For Anil Agarwal, chairman, Vedanta Resources, “these are exciting times when people should take risks.” The metals maven believes a bigger mandate for the ruling coalition might help create an omnibus resources ministry to regulate the mining of oil, gas and ... More »
BusinessLine It is high time environmental concerns figured prominently in our electoral narrative. We have just completed the process of electing representatives to the 17th Lok Sabha with no commitment from any major political party of ensuring the health an... More »
Amitabh Kant, the chief executive officer of government think tank NITI Aayog, says the biggest task for the new government is to speed up private investments and ensure better credit flow. In an interview to Shantanu Nandan Sharma on Thursday, Kant spells out... More »
HindustanTimes In his eloquent electoral victory speech from the BJP headquarters, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a commitment to his supporters that he would do nothing for himself. Even though Modi has many similarities with Plato’s “Philosopher King” in ... More »
HindustanTimes Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to begin his next term. The 2019 election, as is evident by now, was Mr Modi’s election. He led the party to a spectacular victory. His messages resonated with the electorate. The voters had faith in his a... More »
HindustanTimes In May 2014, it took four hours of counting before India grasped the momentous significance of a verdict that broke the 25-year record of no single party securing a clear majority on its own. On Thursday, the more emphatic reiteration of the 201... More »
HindustanTimes On Thursday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) stormed to power in a victory whose magnitude was presaged by exit polls, but whose final tally had to be seen to be fully believed. The NDA’s victory, propelle... More »
HindustanTimes The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) triumphant return to power, with 303 seats (leads and wins at 10 pm) as compared to 2014’s 282, shows that the latter wasn’t the outlier or black swan everyone considered it to be. In 2014, the party won 171 of... More »
HindustanTimes Reports in some newspapers and websites claim that global tech giants have put their India investments on hold as they seek clarity on the regulatory regime from India — especially when it comes to privacy, data-protection, and, in the case of e... More »
BusinessLine The glorious re-election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the triumph of hope and optimism over the politics of division and negativity. In one stroke, the Prime Minister has decimated the age-old boundaries of caste, creed and religion to emerg... More »
Election promises hold little credibility anywhere in the world, even less in India, and especially from the Congress. As the BJP lost no time in pointing out, after Rahul Gandhi announced his Nyay scheme, Indira Gandhi has promised to remove poverty, way back... More »
Call it the fatigue factor or anti-incumbency. People of Andhra Pradesh have decisively voted for a change, with the YSR Congress led by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy set for a landslide win in the assembly polls, five years after the division of the state. The party’s... More »