Niti Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar called for taking a dynamic view of the fiscal deficit this year to retain freedom for necessary and appropriate action.
Many economists have concluded that the additional spending boost is far less than the 10% of gross domestic product that the headline number suggests.
The initial effects of technology-enabled shifts are relatively easy to determine and predict. But it's the secondary, long-term effects that are harder to tease out.
Trump was fixated on the idea that trade is a battle US was losing and set about wrecking the system. With Covid-19, the world could see a reversal of globalisation.
Reporting only two new cases in the past week, the country appears to have controlled the pandemic. PM Jacinda Ardern claims this will help them recover ahead of their peers.
Trump, who promised robust testing of athletes and audience, had signalled some impatience with plans that would see games resume with few or no in-person viewers.
Airshows are thrilling spectacles of aviation skill and engineering marvels. But they carry inherent risks as the crew is pushing the aircraft, and themselves, to perform at the edges of the envelope.
While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Wing Commander Namansh Syal is survived by his wife, their 6-year-old daughter and his mother. Back in his native village, relatives and neighbours wait for his remains for last rites.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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