Kerala vs Centre: A battle of finances and federalism
“Bharanavum Samaravum” (Administration and Agitation) was the slogan coined by E.M.S. Namboodiripad in 1967 when he was sworn in for the second time as Kerala’s Chief Minister, heading a seven-party alliance. The call for agitation was against what he saw as the Central government’s political and economic discrimination against the
Karnataka Cabinet Goes to Delhi in Widening Feud over Funding
The issue is whether Karnataka has been getting rightful share in the devolution of funds between the Union and States, not how it spends the fund. It was both dramatic and unprecedented. The entire Karnataka Cabinet and almost all the elected members of the Congress in the State, led by
The unsung hero of India’s economic rise might surprise you: Post Office
In the early years of independent India, resource mobilisation was crucial for the planned development of the country. The Indian postal system, through strategic messaging and accessible financial services, played a largely overlooked but significant role in mobilising small savings from millions of citizens, contributing to the country’s socioeconomic development.
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu discusses the 2024-25 budget and the road ahead for the State
Tamil Nadu Finance Minister says unlike the BJP or any other party, the DMK is not interested in hatred politics. Tamil Nadu’s Finance Minister Thangam Thennarasu sat down with Frontline for his first interview to a media outlet on the Tamil Nadu Budget for 2024-25, and how the ideology of
SUM AND SUBSTANCE | From sunrise to sunset? India’s IT sector loses shine as jobs dry up
In her interim budget speech this year, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the establishment of a Rs.1 trillion corpus to boost innovation and research in sunrise domains, that is the start-up and tech industries. “For our tech-savvy youth, this will be a golden era,” Sitharaman said. What may have dulled
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The electoral bonds scheme goes to the heart of the Sangh Parivar’s long-term goal, which is ideological dictatorship
Let us start with four apparently disparate examples. Example 1: Ajay Mishra Teni, Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, is the BJP member of the Lok Sabha from the Kheri constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In October 2021, his son, Ashish Mishra Monu, allegedly drove into a crowd of protesting
SUM AND SUBSTANCE | Global rupee: Look before you leap
Speaking at the 90th anniversary of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), Prime Minister Narendra Modi said it was time for the RBI to prepare a 10-year strategy to make the Indian rupee a global currency, one that was “accessible and acceptable” across the world. Extolled by the Prime Minister
Fate of Vizag Steel hangs in the balance with elections around the corner
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s return to power at the Centre in 2019 marked the beginning of their unrelenting stance to privatise the state-owned Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (Vizag Steel) in Andhra Pradesh. However, as the 2024 elections draw close, State leaders from the BJP and their alliance partners, the Telugu Desam
India Inc. and its changing hues in BJP’s India
Across the posh multi-storey homes of South Delhi, there is a new common theme. Saffron flags lie limp in the oppressive heat at the entrances of houses, residential housing societies and on scores of balconies, teeming with planters and elaborate windchimes. Distributed ahead of the Ram Temple inauguration, the saffron