A Judicial Service Commission (JSC), inspired by South Africa and Kenya’s transparent models, could regulate appointments and removals with oversight by the Rajya Sabha. We propose a bold JSC to end the ‘uncle judge syndrome’ and also rid India’s judiciary of bad judges to deliver justice reliably. Also Read: Call of justice: India should reform…
Canada’s ruling Liberal Party not only turned its negative ratings around, but ended up winning 25 more constituencies than the Conservatives did. Also Read: Carney’s election win in Canada can actually be called historic Half the world away but less than a week later, on 3 May, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese trounced the opposition…
Canada’s Liberal Party has won a fourth consecutive national election in a race that largely came down to which party would better stand up to US President Donald Trump. “We are over the shock of American betrayal,” Mark Carney, a former central banker and the leader of the Liberal Party, said in a victory speech…
Central bank easing meets global caution BoE keeps rates steady, SNB cuts on Thursday BOJ remains the G10 outlier By Yadarisa Shabong and Alun John March 20 (Reuters) – Big developed market central banks are turning cautious after a series of interest rate cuts and as uncertainty in global economics and politics grows. Of five…
Indian stock market: The domestic equity market indices, Sensex and Nifty 50, are expected to open on a cautious note on Friday ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy decision today and amid mixed global cues. Asian markets traded lower, while the US stock market ended mixed overnight, with the S&P 500…
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Flush from a landslide election victory in 1997, the first act of Tony Blair’s Labour government was to grant operational independence to the Bank of England. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown followed that up by removing a generous tax credit on dividend income whose prime beneficiaries were pension funds.Neither change meant much…
(Bloomberg Opinion) — While the Sunak government has not hesitated in claiming credit for the return of the UK inflation rate to 2% after three years of exceeding that target, the Bank of England has proven notably reserved despite the country now having fewer price pressures than France, Germany and the US. Part of this…
Two gentlemen who should have found a mention in the museum’s exhibits are Isaac Newton and Thomas Gresham, both intricately linked to how money has evolved over the years. Newton, other than playing a key role in the scientific revolution, was also the Master of the Royal Mint from 1699 until his death in 1727….
The UK housing market is showing signs of a rebound from last year’s slump, and a possible interest-rate reduction by the Bank of England could boost the confidence of prospective buyers, according to a report by property portal Zoopla. Agreed sales in the four weeks to July 21 rose 16% from a year earlier, while…
