours. It already has FTAs — if it left the WTO, no great harm would come ...
Gujarat has provided a psychological victory for the Congress, while it is a moral defeat for the BJP though it has been able to form the government. The situation could have been different but for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s relentless campaign in the last two ...
There is reluctance in offering absolute autonomy to institutes in something as basic as issuing degrees. When it comes to financial autonomy, it is assumed that the institutes are incapable of funding themselves and are tied down strongly to the state governments and their pitiable ...
The BJP is confronting a tough battle. Media reports from the state till recently were almost unanimous that the BJP is going to win again. Of late, the same media has begun writing of a close contest.
Right to food must figure more prominently in the discussions on Aadhaar and its implementation.
Growth in agriculture has registered a slowdown at 1.7 per cent, which means there will be problems in the rural areas.
Siranush Melikyan is an Assistant Professor at the Yerevan State University. ...
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Tigran Yepremyan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and an Associate Professor of World History and IR at the Yerevan State University, Armenia. ...
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