Dinesh Narayanan
Senior Assistant Editor, ETI started my career two decades ago in Hyderabad and worked in five cities and seven different publications. I helped launch the tabloid daily Mumbai Mirror and the fortnightly Forbes India magazine. Currently, I write features on a range of subjects for the Economic Times newspaper. In 2014, I won two Red Ink awards for best Political and Business features. Both were cover stories for the Caravan magazine.
A former pracharak of the RSS and once a powerful general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Govindacharya was a strident critic of India’s obliging response to globalisation and the World Trade Organization, the international trade arbiter born on January 1, 1995, the same year internet arrived in India.
According to a source, such a bond issue would require amendments to tax laws.
With the right moves, the likes of Bihar and Odisha can leverage the Covid crisis into an opportunity.
Report suggest the plant operated between 1997 -2019 without valid environment clearances.
The intention is to bring all B2B, B2C, consumer-facing, consumer-based content platforms, apps-based commerce and IoT device-based services under the policy, potentially engulfing products like the Amazon Echo, which is powered by artificial intelligence-driven virtual assistant Alexa, and MG Hector, the Internet-enabled vehicle from Morris Garages in the regulatory realm of e-commerce.
The Kerala task force report points out how China effectively used traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in tandem with modern medicine to prevent the spread of Covid-19 outside its Wuhan province, the epicentre of the global pandemic.
The industry body’s `Exit from Lockdown’ strategy envisages the ramp up for returning employees from 50% to 75% to 100% over a period of time and restart to begin with locations which have a lower incidence of the outbreak, followed by the ones with moderate impact.
A crisis is also a great opportunity to push through behavioural changes that are difficult to incentivise otherwise. People, for instance, ignore health advice to wear face masks to protect themselves from severe air pollution. But the virus has managed even the most intransigent of them to cover their faces.
Over a dozen parliamentarians, VCs, academics and institutions will scout for a virus fix together.
The sudden displacement of migrant labour would have far-reaching impact on the Indian economy.
One statistical detail captures the growth pangs of India’s anti-trust watchdog perfectly. In the nearly seven years of its functioning, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered penalties totalling about Rs 14,000 crore. Of...
First, it was a phantom factory that marred Cadbury’s India story of 67 years. This March, the Central Excise department concluded that part of its plant at Baddi in Himachal Pradesh did not exist on the...
Kishanganj: Mohammad Faraz articulates Asaduddin Owaisi’s appeal the best. “If he wins, it will be like Hyderabad.’” By he, Faraz means Hyderabad-based Owaisi’s party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) which is contesting six assembly seats...
Many Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and leaders believe that if their party loses the Bihar state elections, one of the key reasons would be its ideological parent Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat’s...
NEW DELHI: The statutory corporate social responsibility (CSR) norms introduced two years ago were expected to revolutionise funding of social causes, but some sections of India Inc may now be abusing these for laundering of black...
A few years ago, Vinod Joshi, the secretary of the trust that manages a small temple and ashram nestled in a picture-postcard valley called Kainchi near Nainital, got a call from Larry Brilliant, an American...
Behold, my friends, the spring has come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Every seed is awakened, and all animal life....
On September 5, Kerala witnessed a socio-political inflection point—the dominant Left party Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM’s children’s wing, Balasangham, organized processions to celebrate Janmashtami, a festival venerating Lord Krishna’s birth. The CPM’s...
Social unrest of the kind seen in Gujarat could rise and spread to other states that are heavily invested in manufacturing because quality jobs are disappearing even as the number of young people searching for...
When Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar hits the campaign trail later this year, it is not the caste-riven electorate he will need to really worry about. His Achilles’ heel would be his own administration which...
Lalua’ is a name uttered with much affection in Bihar. Lalua, or the chubby, floppyhaired Yadav leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, is the kind of guy Bihari men love to hang out with, accompanied by khaini,...
On September 25, the eve of his first visit to the US as India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi wrote a signed article in the Wall Street Journal titled, ‘An invitation to make in India’. It...
The Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011 conclusively proves that large parts of the country is hopelessly poor and more than half of the population exists on uncertain daily wages. What is really revealing in...
Big institutional changes in India often follow big crises. The balance of payment crisis of 1990 paved the way for radical changes in the financial system, including near autonomy to the central bank. Electronic stock...
The juiciest of stories circulating in Patna these days is chief minister Nitish Kumar denying former chief minister and estranged party colleague Jitan Ram Manjhi the joy of eating mangoes growing in his own backyard....
In December 2014, Rajeshwar Singh, a pracharak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and then head of the Dharm Jagran Samiti, raked up a storm when he reportedly helped convert 250 Muslims to Hinduism at...
In 1999, the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government was about to celebrate its first anniversary when it was hit by a broadside. Dattopant Thengadi, then a doyen of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, called Vajpayee a ‘petty...
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