#DHOpinion | Electoral Bonds | SBI might win the battle, but lose the war on banking autonomy

The State Bank of India (SBI) has requested the Supreme Court of India to extend the time for submission of details regarding electoral bonds to the Election Commission of India (ECI) from March 6 to June 30

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#DHOpinion | Gathering storms around Afghanistan

The UN-led shadow play at Washington’s behest is aimed at promoting an ‘inclusive government’ in Kabul. In the Afghan context, inclusive governance is a heavily loaded concept that is inconsistent with Afghan culture and history

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#DHOpinion | India’s AI regulators need scalpels, not hammers

Innovators are reminded of the Indian state’s long record of using a blunderbuss when a regulatory scalpel would do.

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#DHOpinion | No major gains for India at WTO conference

India will need to undertake stronger efforts to build a coalition of developing economies to deal with the aggressive posturing of the Global North.

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#DHOpinion | Beijing is aware of the bumpy ride ahead

China’s 14th National People’s Congress report underscores the challenges which Beijing is facing and that all is not fine

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#DHOpinion | It’s Women’s Day. But on the ground, little has changed

The latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reveals that the rate of crimes against women in India (calculated as crimes per 100,000 women) increased by 12.9 per cent between 2018 and 2022.

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#DHOpinion | For those starving in Gaza, Ramadan doesn’t matter

Regardless of what happens during the holy month, there is consensus among both Arabs and Jews that enforced fasting is already underway in Gaza.

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#DHOpinion | Allies, old and new, gravitate towards BJP

The BJP is expanding its monopoly in the Hindi belt states by taking over small parties or steering them in a direction useful to the national party.

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#DHOpinion | Not China, Nepali Congress forced Prachanda’s hand

There is strong suspicion in Nepal that the revivalist demand for abandoning secularism and restoring Nepal as a Hindu Rashtra is being encouraged by the Hindutva forces in India.

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#DHOpinion | India can’t afford to ignore China challenge

The border problem should not distract India from its objective of expanding its naval footprint beyond the Indian Ocean.

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#DHOpinion | Eknath Shinde’s helplessness, Ajit Pawar’s desperation

Eknath Shinde’s lack of decision-making power reminded one of what BJP veteran L K Advani said about former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over a decade back — the Prime Minister is in office but not in power.

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#DHOpinion | Devdutt Pattanaik | Mysterious temple texts called Agama

While people glamorise the Agama, it is important to remember its role in creating untouchability.

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#DHOpinion | Impact of Daniel Kahneman and Michael Jensen on emerging markets

The works of Kahneman and Jensen will prod investors to critically reflect on the underlying framework of investment decision-making

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#DHOpinion | A ‘Manifesto’ for the southern states

The time has come for the southern states to create a unified platform to demand and fight for our rights in the federal system and share in the national resources.

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#DHOpinion | Elections in Kashmir bring in the petrichor of change

Jammu and Kashmir is witnessing its first parliamentary election since it lost the special constitutional position in the form of Article 370 and statehood in 2019. On April 19, people in Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency cast their vote to choose their Member of Parliament.

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#DHOpinion | The Modi meltdown from March to May

There has been a dramatic decline in the number of mentions of ‘400 paar’ in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speeches. Inexplicably but conspicuously, the bravado has gone missing. Is this indicative of something about the election score?

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#DHOpinion | Can military stand-off and trade go together with China?

When the government has consistently rebuffed Islamabad’s proposals for trade with India saying that “terrorism and trade cannot go together”, it is difficult to explain the rationale behind its soft policy in allowing Chinese EVs and steel imports into India at a time when India-China relations have been fraught, with an ongoing military stand-off in the Ladakh sector since China’s incursions there in April 2020.

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#DHOpinion | Climate crises fuel gender inequality

A recent study commissioned by the Ministry of Women and Child Development and conducted by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) reveals that women and children face much greater vulnerabilities to climate change, particularly in regions prone to climate-related disasters.

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#DHOpinion | Elections in Amritsar will have an impact on India’s policy towards Pakistan

Every aspirant to Amritsar’s seat in Parliament is promising to reopen border trade with Pakistan through the Attari-Wagah land route. This will mean pressure to recast India-Pakistan trade policies, no matter which party or coalition forms the next Union government

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#DHOpinion | 3 ideas for Modi 3.0

A nation-wide apprenticeship programme and extended Agniveer tenure, support for MSMEs, and MSP law for farmers are needed urgently.

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