With reports about some farmers committing suicide due to crop failure, and the State also having been officially declared drought-hit by the government, the main question that Tamil Nadu is agitated over ahead of the farmers’ festival Pongal is: Will Jallikattu be allowed or not? As a cerebral State, we know our priorities. But there is a lot of confusion… Read more →
The Chennai Open tennis tournament got underway this week. This is the 21st year of the tournament that is, well, 22-years-old. The thing is Chennai has been hosting this tournament from 1997 only. But the organisers, in a typical marketing hard-sell, which in normal language would be lying, billed the 2015 year’s event as the 20th edition. They did so… Read more →
(This is the second part of the Year-In-Review 2016) (The consolidated two parts can be found here: Year-In-Review 2016 I and II) In a bid to ease up the pressure on May, RBI introduces into the market… June Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposes to Finance Ministry a far-reaching proposal to tackle the galloping inflation. His suggestion is simple but most… Read more →
*State of the nation poll 2016 *Get to know of the big chunk of people happy with demonetisation New Delhi, Dec 28: The defining mood of the nation as 2016 winds up is one of happiness that the year is actually ending. With each passing day, the year kept getting worse and beyond a point it became a sick joke… Read more →
When you look back on 2016, you have to agree that in the overall scheme of things that it was a pretty decent year. No, just pause. As I type this, there is a new press release from the Reserve Bank of India saying that the year 2016 may actually be bad and things aren’t as good as they look…. Read more →
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