IMF’s Higher Growth Rate for India is in SYNC

Ashok Handoo* After a 7.4 percent GDP growth in the last financial year, it is now likely to be 9.5 percent this year. That is what the International Monetary ...

India’s Promising Economic Outlook

Ashok Handoo** The fiscal year 2009-10 that has just gone by, has been a difficult period for India. The country had to bear the impact of the global financial ...

The Right to Education now a Fundamental Right

Ashok Handoo** If Gopal Krishan Gokhle, one of the greatest sons of India, would have been alive today, he would have been the happiest person to see his dream ...

Naxal Problem needs a holistic approach

Ashok Handoo** If the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has been saying it repeatedly that Naxalism is the biggest challenge to our internal security he clearly wants to underline ...

The Budget and the Indian Economy

Ashok Handoo** The latest budgetary exercise has clearly been an attempt to reconcile two equally pressing considerations—economic growth and financial consolidation. While growth is important to have a larger ...

The Copenhagan summit

Ashok Handoo The Copenhagan summit on climate change may have ended without adopting a treaty to replace the Kyoto protocol after 2012, but India has reason to be pleased at the ...

Reviving Kashmiriyat

Ashok Handoo* When Francois Bernier , a French physician and the first European to travel to Kashmir in 1665 , described the Valley as “Paradise of the Indies” he did ...