Anjan Roy

The GST reforms introduced by the GST council at its September 4 meeting is a mega budget for the entire country. It will be the determining factor for the budgets of the central government as well as those of the states. The goods and…

If you wanted to know the exact meaning of the English proverb “bearding the lion in its lair”, you should have seen the Oval Office meeting when an embattled president from a small, beleaguered country fought up to the grimaces and attacks…

Just as the first Christmas tree of the season is going to be lit up in New York’s iconic Rockefeller Plaza, a popular American TV channel was holding an interview with maker of native Christmas trees for decorating American homes. Lo and…

India’s latest GDP figures could not have come at a better time for the ruling party BJP.. As the final phase of parliamentary voting draws to an end, the GDP figures for 2023-24 at 8.2 per cent show a hefty growth rate of the Indian…

It is a long haul from the BRIC report of Jim O’Neill of Morgan Stanley who had predicted the changing kaleidoscope of the world economy.

Tennis Olympian Peng Shuai had complained of sexual assault by a highest ranking Chinese politician.

Come 2022, India can anticipate serious incursions and incidents on the Indo-China border along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The Chinese have just unilaterally passed a new law empowering the Chinese state to undertake a wide…

WORLD CAN NOT AFFORD A FRACTIOUS RELATIONSHIP AT THIS HOUR The war of words, so far, between the US and China is fast spurning out of control into full scale diplomatic spat. President Donald Trump took the verbal bomb to its furthest…

IS A NEW GLOBAL ALLIANCE TO TAKE ON CHINA IN THE OFFING? In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, a commercial deal between two private companies can have strategic diplomatic significance and can give a clue to the post-corona world.…

BIG OIL MIGHT FARE BETTER THAN STATE-OWNED COMPANIES Crude oil, once used to be called liquid gold, is plumbing the depths only The Economist had dared to predict. The Economist, London-based magazine founded by 19th century most prominent…

In apparent irony when finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman was talking about creating commercial banks capable of servicing a five-trillion dollar economy, the quarterly GDP growth figures showed a further dip. The principal reason for…

Few would remember Arun Jaitley as India’s commerce and industry minister. As of now, that’s a longtime ago. But for those who knew him in those days, it was clear he was the man of the future. Jaitley had taken India’s delegation to the…