Several crucial posts in finance ministry, including expenditure secretary & joint secretary (Budget), are either lying vacant or will soon fall vacant.
RSS’s economic philosophy laid out by Bhagwat is contrary to Modi's moves on FDI, trade, privatisation. But it's unlikely to prevail given Modi's political clout.
Unplanned expansion, a poor supply chain, inconsistent product quality and business practices, combined with the slowdown, have badly hurt Patanjali's revenues.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
Perhaps fewer cooks will serve up a more wholesome broth.