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Philippines ushers in vaping; India still yapping

Shantanu Guha Ray - August 2, 2022

A new vaping regulation bill passed by the legislature in the Philippines early this month has made health officials in India sit up and...

Indian government slams Freedom House report: ‘misleading, misplaced’

Newsbred Staff - March 6, 2021

The Indian government has come down heavily on The Freedom House, a US-based think-tank, which has termed India as only “partly free.” Terming it “misleading,...

FM announces Atmanirbhar 3.0 stimulus; indicators of ‘distinct recovery’

Newsbred Staff - November 12, 2020

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a new stimulus package totalling up to Rs 2.65 lakh crore under Atmanirbhar 3.0 on Thursday. Noticing that there...

A muscular India gives its army a ‘free hand’ to knock sense in China

Ashish Shukla - June 17, 2020

It would be a grave misjudgement to believe that China has walked over India in a physical showdown in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh...

India is now poking China openly; pay close attention to its message

Ashish Shukla - April 29, 2020

India has been rather loose with its pronouncements on “fishing” in China’s troubled waters and gain by having world shift its manufacturing epicenter to...

India runs on Railways; so please be mindful Ms. Sonia Gandhi

Ashish Shukla - July 17, 2019

Railways was in news for different reasons last week. It wasn’t rail-budget (that the NDA government did away with in 2017 after 92 years);...

World Bank predicts 7.5% GDP growth for India till 2021

Sanjay K. Sharma - June 5, 2019

As the newly elected Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman prepares to present Union budget, the World Bank has posted a positive picture for Indian economy...

How the propaganda against RSS falls flat on its face

Ashish Shukla - August 11, 2018

Indian Express has two voices which do not like RSS or BJP or Hindu resurgence in India. You scroll down articles of either Christophe Jaffrelot or Ashutosh...

India thumbs nose at China

Ashish Shukla - December 19, 2015

In the first part of this series, we looked at Japan and India raising hackles against China in East and South China Sea. In this second...

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